MattBearman

Thanks! I have no idea how I got so lucky with this. I've not looked into it, but I suspect replacing the battery on one of these nanos would be quite the challenge

I had a similar experience recently coding a wordle clone on and for a Psion 3a (an early 90s palmtop pc) the screen only shows a few lines of code, and the built in ide is little more than a text editor. I really enjoyed the process

YouTube premium actually has its own version of sponsorblock called skip ahead, it works really well, so they’re not ideologically opposed to skipping sponsored segments

I wonder if this is related to yellowing plastics? Retr0brighting with peroxide and sunbriting (putting yellowed plastics out in the sun) are already common treatments in the retro community. I’ll have to give it a try on some of my old hardware

This won’t require companies to keep servers running, just that they have an end of life plan, eg: releasing a version of the server that can be self hosted for multiplayer games

One of my favourite YouTubers, superfastmatt, uses a similar title pattern. Eg: “Insulate Your Camper Van. Or Just Watch Me Do It. Whatever”

Only the mk 5 supra (2020 onwards) has anything to do with BMW. Up until the mk 4 stopped production in 02 there had been 25ish years of purely Toyota Supra/Celica Supra

> The Garmin Connect app seems to be completely useless without the Garmin Connect servers being up. It is not even possible to see local data on the phone.

Not the case, I can see all the local data from my watch in the app and still sync the two, just missing cloud backups and online specific functionality

Anyone else read this title and think of Nine Inch Nails?

I’ve written a PWA that I use daily on my iPhone, and it delivers push notifications when I’m not using the app to the lock screen.

Don’t get me wrong, Apple’s PWA implementation is very limited, but you can definitely have background notifications and lock screen notifications.

This is a common tactic in app stores - app asks if you like using the app, and only asks you to review if you respond positively

My wife and I have a channel on which we restore/fix/modify cars and motorbikes - https://youtube.com/@EnginesandUnfinishedBusiness

I’ve not casually browsed reddit since apollo shut down, occasionally I’ll end up on a post from a search, or my wife will show me something she’s seen, but that’s it. I was a pretty heavy user before as well.

Before apollo stopped I had set my phone to limit me to half an hour a day, a limit I hit almost every day, and regularly exceeded.

I don’t really miss it though, so it’s probably been a net benefit for me, but I’m still pissed off at how it went down

I’m not 100% on this but I believe the NES has a dedicated graphics chip for sprite manipulation, where as it all had to be done in software on the PC

Unless I’m misunderstanding you can checkout your previous branch with

  git checkout -

(The same way you can use ‘cd -‘ to change to your previous directory)

Damn, of all the different searches I tried I never thought to try “tech blog”

Amazing, thank you! How did you find it?

Engines and unfinished business: https://youtube.com/@EnginesandUnfinishedBusiness?feature=sh...

Car and motorcycle restoration projects - mostly my wife and I restoring a 1993 Toyota MR2

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I also have Big Beige Box: https://youtube.com/@bigbeigebox?feature=shares

Retro computer projects, so far fixing up a cheap Pentium II system, but I’ve got older systems planned

I started doing exactly this at the start of the year.

I'm now working 25% less than my full-time colleagues over 4 days (ie: I work one less day a week, and a slightly shorter work day). I absolutely love it and would never go back.

Of course it helps that I'm lucky enough to be in an industry where a 25% reduction in salary is still more than enough to be able to pay the mortgage and support my family.

I'm actually hoping to ultimately go down to three days a week, just need to make sure it will still work financially.

My guess is due to "ad blindness" a lot of people skip the ads and go straight to the results, so removing it from the results would be penalising the app's creator.

And removing from the ads would mean the App Store gets less money from the app's creator (assuming it's pay for impressions rather than pay for clicks)

Is a 1% broker fee normal in the US? We just bought a house in the UK, and paid a flat fee of £300 to the broker (on a £415k house). The broker saved us £3,000 overall, so well worth the cost. The broker gets a much bigger commission from the lender

Look for people that have previously run one-person SaaS companies. Speaking from experience, you have no choice but to get good at working with customers when there's no one else to do it for you.

What aspect of cars? If it’s working on them I’d recommend a workshop/haynes manual and just getting stuck in. There’s also loads of great stuff on YouTube (but of course that’s not a book)