I use multiple browsers on my Windows machine. Edge for work stuff, Firefox for personal browsing, and Chrome — well, Chrome is there just to run Playwright tests. This is not an unusual setup. Many people I know keep at least two browsers around.
Enshittification - when an online platform becomes more monetized and less user-oriented the longer it lasts.
I recently watched a YouTube video that presented the benefits of never nesting your code more than a few levels. I’ve felt that it expressed in words what I’d always known within. So let me explain.
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A story about my quest to avoid paying Google in perpetuity.
This is a story of how Apple’s wireless airpods have made my life worse even though I am not even a customer.
Shark Tank India is airing its second season, and it’s the only TV show I am actively watching these days.
Developing a web app is an exercise in balance. One critical aspect is to decide between the opposing tendencies of monolithisation and micro-services. Like most decisions, this is always a matter of degree. You can absolutely go too far in one direction and suffer for it.
Suppose you have a large number of PDF documents stored in your computer, and every so often keep adding new ones to your collection. A problem that rears its head soon is that you end up with a lot of duplicate documents on your disk. They eat up your storage and are annoying when you want to search for a particular document.