Huh, saw a comment that said the USPS should provide email service and allocate citizens email addresses. It just makes a lot of sense to me. So many services require an email address and it is super weird that we offload that critical responsibility entirely to companies like Google.
AWS has historically been pretty good for me as a hosting solution… but there are so many landmines and gotchas to navigate that I am starting to look elsewhere
Hmm I am writing some Go code but I have no idea if it is idiomatic Go code or even okay Go code. Gonna need to introduce myself to some GoLang folk at the next local dev meeting
My executive function is shot today 🤪 🚨
TIL that you can configure apple notes to just be a body with no title. Its a small thing, but it is really nice for my second brain. less to think about just type note and be done with it
Dont make things harder than they need to be. Make a choice. You can always make changes later. Like, get the first draft out thats the hard part.
Anyways i just went with Google workspace because i didnt want to think about email that much. It works 😂 and if it doesnt ill change it later
Trying to setup a google workspace account this morning, and it keeps funneling me into a plan I do not want with no option to change it during sign up. Allegedly the steps are to just accept the much higher plan and then downgrade, but like, why this user hostile approach? I specifically chose to start with a smaller plan and it still herds me into a much higher priced plan. So yeah looking for an alternative.
how can we stop nagging users to subscribe to a newsletter when they have already subscribed? I don’t want to annoy folk. I think we can design better experiences here
Today I learned that Affinity Designer has a QR Code drawing tool. What a time saver!
I think there is a third audience to think about when doing SEO - the LLMs. So it’s not just search engine optimization, it’s language model optimization. What does that even look like?
The conflict I have with SEO is that I am trying to speak to two different audiences. Trying to be authentic and speak to people like humans vs trying to game the search index and speak to the bots, it’s ridiculous.
my order of Segfault ☕️ arrived last night that I ordered from terminal.shop
made a pot this morning and it’s pretty good!
hoping it gives me super neovim coder powers today 😂 🤓
love this! blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/impr…
It will no longer be enough to blog in order to merely “put out content”. The key will be what has always been key to great blogging: expressing your unique, inimitable impression.
Be CI/CD agnostic. Develop your build system to operate outside of any specific CI system and you can then easily use any CI system that your clients may be using 🧑💻
If it weren’t for breakdancing and skateboarding I wouldn’t be watching the olympics this year 🤷 so I dunno, it totally worked to bring in some new viewers. the soundtrack has been incredibly good too
I quit smoking 12 years ago. When anyone asks how I did it, I usually respond that I used a cessation device, a shitty little cigarette sized vape, for like 3 months. But I forget to mention that I had a second cessation device - a huge bag of DumDum lollipops. Those were the real MVP in my opinion.
Anyways I ordered another bag today because I am going to try the same techniques to stop looping on goddamn reddit, youtube, and other attention stealing soul sucking time sinks
The more i use TailwindCSS the more I love it. Such a good tool
If there’s a task that’s been on my todo list for a while and I can’t bring myself to do it… maybe I just shouldn’t?
yes this 100%
more: https://adhdftw.com/youre-not-lazy.-youre-just-bored./
Paqui Chips
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Every time my wife and I go grocery shopping, I keep an eye out for my favorite snack chip. I am pretty moderate about it and only grab a bag once in a while, but for the last few months, they just have not been available. Good for the waist but sad for the soul. Seriously, Paqui chips were the best chip on the market in my opinion. Properly hot, super good texture—just leagues better than other similar chips.
time for ☕️ gonna brew up some monsoon medley and do some drawing