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.
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?
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 :)
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.
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.
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
@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)_/¯
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.
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
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.
just in case you're having a bad day, a person in a car behind me this morning went ballistic that i pulled over and stopped for an oncoming emergency vehicle with their lights & sirens on.