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I did Recursion, Upgrade and Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and they were all really fun easy reads. Highly recommended.

There are now cart dumpers that can copy and store multiple Switch games on an SD card. If the same form factor is used its likely these will still work for original Switch games.

I run a WP focused agency and can say that apart from the absolutely shitty sales tactics WPEngine are a solid choice for probably 90% of the sites out there.

The criticism outlined by Matt in this article is related to their lack of engagement with the open source community around WordPress and their unwillingness to significantly contributing to the project.

I seriously had no idea they only contributed a tiny amount (40 hours per week) and I know of other (larger) agencies like mine who do more than this so I hope WPE pull their finger out and implement a better strategy to give back.

Very annoyed by this change. I had been checking daily on pre-order availability.

I'm still tempted because they seem to offer a HoloISO download that is pre-configured to work on the device.

Reminded me of this great American Dad episode: https://americandad.fandom.com/wiki/Meter_Made

"Amdroid"

Hot Ones reveal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUYtDA7j19c

Best moment:

(after eating a whole pepper) "Did you invent this pepper?"

(pepper inventor) "..yes"

(man in excruciating pain) "..why?"

I use and love Loom. I am not happy about this. Their acquisition of Trello was very painful and our company stopped using it because of this.

What alternatives to Loom Pro/Team would people recommend?

Very low bloat. And if you use mainly Google cloud based Apps you can get pretty much everything done.

The only problem is the lack of a 'premium' model that isn't cheap plastic.

I love this. Super old school sci-fi-tech madness. Reminded me of an Outer Limits TV show episode.

It's also very similar to what happens in the movie Predestination.

Finished "When McKinsey Comes to Town" recently. A nice easy read, haunting and funny.

It really goes to town on how the McKinsey consultants working in government and private sector will work both angles to get a favourable outcome to ensure they become indispensable. Also the way McKinsey try to balances a "fair and honest" culture with the real dirty work they do. The section on the UK Public Health Service (NHS) was shocking.

I love this book and read it at the same time as reading the book “Voyage” by Stephen Baxter that has some similar sections with teams of people quickly building advanced aerospace projects.

Because of this two books are interwoven in my brain, it’s a weird mashup.

I was in my mid-teens and a big gamer when Sony entered the ring with the PlayStation and I still cannot to this day get over the fact that they actually did it and became the dominant force in gaming.

I remember thinking it was just another fad like the Minidisc and because they had no clear mascot like Mario or Sonic it was bound to fail.

Next thing I knew the Saturn was a joke and everyone I knew had a PlayStation. The ads were EVERYWHERE and people I knew who had never even owned a games console were buying the PS1.

When the PS2 was announced I was also blindly convinced the Dreamcast would compete but the PS2 just DOMINATED. Literally everyone I knew had one (not me sadly) it was a stunning thing to behold. When games like GTA3 hit I knew Sega were done for.

I personally only connected with the Sony handheld unit owning a PSP and I also eventually got a Vita. Other than UMD they were (still are) awesome little devices to play with.

“If you don't have ability, you wind up playing in a rock band.”

- Buddy Rich

I run a remote team and it’s impossible to get anyone to commit to getting together socially. Best we managed was last year when someone left and he lived locally enough for a leaving do.

Most of the team just don’t want the hassle of leaving the house.

Watched this a few times since it was released. Real talent and determination.

Sounds bad but I've recently put this on a couple of times as background video to fall asleep to as well. Work's like a charm!

Small form factor laptops are my love. I still use the discontinued MacBook that was smaller than any of the Air models. It's underpowered and the battery is going but it's still more than enough for what I need it to do.

It'll be a sad day when it breaks.

I'm already a Wavebox user which is pretty great for this:

https://wavebox.io/

Any improvements offered?

What's the plan to monetise. Wavebox is about $50 a year.

MELISSA!

I closed down http://wonderthemes.com last year. It was a failed WordPress theme marketplace with a focus on higher-rates for designers/developers.

You can read about the project in an interview I did here:

http://wpcandy.com/presents/the-story-of-wonderthemes-starti...

I've been taking offers since the site was closed down. Nothing has been serious. A lot want me to partner with them and re-boot the site, but I'm not interested in that. A few are affiliate marketeers that want to split revenue etc... I'd rather just pass on the project to someone else now.

I guess what you'd be buying would be the brand, the domain name and all of the design assets. There is no real 'tech' to sell because the system was a one-off bootstapped bespoke build that would need a major re-factor but all the source code is there sitting on the server for anyone to acquire.

I'm with you on that - the inbed/outofbed crossover can be a real challenge.

Once I'm up and about I'm generally OK, but those moments of pain when I open my eyes to see it's time to get up and do stuff are the killer.

A quick web prototyping tool with no dependencies above what the browser can run (JS/CSS/HTML).

I'm stuck using HAML and Bootstrap to throw quick mock-ups together. It's great and works fine but I have to load a pre-processor app (like PrePros or Koala) and HAML can't include elements into templates like header like headers/footers I have to copy/paste into every new template I'm putting together.

I looked into Moustache and Hogan but neither of these offered what I'm after and they were pretty difficult to set up.

I think the Mixture app will solve this when released but I've had issues getting the beta to properly run and it looks pretty bulky for what I need.

On the subject of 'your own money' I recently failed at my first (and only) self-funded start-up: http://wpcandy.com/presents/the-story-of-wonderthemes-starti...

The personal loss was not great (around $10k USD) and it was money that I had earned myself over a few years freelancing while working 9-5 so I was prepared to loose it all if it came to that.

The feeling of loss and 'doom' when this little stash of money did eventually run out was very, very, debilitating however - more so that I would have imagined it could be. I was forever thinking how the money 'could' and perhaps 'should' have been used elsewhere on more efficient and better planned projects and how if I had a partner at least we could have shared the 'blame'.

I think that in the end, it doesn't matter where the money comes from. When you get investment, it 'feels' like it's your own money anyway, if it doesn't, then you're probably doing it wrong.

FYI, I HackerNews-d this last week to zero response if anyone cares to pipe in:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5200221

Interesting that you're rundown is the opposite of what I've recently heard.

I run a small WP group and we invited a couple of companies to come along and share their experiences in using WP for ecommerce/sales and WP e-commerce was slammed pretty hard.

WooCommerce was given a lot of praise but they, like you, agreed it was early days.

None of them had used MP but I've used it for a large project when it was very early in development and my developer hacked the core so much (we needed digital downloads) it no longer resembled the original product.

A few other carts were mentioned, none really of note. I think the point that you made about 'comfortable around code' is perfect, none of these are really for the novice.