@mikesusz social feed.

@danyork the guys on the ATP podcast talked about the options recently, their summary:
- trying to do it yourself is a tremendous amount of time
- services will have better equipment than you can afford
- if you’re worried about their quality, send a sample selection first and review before sending more batches

@marcamos @jayroh this is all valid

back from vacation and opening Jira

@threetonesun the thought of people advancing in our industry knowing ‘React’ but not knowing foundational javascript is kinda terrifying. i think this is a big part in the ‘library-itis’ problems we experience; people seeking out an npm package for everything including stuff like … math

@irafcummings take some solace in knowing that despite this list of things i did accomplish, i also have another list of projects that i did not complete (or, in some cases, hadn’t even begun). i will judge myself based upon that list of unfinished things, and i will never feel contented.

end of “forgot to use vacation during the year” break, i feel like i’ve accomplished nothing besides
- bought & wrapped gifts
- cooked a bunch of meals
- cut down tree & brought it in to decorate
- enjoyed christmas at home with my wife and kids
- built a wall in my garage to make 1/2 of it into a shop
- installed in my truck: new idler pulley, new tensioner pulley, new grille, new headlights, new stereo
- took the dogs out to play
- slept in late

dang, maybe i’ll do more on my next vacation

happy new year!

while i won't judge anyone who makes resolutions, i would invite you to introspect a bit.

is there something you avoid doing because you're too busy?

if you just had some time off at the end of the year, did you do that thing at all while you weren't working?

maybe too busy isn't the only barrier to you incorporating this change.

i haven’t made dad jokes on mastodon since last year!

@waxy

i was today years old* when i saw the Blue Man Group for the first time.

(* 50)

@annika have you been away that long?

when the strongest magnet you own is in the tail cap of your flashlight

@jerzone do you know the name for that ice-crystals-from-mud phenomenon? i get that a lot in my yard

@fox it was tough to explain oplatek to my kids but now i think they look forward to it. :) i need to research the 12 regions, something my (polish-american) family doesn’t do but i might try to introduce it

@kgf i work for IBM Consulting now, we do lots of different stuff. i never really minded React, components make a lot of sense to me. but yeah trying to computer-science it, it gets heavy.

@kgf i was put on a sveltekit project at work and i think i’m getting used to it. it makes sense to me and i can still write CSS/SCSS. still have a lot to figure out though probably.

i picked the wrong day to wear a Weather Company t-shirt. lol.

not sure what i had intended to accomplish today but i took the trash and recycling to the transfer station and then i picked up a truckload of construction material (2x4 studs, plywood) so i guess i have some new projects to work on.

we have reached friday. hard to believe that this week was only five hundred days long

@annika what a handsome reward for the thief who loves beanz

i am trying to be kind and not throw my co-workers under the bus. they’re all good people and they’re all doing the best that they can.

but i’m the only one being asked when my Jira tickets will be done.

(as my friends tried to warn me over and over again) don’t even start development until they give you an example API call that works in Postman. NOT in Swagger - Swagger runs on the same machine! that’s not a test of an API’s availability. it has to run from Postman, or from local.

i wasted half a day (on a project with tight timelines) trying to troubleshoot a call to a new API that was being blocked somewhere in the request chain by a nginx rule. “but it works in Swagger!”

my challenge today is to see how many open Untitled documents i can have in my editor, full of json requests for APIs that might not even work no matter how i form the request.

@jerzone :tada:

everybody please stop using the red flashing sirens emoji in slack, thanks.

weird day. this morning: ran out to get cat food, came home to goons delivering new couch. couldn’t figure out what to do with this afternoon so i listed a bunch of stuff on ebay. profit?

@mescutia because they never read the door tag and 32 is the “standard” (up until like … the early 2000s when cars started to come with low profile tires from the factory)

Hey Siri, remind me when i go to the oil change place, to check my tire pressures when i get home because they deflate them to 32psi even though the door tag says 38psi

@merlinwisdom i feel as if @hotdogsladies has 3d-printed a tiny version of himself to sit on my shoulder and whisper this into my ear

“are you a night owl, or an early riser?”

no.

@jerzone
<launch photoshop>
<go get coffee>

i am “excited about new rechargeable batteries arriving” years old.

one of my favorite photos i’ve taken.

it’s been a long week.

@jimmynotjim @irafcummings not wrong though

@joshmillard i tried this on my phone and i was cackling like a fool. thank you. :) then i closed the browser tab. then i switched back to mastodon and it was still playing? so i force-quit the browser. i force-quit mastodon client. i swiped away every app i’ve launched ever. it was still playing.

at this point, i’m laughing so hard i’m crying. my son is asking me what’s wrong. so i just turn up my phone volume and set it down and gesture to it.

thank you again. :D

@m750 is really wonder what the cost difference is between just feeding everyone vs paying a 3rd party to administer the lunch program

i wouldn’t want to to be NetOps for Epic Games right now. sending hugs.

@revmem i’m so sorry. in the end, all we can give them is relief.

hey everybody it’s December, and you know what that means:

31 days of not making yourself feel bad if you don’t accomplish some specific task on every day of this month.

(their other problems aside) my spotify wrapped 2023 surprised and moved me. i won’t say a lot more about it for fear of spoiling yours for you, but it’s been a long long time since i was so surprised & delighted.

@threetonesun you don’t know how difficult it is to upload and replace assets in Adobe Experience Manager. every time i see that, i shed a tear for the poor developer who graduated from college thinking they would change the world and now they have to argue with a nonsense piece of garbage software to just make it behave slightly like something normal.

@jayroh :) love you joel but this is what my truck looks like unless i put it back together

it’s me.

hi.

i’m the problem - it’s me.

i always joke that my weekends are so busy that i “need another weekend to recover” well. i worked my butt off for the last two days. and now i have two more days off!

so i could take it easy and relax and recover.

lol no. i have two more full days of projects and chores lined up.

happy thanksgiving to my friends in the US. remember, wash dishes as you go along. you’re going to need those measuring spoons again. and if you see someone else washing dishes, pick up a towel and dry.

don’t ask. just pick up a towel and dry.

@irafcummings is this🦋agency❓

how did November get to be the month of terrible expectations? “grow a mustache!” “write a novel!” “stop masturbating!” then at the end you have to travel and deal with your loud, crappy relatives.

@m750 thanks! i’ve been trying to be more open about my depression and anxiety, and seeking treatment and how that’s going. i hope it helps others to seek treatments or solutions.

the toughest part for me is looking back on situations in the past where i was struggling and just thinking… if i had the tools and perspective that i posess today, how much better that might have went.

Sorry there is no great revelation or ‘this one simple tip’ but the lesson i’m trying to convey is - stop, do a sitrep (situation report), identify how you are feeling, consider why, make a change to adjust the climate if needed.

for a long time i wouldn’t take a step back, i would just try to ‘power through’ situations like these, be less effectual than i wanted, and later judge myself for lack of progress.