This + some other quirks are what have kept me off KDE for a good while. I understand wanting to do things differently, possibly easier – but it’s hard to break old habits.

Spread the word of libreoffice for those who don’t want the ms office subscription

Possibly so, from living with my wife’s postpartum firsthand a few years back and helping her along the way I just have a lot more sympathy now for a woman who just had a large parasite in her traumatically exit the body and then consume every bit of her existence to survive. She’s in survival mode as well and the actions don’t always make sense but she’s definitely not being negligent or malicious.

Hot take, how sad it is that content on the phone is so addictive you’d forget your baby’s in the bathtub. Perfect way to hijack the mind of a tired new mother.

It’s curious to me if they could have deprecated and refused to support these features rather than take them out. They might run until they don’t, ya know? When they did this last year and removed “let’s play a game” my kid was pretty bummed that we couldn’t have game show games on road trips anymore. I’m sure these things may disappoint some people.

Around 03/04 - Near the Eiffel tower - walked into a restaurant, asked for the restroom, was sent down the stairs, found the door had one of those things like a gumball machine on it where you put coins in and turn the handle to unlock the door. The urgency I had to go forced me to pay for it, go in the bushes outside (police everywhere), or go in my pants.

I’ve used one in paris. Had to put .50 euro in the coin slot on the door in order to get in and stand over a hole in the floor.

I’m cool with this, I don’t need these articles telling me about musk/zucc/spez running the old platforms into the ground anymore. It’s stuck in the past and ragebait. I think it’s best to look forward. Walking away from old platforms completely means not letting them live rent-free in our heads anymore.

Admit it by Say Anything The Noose by A Perfect Circle Never there, rock and roll lifestyle, or Walk on By by Cake (they do this a lot) Kiss me I’m shitfaced by Dropkick Murphys Save Tonight - eagle eye cherry The Most Beautiful Girl (in the room) - Flight of thr Conchords

Is this the borg coming to assimilate us?

Most new projects / experiments would run under a directory for a testing subdomain that was already established for the sake of saving the most time. I once asked for and was granted access to our company’s DNS server and outside provider for setting these up if needed. Otherwise it was editing the local hosts file on my machine or doing that for a different user for collaboration purposes. Looking back, I probably could have scripted these host file edits but didn’t need to this very often.

I started my first web development job a bit later in life than most but attended university rather than being self-taught. When I began working, I had to self teach because the languages I was working with were not much of what I’d learned in school. A few years later we revamped the product and I had to go learn a different stack so again, self-learning on the fly in order to maintain what we had going. I stayed at that place for about 9 years and felt like I was stagnating, plus I was siloed off into my own realm and had no help to rely on aside from what I could find in books or online. I deeply felt I needed mentorship, not from a coding perspective but to catch up with the industry & create a clear career path for the future.

I did eventually receive mentorship through a consultant to work through the next phase. We determined the causes of what I was feeling, coached on some new skills, and I found myself running my own business a few years later to realize a dream which hadn’t been fulfilled. Now, several years have passed since that point - during the last year I was forced to dissolve that business because I had to step back to focus on my health instead of continue grinding and growing for my and my family’s sake. During that time, I turned to a few trusted contacts for advice and mentorship. The perspective from the outside helped me get through that process and pick up and carry on to the next thing when I felt like a failure.

I share these anecdotes to show examples that there is tremendous value to you to find networking, gather contacts, and turn to people for mentorship and advice wherever you can get it. One thing I learned is that it doesn’t matter as much what the hot new framework is or what hosting infrastructure solution the companies are moving to - those things are always going to be caught up in a constant churn cycle. The news sites and communities are going get caught up in hype but it matters more what can be created from the hype than the hype itself. Businesses care most about what keeps their sites cost-efficient, highly available, performing well, and secure day in and day out so they can keep their doors open and the lights on. You will find tools to help you accomplish this and pick up this knowledge through learning from others as you go. Don’t just seek out web-related mentorship either. Talk with people in other fields no matter what they may do, you will find knowledge which you can bring back and apply to our field.

Check out Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain”

Tool - Lateralus. It’s an album best played from start to finish, and takes a very dynamic ride that I interpret as a ride through human consciousness, communication with others and ourselves.

I remember having an s5 “active” model that had even more water / dust / rugged protection. With the headphone port and removable back cover to change everything. Was a great phone at the time.