i know there’s this claim that facebook isn’t or can’t listen to your every conversation but when you casually mention a friend’s t i n y h o m e on the phone to your mom and immediately start seeing instagram ads for that… it’s creepy AF
my favorite thing about Airpods is putting them in the case and having one slowly die because it isnt seated EXACTLY right
i’d be more than willing to pay the subscription fee for @NotSoBigCompany’s Big Mail, but… not if it’s just an IMAP client. was really hoping they’d be an actual mail provider 😕
when you reflexively buy garlic every single time you go to the grocery store and thus end up with way too much garlic, make garlic confit!
design friends; what’s a good drop-in CSS framework these days? i basically haven’t spent a lot of time on the front end since the bootstrap heyday. i’m confident in being able to make sanely structured HTML but i’d like a framework that can make it look good with low effort
ME [finishing code interview]: i hope i did okay. all i can do is wait!
[30 MINUTES LATER]
BRAIN: no follow up yet? you must’ve bombed it
ME: ok
BRAIN: they probably hated you
ME: me too
reminder: i’m on the market and looking for my next gig! yes, i’m an excellent backend engineer with 10 years of experience and a keen eye for API design, but by far my biggest asset is that i have hoarded literally thousands of emojis from my previous employers
ME: eh this bottle doesn’t seem like it has much left in it. i’ll just finish it off
THE BOTTLE:
ME [popping open a can of beer]: time to see what’s happening on NextDoor
NEXTDOOR:
a gloomy Portland morning turned into a beautiful warm and sunny afternoon within 10 minutes of me going outside 😌
today is the… seventh? today is the seventh saturday since i became unemployed. time very quickly lost all meaning. every day is now saturday. i can feel myself unraveling
steve said it better than i could. basecamp just had to throw in one last “fuck you” https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1395388908943331332