I also have a 20+ year old Montauk. I had the cushions replaced a couple of years ago because they don't offer a restuffing service. Not cheap, but should keep me going for another 20 years.

My country does have a good safety net, so I choose to work for a company that shares my core ethics and has a solid work/life balance. I could be earning a lot more but I choose sanity over wealth.

Not sure why this was downvoted, that second paragraph is right on the money.

Same for me with Podcast Addict, which as far as I can tell is a solo developer effort and a great product.

PocketCast doing the business here, woot woot.

Podcast Addict is the #1 thing I miss from Android.

Sure, but why use google analytics? There are better trackers for this kind of thing that don't need cookies and can be self-hosted.

Could you recommend some alternatives to Google Analytics? I am developing a plugin for Photoshop using UXP, and I have been unable to integrate it with GA.

Plausible seems like a fine choice for simple cases. It is oriented at websites, but you can send events directly to the API: https://plausible.io/docs/events-api

It is self-hostable, too. https://github.com/plausible/hosting

We use Matomo and have been fairly happy with it.

and bikes?

I got the impression English is not the Author's native language.

If that's the case, I applaud the writer's efforts and can definitely see how working in a second language could hinder the already difficult work of trying to model your audience. As a shameful monoglot myself, I'm in no position to judge.

They're clearly Russian, so second language seems likely.

I wrote a curses based cheque processing system in C over a weekend after our old cheque processing server literally went up in smoke. I'm guessing it is long dead and did not become a leader in its field though.

I very strongly disagree, without online interactions I probably would've gone crazy during lockdown. Even now that's all (mostly) over, I still rely on online interaction for communicating with most of my family.

I find my phone even more important using public transport, checking schedules and figuring out which buses and trains I need to get for my destination.

Google Maps is good for that on my phone, in my area.

The transit provider also recently introduced mobile fares, so sometimes I use my phone to board (QR-based.)

Unfortunately, there is another fare overhaul coming, whereby they will make fares account-based prepaid, and mobile fares will be mutually exclusive with the linked NFC card option. So unfortunately I will need to ditch the mobile fares entirely, because I do not wish to be constantly tethered to my mandatory smartphone if I simply wish to ride a bus somewhere.