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OT: Who has experiences with serverless and which providers/services could yoi recommend?

Could quit FB (took around 2-3 years and wasn't easy) but now I am super addicted to some Reddit subs such as r/mechanicalkeyboards.

Addiction is higher than with FB but it doesn't make me feel miserable.

Celeste, one recent major indie game, was started and initially developed on Pico-8.

If are into games, check out Celeste. Just the music is reason to play this game (I played it on PS4 but all versions are equal).

This. So true and extremely well framed.

The only thing I can add: At the beginning of a relationship, everybody is kind. Background checks not just help, they are essential, do them.

Getting into conflicts and power plays with VCs, or just any person at some point, should be expected but there are still huge differences in how people deal in messy situations in terms of morale and ethics. You will find everything between feeling uneasy and facing a nuclear war.

I like to extend the question: Which online mail provider has many or just some third party integrations, in particular those offering mail merge and per recipient email tracking.

Gmail is here unfortunately by far the leading product.

I am bit surprised about this article. The momentum around AMP slowed down. AMP pages do not rank that well anymore as when they were introduced. Also within Google, there is no unanimity about the future of AMP. But maybe I got the signals wrong.

Google is abusing its powers. The search rank is our currency and Google has pushed AMP sites to the top for some while. So, everybody is now building weird AMP layers for their sites. We went from a free to a proprietary mobile web in just a few weeks. And we can't do anything. It feels like the times when the Internet Explorer tried to rule except that more people were complaining.

The open solution to a faster mobile web would have been so easy: Just penalize large and slow web pages without defining a dedicated mobile specification. That's it. This wasn't done in the past, slow pages outperformed fast ones on the SERPs because of some weird Google voodoo ranking, heck sometimes even desktop sites outperformed responsive ones on smartphones. If they had just tweaked these odd ranking rules in way that speed and size got more impact on the overall ranking there wouldn't have been any reason for AMP—the market would have regulated itself.

I'm wondering who at Google is responsible for AMP. Who created AMP's random specs (no external CSS but external fonts files, preference for four selected font providers, no JS but their JS, probable ranking preference of Google cached AMP sites, etc.). Why did they decide on the spec themselves and not as a part of an industry group? Again why didn't they just tweaked their ranking algorithm and btw, they could have also made Android's Chrome faster, it's still significantly slower than iOS' Safari. I'd be happy if this person could comment on the abuse of power (Sundar Pichai?).

Is 'not finishing' an inherent problem of being a coder and a coder's reward system?

When I look at myself, coding is great when I learn new things, new APIs, can glue stuff together to create new systems which haven't been there before. Once I master a technology or have to do stuff which was done million times before it gets boring. Then, I rather seek for the next kick, the next API, the next language/framework/lib.

So, having ongoing novelties seems to be an important part of a coder's reward system. This hurts finishing and going the last mile, the most difficult part of a project that is not about facing steady novelties. Often it even means to abandon the shiny new tech and rebuild stuff in some proven tech.

However, the bad is you never finish, the good is you learn all the time. Better than checking Facebook, Instagram and your smartphone 24/7.

Great post & thread, a tl;dr:

  Ctrl-r      search history
              - then Ctrl-r again to show next match
              - then Tab to show all options
  Ctrl-p      previous command or arrow up
  Ctrl-n      next command or arrow down
  export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups
              Add to .bashrc to avoid duplicate entries

  Ctrl-a      to beginning of line
  Ctrl-e      to end of line
  Alt-b       one word back
  Alt-f       one word forward
  Ctrl-k      delete to end of line
  Ctrl-u      delete to beginning of line
  Alt-d       delete to end of word
  Ctrl-w      delete to beginning of word
  Alt-Backspc same

  cd -        change to last dir
  pushd <dir> mark current dir and go to <dir>
  popd        go to marked dir 
  z           fuzzy cd, install from https://github.com/rupa/z
  j           fuzzy cd and more, install via autojump

  Ctrl-z      to background & suspend
  bg          recent background app continue running
  fg          bring recent background app to front
  disown -h   remove recent background app from current tty
  fg %n       bring nth app to front, e.g.: fg %2 for second

  less        better than cat, doesn't flood screen, same keys
  find        find files, e.g. find / -name <filename>

  ag          install via the_silver_searcher, faster grep

  tree        shows dir like a GUI app, install
  !!          last command, e.g. sudo !!
  fish        bash alternative with more sensible defaults

  man bash    read more about bash

tl:dr

  ctrl-r     search in history, ctrl-r again to skip-
  ctrl-p     previous command (instead of arrow up)
  ctri-n