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I use Dropbox and I use Apple's various iCloud storage things (Documents, Desktop, Photos, etc). I believe it's probably true that these companies can do a better job of maintaining my data over the long term, than me,…

I am getting old (I started coding as a small kid on a Radio Shack TRS-80 pocket computer). I am getting to the point with my Mac computers (Studio Ultra and MacBook Pro) that I dread when OS updates are on the horizon.…

Suggestions for maintaining a work-related agenda/diary? In the old days I used a Filofax (remember those!). New days, the equivalent would be I guess a bullet journal notebook sort of thing. What about an electronic…

Does anyone know, what kinds of software/systems/practices do organizations use for notes, diary entries, records, by executives, leaders, CEOs, etc? Just folders of MS Turd documents? Or something else?

In the 90s, used to be I burned docs & data to CDr media and put them in my bookshelf at home for long term archive. I can still read these CDs today, 30 yrs later. Success. What is today's equivalent? Hard drives make…

iCloud Drive has come a long way since the days of me.com ... but still, when I open my laptop after a day-long break and I see old files cluttering my yet-to-be-synced iCloud Desktop (remnants from temp files deposited…

Within months (if not already) I think for most consumers Siri is going to feel like a third rate substandard AI assistant as google and Microsoft continue to weave their solutions into their product lines. Is Apple…

My employer (a university) runs MS Office365 which I abhor to be honest. I much prefer gsuite especially for email, I find it much easier and faster to organize and especially search. I can of course fwd my office365…

I want to create a web app that we will use internally; it would allow people in a meeting to go to a web page, enter their name, and then have a button for “hand up” or “hand down” and an indicator of whether their…

What is your go-to emacs for MacOS on apple silicon? I'm aware of the wiki https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS Just wondering what people choose. I grew up on emacs on Sun workstations. Want to get back to it.…

My colleague wants a new laptop to run windows and train tensorflow models on the cpu; something with lots of cpu cores that will train cpu-based tensorflow models fast. My suggestion was a MacBook Pro M1max but they…

Just curious, how come I see lots of Mac users using Chrome not Safari for web stuff? Is it because the web/dev tools are better or more familiar and the users I see are also web devs?

On Zoom, is there a way for a presenter (e.g. a teacher) to present a YouTube video to participants (e.g. students) without literally having the teacher’s local YouTube stream get sent over zoom? It’s unworkable. What…

Is there an API to pull new messages in a Slack channel? Or an integration so new messages in a Slack channel are pushed to another app? I have users posting URLs in a slack channel and I would like to be able to…

I want to code up a simple web app that allows the user to create a list of items that would be published each Sunday morning. There would be a web interface where the user could, when they feel inspired, enter a new…