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I was just coming on to say this.

I live somewhere where travelling by train is limited to basically local journeys, but love when I see this site get mentioned anywhere, because it reminds me of what the internet can be!


Something I've been doing recently that has really helped me find the right word faster is using flashcards.

One side will say "Explain the concept of x" and the other side be a paragraph or so of the concept.

I use both sides, so I will look at the abstract and try and remember the "x" naming word for it.

I don't think how you do, however I do often learn things in my own way, describing things internally using the "wrong" terms, This helps me link my internal thought processes to correct terms faster.


I'm excited to see the articles they produce.

I was a bit disapointed to see their RSS feed doesn't let you read the posts in your reader of choice.

Just some generic "click here to read more" descriptions and massive images.

I get that they're wanting to to sponsored stuff and for that they need stats and what have you, but I expected a bit better.


The "U" part is hard to talk about without actual users using it though. Which is hard to do pre-html.


When I was about 16 I collated a load of information on looking after your bearded dragon and sold the eBook on eBay - maybe made around £150 overall. I was chuffed at the time.


I have three sources of decent (return on effort put in) passive income this year.

- Membership fees and sponsored posts on https://thefootytipster.com (I maintain the WP site, but no real ongoing work) (roughly £300 per month)

- Advertising on my tech blog https://tosbourn.com (roughly £30 per month)

- Advertising on https://howoldistheinter.net (roughly £15 per month) - zero effort put into this once made and one redesign

I'm hoping to grow https://cbdscores.com over the next few months and add it to the list.


I use TextExpander for support / service emails and to pull up information quickly (VAT details, addresses, etc)

Invoices and late payment reminders I've automated with my invoicing system (Crunch)


I use PhraseExpress (free version available) for answer e-mails as well. Gmail has boilerplate responses, but you can script PhraseExpress to retrieve data locally. So, if a customer is asking for an order, I can pull up details in the e-mail by doing a query locally.


I'm using PhraseExpress (free) too. I have a few macros set up for commonly used phrases, but thanks to its prefix matching and popup of multiple results, I also use it as a quick lookup tool for various strings so that I don't have to remember them.


I am a Safari user but would use the hell out of this. I have my hotkeys set to go to a non-inbox view but would love to block it entirely until I actively want to see stuff.


Thanks for your feedback @tosbourn. I only released this today, but if the Chrome extension proves popular I'll definitely look at porting this to Firefox and Safari.


Innovation Enterprise - London, ONSITE.

I am one of the Ruby devs there and we want to expand our team.

We are looking for Ruby folk who have experience with Rails, TDD, and preferably scaling out existing projects. DevOps skills would also be a huge plus.

Happy to share a full job spec to anyone who is interested, or you can go here; http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/28683/software-develop...

Applications to tosbourn@theiegroup.com


I am guessing there will be a post slamming blogger soon since that is the only page that is currently working.


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