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Many years ago I saw a fairly dodgy looking ad asking for someone to write revision material for GCSE IT. I emailed to find out more, found out it was for BBC Bitesize (very popular free internet based revision guide in the UK) and spent the summer writing it. Being able to name drop the BBC helped get further jobs and I've send some cheeky cold-calling emails to see if companies are looking for writers etc. Sometimes they are, often not.

I'm always on the lookout for freelance work. Should anyone need a writer with technical knowledge then my email is in my profile!

Not my highest paying role but I write material related to Computer Science. I've written chapters of books, online revision material, online CPD courses etc. So far it is all related to Computer Science education - the books are school textbooks, some CPD is aimed at trainee (or pre-trainee) teachers, whilst other bits are aimed at existing teachers to help upskill them. Most of the work is for well known publishers/training providers etc on a freelance basis.

I enjoy the work. I'd love to start writing/creating CPD etc for other audiences but need to figure out how.

I've had cavity wall insulation added to the last two houses I've owned. Made a huge difference to both, especially noticeable was how much longer the house stayed warm when the heating was off. Both were detached which will make a difference in terms of surface area impacted.

Can I recommend you take a look at Miniflux (https://miniflux.app/)? I'm a customer and really like it - it is possible to self host.

Personally I hate monthly payments for things. If it is something I'm going to use I may as well get a bit of a discount and not have yet another payment coming out of my account each month.

Additionally I'm in the UK, so this won't apply everywhere. Some (Many?) bank accounts charge a flat fee on top of the currency conversion rate - again a reason to make just one payment a year.

You only need to be able to reach about a 1/3 of the way over the screen to tap the part that changes to the next page. Takes a little time to get used to but I read left handed all the time.

I like pinboard but when I had problems with my archival account a couple of years ago I didn't receive any response to emails even though I chased for months. No longer subscribe but would love to find a similar alternative. Maybe poor customer service is the reason for the number of active customers dropping off.

Haven't tried this yet but worth looking at? https://github.com/yory8/clipman

I find myself buying from Amazon for two main reasons:

1 Delivery is quick and my parcels will be left in a location selected by me - many other companies won't leave parcels. Lockers are great too, when I'm in a location that has them.

2 Great customer service

A billing/shipping API won't impact my reasons for using Amazon. I'd love to use other companies but they aren't getting the basics right at the moment.

You pay $10 per Gb but this is a one off payment rather than annual. The money is supposed to go into an endowment that will pay for the storage costs long term.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6358970 for my previous comment about why I chose VB (I'm a teacher and was a developer)

The questions/problems that the exam board sets (considering the number of hours the students get to solve them in) are really suited to VB, or another Visual based language. What I'm trying to say is that the language chosen also has to fit the requirements of the exam board, as the students, school and myself are all judged by our results (GCSE grade etc).

Edited: changed wording for clarity

I'm a IT/Computing teacher in the UK. We've only just started to teach Computer Science recently and although I was a developer before retraining as a teacher I chose Visual Basic.

Why? Well, we don't have to pay to install it, our technicians are happy to install it, the GUI design stuff is easy for students to use, I think it is easy to learn quickly and most importantly it allows our students to get high marks easily. Also I'm the only person in my school who can program - others will have to pick it up as the number of classes increases - again VB is easy for a novice to learn.

The exam board dictates what programing assessment is to be done and the amount of time it is to be done in. As much as I'd be happy to teach another language VB is the best fit in this case.

4 actually!

How do I check the canary on a storage array?