I finally completed my self published beginner Android programming book earlier this year. I took a break and now I'm working on updating it to add more Kotlin examples. I wrote the book in markdown and used Pandoc to convert it to print ready PDF.

https://a.co/d/blzUk62

The Google Podcasts app works for me. It has a minimalist feel to it.

For those who are interested in leather goods https://www.youtube.com/@Corter

This sounds like the premise for a good zombie movie.

Aliens movies are similar!

In fact West African countries have a centuries old method of making soap from locally available material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_black_soap

While the base (ash in this case) can be locally produced, africa as a continent isn't a big edible oil producer/exporter, and that's usually the expensive part in soapmaking.

And one could argue that plant ash isn't the most sustainable source of base in making soap.

West Africa is the home of the oil palm, and doesn't need to go full Borneo to produce adequate amounts of fat for saponification.

Maybe the home, but that doesn't mean productive. They're not producing enough to export, and seem to even be net importing it:

https://oec.world/en/profile/hs92/palm-oil

But maybe not being well represented here indicates a healthy domestic market.

(and this data can be suspect: Netherlands aren't growing any, but might do some processing of some kind or re-export)

https://www.indexmundi.com/agriculture/?commodity=palm-oil shows 84% of production being from Indonesia and Malaysia.

Why would you consider exports a useful metric here? Soap can be manufactured with oil for domestic consumption.

Shea oil.

I had to do view page source to see the HTML code. Very nicely written.

Thank you. Now I need to tell some front-end dev friends that someone has complimented my HTML!

Can someone explain how Amazon is able to use the Elasticsearch name when it is owned by Elasticsearch BV?

SCRUM is toxic. It is toxic because it dis-empowers the developers who are doing the actual work and hands that power over to the "SCRUM master". The SCRUM master is the ultimate bureaucrat -- and a proxy for Management -- in a heavily bureaucratic methodology. The job of the SCRUM master is to guard and protect the SCRUM process. Often to the detriment of the developers and ultimately the project.

Well in their defense, we don't want to pay for newspapers and so you can argue that this is the result of a lack of resources.

If you can't provide a quality service cause nobody is willing to pay for it, end your service. Rip the bandage off.

At the very least, end it on a high note that you can be proud of -- don't let it degrade slowly until people are openly mocking it.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood - Theodore Roosevelt