mike susz
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@codehitchhiker one more day, big temp change for st louis tomorrow!
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it's always a good time when someone on the small-town facebook group starts saying "how long have you lived here?"
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i'll go first https://twitter.com/mikesusz/status/1179123173557723139
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summarize yourself with a meme
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i will heretofore refer to my upcoming birthday and all subsequent ones as the day where i have accumulated 365XP and i Level Up
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pro tip for anyone who makes HR changes or decisions about the allocation of responsibility: be transparent with all parties affected, some folks (hI!) take a lot more psychological damage when they see "things changing" but nobody brought them into the loop
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my wife: i thought you didn't put betas on your phone?
me: i don't put betas on my phone, this is release
my wife:
me: i don't put betas on my phone, this is release
my wife:
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my favorite use case of having airpods: i can use just one at a time. my least favorite consequence: i have used one (the left) far more than the other, and now they have a noticeably different battery life.
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i’m trying to be less self-deprecating, but it’s tough. it’s been part of my brand for so long.
i know it’s not helpful, but on the other side of the coin, saying anything positive about myself feels boastful.
i know it’s not helpful, but on the other side of the coin, saying anything positive about myself feels boastful.
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this feels like shade. “he was the best he could be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ “
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Here lies Michael Susz, he was the best he could be
https://twitter.com/codehitchhiker/status/1178062618843631616
https://twitter.com/codehitchhiker/status/1178062618843631616
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Nice to meet you, Bored. I’m Dad.
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"LEGO" is the name of the company; that's "LEGO's Monster"
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hmm i wonder where i had to unlink my personal github account from my work github account?
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have you ever joined a new team and they immediately assigned items to you that are far more complex than you expected, so complex in fact that it feels like they're testing you/want you to fail?
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"your responses to this survey are ANONYMOUS!"
"sign in with your corporate ID to continue"
"sign in with your corporate ID to continue"
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being put on a new team and asked to make changes to their legacy codebase
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once again it's time to play everybody's favorite game:
What
Does
This
Code
Do!?!
What
Does
This
Code
Do!?!
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wow guess what just arrived in Rindge #NHwx
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brought my Leopold FC980M with (Selectric-inspired MT3 profile keycaps in dev/tty colorway) to work today. kind of a weird full-circle thing happening :)
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monday morning after a long weekend vacation, get to work, computer won't click on anything, internal or external trackpad. reboot. still can't click. reboot.
eventually i figure out i have a mouse in my bag, turned on, with the button mashed.
how's your monday going so far?
eventually i figure out i have a mouse in my bag, turned on, with the button mashed.
how's your monday going so far?
mike susz
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here's an idea: it doesn't matter anymore if it's our fault; it's our problem.
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if there is a large-scale violent upheaval involving cows, it is a cattleclysm
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whatever it's called, this is my primary use of twitter lately. sorry i haven't come up with any memes or lulz or keks or brrs
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there has to be a german term for: start typing tweet reply, pause and consider whether i'm adding any value, delete reply.
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Siri makes scrabble easier
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nerd flex? all because i have backups of everything i've made since 1996
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me from the 90s is extremely jealous of me now
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so... twitter is preventing me from talking about words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings or spellings. it's filtering 'homophones' in a reply to someone.
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need to build an email filter that uses regex, if the subject is over 50% CAPS hit the 'unsubscribe' link, delete
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to Florida friends and others in the path of Dorian, if you have SiriusXM you can listen to The Weather Channel on channel 105 from Saturday, August 31 at 8pm ET through Tuesday, September 3 at noon ET https://blog.siriusxm.com/listen-to-the-weather-channel-on-siriusxm-during-hurricane-dorian/
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@moriahmaney i'm sorry. this was a crappy thing for me to do.
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“there’s a purple cat. his name is bob.” “i found a tv in a tree.”
my son has discovered Animal Crossing.
my son has discovered Animal Crossing.
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i am home from New York and we have foster kittens.
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this is our youngest cat, her name is Puppy. and she is NOT having it. nope.
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I don’t know how New Yorkers do it, this place is exhausting. And I have only been here for 24 hours. exciting but exhausting.
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only Photoshop kids will understand this!
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YES! a new album from @osoosoband :) https://osoosoband.bandcamp.com/album/basking-in-the-glow
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i've been moved to help on a different project at work while still helping to manage iterations on my former project. i find myself struggling to balance "project 1 time" and "project 2 time" and "freaking out about stuff time" and "what if i never figure this out time" and
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@cssgirl also funny: i get shaming emails and now _snail mail_ telling me how much more energy i use compared to similar houses nearby. i live in a town with a lot of vacation property, and a large religious group that generally doesn't use tv, computers, or air conditioning.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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try to do something that makes you feel competent every day. even if it's not related to your job; it could be the victory you build from, or it could be the only victory you have that day.
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be kind
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i saw an oval sticker on a car that said "NDA" i guess they may have ran an unspecified distance in the past, but are not able to talk about it publicly
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Internet rando archetypes:
* Rando Jackson
* Marlon Rando
* Rando Quaid
* Rando Calrissian
* Rando Jackson
* Marlon Rando
* Rando Quaid
* Rando Calrissian
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a company having an extended 'vacation/retreat' is only going to benefit and promote people of a certain situation in life, who are able and willing to suspend their responsibilities and routine in order to attend. it will both directly and indirectly punish those who cannot go.
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70 degrees on a Saturday afternoon in August?
https://sqd.co/_/claps.gif
https://sqd.co/_/claps.gif
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i’m sure this is fine.
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any of my friends with directv also getting tired of ads when they pause their DVR?
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like the skin-tone selection for emoji, when you use the ice cream one you should be able to select from other flavors 🍦
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in case anyone is wondering why said driver behind me shouldn't be upset, here's the law for yielding way to emergency vehicles in massachusetts (the state i was in at the time) https://malegislature.gov/laws/generallaws/parti/titlexiv/chapter89/section7a