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It’s mostly how would you solve this programming problem, or reminders on syntax, scaffolding a configuration file etc.

Often it’s a form of rubber duck programming, with a smarter rubber duck.

All of this can be solved with a 3-20MB PDF file, a 10kb snippet/template file, and a whiteboard.

Don’t forget the duct tape

"Dropbox will never work, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account and mounting it locally with curlftpfs"

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