Justin Pot
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How to Stay Sane at a Culty Tech Company
Two years ago I was pushed out of a writing job at a software company. A couple weeks later I fired my therapist. My job, it turns out, was causing the bulk of my mental health issues. Therapy sessions where I’d previously talk endlessly about how conflicted I felt, how insecure I felt, how unloved…
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Use This App For a Picture-in-picture Effect on Windows
Maybe you want to reference a spreadsheet while writing a report. Maybe you want to watch a sporting event while you’re playing a game. There are all kinds of reasons you might want a window, or a part of a window, to float over everything else on your computer. The free Windows application OnTopReplica lets…
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How to Delete Your Reddit Account
Reddit is feeding all user comments and posts into Google’s virtual wood chipper, meaning the reconstituted goop of your conversations is going to be spat out by Google’s AI language models. The move, as reported by Reuters, is worth $US60 million a year for the social network. You might, after reading this, want to delete…
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The Best Apps That Use Apple’s Live Activities
Sometimes it’s great to pick up your phone, see exactly the information you want to see, and immediately put it away without unlocking it and risking getting sucked in. This is the idea behind Live Activities, an underutilized iOS feature that allows apps to show real-time updates on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic…