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What's your favorite drop-in replacement, in any context? Whether it's an admin dashboard, a person, a service to which you started subscribing... anything you "dropped in" as a worthwhile replacement that easily plugs…

No-code tools give non-technical people the ability to build stuff that normally professional developers would have to build for them. What's the reverse of that: tools for technical people that give them the ability to…

I now listen to podcasts at ~2.7x with extreme silence trimming and I can't seem to break past this speed level. I have to slow it down to 2.4x for speakers with even minor less-familiar accents. I'd like to get to a…

I've been preparing a B2B service in which my customers are under NDA with their own customers, but they would be submitting business content to me. That means they have an obligation to report to their customers that…

I'm putting together a list of common scenarios faced by devs in the workplace, and hopefully some smart patterns for mitigating them. Can you think of a high-stress communication issue you experienced, and how you…

Not for the first time, when doing a fresh install of Catalina, I've found that half my iCloud Keychain saved passwords are missing. Safari is missing all of its saved passwords. (They still all live in iCloud, as…

All software is a force multiplier, but some tools, like Zapier/IFTTT are in a class of their own. Likewise concepts like Compound Interest and arguably knowledge of fallacies, such as "sunk cost fallacy". What are some…

I'm a digital nomad, and therefore I move countries here and there, and change phone numbers. My gmail account still forwards to another gmail account to which I do have access. So my (failed) process has been: 1. Enter…

I've been implementing a new SaaS with Stripe in recent weeks. Unlike previously, the live chat support no longer has any idea what an API is. When I tell them what errors I'm getting when creating a subscription using…

I received a Google Voice voicemail, with the transcript being: > Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday dead dead dead. Thursday Thursday Yep.…

I just had a client pay $8,200, and they must have hit the submit button over and over. 6 times actually, but luckily their bank blocked all but 3 of the payments. I had to refund 2 of those, and Stripe has charged me…

A lot of what hackers do takes years of building knowledge upon knowledge. That's also true for physicists, marketers, salespeople, managers, etc. Are there any quick wins that 30 ~ 60 minutes of intense concentration…

I have an affinity for the demographic on Hacker News. Instagram isn't really for my demographic, but is there something HNers use instead? If HN is like Reddit for Hackers, then what's Twitter for Hackers? Any other…