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I am rebuilding the website for my hobby club (currently wordpress). I would like to add some new features for members, but I also want be mindful about future maintainers who may not be technical. The top 2 criteria…

I was just about to invest considerable time and effort into learning Flutter and building a cross platform app. I’m well aware of Google’s propensity to cancel products, but the Google Domains news was still surprising…

I am preparing to launch a side project in the saas space. As with all saas projects, I will be storing customer data and I want to protect myself from data loss or data leaks either through my own stupidity or through…

I am planning to translate a static website into a few other languages. I am trying to figure out the best structure for doing this. I can think of 5 ways to do it. Example using Spanish: 1) es.example.com/index.html 2)…

Personally, I postponed upgrading my Mac to Catalina for longer than I should have because it meant giving up YummyFTP (32-bit only), which had powerful synchronization capabilities that I have not found elsewhere. I…

This question has been asked here before, but not for several years, so I was wondering if any recommendations have changed. I am looking for a reliable managed VPS host where I can throw some of my hobby sites and not…

Im finally ready to share a fun side project that I've been working on. For 20 years, Ive been fascinated with Mandelbrot fractals. Back in the day, I made a MacOS9 app that rendered them, and I missed it. So, I decided…

Brief rant on Apple product naming schemes. When Apple first started using the "Air" term for products, it meant thin and light. The new iPad Air is not the thinnest Apple tablet and it's only the lightest by 5 grams…

Unfortunately, ads are a necessary way to support certain types of websites. I have used Adsense and other networks, but Im sick of having so much JS bloat and cookie tracking. Are there any ad networks that use…

I have read many posts here of people getting their google accounts locked for no reason, so I am trying to protect myself and am planning to migrate. I run several websites and currently have different email addresses…

Does part of your job require you to repeatedly do small amounts of work (a repetitive microtask)? Like approving/moderating content, or cleaning data, or answering simple support questions. If so, how do you currently…

There has been a lot of talk recently about Apple abandoning the desktop market, or at least the professional desktop market. Im wondering if someone can comment about which machines are used by Apple employees to do…