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by thismodernlife 6y ago
Nice. I like GoodReads but it’s slow and unloved. Have you seen http://www.librarything.com/
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
https://blogline.co I wrote this during the first lockdown mainly because I wanted to write some fresh code in the evenings, but also because I was dissatisfied with Wordpress, Tumblr, Posthaven and static sites, having tried al
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
I wondered about getting credits for the outage but you can't view the SLA page because the app is down. https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/terms/service-level-agreement
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
https://www.betterinternetsearch.com is a new startup out of Scotland which is interesting. Their approach to monetisation is rather radical. The product works well but the mountain to climb is vast. Google’s moat is deep.
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The Problem with Acronyms(headey.net)
3 points by thismodernlife 6y ago|1 comments
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
120+ books a year! I’m astonished. How do you achieve this? I struggle to read one a month. I should probably turn off WiFi. I browse indie bookshops, talk to colleagues and friends, read reviews and I’m on GoodReads. People know I like boo
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
Subscribe to GoRails for brilliant screencasts (many free, some not). Also look at the official guides. It’ll probably still really familiar tbh!
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
I would say for me it's the user interface and general user experience. I find 1Pass more intuitive to use, the dedicated Mac and iOS apps are lovely and I also love the blog and general vibe of the 1Password company. Personality goes
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
To be honest, all of these are fine. The very fact that you're going to be rolling out a tool and educating your staff in secure password management is a huge win regardless of which option you choose. That said, for a team size < 2
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
I have no strong opinion on serverless but I’ve used Rails for 13 years now (in massive $multi-million SaaS products as well as hobby projects) and it still makes me happy. I keep thinking about learning Node and React but I just can’t be b
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
Agree with this, it's a wonderful editor. I can see the enterprise/business features creeping into this product though now. The end is nigh!
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
It's been immensely annoying since it became an 'app' rather than a folder extension on macOS, and since they targeted business/enterprise. I've just moved to iCloud Drive now they offer shared folders, but then I o
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
+100 for Caddy as your web server or a reverse proxy in front of your stack. It’s incredible.
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
I use the marvellous ReadKit ( https://readkitapp.com/ ) on the Mac – it has RSS and Instapaper support. On iOS I use Reeder. My feeds themselves are managed by Feedly but I rarely use that interface.
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by thismodernlife 6y ago
When UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered badly from the virus back in April, support for him and his policies swelled.