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You could use Wagtail (built on Django) in headless mode. Drupal also supports headless mode.

In Ireland we’re still in the let’s privatise everything phase that the UK went through in the 80s. It’s now falling out of favour in the UK.

They’re trying to connect every home in rural Ireland at great cost even through research found that only a fraction will take it up.

They're both going to be fine for web development. Look at the languages and see which you prefer. Look at the frameworks (Laraval and Django) and see which you prefer. I've gone with Python because I needed a CMS (Wagtail) built on a framework (Django). Modern web apps tend to consist of an API and a JavasScript framework like Vue or React. So the requirements of a web framework are less. This allows you to use microframeworks like Express (Node) or Flask (Python).

Just listened to it. It kind of annoyed me how breezy they were - corporate interests and the Republicans making 120 million American lives miserable - ah it can't be helped.

Wagtail is a great CMS for developers. WordPress is for end users.

I use Wagtail CMS for my sites. It’s the best CMS I have found so far. It’s built on Django. Instead of looking for plugins you just integrate with other services with Python libraries or standard REST calls.

It has something similar to Gutenburg’s block based content editor called Streamfield. Which makes it easier to theme rich content compared to rich text editors. Craft CMS has something similar.

One thing that is missing in Django though is asset digests you find in Rails - anytime an asset like an image updates it should give it a new name so it’s not served by the cache.

I think it’s just American propaganda to blame this on socialism. You had a politician with a miltary background who knew nothing about oil destroy an oil company. Norway is fairly socialist - distributing the gains of oil amongst it’s people, and it’s doing quite well.

What you had in Russia was statism not socialism - power and wealth were concentrated in the communist party rather than shared with the people.

I’ve just finished reading it. He comes up with a series of rules and backs them up with anecdotes though I don’t think they are thoroughly tested. But they do help you think about it more deeply. It helped bring these different ideas I’ve heard before into a more coherent form. Though personally I think you should follow what you’re interested in or suited to as it makes it a lot easier.

It’s not too hard to setup a daily cronjob to renew automatically.

Generally Rails is more powerful than Django though they have a similar set of features. If you are making a webapp I would go with Rails or Rails API. If you are making a website with some webapp functionality I would go with Django and Wagtail CMS. The free CMSes available for Rails aren't great. One feature that Django is missing is asset fingerprinting. In Rails the filename of the static asset changes when the content changes, which helps deal with caching.

Pointy [1] allows you to search local shops, though it currently only covers Ireland and you have to go to the shop to purchase the item. At it's heart is a hardware device that integrates with the store's bar code scanner so inventory can be synced with an online database.

[1] https://www.pointy.com

The stock exchange matches buyers and sellers. The stock price is the average price the stock was trading that day. You can sell stock at any price but if it's too high you won't have many buyers.

Another fun fact: There are no Apple stores in the Republic of Ireland.

No.

https://twitter.com/pieteromvlee/status/895903376872964096

I needed to replace the battery in my MacBook Air. My local authorized Apple repair shop said it would take a week. I couldn't do without my laptop for a week so I bought the battery online and replaced it myself in 5 minutes. Apple is obviously not making laptops for professionals if it thinks users can be without their laptops for a week. It might be quicker in countries that have an Apple store and not just a European headquarters.

You can't stream them on Windows either. Apple has discontinued Safari for Windows and the last version released - v5.1.7, won't play the videos. I suppose the thinking is, if you're developing for an Apple OS you are likely to have Apple hardware. As the article mentions, you can always wait for the mp4 file to download.

So the iPad/iPhone was inspired by Microsoft's TabletPC. I was big into them back in 2005 but most were bit bulky to be used comfortably as tablets.

Interest in the environment is very much in the minority in Ireland. He's going to be facing an uphill battle. All the major environmental groups left Ireland around 2000 because of lack of interest. People here just ape the US and drive around in massive diesel powered SUVs and don't see anything wrong with it. All they're interested in is making as much money as they can from the US multi-nationals.

Is it really a good idea to cut down a forest so Apple can have some privacy? There must be plenty brownfield sites they could build on. There's not much trees left in Ireland - it has the 2nd smallest forest area in Europe - just 10%.

Everybody should be able to read legal contracts especially if it's for personal matters like employment and renting. It's going to get fairly expensive if you need a lawyer to review every contract you sign. If you don't understand the contract you shouldn't sign it.

Personally I think contracts should just be a series of bullet points in clear language so each party knows where they stand but it's a convention that contracts should be in legalese or it's not a proper contract. Lawyers use legalese to increase or decrease ambiguity or to hide unfair contractual terms. It's also gives the impression that only lawyers can draw up contracts, though most of them at this level are just copied and pasted from somewhere else.

I'm also looking for an e-commerce platform. This is what I've discovered researching it so far.

For Rails there is Spree Commerce. But since they have been bought they have reduced the commitment to the open source project. Hence a fork called Solidus.

For Django there is Oscar Commerce. There is also Cartridge which integrates with Mezzanine CMS.

Personally I would go with Spree Commerce or Solidus. If you need e-commerce functionality attached to a website I would go with Wagtail CMS and Oscar Commerce - there is an integration project called django-oscar-wagtail.

Why did Uber need billions in investment when software like that only costs $2.5k to implement ;)

I've been using Sketch for a year and a half and I don't encounter too many bugs or crashes that would affect my workflow. It was buggier maybe a year ago but now I find it ok. Fireworks was a lot worse. I had to run a separate utility app that would autosave the Fireworks document every 5 minutes.

I used the latest version of Illustrator recently to create a HTML theme from a design and I'm amazed at how little has changed - no exporting 1x/2x images without a script, no exporting of layers, editing a slice requires going to Object > Slice > Options in the drop down menus.

Adobe XD looks like a rip-off of Sketch. We should support the small guy because we might be that small guy one day.

Very irresponsible, not impressed. If it goes wrong they could end up killing someone. There seems to be other farms nearby. They could get drones banned and ruin it for everyone else. All for a bit of Internet attention.

If you do the following:

  html {
    font-size: 62.5%;
  }

You can convert from pixels to rems (or ems) quite easily:

  p {
    font-size: 1.4rem; // 14px
  }

I use rems for stuff that needs to scale with text, ems for line-height and pixels for everything else.

It's interesting that homelessness started to become a problem in the 80's around the same time of Reaganism. The US probably needs to become more socialist to solve this but people there tend to equate socialism with statism of the former USSR maybe as right-wing propaganda or a throw back to McCarthyism. Everybody is not a winner in a market fundamentalist society - it's mainly the big guys who win as there are barriers to entry. You need to soften it's edges.

Not sure why the title is prefixed with BBC, it was broadcast on UK's Channel 4 in 2007. Seems like a bit of propaganda by the fossil fuel lobby - very one-sided.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swind...

I can't speak for Dublin where Google is based, but in Cork you have Apple's European headquarters. As a developer/Apple user you wouldn't know it was there. There isn't an Apple store in the country and all products are shipped/repaired from the UK. Since our taxes are higher and our public services worse than the UK (I used to live there) we're probably not getting a huge amount of corporate tax from the US multi-nationals but we are getting jobs which makes the politicians look good. Saying that, there are a lot of Range Rovers around, so those directly involved with the multi-nationals are getting rich though it's not really trickling down.

The colder than normal Spring and Summer in Ireland was quite noticeable and a bit weird. It was if there was no summer. If the North Atlantic Conveyor stops, Northern Europe will end up with a climate more like Canada.

Sketch is an alternative to Photoshop and Fireworks for UI design.

I'm kind of electrosensitive though only from strong sources of electromagnetic radiation. I'm not affected by WiFi, Bluetooth or fluorescent lights. If travelling under a high voltage electric cable I can feel tingling in my head. If using a mobile phone for more than a few minutes, my head becomes hot and I get a headache. Using data is worse. If I'm tethering my phone I have to connect it to my laptop via Bluetooth and have it on the other side of the room to reduce the chance of getting a headache. Does anybody else experience this?