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  • I’m a bit torn.

    I want there to be diversity and free choice regarding where I get my apps from, so one less choice only strengthens Google’s monopoly.

    As a user, Amazon’s app store was just sketchy.

    As a developer I don’t want to be submitting every update to yet another store for every release. I have had users mail me and ask to add my app to the Amazon app store, because their device didn’t come with Google’s play store.



  • I like to make bookmarklets for these kind of things.

    Just make a page with a link that runs a javascript snippet. Drag that link to your bookmark bar, and you have a new action button. Firefox syncs them from desktop to mobile, there’s probably a way to add them straight on your mobile browser, too.

    The snippet could post the current URL, post what you’ve currently selected. Tinyurl has an example for creating a tinyurl from where you are - probably a good starting point.

    I’ve got one that posts to my personal URL shortener. One that grabs metadata from a ticketing system and makes nice linky markdown in my clipboard for me to paste on slack.



  • I have the utmost respect for the associated press.

    In my experience they report facts, not opinions. They’re a non-profit. Because of their upstanding reputation they’re the only news agency with a presence in North Korea, for example.

    Since most of their clientel are not American, it makes sense not to use Trump’s imaginary names for international locations. You wouldn’t want 1300 newspapers to have to double-check the bulletins that come from upstream, it should be good to publish as-is when they get it from AP.