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Myself and others who I’d consider very senior have been wholesaled laid off. These aren’t lower level developers, though that’s happening, these are people who fundamentally or at least were part of teams that created the modern software SLDC. The question isn’t whether software engineering is going away but is it moving to lower cost of living areas because for most software the “hard” problems have been solved? Similar to textile manufacturing? [more inside]
posted by geoff. at 2:13 PM - 33 answers

Having discovered via this earlier question that the Camera app supplied with this Android phone saves photo location information somewhere outside the actual photo files, I now need a way to fix up existing photos so that they can be copied off the phone with their geotags included. [more inside]
posted by flabdablet at 2:15 AM - 2 answers

I'm organizing an online silent auction as part of a fundraiser. Please recommend an auction site you've been happy with. [more inside]
posted by Well I never at 1:24 PM - 1 answers

I really want a tool that stores and displays my own notes and ratings when I'm browsing lists of things - books and DVDs on the library website, recipes, Discogs, whatever. Is there anything that will do that for me? [more inside]
posted by kristi at 1:23 PM - 2 answers

How can I stop an Android phone from stripping GPS information from photos in the process of copying them? [more inside]
posted by flabdablet at 3:54 AM - 17 answers

Mac users: for me, edges and separators for resizing windows (especially vertical separators between panels, but often also the outer edges of ordinary windows) are frustratingly narrow in width and difficult to grab. I've tried TinkerTool but doesn't seem to make any difference. Are there any other apps, extensions, setting, or something that would make the grab edges/response regions wider? [more inside]
posted by StrawberryPie at 2:57 PM - 10 answers

on a pdf created from INDD, I've added several link-outs to web pages, there are also a few email addresses. On my Mac, upon click, those emails set up an outgoing email populated with that email address in Mail. Client is saying when he clicks it (on a PC) "just opens a browser". Is there a method to making the email links work on a PC?
posted by pmaxwell at 2:39 PM - 4 answers

I'm signing up as a new Xfinity/Comcast customer at a new address. I hate the tangled legalese that makes up customer contracts, and I want to know if I'm missing something about term contracts vs going no-contract. [more inside]
posted by rachaelfaith at 1:19 PM - 6 answers

I remember being introduced to HyperCard in the late 80’s/early 90’s. Does a modern day equivalent exist? [more inside]
posted by zooropa at 2:26 PM - 18 answers

Hello! I am wondering about the logisitics of getting a new sim card. [more inside]
posted by aetg at 6:41 AM - 8 answers

I’m building a business course for a client and looking for an LMS software recommendation. Following on from my most recent question, it would be very helpful if the course software would have students register / log on to take the course with their Twitter login. Suggestions gratefully received!
posted by The Last Sockpuppet at 5:57 PM - 4 answers

I'm in the long address list of an email string that's trying to set up a dinner for an alumni event. I feel I need to stay on the thread because the same address list will be used again in the future, and because it might even contain pertinent messages about the dinner. However, some of the alumni feel that this is the forum to verbally attack each other for their ideas, or their agnosticism, about what people in the Middle East should or shouldn't do, and what the university officers should or shouldn't do. [more inside]
posted by JimN2TAW at 2:13 PM - 12 answers

I have a 200-page doc that was created over 20 years ago and edited annually by different people with poor knowledge of MS Word. Should I try to fix it or start over? [more inside]
posted by Frenchy67 at 8:55 AM - 15 answers

I have sets of 10-20 individual TIFFs that I need to convert into single PDFs - so far, I'm stumped as to how to do this seemingly simple task. [more inside]
posted by ryanshepard at 8:33 AM - 8 answers

In Google Docs, I have a list of dozens of words that runs down the page on the left-hand margin. How can I easily "spread" these words out horizontally as well, effectively making several columns of words? [more inside]
posted by zardoz at 1:57 AM - 8 answers

This is a bit beyond my expertise with networking and certificate signing. I want to create a template that replicates a prod environment. Keeping this a bit abstract, I want to have a monorepo or polyrepo for dev, a way to test dev, push it into a private git repo, use build actions on pre-commit, then on post-commit run the equivalent of a "GitHub Action" to push the resulting OCI image to a private image repository, then eventually into a K8s cluster. It obviously doesn't have to be accessible outside my machine, but I'd like to add a host entry for each "workspace" using certs and a daemon for the various services to talk to each other. More details inside. [more inside]
posted by geoff. at 12:35 PM - 6 answers

I'm looking for simple reliable software that will backup several Macs to a Synology NAS in my home. Does such a thing exist? [more inside]
posted by Winnie the Proust at 12:31 PM - 10 answers

So I have a budget for a project that will include a fairly uncomplicated website. The trick is that the state government appropriation for the project only runs another year, and I would like the website to be available for much longer. My idea is to use the project funds I have now to pay for at least a decade of hosting, maybe more. Where can I do that?
posted by LarryC at 8:08 PM - 11 answers

meme features photo of two cats. one, very sleek, put together, labeled “dr pepper” — the other, similar colors, but a bit scraggly, bruisery, labeled “dr thunder.” google image search has been fruitless! help!
posted by Gymnopedist at 10:09 PM - 0 answers

I have been using various speech to text tools in my legal practice (and personal life). Some of these tools allow you to upload a custom dictionary of words to improve accuracy. I'd like to upload a list of terms that are specific to U.S. legal practice, but I don't want the hard work of constructing that list myself. [more inside]
posted by dredge at 3:45 PM - 2 answers