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by bkuehl 2y ago
Thank you for explaining this so succinctly! People just don't seem to understand that to do SSO properly and securely for your app it costs decent money and support time. Regardless of if you roll your own or buy 3rd party (recommende
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by bkuehl 3y ago
I'm in the same situation! Not in the Carribean..yet, but traveling around U.S. coast in a trawler with my husband. Never would have been possible without Starlink. I would have had to wait for retirement that probably would never have
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by bkuehl 3y ago
Yeah, and not every scrum implementation needs to have a ton of meetings. We do 1 week sprints with no 15m daily stand-ups and a monthly or so retrospective. If someone is blocked I don't need them to wait to the next day to bring it u
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by bkuehl 3y ago
Thank you! I had to scroll too far down to see this. There are many useful implementations. Copying code, copying a long number, etc. Just make it clear what is going to happen when you click that button/icon.
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by bkuehl 3y ago
I was disappointed with MariaDB and tried it before using MySQL. It is so far behind MySQL that it can't be considered equivalent anymore. And I really wanted to use MariaDB instead. The "MySQL just lets me" stuff eventually
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by bkuehl 3y ago
I'm sorry, I was wrong in that Postgres does let you specify a few character collations at the DB level, but they are pretty much ASCII vs UNICODE with no case-insensitive configurations. You can create collations in v12 and assign the
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by bkuehl 3y ago
A lot of comments for Postgres, but it's the only major DB in 2023 that does not let you choose your character collation when creating a database. That is pretty much a deal breaker day 1. Guess you'll be doing a tolower() on ever
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by bkuehl 3y ago
I don't get Latinx term at all. And hardly ever see it used by native speakers. It's like they're telling Spanish speakers their language is inherently bad because it's gendered. It almost comes off as a "white savi
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by bkuehl 4y ago
Redis is great, but sometimes it isn't always the best solution. We almost configured it, but instead implemented our own Cache web service and used the built in memory/cache management of that. Yes, it's only accessible via
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by bkuehl 4y ago
The company I work for is in the healthcare tech space and we all generally despise Epic. But when I saw the MyChart app, I was really impressed. Also, we were in the ER recently, and my spouse got their test/lab results on their phone
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by bkuehl 4y ago
Google Photos is that silent offering that wasn't a big deal initially, but just slowly grew into easily the best option to store your years of smartphone photo memories. I pay for it and will always pay. Chromebooks were also the thin
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by bkuehl 4y ago
It's unfortunate Tumblr made the move to ban explicit content in the first place, but it's definitely not dead. It may not be what it used to be 10 years ago but it's still what I'd rather browse through than what Twitte
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by bkuehl 4y ago
We did the same thing in the healthcare sector, but for safety event reporting! It's not like we even did anything groundbreaking with UX. One was just making it so it's easy to fill out a form quickly. You don't even have to
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by bkuehl 4y ago
To start, you should choose an instance that had been around for a while and isn't too small. Instances do shutdown occasionally but the admin(s) will give you plenty of time to migrate to a new instance. Mastodon has built-in tools to
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by bkuehl 4y ago
You can be a part of a large or small instance and your consumption/conversation is not limited to users on that instance. You can follow people from other instances as well as scroll through a timeline that is posts/toots from ac
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by bkuehl 4y ago
From my experience so far with pandemic WFH that turned into permanent WFH for our company, if the employee was generally good or performed pretty well they are performing even better working remotely. However, if the employee was just ave
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by bkuehl 4y ago
Our company did a restructuring a couple years ago where the web/user-facing part of the dev team was moved under the same branch with Product. At first I was skeptical, but it has worked out very well. Product Managers and the develop
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by bkuehl 4y ago
I used to be more adamant that links should never open modals and should be buttons. Until we ran into an action column in a grid having 4-5 items. Having it be all buttons would look ridiculous and annoy users with space usage. We went wit
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by bkuehl 4y ago
There are some cases like accounting departments that may definitely need the extra features from Excel. I guess I weigh the collaboration features Google provides over the extra features Excel provides. Google is still playing catch-up wit
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by bkuehl 4y ago
I won't argue that Excel is great. It is by far Microsoft's best product. It is an amazing accomplishment. Google has been able to do 85% of it and also added some great collaboration features. Yeah, it's not as good and prob
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by bkuehl 4y ago
I don't understand this sentiment at all. I have to deal with Outlook at work and it is hot garbage. I can't believe this competes with a web application from 2004. Yes, I get desktop Excel but I have never had to use any feature
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by bkuehl 4y ago
I moved from Ubuntu to Mint mainly because of Snap. I couldn't take it anymore. Couldn't be happier.
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by bkuehl 4y ago
I think if people were more diligent about where and what to order for delivery it would turn out better. We rarely have issues with food delivery. Arrives hot/warm and in around an hour. I won't order from anywhere that is more t
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by bkuehl 4y ago
Also, apparently this area is going to be prime wine producing country in like 5-10 years. It already produces decent white wines.
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by bkuehl 4y ago
Honestly, just staying in the Upper Midwest Great Lakes region of the U.S. is looking like a great option for me. Winters aren't great right now, but will only get milder and summers are amazing.
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by bkuehl 4y ago
Yes, some winters can be absolutely brutal. But like others have mentioned, you don't have to deal with drought, wildfires, hurricanes, etc. And the upper Midwest summer weather is amazing IMO.
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by bkuehl 4y ago
Second this! For a such a great, world-class city, Chicago is very affordable compared to other major metropolitan areas. I bought a single-family home in the city within walking distance to the "L" for 350k in 2017. And this was
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by bkuehl 4y ago
That's one of the tougher things with management is making those calls. At least they came to you with alternatives and/or recommendations. I have always tried to be pragmatic in my decisions/solutions. I ask myself, is this
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by bkuehl 4y ago
I think it's using the right tool for the job. I thoroughly regret not using Vue or other major JS framework 5-6 years ago when building out our new application. While the server-side is solid the client-side is sort of a mess. A mix
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by bkuehl 4y ago
We recently had a ticket from a user where an uploaded PDF wouldn't load in browser (Chrome). Turns out the PDF had embedded Flash content. I was blown away that in 2022 some application somewhere was still embedding Flash in their PDF

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