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Autocorrect for “vermin”?

Sure, but you’re going to run into that with all hosted email. Microsoft has, in my opinion, a much better customer service track record.

I’m using a custom domain using a small Swedish registrar so I think your info is out of date :)

I know Microsoft isn’t popular but Office365s family plan is fantastic value for the money. All interactions with Microsoft support have been… scripted but successful.

> Most other needs are covered by Sketch/Figma.

Hoo boy, do I have some bad news for you!

> Haven’t found a good Illustrator alternative yet, but didn’t look much.

I’m very happy with Affinity Designer

I’ve been in this exact situation, and honestly - just move on.

I mean, if you see this a fantastic opportunity to grow or whatever then fine, have at it.

However, you’re going to be fighting a two-front battle, both against the devs and against management, for widely different reasons. It’s going to take a toll on you.

Ask yourself if you really want to spend the next few years doing work you probably won’t see any recognition for.

Phosphorus is essential to growing food and shortages have already begun.

They're alive and well in Northern Europe at least. I'd say a majority of contracting work is done through them since they somehow get exclusivity deals with big clients like H&M, Scania, SAAB and the like. They charge around 5-15% (almost always 10% though) of every invoice.

Before you balk at the number, consider that during my almost 5 years as a solo contractor I've spent _zero_ hours doing sales. None. When I want a new assignment I send one email and within a week or two I have a 6 month contract.

I’m actually surprised it’s as high as 30%. Would’ve expected 10% tops.

Reminds me of that Planet Money special where they made their own tshirts from scratch, as “finding a cotton farmer to buy cotton” from scratch. The thing that added the most cost was the transport from the dock in NYC to the store.

I admire your ability to maintain a friendly attitude despite the rather abrasive tone in the original comment.

I just watched “10 years with Miyazaki” and had the exact same sentiments.

Do you have an example of something that was pushed upon people, forcing them to like it?

> corporate foreplay

Hello, new vocabulary entry!

> fantastic in some ways, but I think they've massively oversold it

Seems like par for the course for most Musk ventures

I build all my side projects with the following stack:

- ASP.NET Core with Razor Pages for templeting (substitute this for Django/Laravel/RoR to match your preference) - SQLite for DB - TailwindCSS standalone + a UI builder like https://shuffle.dev for the UI (huge bonus if your templating engine supports components) - HTMX to sprinkle AJAX where appropriate - AlpineJS for small DOM manipulation (open/close menus)

I bought a P14s a few months ago and got an offer for 3 years of premium on-site support for €1 :D

Note that you have to purchase it as a company to get access to the premium support.

Does it say:

sharing good books, good food and exotic music and dance

tender embraces

unusual sense of humor

What’s your opinion on WinForms? I’ve yet to come across anything that’s better in terms of perf, developer experience and stability.

If you want, you can disable _a lot_ of smart features on an iPhone. If you’re paranoid you can lock the re-enabling behind a passcode you give to a trusted person.

Interesting, thanks!

The debugger is part of Visual Studio, which is a paid product. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to not publish the source for it.

Oh, come on. Everybody likes a good, juicy airing of dirty laundry.

Interesting. Did you scrape the restaurants websites?

I've been around the internet long enough to spot poorly researched, ghost written "content" and this is bottom tier.

Visual Studio is to VSCode what car is to carpet.

Pretty big “so long as” there, chief.

There’s another aspect to this and that’s the iPhone is Done. Finished. Completed.

I recently switched from a 4 years old X to and iPhone 13 Mini and to be perfectly honest I can’t experience any difference, it’s basically the exact same phone in a smaller form factor. Hadn’t it been for the size of the X being an issue, I probably could’ve stayed on it for 4 more years.

Great from a consumer (and environmental!) standpoint, not so great from a quarterly report standpoint.

Is physical currency still common in the US? I haven’t used physical currency in probably 5-6 years, outside the 10 SEK the tooth fairy leaves.

At least in Sweden the vast majority of single family homes are heated via geothermal/air-to-water heat pumps (which run on electricity)

The wife and I take the day off on each other’s birthdays and do a small outing together