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Just realised I’m not in the EU (from UK). There was me thinking about digging my old Garmin out!

Yep. But there are personal economic factors which allow me to consider it more seriously. I do find it less interesting than when I was in my 20s.

I’d be interested in defining my business using a DSL but then ultimately I’d want that to be translated into a UI.

I’d love to simply map all the relationships between stock, assets, tools like invoicing, APIs all in a place like this.

But I have to agree I think CLI alone would result in it being usable by only me.

EDIT: just wanted to add I’m interested in where this project goes.

My dad, who passed away 2023, left a stack of over 100 VHS tapes full of 80s TV. It’s mostly music (esp. bass guitar orientated), steam trains, photography and I think this would make the perfect way to digest that content.

Thanks for sharing.

I’m starting a company in my hometown to help the local area with electronic waste. We offer commissioned sales, repair, refurbish, and any other straightforward computer-based tasks.

I’ve been leaning on my career as an infrastructure or DevOps or whatever engineer you wish to call it.

I’m creating our backend to automatically pay people their commission when an item sells. It also helps us navigate our (currently modest) warehouse to find items to be dispatched.

I also can’t tell you how long I’ve spent getting some old label printers working.

I’ve not felt so engaged in such a long time.

I’m working on a musical project and the website alone fucking rocks.

atticshapes.com

I reviewed before adding comment, and I feel like changing info@ to webmaster@ now, in homage to the internet.

I think you could be right. At least, we know but choose or are too lazy to do anything about it.

Recently I've found myself too stressed to even think about it. Too many stresses in life and I can do without the planet for now.

Totally selfish I know, but I'll get back to it when other things have died down.

I think what we need is something which helps us recognise the issues. Not only that but show us what we can do to help! We have to understand at a micro-level, how we can make an impact in aggregate.

It'z funny that I often compare the way things are to spots|zits. Something I do quietly to myself, in my own mind :-)

Too much/little X causes outbursts of Y.

The question is, has Earth got a few spots lurking behind the earlobes. Or is there a feature-length episode of Dr Pimple Popper taking place?

I recently built a site for publishing photographs I am takin weekly.

It’s all in Golang. Using Pulumi to deploy into AWS. CDN, API Gateway, Lambda, S3.

I’m planning to add DynamoDB for metadata and the recently released S3 feature which allows for on-the-fly transformations of objects.

It’s been a breeze. Absolutely loving it compared to all the static generators and JS-heavy alternatives I’ve built in the past.

I also find some pleasure in finding the resulting HTML being neat too.

I went there with my girlfriend about 5 years ago. We still laugh that it made us feel a bit unwell and had to leave.

Would still recommend.

I get that people dawdle but simply that 6% of people use their phones whilst walking isn’t a problem. It’s an observation.

What are they hoping to change and by how much?

Hey, I'm really interested in trying your app. However I am unable to sign in via iPhone SE. The small screen means I that cannot tap to sign in with email address - I prefer this over Apple/Google login.

Otherwise so it looks great, I look forward to giving it a go.

I've been making sourdough bread routinely once a week. The sixth loaf, this morning, is the best yet and I'm really happy with how my familiarity with the recipe is developing. It's almost on par with the local bakery!

I have finally, after some 5 years, setup my RaspberryPi to perform a useful function for me. To validate the claims by my ISP makes about our bandwidth. It's performing a speedtest periodically and updating a Google Sheet with the results. Over time I hope to track and back up their guarantee myself! In the process I am learning about Go, Docker and Google's API. I am also increasing my knowledge of Linux. The project continues with more automation and monitoring.

I've recorded on 2 separate occasions bass lines for different bands in a simple home studio which has been put together since lockdown. I'm collaborating more with a teenage friend whom I used to record and perform with a lot many years ago.

Also, briefly: I've built my family home in Minecraft and plan on extending to some memorable landmarks...

And I hope to get round to reversing the fridge doors before the end!

This is terrible news. I built a weather app with DarkSky API nearly 8 years ago and have been using it ever since.

I really hope I’ll manage to find some alternative.

I'd like this visualisation for the world!

Cannot recommend Atomic Habits enough.

Basic theory is: Don’t focus on goals. Aim for processes which are easy, repeatable and rewarding. Before you know it you’ve blown the goal out of the park.

I had a job where an aspect was handling internal tickets for our team, a shared responsibility. I paired my habit of making a coffee with reading an open ticket. I also added a bookmark to make getting to the ticket list easy. Team’s open tickets quickly reduced and I didn’t even make _closing_ them part of my process... it just tended to happen.

Get the book though, it’s a quick read and packed with solid advice.

You’ll still be able to reference the company after you have left. I’ve always left my jobs before finding another. Providing there is a market available and adequate funds I would recommend anyone to do it.

After a short period of regaining your breathe and what purpose you had before you started then you will start to work on marketing yourself - GitHub profile/LinkedIn/meeting with a few recruiters...

You’re situation will probably remain the same until you jump. But you have to do the jumping, is my experience.

"What should service providers do?": https://tomssl.com/2016/10/21/a-sensible-password-strategy/

This is a pretty straightforward set of expectations which should solve most issues.

I would also add that I get a little ticked off when I have to adjust my password manager's defaults - in this case reducing from 64 to 32 characters.

In the past I have very-often stopped exploring a new thing at this point but this time I am continuing! Looks great and I also eagerly await more details of it's implementation.

I particularly agree with the scripting nature of the role. I’ve played a major part at my company using many of the tools you mention to set up IaC/CICD/etc. However, day-to-day I’m in script land, which is where I want to be really.

I flicked between multiple browsers at work since the Chrome news dropped. Having used Chrome for many years.

Firefox always had and still has an issue which can cause up to 2x page load times when used on Mac with scaled mode. Fascinating bug report but ultimately impossible to cope with at work!

I’ve actually landed up using Safari (I rarely use dev tools) and pleasantly surprised by it.

Post-9/11 world in 1987?

I'm reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile at the moment. His explanation of how Switzerland operates as municipalities, with little central government intervention - except collecting taxes - is strikingly similar.

In this context: Let smaller education decision making groups decide what is important for their local area. Any failure is of benefit to all, while the negative impacts of the actual failure are localised.

Amazing achievement to have everything running so smooth. Obviously not the site for me as I have no idea how to complete chess captcha!

Shame there are no negative reviews on his apartment to cement this all together.

I think I'm right in thinking that both parties must review one another before it is published. Therefore why would he ever review your negative experience.

When did grey text become so fashionable? I can hardly read it on my phone.

On desktop found this app to adjust contrast per-website:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast/djcf...

I find the text hard to read on my screen. Does it have to be so gray?

Shame it makes no difference: https://numeralnine.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/a-brief-guide-t...

Dan!

This is excellent in every way. Not only building a homemade UAV, but the presentation was spot on.

I expected the page to run badly with all that big content but had no problems.

The images and video add so much and not even a single click required!