The Weekly Squeak - Code Review in your IDE with Codestream

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In this episode I speak with Peter Pezaris of Codestream about their IDE plugin that allows you to integrate code review, pull and merge requests, and issue trackers directly where you work. I also cover paying for podcasts, taxing working from home, tech acquisitions of 2020, and Big Sur.

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In this solo adventurer, I play Creatures Such as We, a choice-based game (in a Choose Your Own Adventure style) written in ChoiceScript. It won second place in the 2014 Interactive Fiction Competition by Linea Glasser.

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Employees who continue working from home after the pandemic should be taxed for the privilege, with the proceeds used to help lower-paid workers, according to a new report. Economists at Deutsche Bank have proposed making staff pay a 5% tax for each day they choose to work remotely.

Today, you can buy a smartphone with a foldable display. Tomorrow you may wear a screen that can stretch

More than a decade ago, Spotify was the company that began to convince people to pay a monthly subscription for the world’s music.

When the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services launched COVID Trace, one of the nation’s first COVID-19 contact-tracing smartphone apps, on Aug. 24, state health authorities “strongly recommended” all 3 million-plus Nevadans download and use the app.

Last year marked a slight decrease in global technology M&A activity from the blockbuster year that was 2018 – when SAP bought Qualtrics for $8 billion, IBM acquired Red Hat for a staggering $33 billion and Broadcom picked up CA Technologies for $18.9 billion in cash.

The era of Mac OS X is over. Kind of. For the first time in almost two decades, Apple has decided to bump up the version number of the Mac’s operating system.