Train was (is still?) quite big in Netherlands at least. Drops of Jupiter and Hey, Soul Sister topped the charts

Unfortunately I can report that Shania Twain scored a couple of big hits this side of the pond

I recently bought a Pioneer PD-F905 101 CD player. It’s 30 years old and I absolute love it. It needed a lot of cleaning (mostly nicotine and tar), but after that it worked like a charm again

Scouting helped me a lot with this. It’s an active community, and not just for kids. And it’s worldwide, so wherever you go, there’s a community you can visit, or recognize

On the outside it’s sold as security, but what you really get is surveillance

I’ve been doing this for the past 10 years or so. When I joined my current company a few years ago, it was one of the first things I pushed for. It made cycle times go down drastically and value is being delivered to end users at a much higher rate now.

With enough tests and automation, there is almost no reason not do on the web. On embedded or mobile platforms this might be a bit more difficult, although not entirely impossible.

The use of feature toggles also greatly enhanced our trust in being able to turn a feature off again if it turned out to be faulty somehow. Although we usually opt for patching bugs, it gives the business as a whole more confidence.

More people are puzzled by this achievement https://steamcommunity.com/app/1363080/discussions/0/4355620138226996074/

We’re using backstage in combination with openapi. The schema is documented in OpenAPI, but how services are connected is done via backstage, which crawls all repositories and puts it together to form nice graphs we can traverse easily

There are hills in Amsterdam? gasp

Not amateurish at all, but good questions. I’m not confident enough to answer your second question, but on your first question: yes, you can use the hosting service you already have. Given that you are renting a VPS that is. It looks like Strato is calling this “hosting”. Don’t use their “WordPress hosting” package for this though, as it won’t allow you to install the instance software.

Even after reading both the blog and the website itself I still have no idea what this is supposed to be? Is it a standalone git client that tries to do things differently? Is it a GitHub alternative? I’m super confused

If you like it old-skool-style, wizordum just got released in early access. There’s a playable demo as well

Expect those people are not black and need to stop pretending they are. Other than that, it’s always been a great and festive time for me

Controversial opinion maybe, but: pay for your apps/subscriptions. The makers need to feed their families as well. If you don’t want to pay big corporate, or the app doesn’t offer an ad-free alternative, switch to an indie alternative instead. If you can, pay for a lifetime plan.