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Opera’s free built-in VPN can now turn on automatically when using public Wi-Fi

Opera announced today that its free, built-in VPN for desktop can now automatically activate when users connect to public or unsecured Wi-Fi networks. Here are the details. more…

Opera’s free built-in VPN can now turn on automatically when using public Wi-Fi

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A .docx does not store where its pages end

Someone handed me a Word proposal last week and asked whether converting it to HTML would look exactly like Word. I said no. They thought I was dodging.

  • .docx files do not store page end information
  • HTML conversion changes page numbers and layout
  • Discrepancies arise from font availability and printer metrics

I got tired of building the same backend twice, so I built a tool that generates it for me

Every time I shipped a product that needed both a mobile app and a web app, I ended up doing the same thing: build the backend, build the Flutter app on top of it, then build a whole separate Next.js…

  • Founder creates Underpeaks to automate backend generation
  • Tool defines data model once, generates Flutter, Next.js, REST API, admin dashboard
  • Five database adapters included, free and open source core

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