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While @apple has a good track of supporting accessibility and i18n, i wonder how they failed to include IPA (international phonetic alphabet) in their pronunciation contact fields. Instead they rely on english transliteration, which is very limited as it misses lots of sounds.

Can one imagine that @spirehealthcare booking system is not able to produce calendar events (.ics) in 2026? Private healthcare still stuck in stone age, funny as NHS does have support for it, both for emails and in their app.

With so much AI enablement we see from @github is hard to not ask why they still not allow to limit issue creator permissions to members or collaborators? github.com/dear-github/dear-…

Apparently is time for my beloved @codecov to reach the hall of shame. 10mb uploader and their own action is not even caching it between two runs. 10minutes to upload a couple of kilobytes. Why not curl?

Yesterday I ditched oh-my-posh for starship for prompt management just because the former does not have a default location for the config file and that makes it much harder to deploy and edit it as you always need to pass the path to its config.

One extra bonus from AI is that it will succeed rewriting ancient code in more modern languages.

Shame on @Screwfix for blocking access to their website and app if your “detected” location is not UK, basically blocking VPN users from using them even if they are in UK. Yep, some extra engineering time wasted for nothing, likely a clueless management decision.

Am I the only one that since two days ago I am unable to use sourcegraph.com search at all? "Error loading results", inspect seems to reports tons of issues on their site including broken 3rd party calls like sentry reporting 429. Also other 404 and 400 errors...

Does anyone actively use an iphone app to manage their kitchen inventory and their recipes? If it can also suggest recipes based on what you have or want to include even better.

I did not had to deal with @Microsoft Windows in a long time but today I found this "No. We will no longer offer the Sysinternals source code for download or license." on learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sy… -- about the good old sysinternals tools. Say one thing, do another another one...

Apparently @Trading212 advertise open API access while blocking genuine users from accessing it like @MoneyhubApp -- See moneyhub.com/status ... not a good sign.

I am loving how Google engages with their community, just check support.google.com/meet/thre… -- do you see the "locked" button. That's the way to show how much you care about user feedback!

RIP @PriceSpyUK as closing UK accounts is effectively the same as killing it. – at Norwich, England

Apparently there is no easy way to install a side python 3.9 on latest Ubuntu 23.04 as even deadsnakes does not provide a repository for it.

I reached a point in my life where I would really want to pay for only one service subscription: an AI service for filtering email to a minimum and ad blocking. – at Norwich, England

Dell UltraSharp U3224KB 6K sold-out in less than a day from being made available for ordering… and that is a $3000 monitor. – at Norwich, England

Apparently @fedora makes it hard to become a package maintainer as it does not even allow you to push to the forked clone from src.fedoraproject.org as it blocks SSH usage for non packagers and plain login does not work either.

Apparently migrating projects from sphinx to mkdocs will upset manpage users, as I am not aware of any plugin that allows generation of man pages from mkdocs.