Suspect they’ll work for a percentage of victims of this exact injuryy, and I maintain a pair of ripoffs because when I hurt myself, they mostly make it ok enough that I have a workaround.
Was intro to Birks at maybe 10yo, as soon as my feet figured out “different, but more than ok,” I was/remain a fan.
Might not be the place for soap to start out of the gate, but def useful long term.
Some service names are marginally misleading, but understanding what it does and how it bills does two thing: Helps you avoid overbilling; and also ensures you “get” it.
Properly secured and understood, S3 + immutable saves my ass more than o once because could prove that as of x bi-hourly backup, PG reflected some given status.
In other words, “I did not fuck that specific thing up, and as of the last time I was in good faith awake, it looked like x. Let’s look at logs/code, bc last I saw it, it mapped perfectly to reality.”
The bit about “keep good notes,” above, is for future you.
“Oh yeah I played with that random AWS service a few years back, wish I could recall the outcome,” vs “Mind giving g me a sec to have a look at my notes, I’ve seen this before!”
That translates to execs as “Yep, I follow, and u have ref material from the last n times I solved this problem, so I’m your guy, I just need a sec to locate the details of the last round before I straight up commit to an answer.”
Settled on a Tumi bag circa 2021 bc it was company’s gift for my 10 year anniversary.
While they could have spent a bit more in return for a decade of my blood, sweat, and tears; it’s held together remarkably well. Would spend my own money on it gladly next time.
Paired with a Travelers Notebook cover in A5 that doubles as a wallet and neatly holds notes/journal/misc reference materials, as well as my phone, the bag mostly serves to carry that and some meds around, along with a hairbrush and such.
For ref, I’m mid-40s and strongly prefer being prepared/comfortable over being stylish but it would suffice if I cared about style as well.
Yep, RES was pretty awesome. I seem to recall having engaged them and suggested something similar when things were going down and they didn’t have much interest.
Would probably be a ground-up project considering the APIs and element tags are almost certainly all different and don’t map 1:1 reliably. That’s not a point against doing it, just an observation that it doesn’t have to be tied to the original.
Fountain pens. Such a simple and enjoyable process/hobby, and one that made real sense to me long before the entire world did…
I’m not where I want to be today, but I managed to find a few bucks and grab a Kaweco Lilliput in brass for my bday. Cheap af but legit makes me happy - even if I’m just doodling or trying to.
Course, that means I also need to spend money on good paper, but that’s a small expense relative to cost of pens and inks, and the feeling of laying down ink from a good pen, on straight up amazing paper, is nirvana.
Appreciate you pointing out those examples - while one could argue errors in judgement, going with what one knows allows for getting stuff done NOW.
Have to say, FB and G examples resonate most with me because while Java is hardly “rapid,” given a well-defined objective I can bang out PHP or Python to accomplish it quickly, and then iterate efficiently.
That was doable long before the idea of iterating quickly / failing big / etc entered the public consciousness. Just not in Java…
Y’know…. It’s finally been enough years from a certain dirt poor era of my life that sounds really damn good.
There was a time when I swore off them entirely because it was about all that was in the cupboard for a brutally long time. But yeah, starting to sound really interesting.
A propos of nothing…
Feel like perhaps we should do voice, and we might have parallel ideas about how the word needs to work.
I think I see that you have some RBL perspective, and we can go from there.