They have all been dotnet ecosystem, but self hosted rather than Azure

I think the latest versions of SQL Server also run on Linux now.

I just found out today I can't call anymore due to 3G ending in my city

I'm keen for a Motorola Graphene and then just install Google services anyway. For me the value is being freed from manufacturers UI and software

I rarely want those arrow buttons for numbers

If Excel had a standardised "Save as USV" option it would solve so many issues for me.

I get so many broken CSVs from third-parties

I'll try it out and do a demo with our administration team (who are the ones struggling with the files)

FirstName|LastName|Age

And client files look like

ClientA: First|Last|Age

ClientB: Age|FirstName|Last

CientC: FullName|Age

ClientD: DateOfBirth|First|Last

So they all have the required info, but some intervention is required.

Column matching/renaming

Column order

Splitting full name to first/last

Converting DateOfBirth to Age

For a single client, each file they send will be the same.

But each client has their own layout.

Is there a good service around that I can setup conversion templates?

Would be great if we can setup a template for each client and the file gets run through the template and arrives happily in our standardised layout.

I haven't managed to find one but no doubt I'm just using the wrong search terms

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If you want to build a custom keyboard with certain low cost mcus

Laptops:

Lost interest because I find them too expensive or complicated. Either to get what i initially want, or for upgrades down the line. Obviously my opinion would change if I travelled extremely frequently, but for the last many years I've had 0 need for portability.

Tablets:

Never felt the need for one after i got a decent phone

Phone:

Never felt the need to upgrade since I bought a phone that did everything I want and fast enough. Xiaomi 9, extremely happy with it

Desktop PC:

My preference. Good thermals, easy individual part upgrades. Can get great deals either new or second hand. Computing power has been strong enough for a while now that I happily run a few generations behind without feeling the need to upgrade.

Perhaps the website could add dictionary definitions of the names in each language to help avoid these issues

That's such a simple and genius idea

The messages range from almost logging type messages such as

- "Payment failed for Order 123, please manually process the transaction"

to generic contact forms on a website:

- "FirstName LastName sent a message with the following text: something something something"

My knowledge is rather old and currently I just send email via smtp.

I'm finding email is becoming increasingly unreliable.

Sometimes the smtp server gets marked as a spam server which can take a few days to resolve.

Or the receiver implements a new mail filter, accidentally blocking all the messages.

More and more things are happening that result in emails not sending or arriving.

I've been looking at email api/services such as postmark, mailgun, sendgrid which seem a good idea, but I'm curious how other people handle messaging?

Emails still seems a very convenient messaging style (disregarding issues) and often requested (e.g client will just ask for these messages sent to admin@thing.com).

What are modern messaging practices? Is email still acceptable if you go via an email api? Should I be looking at something completely different?

Thanks guys

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And it's so powerful it still does everything I need years later.

Are normal people actually utilising phone specs these days? Sure some people game but surely everyone else is barely using the CPU etc

I haven't done js since jquery days, but keen to get into modern js development