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Reading endless job descriptions is painful. Lists of tools and technologies are followed by phrases void of meaning. Why don't companies articulate what the candidate is expected to do? Like... «You will be maintaining…

I am afraid to buy a new laptop, because of shaky support of USB-C docks. My current Dell docking station connects one horizontal 1920x1600 screen, one vertical 1600x1920 screen, a mouse, a keyboard, a printer, a backup…

AFAIK, this is because of MITM software like Bluecoat.

An undercover coder is a non-IT professional who secretly writes code to gain advantage over his less skilled colleagues. I knew an accountant working in enterprise consolidation business. Not a layman accountant but a…

Is there a business that sends their software architects as undercover employees in client companies: work as cashier, so that they later fix cash machines software, work as insurance broker, so that they write better…

It's a bit annoying to keep personal notes on someone else's computer. Is there a note taking app that can save to my server?

It may be a bit of a rhetorical question, but the regulatory body does set an example, so how come the others do not follow?

I've been doing it for a while as a freelancer, but the response rate is not good. On the other hand, it is difficult to lie in a LinkedIn profile, so it should have more value for recruiters.

Open source photo galleries such as Coppermine and MediaGoblin are stuck in the 20th century. Is there a promising upstart?

I've been running a Russian community website in EU for the last 15 years. It has a Facebook business page with a few thousand followers that I attracted mostly through ads a couple of years ago. Suddenly, my account is…

I am an old Java programmer and while I occasionally change Angular directives or play with Vue, I have little knowledge about the inner workings of JavaScript. I am afraid that most JavaScript books are outdated in a…

Job sites are inundated by meaningless job descriptions for software developer jobs. There's usually a list of technologies complemented by a couple of paragraphs of complete bullshit. There's no reference to the…

Aside from the usual snowflakes, that is.