nicbou

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by nicbou 1y ago
Samsung is one of these companies that are so consistently scummy that I outright refuse to buy any of their products. They are forever blacklisted.
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by nicbou 1y ago
My website is free by design; keeping it free has been my policy for years.[0] I ask for donations, but it was never a significant source of income. The website's birthday is a few days apart from mine, so I use the donations to get my
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by nicbou 1y ago
I experience the same with my website. Very few people donate, despite constant claims that everyone uses it all the time and that it made their lives so much better. Such is life. I do the same with so many little tools that make my life b
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by nicbou 1y ago
1. I aim for long, uninterrupted work periods. If I have meetings, I schedule them early and aim for an open-ended work day. 2. I clean my workspace and do other minor chores the day before, so that I can get right to work. A messy kitchen
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by nicbou 1y ago
Either call it out, or stop talking and forget where you stopped. Having to awkwardly restart an interrupted conversation sometimes gets the message across. When I was younger, a mix of both fixed that nasty habit of mine.
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by nicbou 1y ago
Postman
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by nicbou 1y ago
Yes and no. Sometimes friction is just friction.
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by nicbou 1y ago
And nag and upsell well past the point humans feel comfortable doing.
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by nicbou 1y ago
And at one point or another, a way to upsell in ways that employees refuse to do. See the McDonalds kiosks.
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by nicbou 1y ago
Is there a reason for that? I figure that catching bugs before pushing is faster than getting an email from GitHub, and my hardware already has all the containers running. Spinning up machines in the cloud for this feels wasteful.
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by nicbou 1y ago
Wow well done!
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by nicbou 1y ago
Something worth considering: the e-Rechnung directive enforcing b2b invoices with standardised metadata. They're becoming mandatory in Germany and I think they already are in some other EU countries.
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by nicbou 1y ago
What is a good time to run slower tests? My full test suite takes around 4 minutes to run, and it’s trending upwards. I am a solo developer, so I run it pre-push. And what about tests that only need to run intermittently, such as broken lin
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by nicbou 1y ago
My iPad is completely silenced, but also has no ad blockers. It’s meant to stay a reading device for the bedroom, and to not become a browsing device. The unfiltered internet is downright unbearable. Ads, notifications, modals. Reading a pa
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by nicbou 1y ago
A few things that made a noticeable difference for me: - A do not disturb mode that is noticeable: no wallpaper, no clock (black on black), no notifications, battery saving mode. If I'm around others, my phone is in that mode. - No soc
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by nicbou 1y ago
This is surprisingly close to what I have in mind!
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by nicbou 1y ago
I'm not actively planning for it, as I'm building this to fix a specific problem I have. However, it will be a static API and an SPA frontend, and both will be open source. The frontend should be fairly easy to reuse. It will be o
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by nicbou 1y ago
A static site generator for German laws. The goal is to serve the laws in a format that is easy to cite, monitor, or machine-read. It should also have predictable URLs that can be inferred from the law’s name. It will also have side by side
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by nicbou 1y ago
The motorcycle eliminates that where I live. However the train adds the flexibility of arriving in one place and leaving from another, or from having a drink, or from just sitting and reading instead of driving. I like trains, when they&#x2
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by nicbou 1y ago
The hook is just a safeguard, but ideally your editor should run the same code.
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by nicbou 1y ago
I don’t think that toil makes good art, but choices do. Artists make choices and those choices add up to something unique and tasteful. The choices are influenced by constraints and the desire to communicate something. There is a “why”, not
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by nicbou 1y ago
This is incredibly close to what I pack for long distance motorcycle, bicycle and hiking trips. This kit rocks, and all my notes are mostly personal preference. I have an iPad Mini for reading and sketching, although I like paper more and m
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by nicbou 1y ago
It feels closer to rentseeking to me.
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by nicbou 1y ago
> fortunately my successor found my stack of memos Those, ironically, were backed up
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by nicbou 1y ago
In their bid to build a bigger monopoly themselves.
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by nicbou 1y ago
Speaking for myself, about my own software that I write alone: building new things is more exciting. Even with all financial incentives aside, I just like building new things more than I like polishing old ones. I could improve the quality
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by nicbou 1y ago
Instapaper and Feedly work for me. Instapaper is the main thing and Feedly a thing I check occasionally for the blogs I love.
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by nicbou 1y ago
It's so nice and personal, unlike a social media notification. It feels like having a pen pal.
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At least we don't have listening devices in our homes!
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by nicbou 1y ago
Yep they're rare but there's a dealership selling them just a few blocks from my home.

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