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The Case for Slow Programming
Original EnglishI think we both agree that the understanding of the code should be dispersed, so that any other employee can get up to speed with …
Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
Original EnglishIt could have improved, but we moved to Teams for calls so I wouldn't know.
PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer
Original Englishthe whole reason to have a closed source system when you're still on the hook and charging out $500 per hour to clients. …
Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client
Original EnglishI didn't start my career making 40k and go "OK great, now I'm off to San Francisco/NYC!!" I moved more west as my income grew.
Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about
Original EnglishAt the time I was using Opera, so I wrote in to their customer support suggesting that the prompt appear after the new page loaded.
Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
Original EnglishIt's not an income like you'd get in a FAANG job, but still, I'm running it for making a living.
Free Postgres databases for small projects
Original EnglishI went from $0/month to $450 the next because of their stupid per-unit pricing and hidden API calls.
What It's Like to Fail
Original Englishbecause they were 5+ years out of college and the only thing they'd ever known was how to fix bugs and implement features in one …
Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
Original EnglishI'm on Brave now because while it does not support ublock origin, the adblocker is stronger than the others I tried and works similarly.