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I've noticed more freelancers integrating AI agents to handle peripheral tasks. For those using them: 1. Which specific tasks have you offloaded to AI? 2. Has this actually saved you time or just created different work?…

I couldn't understand for weeks why I couldn't blur the background on Meet video calls anymore. Well, it turns out that it's because I use Firefox and I don't have a Google account. If you log in AND switch to Google…

I normally use a Kobo with Calibre to read eBooks. But every once in a while, an eBook only exists in PDF and the PDF -> Kobo ePub conversion doesn't usually go well. I have an old Nexus 7 tablet from 2013 that I have…

It’s happened to me that I apply for a position at a company, get rejected and then apply again a few months/years later for a similar job at the same company. In the interval, I update and tweak my CV or profile and I…

I liked Firefox send to share files with correspondants who aren’t tech savvy and wouldn’t know how to use pgp or who would be confused at a zip file asking for a password. Firefox send was great because it also…

I was looking into an issue where a system would accept some PNG files and not others. For the rejected PNG files, the "official" solution was to slightly resize them with the Windows Snip tool and save them again which…

Recent events made the story that COBOL runs the world and yet only retiring old timers still know it, thus creating a massive shortage, high demand, high salaries make the rounds again. But I’ve never been able to find…

As a non-technical founder without enough resources and work to justify hiring your own software engineers, entrusting an agency or freelancers to build the software powering your startup; how do you assess whether you…