Well, there are still many overly complex spreadsheets in the SMB sector waiting to be turned into products.

There is no shame in having your work - even software development - be a means to an end.

You are well within reason to work to survive, tuck a little away, and use the rest (of both time and money) to explore unrelated interests and passions. I really enjoy gardening.

The cross-pollination of interests, passions and professional experience may well lead to a fun and interesting project where your $DAY_JOB skills come into their own in a way you’d not expect.

Work to live, not live to work and all that.

Yes. [0]

Time to see how unreliable OpenAI's API is just like when GitHub has an outage every week, guaranteed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36063608

More like the new Google down

So, my client (an HVAC company) is in a more secure position than a government agency. That is disturbing, but not surprising.

This is my biggest complaint when i reflexively type `git log` to get some context on a branch.

There's a `--date` flag which you can use to control this behavior. Also, it depends on your git configuration.

There’s something to be said for having a “local.” Lots has been written about having a “third-place,” though I can’t remember who coined the phrase.

There’s a bar and grill near where I live, I pop in frequently and almost always see someone I know. There’s a coffee shop next door that is about the same.

Something about a handshake, a hug, a “How was your day,” etc. goes quite a long way. That’s especially true for one living alone, as I do.

> Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away.

I'd use that regularly while working on my truck. It'd be a lot easier than stopping during every disassembly step to snap a picture with my phone.

This article is brimming with nostalgia for me. I vividly remember sitting at a workbench my father had fashioned from an old door, recreating circuits from Mini-Notebooks.

Same. I have a stack of these somewhere at home. Grew up getting them at RadioShack, sometimes stopping to ask the salesperson questions about BASIC coding and they’d start jotting notes down.

Having been fortunate enough to ride in Cruise vehicles multiple times in the Austin area, my impression is that they behave better than the average Austin driver.

For trickier situations, though, there’s a lot to be said for having a human driver to make decisions, and with whom you can communicate.

There are plenty of tricky driving situations in Austin.

I have Verizon for my personal phone, but opted for T-Mobile for my home (5G) internet and a new iPad. I made this decision after using T-Mobile for my company-paid phone with zero issues.

Aside from a janky customer app on iPhone, I'm quite pleased. That said, I've never been to a physical location.