This has always been a winner for me, book a nice restaurant or spa day or day trip activities or something during your travels.

Make a nice looking “ticket” or “pass” in Canva from a template and give them that on Christmas for bonus points!

“bank grade security” grinds my gears, too

Having worked at actual banks, too, don’t follow their lead…

Makes me RED with anger!

It’s lit

Streets ahead

Shocked I tell you…shocked!

Content is a shared adventure! My local community is a bit less than dead but it’s not super active either, so I make it a point to leave comments and submit new relevant links

“due to the rising cost of gold and Covid impacts…”

Not a specific one, but join your local city/town/state community! There’s lots of cool stuff to learn about your local area, you just have to find it.

Figuring out how to print…nobody knows how to beat it yet, some just get lucky

“yea, you’ve probably never heard of them”

Not sure if sarcasm, but the article is actually super insightful into a few different methods bad actors could use to accomplish the same feat (short of giving them a formula, from what I can read, but I’m not a battery maker)

Are you like building a mobile app or have 100k tests or is it just super slow?

Fair point! I figured the money thing but didn’t think about the standardization thing

I wish this happened more often! Why not infuse art into routine notification lights/bells?

I’ve had my bike(s) stolen a few times.

It really sucks since usually I’m expecting to be able to bike somewhere (much faster than driving or public transport in my city) and can’t so I end up being late to whatever I was going to. Not to mention the whole process of buying a new bike, a new lock, new lights, etc.

I’m pretty fortunate in that it doesn’t ruin me financially to buy a new $400 Craigslist bike plus $100 in accessories but I would rather not do it every ~2 yrs or so

I’ve heard some people say that they feel violated because someone took their personal stuff, but I guess I just see it as the cost of locking your bike up in public in the city.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out what a “Pugina” was, should have just clicked the link

I feel like you’re trying to fight an uphill battle. I find it’s always easiest to learn in a way that motivates or invigorates me.

For example, I wanted to play games with my friends so I got into hosting a Minecraft server. It was hell at first to learn all the individual pieces, but I was motivated and it led me down the path of learning networking, basic server client architecture, and performance monitoring. That kind of spiralled out into making my own plugin, too. Despite the fact that I never ran a server with more than 5 active players or finished my plugin, it sent me down a path learning tons of new stuff because it was fun for me.

I transitioned into webapp development later on by trying to make an idea I had come to life. This was well before I had even heard the word “startup” and I had no business sense, but I wanted to make something and was very motivated to hack my way through it. I didn’t finish that either, but I still use those skills I learned today.

And they’re making things worse as we use less and less paper at the same time… Geniuses

“the dotcom crash is when the proto-humans lost all their money and regions that they called ‘countries’ devolved into chaos”