@JetlagJen not that I know of, but I would both use and contribute to a wiki of "how to do this normal human thing that I've never had to do before", with sections of regionally appropriate advice.

someone invent an inverse-crowdfunding site, where I can take money away from people with bad ideas

watching my work laptop burn through its battery astonishingly quickly, pulling 40W for several minutes, to run eslint --fix so CI won't yell at me over trivial nonsense

It occurs to me that I can't ever write a sudoku solver.

Not because I don't know how to (I can both write code and solve sudoku, combining these skills seems obviously possible), but because it would actively make my life worse to have one: I've discovered that doing sudoku in bed is just the right level of mentally engaging to make me sleepy quickly (a few fixed algorithms that take low but nonzero effort, not exciting enough to stay awake for more), and I also know that I can't bear to do something manually when I spent time automating that specific thing.

having two obscure celebrity names crossing each other is bad crossword puzzle design

Huh. The thing where security software uses (one specific shape of) shields as icons is kind of like the floppy disk save icon thing but with medieval armor.

oh... oh no

I requested access to all the zone files from ICANN because I was mildly curious about something, and got approved within minutes.

And they're sending me an email to let me know.

For each TLD.

All 1150 of them.

me: "I would like to know how to include images in a site generated by Pelican, the static site generator tool"

*googles 'pelican images'*

google: "here is a large number of photographs of pelicans"

Update: this guy got elected.

It's probably fine. He's honest and has high integrity, so surely he wouldn't lie about such things.

One of the city council candidates running this year: "I’m honest. I have high integrity."

how to make sure I do not trust you

just walked in on my partner converting PDFs of screenshots to JPEG for reasons that I'm sure made complete sense at each preceding intermediate step of what she's doing, and I can't help but empathize, this is also how I interact with computers

burning a 2FA backup code because, while I know where my hardware key is, I am too comfy to get up and get it

@GustavinoBevilacqua insurance: "you crashed into a parked car, how are you not at fault"

me: "let me tell you the story of Therac-25"

Experiment aborted, after I caught her dragging my PCB etching tank across the floor by the bubbler's power cord. Also wasn't that effective, sawdust seemed to have clogged the filter very quickly. Ah well.

I have a robot vacuum that I haven't used in several years (once I started living with another person and several cats, it became impractical to keep the floors clear enough for it to work well). So I took her down to the basement to see how she'd handle sawdust and metal chips.

Results so far are... not promising, because I *also* leave shit all over the floor down here :D

(also she found a dead spider and flung it at me)

Electronics people: recommend a desoldering thing.

I had one of those super cheap ones (https://a.co/d/diWI5L4) until today, when the threads holding the end piece on gave out and it launched the nozzle and a bunch of old solder dust at me. It was never very good at its job and I would like something nicer.

"hey what should we call this week's autogenerated brand"
"idk bro, something about frogs? frogs are cool"
"frogbro it is!"

@jens Thank you for writing this. This was a much better way of stating the similar unpopular opinion I'd been sitting on for a while - I'd been formulating it as "marginalized communities breed toxicity". Which, yeah, try expressing *that* one delicately to literally any marginalized person, even when you're part of the same group.

@amber I prefer not doing things to keep the property values down. It's easier and the grass is perfectly capable of developing brown spots on its own.

export EDITOR=/bin/rm