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[19nine78 @19nine78]

That'll explain the steaming pile that is GA4

[Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA @GRDecter]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but over +25% of all new code at Google is now written by AI.

The world has changed—most people just aren’t ready to admit it.

[19nine78 @19nine78]

Current project requires me to make use of .ass files. That's made for some risky Googling 😳

Animate ass
Convert to ass
Make an ass
Why is my ass not working

[19nine78 @19nine78]

@webprofusion @SimonCropp Apparently it's not but I have found the SQL Anywhere download link on the SAP site so I think I'm making progress :)

[19nine78 @19nine78]

Can anyone help? I've a client who is being given a #sap #Sybase v17 database file as part of an offboarding process.

How can I access/use this to extract the data contained in it. Dotnet preferred but I'd take any solution

I've installed #SAP ASE but still none the wiser

[19nine78 @19nine78]

👀

[19nine78 @19nine78]

@craigd0412 What's the issue? I've got a fair few sites on wp-engine and haven't had any problems.

[Thomas Godden @GoddenThomas]

Today I learned that SIM cards have a decently powerful MCU on them and run Java.

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

I write digital strategies for a mgmt consultancy. Let me save you 500k. It's always "connecting audiences with personalised content on the device and at the time of their choosing." And if you need us to tell you that, you'll never get your shit together enough to action it.

[19nine78 @19nine78]

@TwiterTwouble Conatum are Glasgow based and do subscriptions

https://t.co/sc0QnPE4ly

[Gwen (Chen) Shapira @gwenshap]

I was thinking about "it shouldn't be easy".

I talk to a lot of founders, and there's a subset that sees SaaS as a "hustle game." You find a niche with a problem that can be solved without a sizeable technical effort—maybe even with a no-code platform—and then the real work is marketing it.

A lot of SaaS culture promotes this mindset. This is why we had to start a SaaS developer community: The SaaS communities didn't see engineering as a central concern or capability. It was all sales, marketing, and customer support.

The problem with this mindset becomes apparent the first time you try to buy a product from one of these SaaS companies. Talking to the founder with your customer hat on.

At some point, you raise a problem and ask, "Does your product solve this for me?" And the founder says, "Oh no, we can't solve this one. This is really hard. We solve these other things."

"Right, these other things are nice," you say. "But I need the hard problem solved. I know it is hard, so I'm looking for a product that solves this for me".

At this point, you can go in circles for a while, with the founder trying to convince you that you shouldn't want the hard problem solved because it will be hard to solve.

The thing is, most of the easy problems are not that valuable. If they were valuable and easy, they'd be solved already. You may get lucky with an overlooked, easy, and valuable problem. But luck is not a strategy.

The real value to customers is when you solve their hard problems. Ideally, you solve them so well that the world forgets that this used to be impossible.

[19nine78 @19nine78]

The answer was to delete node_modules and download all the javascript on the internet again

[19nine78 @19nine78]

Last week I brought a 10 year old, dot net Framework 4.5 CMS back to life without hardly any drama.

Today I can't get 'npm install' to run on something that worked 3 months ago #fml

[Clarkston Colts @ClarkstonColts]

Super proud of our Minis who played their first league game at seven-a-side on Saturday - and did brilliantly 👏

Well done to all the players, coaches and parents/guardians ⚽🔴

[Jon Bruner @JonBruner]

This is a CT scan of Heinz’s new ketchup cap. It represents a $1.2 million engineering investment over 8 years. Here’s why it’s significant… 🧵

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

If you’re in need of a smile, I’d like to remind you that one word for your intestines in the 14th century (first recorded in a translation of the Bible) was ‘arseropes’.

[19nine78 @19nine78]

The ridiculousness of web performance.

*Google* makes Pagespeed score a ranking factor.

*Google* Pagespeed tool complains about blocking JavaScript.

The JavaScript in question? *Google* Analytics, implemented according to *Google's* guidelines #fml #chasingMagicNumbers

[Mossgiel Organic Farm @MossgielFarm]

WHEN THE COWS LEFT

It was December 15th 2015; dad had been gone a year, and it wasn't going well

We lost two thirds of our income thanks to the collapse of milk prices, the bank wouldn't support us and although we'd engaged consultants and experts to help - we just couldn't keep things going when the milk price couldn't even pay the feed bill for the cows, let alone any other costs.

Our only option was to sell - knowing that even then it wouldn't cover the huge debts.

First up was our herd; it took dad and papa 67 years to build our Ayrshire herd, winning cattle shows all over, producing beautiful milk and being part of the post war drive to feed a nation - and in just one year of flying solo, it was all over.

The milk price collapse was due to a few things - the EU had stopped 'milk quotas'; leaving farmers across the continent to produce as much milk as possible for the worldwide market, where before then it was capped. Russia embargoed European dairy products as we put sanctions on them for the war in Crimea. China affected it by stopping the imports of milk powder after years of telling the world they needed so much that they'd never fill their stores. All this meant that due to milk prices being linked to international prices, the supermarkets went into a money saving craze - and crashed UK prices, leaving the lowest price for milk since the late 1970s.

We were in a group of 50 farmers with milk going to make cheese; and we ended up being the lowest paid in the whole UK - getting just 9.7p per litre of milk.

It took weeks of prep; every cow had to be washed & clipped. There had to be descriptions of how much milk she'd given, and a detailed list of her heritage so buyers could decide if she would fit well into their own herds and breeding programme.

A few local friends came to help too; offering advice and support to help through the tough choices and prepare the cows for sale.
Even the Scottish Agricultural minister at the time, Richard Lochhead heard of our plight, and popped in to wish us luck in the days ahead.

I'll never forget the day the cows left - i'd never failed so badly in my whole life, and it was only just beginning.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

A good throwback on how software engineers at AWS saw no practical value in building blockchain infrastructure, but did it so startups flush with cash raised *specifically* for blockchain could spend it with them.

In a gold rush, manufacture and sell shovels. What AWS did!