I have done pair programming with a junior partner, and I found it extremely beneficial. Taking the time to talk out my ideas and logic invariably helped make them clearer in my mind and realize pitfalls much sooner than I otherwise would have.

I had to explain things clearly and logically, and he was bright enough to ask good questions and point out typos as I was coding.

In Ontario, any organization that receives provincial money must reach a certain accessibility level on its website, or risk having its funding removed.

The database app in LibreOffice, based on the Firebird database engine, can do all that.

*Je does

“doivent” is third-person plural (they, not I)

Oh, and I didn’t notice that autocorrect changed my French to English. Should be"dois" or, as you say, “devrais” for the conditional.

That’s one of the nice things about the law in Quebec. Binding arbitration clauses are illegal.

I use Brevo as well. Free tier: 300 emails per day.

Very happy with them.

A lot of his science fiction writing is available with a Creative Commons license, meaning that you can download and read it for free. I really enjoy his quirky, sardonic style.

https://craphound.com/tag/creative-commons/

Gets you to a page where you can download.

A couple of years ago, Canada required all carriers to cell unlocked phones, or allow them to be unlocked for free. Nothing bad has happened because of that. Our cell phone plans are still too expensive, and the companies are wildly profitable.

I bought a book that had Yggdrasil in a CD that I used so I didn’t have to go into the university for the Unix labs.

I think that the entirety of the book, around 1,000 pages, was printed out man pages.

Did you know that you can edit the title of your post? You should think about it!

I think that you are off by about an order of magnitude. Spotify pays $0.003 per stream, and title apparently pays $0.01 -0.05.

I see that Focalboard stopped reviewing or merging pull requests since last September, though.

Back in the 1980s, before MS Word was the unquestioned king of the desktop, there was a DOS word processing program called WordPerfect. Everyone used it.

WP had a feature where you could press a special key combination and the screen would split. The top would have your text (not WYSIWYG, that was way in the future, although WP could show an approximation).

In the bottom part you could see your text, along with every control coffee code that turned bolding in or off, marked text for a table of content, etc.

Not only could you see it, you could navigate through it and delete codes, or watch the codes change as you edited text in the to half of the screen.

It gave you a control that I still miss these days. No more wondering why your word processor is doing columns wrong, or why the image you inserted doesn’t line up properly.

Check it out (starting at around 4:20).

Oh, to have “reveal codes” like WordPerfect!

I used to use Rainlendar. Not FOSS but the lite version is free.

I could see UV light also causing plastics to oxidize and become brittle much faster, because they might not be made for that kind of exposure. So using UV light might mean having to replace a lot of plastic things too.

Back in 1996 I was studying computer science, and one of my courses required me to write programs in Prolog. Rather than go to the school to work on the computers there, I bought an enormous book (I think it was a printout of all the man pages) that had Yggdrasil Linux CD-ROM, and ran it on my home desktop.

It says that you can sign up (free) to read 3 articles per month, which sounds pretty reasonable to me, as these things go.

I’m pretty sure that she is one of many artists who became popular in Canada, but were never successful outside the country.