About whether AI and automation is stealing jobs.
This article is saying, in the grand theme of things, no.
Thanks for the link @patrickrhone.
Can I just say how much I appreciate this app’s pricing model?
One of the things I hate the most about “subscription” models is that no matter how many years I’ve supported an app, the moment I stop paying the subscription, I lose access to the entire app – even features I’ve paid for years ago.
It doesn’t matter if I don’t want any future updates, it doesn’t matter if I don’t care about new features; if I want to continue using an old app on an old device, I have to continue paying for the subscription.
Agenda’s developers have come up with a new model – the base app is free, but you can unlock premium features for a one-off cost. This one-off cost would also give you any new features that they bring out in the next 12 months.
After the 12 months have elapsed you have two choices:
- pay for another 12 months of new features, or
- don’t pay, don’t receive any new features, but keep all the features you’ve already unlocked, and still continue recieving updates to the app (so it’ll continue to work on new devices and receive bug fixes).
This model is more than I could have hoped for; I don’t expect basic updates or bug fixes after I’ve stopped paying, but Agenda’s development team are making this and the base app free for all users.
It doesn’t have to be said, but I’ll definitely be supporting this app.
Drew McCormack also included a small write up on how they implemented this pricing model and I can only hope other app developers start considering alteranatives to the subscription model
The e-commerce giant will no longer ship orders from its international sites to Australia when the new tax rules for online purchases from overseas kick in.
I don’t even know where to begin… 🤬
Tips on how to draw figures in perspective to each other
The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file's parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited.
I liked this book much better than the first one.📚
Some of the scenes was enough to make me want to cry.
For the past two years, the spacecraft has been taking photos of Jupiter. Here are the best shots.
I love these shots of Jupiter.
📚 I really disliked this at the start. The main protagonist was whiny and annoying; a privileged brat who – unfortunately – does not grow up much during the book.
Luckily once the story got going I enjoyed it well enough.
It felt like the author had a premise she liked but had trouble getting all the characters there (and that was a big chunk of the first book).
I’ve started on the second book already and either I’ve gotten used to the characters and her writing or it’s just better written so far.
I mean, only 5 minutes. No more. And maybe even less.
An interesting idea – and one I’ll think on a little more. 🤔