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113                <p>Vacation season is finally over, which usually means entering that wonderful “back to school” period we all know and love&#8230;NOT! However, even while on vacation &#8211; which was…</p>
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125                <p>One question tends to appear whenever somebody starts organising a free event for the first time: “If nobody is paying to attend, why bother with tickets at all?”…</p>
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137                <p>One of the things that always fascinated me about the event industry is how quickly it changes your relationship with time. In most professions, there is a fairly…</p>
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149                <p>Sometimes the most important updates are the ones you never planned to work on. This week was supposed to be spent on new features, integrations, documentation updates, and…</p>
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175            <p>We’re live. The newsletter went out and the website instantly got very, very busy. Possibly a bit too busy. Shit. Might need to upgrade the server before it…</p>
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183            <p>The guys from the office, as well as a few people from Tickera, have been pushing me towards officially releasing Hydra and finally going live. And I don’t…</p>
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.