jamesvandyne

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by jamesvandyne 4y ago
At Octopus Energy, I think we’ve made negative prices available to retail customers (at least in the UK, not sure about the other countries we’re retailing in). People getting paid to charge their cars because the grid has a surplus of (pro
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by jamesvandyne 4y ago
It's not a law enforcement issue, it's a city planning issue. The practical solution is to reallocate usage of the street to prioritize all modes of transport. i.e. Take a car lane and replace it with proper 2-way concrete barrie
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by jamesvandyne 4y ago
It depends on the level of rain, but there are affordable solutions to cycling in the rain to prevent you from getting drenched. I use the Rover cycling poncho from Cleverhoods to keep dry. It's mostly a regular poncho, but it has thum
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by jamesvandyne 4y ago
That's the one. Thanks for the correction. Forgot my keyboard, which has a ctrl key in place of the caps, so I've stopped mapping it.
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by jamesvandyne 4y ago
Cmd-a and Cmd-e work in most/all native controls, no? Really ergonomic once you've remapped caps to cmd as well.
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by jamesvandyne 5y ago
Yes, it's called Vouch and it's documented well on the indieweb wiki. https://indieweb.org/Vouch
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by jamesvandyne 5y ago
The Japanese country side isn't too different than the US. Sure there's trains, but not an extensive network ala Tokyo, and you drive everywhere. The way they handle the issue is "daikou taxi", which is a service from th
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by jamesvandyne 5y ago
Japan used to have a bad drunk driving problem until they changed the laws to be mostly zero tolerance. If your caught it's an automatic 90-day suspension of your license. Over 0.25mg and it could be up to 2 years. That's excludin
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by jamesvandyne 5y ago
Blogs like the author is looking for still exist (I write one at https://jamesvandyne.com ) and there's heaps more on https://micro.blog . Blogs that aren't SEO fluff to get adsense money just don't appe
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by jamesvandyne 5y ago
You may like micro.blog. It’s a blog/rss based social network. You can create a blog with them or import an existing RSS feed (what I do). It’s all chronological. And since it’s “just rss”, you can use different apps to use it like Ins
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by jamesvandyne 5y ago
The indieweb is what got me back in to blogging and RSS again. Being able to be social on the net without FB/Twitter has made being on the 'net fun again. Adding your feed to micro.blog even gives you a full-social modern social-
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by jamesvandyne 6y ago
Webmentions are a great way of getting back to a decentralized web. Being able to comment on someone else's site _from your own site_ feels like magic. It brings back memories of the web before social media took hold. Implementation is
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by jamesvandyne 6y ago
Off topic from the main thread, but Travel map looks really good. Reminds me of all the travel blogs I used to read when I was in high school / college dreaming about getting out and exploring the world. Great work!
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by jamesvandyne 6y ago
Agree 100%. Integrate hosting via iCloud. Blogs and personal websites are our best hope for the web in a world dominated by social media.
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by jamesvandyne 6y ago
I've not quit Twitter, but I've reduced my usage of it (and gained control of my data) by syndicating my posts/statuses from to Twitter and backfeeding any replies/likes as comments on my blog. It's all simple enoug
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by jamesvandyne 6y ago
While the UI UX in macOS has degraded a bit, minimizing windows you’re not using as the main way to manage a desktop is, I think, a Windows habit. macOS works much better if you manage windows with hiding, rather than minimizing. Once you g
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by jamesvandyne 6y ago
Rams is great. Bought it on Vimeo shortly after it came out. You won’t regret it. When Rams speaks about design, it always makes me reflect on modern software and how we’ve regressed so much. Though I think’s mostly as a single widget does
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by jamesvandyne 7y ago
If you’re looking for a remote job in Japan it’s worth checking out the remote in Japan repo on GitHub. Heaps of good companies that do remote (including the one I work for). https://github.com/uiur/remote-in-japan&#x2F
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by jamesvandyne 7y ago
It really depends on the culture of the company. In my company (95% Japanese/non-gaishiki-kei) it’s the norm for people to take a couple months off when there’s a new addition to the family. I took 6 weeks when my son was born and nobo
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by jamesvandyne 8y ago
You can take them to the shop and repair / replace the heel and cork. Cost-wise I think my Bostons were $150 new and to fully replace the cork and sole was about $90. Much cheaper than a new pair. Just the sole wouldn't be nearly
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by jamesvandyne 8y ago
Yes it’s partially cultural, but it also depends on the company. I work for a company in Tokyo (about 35 - 40 people, 90%+ Japanese). We work 7.5 hour days, go home on time, and can work remotely. (If you speak Japanese and like Python, we’
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by jamesvandyne 9y ago
Thank you for the feedback. Yes - more screenshots / a properly filled out marketing site are on the list of things to do. Good idea about an "About" section. Workshop is the name of our blog where we show / discuss Kwoo
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by jamesvandyne 9y ago
Brilliant. Thank you for this response.
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by jamesvandyne 9y ago
Did you view our marketing site at https://kwoosh.com/ ? Good point though, we could update the footer on workshop to be a bit more specific.
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by jamesvandyne 9y ago
author here. I agree with what you're saying in broad terms. And yes, you're right that handling sales tax perfectly at launch won't kill your product. What's the killer is all of the work _surrounding_ that small task.
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by jamesvandyne 9y ago
Spot on. That's something that's next on my roadmap: building out a help and documentation site/portal. There is so much more that goes into building and launching a SaaS app than just the app itself. I'd to love to hear
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by jamesvandyne 9y ago
author here. You’ve hit the nail on the head. We actually have soft delete in Kwoosh. We’re using Django on the backend. The way we went about implementing it was with a flag on our core data-type (Apps, Screens, Discussions, Tasks etc... a
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by jamesvandyne 9y ago
They're not. They've been around longer than WiFi. It's a simple wired connection to the control panel in the tub that's installed as a single unit. It let's you control things like temp, intercom to the kitchen and
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by jamesvandyne 9y ago
They'll should still have plenty of time for taking photos. Astronauts usually work a regular 8-ish hour work day up in the ISS and have weekends etc... 2 of those working hours each day are blocked out for exercise, too, so this shoul
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