Eight great reasons why you should (mostly) prefer open source and FOSS applications over commercial SAAS. Case study, Kimai vs Clockify.
Alec Kinnear
Creative Director
Alec has been working with video since 1995. Before founding Foliovision in 2004, he worked as a Head of Television for Grey Moscow and a TV producer at Bates, Saatchi and Saatchi Russia. Alec maintains a photography and culture weblog at uncoy.com. Alec holds an Honours B.A. from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in Modern Languages and Literature.
How to see negative reviews on Gumroad
The initial answer is click a lot. But we’ve written a bookmarklet which will do the hard work for you. Enjoy seeing all the star ratings on Gumroad!
Ad free Simple History WordPress Plugin
Overnight, Simple History went from being one of the best FOSS WordPress plugins ever written to spammy adware. Here’s a clean version.
Apple Security Theatre Tested
Apple should be protecting our privacy but is not. The security measures they have in place do more to prevent us from securing our computers
New FV Player Feature: Hide Title
The existing title stays in place in the back end to make it easier for publishers to manage the videos.
For and against frameworks: React, Vue, Angular, Ember, JQuery, Bootstrap, Tailwind, Pure, Ruby-on-Rails…
To require javascript to display “Hello world”, a brochure website or even a basic weblog adds complexity for complexity’s sake. Go native.
Blackmagicdesign forum real names rule: good policy or privacy violated?
It’s hard to run a clean professional public space even without anonymity. People who seek privacy can and should build online personas.
How to Move Fast and (not) Break Things
Start by building automated testing, live monitoring and versioned deployment. Improve your safety systems. Fix the bugs you know. Ship.
How to Type Mac Keyboard Symbols into Forums and Web Pages
Have you ever wondered how to type Mac keyboard symbols like ⌘ and ⌃ from the keyboard. Today you will find out.
The Cost Imperative: Why Western Software Firms Must Embrace AI in Coding
Programming houses who successfully adopt AI to accelerate their productivity will outpace those who don’t.
Akismet Black Friday 2023 Offer: Bait and Switch?
Automattic should improve their ethics and when they put a service on sale it should be the full service and not 1/10th of the service.
Worst Save Routine in Christendom: MarsEdit
The most important single task of a developer is to protect a user’s work from accidental deletion. MarsEdit doesn’t do this.
Are Sony lenses more fragile than Nikon or Canon?
Repair is a long way away, and overpriced when you need it. Sony photography technology unfortunately remains mostly throw-away.
Quick review: iMazing – the missing iPhone management software hidden by Apple
iMazing is the grownups’ version of iPhone management, making Apple’s enterprise utilities available to end users in an attractive GUI.
Should Websites Publish their Videos in HDR?
The HDR hype is real. But Is HDR a solid AV advance like 4K or a 3D marketing hoax all over again?
OpenWeb.com values: the future of the internet is all spam all the time
These cross platform censorship machines (OpenWeb, Meta) are designed to promote groupthink and suppress real communication.
How to check the colour bit rate of a video
There’s no clear solution but QuickTime Player is a good place to start.
World’s Worst ReadMe or Why Open Source Struggles
This is probably the most user-hostile readme I’ve ever read.
How Branding Mistakes Can Slow Down a Brand
Mehmet Gözetlik is a Turkish designer who has published a number of thought provoking articles on minimalist packaging, More minimalist effect in the maximalist market!. One of his more obscure essays covers the Togg rebranding. If you don’t know who Togg is, join the club. Togg is a Turkish automobile manufacturer whose ambitions include cracking […]
Why we moved from 1passwd/1password to Bitwarden
I’m a fan of small software companies who control costs and pass the savings onto their users.
