Essentially this. You don’t need fancy or expensive equipment to start, and you can replace parts as you go about. However, do avoid the all-in-one mobile players from brands like Lenco and Denver. They put really poor quality parts in there that can hurt your records. But anything above that is already good enough

Everything that lives dies, eventually

This image exemplifies everything that’s wrong with the transparency in the current iOS/macOS versions

The EU is not a single country, so it would be helpful to know which country they’re going to

The ielts website has all of that covered already https://ielts.org/take-a-test/preparation-resources

Cash. Every transaction will be online, so it can be tracked

If you don’t know the duo lingo owl, count yourself lucky, it haunts dreams

The local-first podcast, localfirst.fm, is quite good

Amsterdam has been described as an adult playground (and not in a good way), so that’s what I think of

On the outside it’s sold as security, but what you really get is surveillance

I’ve been doing this for the past 10 years or so. When I joined my current company a few years ago, it was one of the first things I pushed for. It made cycle times go down drastically and value is being delivered to end users at a much higher rate now.

With enough tests and automation, there is almost no reason not do on the web. On embedded or mobile platforms this might be a bit more difficult, although not entirely impossible.

The use of feature toggles also greatly enhanced our trust in being able to turn a feature off again if it turned out to be faulty somehow. Although we usually opt for patching bugs, it gives the business as a whole more confidence.

We’re using backstage in combination with openapi. The schema is documented in OpenAPI, but how services are connected is done via backstage, which crawls all repositories and puts it together to form nice graphs we can traverse easily

Not amateurish at all, but good questions. I’m not confident enough to answer your second question, but on your first question: yes, you can use the hosting service you already have. Given that you are renting a VPS that is. It looks like Strato is calling this “hosting”. Don’t use their “WordPress hosting” package for this though, as it won’t allow you to install the instance software.

Even after reading both the blog and the website itself I still have no idea what this is supposed to be? Is it a standalone git client that tries to do things differently? Is it a GitHub alternative? I’m super confused

If you like it old-skool-style, wizordum just got released in early access. There’s a playable demo as well

Absolutely this. I didn’t have either of those, but successfully used a Windows virtual machine on my Mac to do it

Controversial opinion maybe, but: pay for your apps/subscriptions. The makers need to feed their families as well. If you don’t want to pay big corporate, or the app doesn’t offer an ad-free alternative, switch to an indie alternative instead. If you can, pay for a lifetime plan.