thejodie @ thejodie @programming.dev

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Sent to my state representative. Thanks!

This thing just never worked for me. As in, the product was broken in several ways all of the time.

People try to be overachievers by exceeding expectations and then are often late or delivering a broken product.

It's hard to tell perfectionists not to be perfectionists though.

Sounds like TRRRRRRS

Or just use PlayOn to record your shows.

We're all the way back to recording movies from TV with our VCR.

Notifications get rolled up all the time, if I've received a lot of messages in Signal or Teams, I just have one notification in the dropdown for each group, even though I may have "received" 50 notifications from that group.

On emails, reply-chains are prevalent, so I can read the latest one and usually not have to open 20 emails.

I have some services set to email me events, transactions, and notifications, which I don't need today. However, sometimes these sites go offline, discontinue a product, remove the ability for you to view prior information or contributions, archive old data, change their ToS to something you can't stand, any number of things that might mean that data is now unreachable to you. So for those emails I just sort them off and they're archived.

My stats say my phone gets ~140/day. I definitely ignore 99% of them, just like my 10k+ unread emails.

I got some old celeron N4100 4gb RAM/128gb NVME Thinkpad 11Es for $50ea with the power adapters. With as useful as they've been, I'm sold on doing something like that in the future.

I've definitely used WP in that manner as well. At that time there were plugins that would render the pages out to static HTML in object storage. I'm sure there still are, but possibly not the same ones I used.

I just prefer not to use or manage WP whenever possible.

All of these and then some.

A small part is that I'm supporting the underdog.

It's not created by a company that sells ads.

I am in a similar position. I used to post or engage in meaningful discussions on reddit almost every day. I was already reading reddit prior to the digg exodus, but I truly jumped to reddit when digg v4 landed. I never went back to digg to participate.

Oh well. I'll be on instances here I guess.

Sometimes those positions are meant for promoting internal candidates, who obviously sat in, conducting the same interviews in the past. So the difficulty is dialed up to "I am Death incarnate!" levels and they then have scoring data to support their selection of the internal candidate. At a friend's workplace, they'd opened up a 2-3yr exp position to convert a great intern, and had some great 10+yr exp people apply. My friend said that was a little awkward. Even if Mark Russinovich or Linus Torvalds applied for that job, they still had no chance at getting it. I joked that I might put a resume in his manager's pile for the creator of the tech stack they were interviewing for, just to hear how that reaction was.

That's probably not representing even... 5% of these gauntlets, but it might make you feel better. Sometimes, it's the hiring manager fulfilling the letter but not the spirit of some process, but it means they are frustratingly hard on candidates in the process.

And perhaps, ultimately, you have dodged some bullets.

There's a big chunk of sites that have WP running but are mostly just static content, confusingly. If you update the content once a month and disable all comments, maybe another tool could fit better there. ¯(ツ)/¯

"No bloody A, B, C, or D."

Even home warranties won't defray much cost, or often have combined limits for annual reimbursement that are lower than you would imagine.

That's why I feel old. I don't want case windows, or RGB. It's all about the framerate and the score.