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Sander van Dragt
 

I've updated my notetaking tool reference with my current recommendation: Dropbox Paper https://vandragt.com/pages/notetaker-tools

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Sublime Text is the best scratchpad editor: with it restoring unsaved tabs across sessions.

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On doing good work

Aka why I keep having bad customer experiences.

Assuming the idea of a business (and us when we represent it) is to stay in business then it should aim to make the customer (a fellow person) happy as happy people are loyal.

This means the person needs to understand what the other person wants from the transaction to be happy. It also means both parties must understand the details of the transaction to know how this makes them happy. The product must be understood  to ensure maximum happiness.  And finally if the product or service offered is not making the customer happy then it’s the responsibility of a good business to help the customer find happiness another way. 

Doing good business is about understanding people, and having empathy. 

This is also why why car dealerships keep disappointing me. Stop pushing product. Start making people happy. 

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When writing a script that invokes git stash, make sure the script is committed before running it, if it's in the same repository ;-)

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It's wasteful to load all the site's css and javascript if the visitor only comes to visit one page.

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Daily crossword puzzle but with the puzzle replaced with denying a consent dialogue.

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I've just signed up for Zapier and Mailchimp to create a weekly email of an RSS feed containing any interesting articles I find. Hopefully that will both improve my Friday and stop the urge to share every interesting link.

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Im trying to go paperless but logging into stuff to get my statements out Is as bad as getting paper. Any solutions?

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The WordPress community is very excited about raising the minimum PHP version to one that's longer supported. ;-)

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Writing a python script < reinstall pipenv < pyenv install new python < install Xcode commandline tools.

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/behold-the-facebook-phishing-scam-that-could-... This is easily fixed: let us specify a login background in the preferences.

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test a single checkbox < install testing framework < install api mocking framekwork < require composer < overhaul a mono repository and dev setup

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If there was a plan B we would have heard about it by now. It’s no surprise that the government cannot be honest about it.

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New day new problem. Bluetooth Magic Keyboard is no longer recognised.

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Needed a non Apple USB keyboard to remove the Bluetooth keyboard from the system and repair after swapping the batteries. macOS did not give any notifications about the battery level of the keyboard.

Sander, Jan 27 2019 on vandragt.com

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Every time I restart my Mac it won’t recognise the external ssd boot partition. Ugh

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@sander I've had the same problem, although I find that if I give it like 5 minutes it'll finally boot.

jack, Jan 26 2019 on micro.blog

@jack I find out the iMac booted into the built in disk next evening complaining about failed is updates (only time I restart)

sander, Jan 26 2019 on micro.blog

It’s fixed by starting up without the disk attached and deselecting it from the startup manager.

Sander, Jan 26 2019 on vandragt.com

Sander van Dragt
 

Replied to a post on mobile.twitter.com :

This is why I registered http://appsubscriptions.com which redirects to the subscription screen on any Apple device.

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Updating Known

I wrote a quick and dirty upgrade.sh script that sits in the parent directory of my Known site (updated now with the new composer setup). I'm using the following directory structure:

config.ini  
Uploads/
html/
upgrade.sh 

The offical Known git repository is checked out in html/. The config.ini and Uploads folder have been moved to the folder to sit alongside it.

The contents of the upgrade.sh script can be viewed as a gist on Github:

It's not elegant but it makes updating to the latest Known changes pretty seamless.

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All my interesting links will be posted to https://vandragt.com/content/bookmarkedpages/ first before shared to social media and pocket. Own your content!

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Beware of the OOM killer! https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/153586/8369

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May will stick to Brexit 'principles' in cross-party talks, says No 10. aka Let's have a talk to come to an agreement, but I'm not going to change my mind.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/17/may-will-stick-to-brexit-principles-in-cross-party-...

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