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I always include Makefiles as a way of documenting useful (short) tasks for developers that are onboarding to projects. It gives them confidence in their ability to pick things up quickly. Whether or not they want to actually use make is up to them, but it’s one more thing they can reference.

Plex focuses on having a server component that transcodes and their “Plex Pass” service for better connectivity, enabling lightweight native players for all of your devices. This way you can watch any of your content on anything even over cellular, even if it’s a weird format that the device wouldn’t easily support.

This is a departure from the traditional XBMC-on-device that also acts as the client trying to play any format of content.

Kodi is amazing and I’d use it if it weren’t for the fact that I don’t want a new interface, I simply want my “owned” content to show up as Yet Another App on my stream boxes and phones. Plex fits that bill.

Is it possible this graph also reflects that his readers are more likely to employ Safari’s tracker-blocking?

Amazon appears to allow this, judging from their inaction every time I report it.

Commands are explicit and shareable. If you’ve mastered <ide> then good on you, but it makes you an island.

I’m surprised to hear that bluetooth, GPS, and cellular don’t work in water. I wonder what’s the science behind this.

While it comes across as an obvious cash grab, the cassette is a compelling feature if you consider that it does 30 washes and has its own memory of how many each has left. While it is 2x-3x the cost of traditional dishwasher pods, they are focusing on convenience — all the way down to automatic delivery and return — which deserves to be recognized as innovation in end-to-end product design, service, fulfillment, and product lifecycle.

Having been blocked on a customer’s locked-down Windows machine where the security software breaks the update process, this isn’t a welcome change.

What it takes to get through app review

Looking beyond the obvious problem here, just curious why the admin ran chkdsk /f for no reason, then did it on 6 more systems after observing it caused ntfs failure.

I find it hard to move from vim because of its ubiquity. Same with bash.

By removing the charger from the package, you may have to buy a charger that comes in its own packaging. Net new waste.

Including the charger in the package was actually the best way to prevent additional waste.

Moreover, an iPhone box is potentially an item people will not throw out, while the charger packaging is.

A trip down memory lane, bringing back so much just looking at the fonts. It’s amazing how much I associate each company’s historical fonts with their brand.

I never call until I’ve exhausted all self service options.

I don’t need to be told every time “Did you know...you can find us online to X, Y, and Z?”

Verizon customers are paying more because they expect more, so this move by them is disappointing.

My electric bill has gone down over 30% per month after getting one of these. Replaced a super old electric unit. Many states have rebates that an installer can have applied when getting the part from the supplier. For me this cut the whole cost in half. It paid for itself in less than a year. And now my basement is dry and cool in the summer without running a dehumidifier.

You might ask, if these are so great then why aren’t people yelling it from the hilltops? They are, but nobody’s listening.