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Substack Takes Over VAT From December 1
My Medium friends can read this over on Medium.
Substack sent an email to everyone who charges for their work on the platform. Starting December 1, 2026, it handles the VAT.
Here is the line from the email:
Substack will take on...
You Don't Need Windows for Microsoft 365
My Medium friends can read this over on Medium.
The agency I work at runs on Microsoft 365. Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. The whole package. Like most offices in Germany do.
And part of my work did move onto...
Letters by Burk #166: Does It Hold Up?
Hi friends,
All three posts this week check something people like to repeat. A curse at 27. A cloud with "sovereign" in the name. And the SEO rule that cross-posting gets you punished.
None of them held up. Not completely, at least....
Cross-Posting to Medium and Substack: Does It Hurt SEO?
My Medium friends can read this over on Medium.
I publish almost everything twice. Medium first, Substack a bit later. Same text, two domains.
And I bet every SEO guide you've seen out there warns about duplicate content. Google ge...
Is Microsoft's Sovereign Cloud Sovereign?
My Medium friends can read this over on Medium.
Microsoft sells Europe something called the Microsoft Sovereign Cloud. Amazon has the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Google has partners with sovereign in the name.
Everybody is sovere...
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