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by shortformblog 2y ago
I personally dislike WP Engine after years of having used them. Earlier this year there was a story about how Cloudflare had bizdev representatives reach out about a technical issue under the guise of customer support. I saw the very same t
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by shortformblog 2y ago
The person who sent along the EOs also sent a Simon. I couldn't get that working either. Sigh.
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I ended up writing about the EO Personal Communicator a few years ago: https://www.inverse.com/input/features/fax-on-the-beach-the-... Was never able to get the device working (I have two) but I still have them in
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Smartphone Tethering: A Bigger Grind Than It Needed to Be(tedium.co)
91 points by shortformblog 2y ago|79 comments
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by shortformblog 2y ago
Oh my God, it's clearly a reported story by a journalist.
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Why Does Oracle Make Its Cloud Signup So Terrible?(tedium.co)
1 points by shortformblog 2y ago|0 comments
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I think this is a fair line. I don't want to mess with the tinkerers of the world, and to be clear I'm not even entirely opposed to this. I just think we do not put enough stock into discussing potentially damaging actions with cr
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by shortformblog 2y ago
Just because I make the information available in a convenient way doesn't mean I expect it to be harvested. That you make that leap is 100% troubling and makes me not want to have you as a reader, because you don't respect my work
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I think you misunderstand my point: Obviously, that is true. But if you actually do a search on eBay, there are literally thousands of mini PCs. See: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=ryzen+mini+pc&_sop=12 Yet t
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I’m a publisher. I am telling you this, personally.
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by shortformblog 2y ago
As a publisher who publishes a full-text RSS feed at a time when not a lot of publishers do, I must say: The publisher should have a say in this. This is not to say that this is a good idea or a bad one, but I think you will, long-term, hav
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by shortformblog 2y ago
Given how dominant AMD-based options are from a new machine standpoint (you can get a pretty good 5000-series U-grade processor for less than $250 on Amazon) I’m kind of surprised by the lack of AMD options on the list. This is a useful ide
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by shortformblog 2y ago
Because publishers are telling you that it harms their business and you, as an individual who looks at the bigger picture, want to do the right thing. Or you can just go for personal convenience. You do you.
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by shortformblog 2y ago
You are just one person with one set of habits. Google serves hundreds of millions of people daily, and the benefits publishers traditionally received from Google are in aggregate.
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by shortformblog 2y ago
That just means it’s doubly true. The &udm=14 workaround also removes the featured snippets that discouraged Google’s role as a partner to publishers.
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by shortformblog 2y ago
It harms the publishers and creators that actually built those sites that Google is extracting results from by costing them traffic and discouraging additional clicks. Over time, that discourages the quality of search results by depressing
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I want to add: I got into a debate with someone last night about whether workarounds do more harm than good. I’m sure product teams hate them, but I am explicitly in the “good” category. They put attention on the wrongs that companies do, a
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by shortformblog 2y ago
The nice thing about making something Creative Commons Zero, as I did with &udm=14, is that they can just use everything, logo included, for their own purposes. Great to see. I hope more apps like this appear.
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I wrote a remembrance when he died a few years back. The timing of this story (2005) is a little unfortunate, because the genius of the Newton investment only showed itself later, even with its failure: https://www.vice.com/
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I encourage you to check out the OSX-PROXMOX project, which fully supports AMD and is designed to simplify these inside-a-VM setups (though not as much as a Docker setup). https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I did an interview with Sick Codes a while back where he talked about his approach to this product: https://www.vice.com/en/article/akdmb8/open-source-app-lets-... Also wanna point out the existence of OSX-PR
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Why Cassingles Probably Don't Deserve Your Nostalgia(tedium.co)
2 points by shortformblog 2y ago|0 comments
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by shortformblog 2y ago
Author here. You seem to be intentionally conflating the ability to post a link with my critique of how LinkedIn affects its reach through the algorithm. To be clear: Your links will physically “work,” as in you can post them. But they lose
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Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?(tedium.co)
137 points by shortformblog 2y ago|136 comments
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I just want one thread about HTML email to not be a re-litigation of this point. It’s been around for a quarter-century at this point. It’s well-established. It has plenty of warts, but it’s not going away. There are better ways to push the
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by shortformblog 2y ago
Because someone keeps commenting and immediately deleting their comments in reply to this: MJML is a tool to essentially “fix” email, which essentially has to work around out-of-date clients and incomplete HTML specs. If it feels out of dat
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by shortformblog 2y ago
You can set an <mj-class> at the top of the file for a given design format to simplify your code. So in your example, if you did: <mj-class name="typebox" padding-bottom="0px" padding-top="0px" padding
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by shortformblog 2y ago
No MJML feels like a mistake. I design emails and that is literally the most important feature to me.
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How CD pregaps gained their hidden track superpowers(tedium.co)
235 points by shortformblog 2y ago|134 comments
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I’ve used SES for nearly a decade. It’s fine if you stick with it.

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