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I know you're leaning against it but I thought I'd say anyway that we use IRC for everything since it's easy to hook into from anywhere. We don't even use a full-fledged server, just a single file python script. There's plenty of options for graphical notifications and you can hook into from PHP if you want.

Self teaching fundamentals is boring and not sexy. I'm self taught and I'll admit it took me a year of doing the fun stuff before I forced myself to go back and start to really understand the fundamentals of what I was doing. Turns out I now enjoy what I used to think was boring.

I think this is a fairly common experience.

Here's is my ONE issue with adblock.

We have a clothing recommendation engine that helps people discover clothes and we wanted to provide the service ad free. We chose a platform called viglink which affiliates the existing outbound links to the clothing vendors and if the user ends up purchasing something we are given a commission.

I think this is a fair model where we are compensated for our service and the user is 100% unaware and not bothered.

However, in the past month adblock has decided to block this despite the fact it provided zero nuisance to the end user. We managed to create work arounds but it's a frustrating issue.