That name is taken, especially for anything web related.

Search is great, using Kagi. Just bought the family plan, never going back to google. Also FastMail.

Delighted to see something made in Ireland that didn't come from a multinational... The Zorin brothers have worked on this since they were teenagers. https://stconleths.ie/the-zorin-brothers-technology-for-huma... They were even on the national news a few weeks back!

Excellent piece, captivating. I found many parallels here to managing IT. So much of control theory and systems engineering is relevant to developing and deploying cloud systems, improving performance etc...

Many times I've seen engineers polishing and optimizing the code of an existing system without ever questioning the process itself or indeed the paradigm. I myself was in that position, spent 5 years optimizing the parameters of a complex system, only to realize that system was put in place based on faulty assumptions that were never questioned. The whole thing could have been removed and performance sped up 200%.

Is this a submarine article for food corps or what? Yes, it's hard work to make food by hand, but for fucks sake, our ancestors did it for generations, without any modern appliances or temperature controlled ovens. This article was so long, I don't even know the point was. Is she trying to say that UPF is not so bad? That you should just give in? At the end of the day it just comes down to priorities. There is almost nothing more important than what goes into a child's developing body. Maybe skip some of the after school activities and cook with them instead.

I am a paid user. I use Thunderbird on my desktop. This is a waste of time and money. Put the money into proper EU based data centres instead.

For those who hated the unmaintainable mega spreadsheet of death, MS Access was actually a quite decent solution. It allowed you to sprinkle some structure and maintainability onto a spreadsheet without losing the accessibility and ease of development. You could whip up really functional UIs without much coding knowledge. 20 years later and I still don't know what the replacement for Access is in today's world...