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I’m working on an open source 3D printed vacuum cleaner robot:

https://github.com/CodileAB https://www.instagram.com/wolley.xyz/

I’ve been working with it on and off for two years now and hopefully it can soon actually vacuum my floors :-)


This is so cool!


Yes, the container tabs are really nice if you want to make tracking harder for advertisers, LinkedIn etc.


I'm eagerly waiting the ability to associate a bookmark with a given container, especially when opening multiple bookmarks at once. Apparently it'll arrive in v59.


I like the name, it means "Pictures" in Swedish. Is that intended?


The author lives in Germany, where the word has the same meaning. Pretty sure it is intentional.


Five years ago, I would have recommended AlphaMail, a service me and some others were building. However, it does no longer exists...


I totally agree! That is how I did it :-)


I had the N9 with MeeGo, best OS for phones I have ever used. Also very beautiful and easy to use.


Yea N9 is still best, only N950 can beat it :)


I was just about to mention Digital Ocean. Very simple and easy, but MySQL is eating all my available memory...


You can have different problems. - Server requirements too low to handle your daily traffic - WP custom development with slow querys - Are you using any caching system and image optimization?


Well, typing is more of a motorical skill than programming. Almost everyone can learn to drive a car (manual gearbox) but the same could not be said for programming where problem solving, logic and intelligence is a must.

But with that being said, people from other professions could still learn how to program and do it well.

Maybe you think of a programmer as person that is just typing in the program designed by someone else, a developer, in a specific language with a specific syntax?


I think a programmer is someone who writes programs, regardless of the quality of the code. Substitute spreadsheets for typing if you think its more appropriate. Not everyone with domain expertise knows how to use a spreadsheet, and not everyone who uses spreadsheets uses them as well as someone that, for example, writes software for a living (and not all of the latter use it as well as someone who only uses spreadsheets!) But good luck finding someone who's only job is getting hired to code up a spreadsheet. The vast majority of uses are to allow someone with just enough skill to create something that performs a job function in an automated way, which in turn makes another job that much easier. Once upon a time, it would have been a persons job to perform the calculations and updates that a spreadsheet makes trivial.

It would be foolish to think that the same will never happen to the vast majority of our jobs.


I see that it could be true for many desktop and mobile phone applications but who should develop the operating systems, embedded applications and backends? It is a full time job just to learn all the programming languages, libraries, frameworks, standards, protocols and other related things.


Well, the "programmers" in operating system and embedded domains are usually electrical engineers who learned how to write code, just enough to apply their domain knowledge. A programmer in the usual sense, that is someone graduated from pure software school, will have a hard time competing with those people.


Do you mean the text? I was writing the text for me, as some kind of project log. Actually, I found a couple of errors in the design while writing which I wouldn't have found if I haven't written the text.

The text may only be interesting for people building or thinking about building a retro microcomputer.


Thank you, it was exactly the look I was after :-) But the logo was supposed to be copper but it is "silver". I don't really know why...

This was the effect I was looking for: https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQHkdLM...


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