Sherri W (SyntaxSeed)

Programming, tech, gaming & other geeky topics from Sherri Wheeler.

Occasional business, handiwork, electronics, parenting and fitness content.

🐘 PHP/JS developer with miles to go before I sleep();

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Location: ON, Canada
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2024-07-30 05:54:47

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After Covid we saw a wave of mistrust against #science & #medicine. When the hollowed out tech industry faces a painful correction people will be left hanging when services & products they rely on either vanish, become too malicious, or get prohibitively expensive. Rapid price increases & ads in #streaming services are already leaving a lot of people priced out & feeling betrayed.
Even a technologist like myself feels the #tech in my life is less helpful & more harmful than 5 years ago.

2024-07-30 05:47:43

This video "The #AI Bubble is Bursting" is so important not just because of it's discussion of AI & #LLM tech in general, but the #economics & market discussion around it.
What happens when this massively inflated #tech implodes & the wider rot in the industry too? How long can our services & products keep getting worse while still growing in stock value?
I worry that the fallout will cause a backlash against tech & will extend to #science too.
https://youtu.be/T8ByoAt5gCA?si=nW1tCHHX2rja40Gk

2024-07-28 21:07:17

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Wow! Final count from 2 hives: 218 lbs of #honey total! (Does not include the weight of the jars.)
It's been a very hot summer here in southern Ontario so the #bees must have been extra happy! 🐝
#BeeKeeping #apiary
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2024-07-28 20:27:28

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Step 5:
Poured from the plastic barrel into glass jars. Labelled with a logo & warning not to feed to children under 1 year old.
Yummy!
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2024-07-28 20:25:58

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Step 4:
Honey drains out of the steel barrel, through 2 layers of filters to remove wax, bee parts & other bits. It pours into a plastic bucket with a spigot in the bottom.
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2024-07-28 20:23:37

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Step 3:
Load 3 frames into this big steel centrifuge. It's anchored to the floor. A hand crank is turned to quickly spin the frames inside & pull the honey out. It drains down the sides to the bottom of the steel barrel.
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2024-07-28 20:21:11

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Step 2:
Carefully pick the wax caps off the frames. The wax is collected in a sieve to drain some of the honey clinging to it. My cousin uses the wax to make various homemade products.
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2024-07-28 20:19:05

My parents have 2 bee hives. Did a big #honey extraction day with the family today. Both hives were weighing in at over 200 lbs each!
It's such an interesting process.
Step 1: The frames are carefully removed from the hives, leaving enough for the #bees through the winter.
#BeeKeeping #apiary
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2024-07-28 00:09:29

⚾ It's tournament weekend for the kids' little league #baseball. 2 games for one son & 3 (!) for the other. Everyone is tired & filthy. It's a heat wave. Coaches have run out of pitchers with any arm left.
Whew.

2024-07-25 21:35:09

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100%. My kids are 8-12 & their internet use is still VERY limited & supervised and boy oh boy is this not the norm. Most of their friends have no limits or supervision and even have cellphones already. 😬

2024-07-25 01:30:41

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Hm. I'm logged in but free plan. Still has stats. It's really just the current streak that bugs me. Too many 11:58pm panics. Lol

2024-07-25 01:21:17

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They did????

2024-07-24 21:40:51

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You inspired me to bookmark & close a few of the tabs I was hanging onto!

2024-07-24 21:28:51

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And if your site is one that could be targeted by more advanced methods, you better have more security than a captcha no matter how good it is.
I personally see 0 problem if my captcha solving is actually helping label or categorize images.... if I'm solving a puzzle or doing a mini task anyway on a captcha, it might as well be useful.

2024-07-24 21:27:41

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While I'm not a security researcher.... I am a #webdev & I absolutely see a drastic decline in brute force login attempts when I put reCaptcha on a login form. Most clients want Google Analytics anyway so they aren't super concerned with the privacy aspect of embedding 3rd party services.
Most bots trying to brute force sites aren't using elaborate captcha solving tools - they're just trying to submit the form. Even a honeypot catches many unsophisticated attacks.

2024-07-24 13:19:20

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I believe those are for businesses dropping off night deposits. 😊

2024-07-24 05:35:19

Might be nice to bring back these old-timey ice doors built into the front of the house, but for packages these days. 🤣
For those who've never seen one, they have an inner & outer door so the ice man can place your ice (or milk) delivery inside. Inner door can only be opened from inside the house.
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2024-07-22 02:54:55

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Oooooo!

2024-07-21 21:01:12

This may seem strange to our American neighbours & I'm sure I don't speak for all my fellow Canadians.... but this month of US political news has been intensely anxiety inducing. I don't know if it's because I live so close to the border or because Canada is so affected by what happens in the USA, but oof. Stomach completely in knots.
I feel for you all who are on this rollercoaster. Good luck folks. Hugs from #Canada.
🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸
#politics #uspol

2024-07-21 20:55:46

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Hm. I might order a set they can play on right away & a set of replacement sticks to try a repair on when a stroke of bravery hits me. 😁 No sense wasting the old ones!

2024-07-21 17:50:52

Anyone have experience with these SplatDance replacement #Nintendo #Switch controllers? They're less than half the cost of official ones ($40 vs $100 CAD).
And yes I realize that they aren't the better hall effect joysticks.... but I'm just not in the mood to disassemble ours & delicately replace the sticks for only $10 savings.
#NintendoSwitch #VideoGames
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2024-07-19 06:01:11

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I really struggle to reconcile the rich corporate bosses being staunch republicans and yet so many of their corporations rely on and advocate for the cheap labor their supply chains get from immigration.
Sucks to boil human lives down to dollar value but money seems to be the only thing they care about & they aren't even good at that.

2024-07-18 15:53:50

Hello #AV fans who know all about #television brands! 👋
Looking for advice about the best ✅ smart #TV brands. And which to avoid ❌.
Prioritizing for something good on features, privacy & no/minimal dashboard ads or ads inserted into your streams.
We'll likely be using it for things like Netflix, Disney+ etc & attaching a Chromecast.
Thanks!
#tech #HomeTheater #Streaming

2024-07-17 14:33:42

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The final round of this insane battle was key.
Our ranger negotiated with the kuo-toa leader to buy us an extra day before the next attack (time to find their missing artifact).
And a few characters made a desperate attempt to save one of the men being kidnapped. As Zack The Warrior's dad was being pulled into the well, 2 people grabbed him, I cast Sleep which got 1 pair of arms grabbing him, and our druid turned to a giant spider & caught him with web. Whew!!
To be continued!
#DnD #TTRPG

2024-07-14 01:02:39

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I'd worry that it would put the surface your arms & papers are on, too high to be comfortable. You'd need higher chairs.

2024-07-12 23:10:49

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At best I think this will be treading water for corporate bottom lines while spreading more misery via the resulting job losses & environmental damage.

2024-07-12 23:08:25

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"To break even on what they’re spending on AI compute infrastructure, companies need to vastly scale their revenue"
Doesn't revenue have to *also* come from consumers increasing their purchases of a product or service?
I just don't see people or small businesses around me being flush with cash they are ready to spend if only there were #AI features. Quite the opposite in fact.
They might cut costs only to break even with falling income from financially exhausted customers.

2024-07-12 15:49:49

Waaait a minute. All this time I've been thinking of the concept of a #TTRPG gaming table as a special (expensive) product with a recessed lower area for the game, that you can cover up with panels when you're done. These are very expensive.
BUT! What if you instead cut a sheet of wood to be about 6" smaller than your dining/kitchen table, sand it ultra smooth then paint it a neutral colour with a grid?
Then it sits on blocks raised UP! Your character sheets can sit on top. 😱
#DnD
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2024-07-11 19:33:32

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Wow I thought this happened ages ago! Several of our games reverted into demos & I can't seem to get the full versions anymore.

2024-07-11 04:05:59

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A well rolled fireball 🔥 from my sorceress caused a lot of damage! But then the leader of the Kuo-toa attackers rose from the water & summoned a huge tidal wave of water 🌊that carried in 3 giant sea turtles 🐢 with battering rams on their backs! They're heading for the castle gate!!
Most of our ground forces outside the gates have fallen but the "clarablaster" (played as a gatling gun in the #DnD manual) has put down a good chunk of the Kuo-toa's first rank of forces.
TBC next session!
#TTRPG
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2024-07-11 00:00:06

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The party climbed the walls & took their positions!
Unsure what to expect, because the defending soldiers struggled to describe their foes... the #Victorious4 suddenly saw a shocking sight!
Orderly ranks of Kuo-toa rose from the sea, and began attacking!
Luckily a gnomish captain Clarabell, had a unique invention perched on the wall! A "crossbow-cannon-device" nicknamed on the spot the "Clarablaster"! Will it give the party an edge in this epic battle??
#DnD #TTRPG
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2024-07-10 23:47:46

The #Victorious4 continued our #DnD adventures by arriving at The Keep only to find the valiant defenders exhausted & short handed due to nightly attacks from the sea!
Our DM (my husband) had dug into our Heroscape stuff and built this huge recreation of The Keep. 😁
After brief discussion with the captains the horns of the watchers on the wall sounded! The latest attack has come early!!!
#TTRPG
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2024-07-09 00:14:22

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Yes & it's great. But the bags don't have to stand up on their own (there's a pitcher style holder for them) and you don't have to stab them with a weak straw (you use scissors or a special little cutter called a Snipit).
The bags enable milk to be frozen. 😁

2024-07-08 13:12:57

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Oh yes, I've seen the CapriSun too!

2024-07-08 03:56:45

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How was this not just a temporary fad? To build the brand & stand out from those stodgy tetra pack juice boxes??
Ok Kool-Aid, you won the liquid sugar brand awareness competition. Time to engineer a container you can actually open without showering your lap in food dyes, and that can actually be recycled. 🤦‍♀️

2024-07-08 03:52:51

You gotta be impressed by Kool-Aid's loyal adherence to the worst designed beverage container of all time. Made even better with now the most flimsy cardboard straw on earth.
#engineering #food #PlasticWaste
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2024-07-06 05:22:33

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Fantastic. We're using a mod to play with 5 of us and it's been just a great experience of getting into trouble, following the story and sharing great loot, etc.
We made a rule to live with the concequences of our actions unless we TPK, so there's some high stakes to not screw up dialog choices or aggro enemies. So fun!
I will say that romancing NPCs is kind of off the table because it's awkward among friends, & we aren't really doing the character storylines either.

2024-07-06 05:11:17

#BG3 #BaldursGate3
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2024-07-05 06:34:27

⚾ We have a space station orbiting the planet but we can't make catcher's shin guards with straps that don't pop open constantly when worn by kids.
Umpire calling timeout every batter so the catcher can rebook them. Is this some kind of "the suffering is the point" situation?
Literally the same dumb hooks as when I played 3 decades ago!
#baseball
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2024-07-04 00:57:43

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Doc: This could improve his quality of life.
Husband: How? He'll still need glasses. And now he'll *have* to wear them even though his Rx is so minimal.
Doc: But it could reduce his Rx progression later on.
Husband: How does your Rx affect your quality of life? It's glasses or no glasses. Do most people even notice a point or two difference in Rx?
Doc: ...
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Seriously this sounded interesting until I learned the drastic difference in price beyond insurance coverage.

2024-07-03 05:46:40

The changes to #chrome to undermine adblocking extensions must have hit recently. My kids started complaining that their fav web games are now covered in #ads. 😓

2024-07-01 20:45:10

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I can literally see the US border from my upstairs window & it's a constant source of low-key stress wondering when the mess down there is going to boil over, and whether those of us in border cities are safe. 😓

2024-06-28 03:43:22

There are about 350 MILLION people in the USA.... and you all got these 2.
I'm sorry neighbours. Oof.
#debate

2024-06-27 00:09:50

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I like the visual of having the pieces all sorted & easily viewed in one of these plastic parts organizers. I buy them at the dollar store.
Especially for games with a lot of grabbing specific pieces during play rather than each player getting most of *their* pieces at the start. In this latter case I do like you & keep each player's pieces in a bag.
There's just something about all those little sections full of cool tokens. 🤩
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2024-06-26 13:40:37

Been reviewing the kids' RESPs & just organizing #finance stuff.
On a whim I looked up what the average #tuition at our local #Ontario university costs.
As of 2023: $6,000 / semester !!! 😭
That's double when I went there.
Ouch.
#OntEd #education

2024-06-24 01:49:56

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I honestly can't believe it still works & the battery holds a charge!

2024-06-24 01:47:11

Dug out my old Walkman Mp3 player for my oldest son & he's so excited! 🤩 It's full of 90s & 00s alternative rock, some audio books & guided meditations. LOL a real 'treasure'.
It's his first personal device so it's perfect. 😁
Look at this gem:
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2024-06-22 01:24:04

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Man I love simple & targeted plugins just like this! 🤩
It's been getting harder & harder to find plugins like this that don't try to take over the universe with features.

2024-06-21 14:10:32

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There is CloudFlare in front of the sites currently, though I'm a little fuzzy on what it's doing and how because I haven't dug into that yet.
Currently the sites are sharing a big, old CentOS 7 managed server that was grandfathered into GoDaddy.
I don't care for GoDaddy hosting & I'm also not keen on multiple big sites sharing the same server because it's too "all eggs in the same basket" for me. And one of the sites is going to jump majorly in traffic next year when it launches.

2024-06-21 12:38:25

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No no, thousands of static images. 😅

2024-06-21 04:52:38

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Yeah a lot of static assets. My far future plan is to move them to a CDN but there are utterly thousands of them from many years of site growth so that will be a process. 😬

2024-06-21 04:41:16

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It's usually a vanilla WordPress site with some front-end caching plugins. Looking at breaking several high traffic sites off one big CentOS GoDaddy managed server onto smaller individual servers like DigitalOcean droplets or similar.
Unfortunately I've never had clients with sites that need much more than basic shared hosting. But this other client gets a lot of traffic to graphics-heavy WP sites.

2024-06-21 04:27:25

Is there a rule of thumb or calculator that people use to estimate what size of server/VPS they'd need given application type and estimated daily visitors?
I feel like I'm usually just going by "feel" but I don't have enough server admin experience to have a trustworthy gut for this.
I'm usually building #PHP web apps with #WordPress or #Symfony.
#DevOps #SysAdmin #servers #WebDev

2024-06-19 20:56:29

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The downside of the alternative is that you have to be online while using it so they can make sure you're only using 1 instance at a time. Then people get complain-y about that. I think both can work but per-device licenses really should give 2 devices as the absolute minimum. It's too common to have a work+home machine or a laptop+PC etc.
It always feels nitpick-y to me if it's only 1 device.
Although selling additional devices to the same user at a steep discount is pretty good too.

2024-06-19 00:42:28

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Hmm! I know there was an HD version on Xbox years ago but it would be nice to see it come out on Nintendo. Now a sequel would be REALLY nice...... Lookin at you Ubisoft. 🤣

2024-06-18 23:44:51

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Whaaat? 👀

2024-06-18 22:46:27

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Totally. Still waiting on remakes of Eternal Darkness, and Beyond Good & Evil myself! Take my money!! 😆

2024-06-18 17:51:00

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In case we ever wondered why #Nintendo is so rabidly aggressive against mods, roms & any other homebrew stuff with their old games. It's because they just keep on revamping & re-releasing their past games to get another generation of gamers to pay them again for the same game. 🙃

2024-06-18 17:46:03

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Most of my fellow white Canadians who get tested are vit D deficient. Many of us take a supplement.

2024-06-17 22:30:14

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Caught my husband putting sunblock under his upper arms. I was like.... are you planning on walking around with your arms in the air all day??? 🤣🤣

2024-06-17 22:26:24

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Yes, I take a vit D supplement daily. Plus it's not like every available inch of skin is covered in sunblock. Just the main sunburn spots - nose, cheeks, back of neck, top of arms. Most the rest of my body isn't protected well. Plus we have a pool so I'm outside so much & don't reapply anywhere near reliably enough that I usually end up sunkissed but not burnt. 😆

2024-06-17 14:59:01

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Worse as in the chemicals in sunscreen are more dangerous (cancer etc) than the sun itself.

2024-06-17 14:40:05

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That's a thing!? Just had my very sunburned brother tell me just yesterday that he hasn't been wearing it regularly because he thinks it might be worse than the sun. 😓

2024-06-17 02:10:57

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Good point! My brother also wondered if those big companies just outbid all the more niche advertisers, so even though the data to more specifically target me exists... it still comes down to who will pay most for those ad plays.

2024-06-16 19:24:18

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Maybe I've just so confused Google by having a clearly female profile but watching a lot of male-typical content like tech, fitness, construction, gaming, etc.... that Google has just utterly failed to put me in a category. 🤷‍♀️

2024-06-16 19:21:09

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They haven't even figured out that if I've seen an ad 100+ times (which I have with the money transfer service) and I haven't clicked the ad or visited their site by now... Then I'm PROBABLY not a good target for this ad & it's time to try another.
Is this not just very basic & obvious?
If I have to keep watching a few seconds of ads before I can skip... I'd at least like to be shown a variety of products & services I might not be aware of. Broaden my horizons or something.

2024-06-16 19:15:21

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Maybe I disabled a "personalized ads" checkbox somewhere.. but then wouldn't they fall back to matching the ads to the content of the video? Like broadcast TV used to do.
Like if I'm watching a programming video shouldn't I see some ads for - crazy thought - technology? Or if I watch an exercise video I should see ads for fitness or athletic stuff?
All this profiling, tracking & analyzing Google does... and they are just super bad at advertising.
It's insulting really.
#google #advertising

2024-06-16 03:28:52

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Oh! Apparently these are called "Workforce Planning Boards" in Ontario. 😁

2024-06-16 03:24:03

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A lot of Canadian cities have gov funded employment related organizations that do employment related data collection, training, placement, recruiting etc. They often have local job boards.
For example:
https://toronto.peopleatwork.ca/job-seekers/ (Toronto)
https://workforcedevelopment.ca/#local-job-hub (London)
They often have "workforce" in the name.

2024-06-16 01:59:46

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Thank you for these recs! I love a good walking simulator when I need a break from punishing survival games. 😁
A few I recommend:
- Firewatch
- Sable

2024-06-15 21:22:49

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Well damn these turned out great!!
#DIY #NinjaWarrior #WoodWorking
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2024-06-15 04:21:31

Used my new Rip Cut jig (sled?) for the skill saw to cut down a sheet of plywood & begin building a set of quintuple steps to go with the backyard ninja course. Really slick.
Very simple design, legs fold down for storage. 👍
Ran out of 2x4s before I could make the rest. 🙃
#DIY #woodworking #ANW #NinjaWarrior
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2024-06-13 21:33:23

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Oh - the new table is metal because eff glass furniture. 😆

2024-06-13 21:32:21

In the last 2 days I've assembled a new offset patio umbrella (a bday gift) and a new patio table. The table was a rush purchase to replace the glass one I broke when the old umbrella slipped out of my hand, tipped over & shattered the table into a billion tiny shards. 🤦‍♀️
My back is screaming & I'm absolutely sick of assembling things. Both were distressingly heavy.
Trying to get things ready for Father's Day this weekend.
Sometimes what we want to do outstrips what we can do. Pace yourself.

2024-06-13 13:45:37

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Won't be the first time I've caught business folks describing lower profit or even *lower increase in profits (so still more then last year)* as "a loss". 🙄

2024-06-12 14:09:54

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I think it's more of a feature request.

2024-06-12 01:21:50

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Yes & it's disabled under the android > google autofill setting.
I wonder if it's something in Chromium that @npub19rt…adh9 hasn't removed/put in a toggle for yet. 🤔

2024-06-12 01:11:47

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Ooof I was just struggling today to figure out how to stop @npub19rt…adh9 from asking to read verification codes from SMS messages & I still can't find a setting. 😓

2024-06-11 14:09:34

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I also think consoles dis-incentivise it to some degree.

2024-06-11 14:08:26

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Oh I 100% agree. And so many games now are released on PC first so there's no split-screen built in & they lack those optimizations. And when it's ported to console, the cost to shoehorn split-screen into it just isn't worth the cost. ESPECIALLY if that means people will only buy 1 copy of your game instead or 2 or 3. 😭
But even Nintendo not bothering to do it for their games is just sad.

2024-06-11 13:39:24

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I really can't fathom how buying a console (and maybe a TV) for each of your kids is normal.
Maybe if I only had two kids. At 3... plus my husband & I.... that's a cost large enough to be unmanageable.

2024-06-11 13:37:05

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Was really hoping #CoreKeeper would have split-screen when it came to the #NintendoSwitch but nope. 😭
Kind of feel like we've already played most of the good options.

2024-06-11 13:35:37

It's really too bad to see what an afterthought split-screen multiplayer on console #games is.
When we were kids we were playing Goldeneye & Perfect Dark on tiny TVs cut into 4. Each player's screen was ~7" wide and we loved it.
Now we all have huge TVs perfect for split-screen but console makers seem to think siblings will each have their own console ($$$!). Even #Nintendo sucks for this now.
Shocked that #Splatoon doesn't have it so that's a no-buy for us. 😓
#VideoGames #NintendoSwitch

2024-06-07 05:24:50

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Oh found it behind an "email me more info" button. Ad free is $3/m more. FFS. 👎

2024-06-07 05:22:23

Watched the premier episode of #Fallout and #AmazonPrime not only ran ads before the show but interrupted the show 3-4 times to play unskippable ads. 😡
Ads before were bad enough, but this is absolutely jarring & bullshit for a service I pay for.
Can't even seem to find any info about an ad-free tier for Canadian subscribers.
Really makes the "oh, it's streaming on Prime" discovery into more of a disappointment than a happy discovery.
#enshittification

2024-06-05 00:31:41

I have an #SQL #WordPress query that is ordering by post_date. But the date for this particular set of posts is identical.
So it's giving me them in different orders if I run the same query a few times. Which is messing up pagination.
What the heck?
#WebDev

2024-06-02 23:06:21

The whole family: 3 kids, husband & myself received our #karate belt promotions today. So proud of us! 💪🥋
#GojuRyu
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2024-06-02 05:51:32

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For me I've hit that trap when I've tried to 'composer update' an entire large project at once. Now I start with my least important dependencies first then work my way up to the framework itself.

2024-06-02 05:43:00

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For some reason finger cuts just always seem to be right in the crease/knuckle for me. Then I might as well double-bandaid that mess & abandon all hope of accurate typing. 🤣

2024-06-01 21:51:57

Can we all admit that we don't want the assorted sizes of Bandaids. We just want the big ones. 🤣

2024-06-01 02:57:12

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It's nice how varied the games are. Most of these I wouldn't have even looked twice at, but I'm so glad I've experienced them.

2024-06-01 02:55:52

A while ago I bought a #HumbleBundle called Humble Heroines: Warriors, Dreamers, and God Slayers.
And so far *every* game I've played has been an absolute banger that I've completed to the end. What a great deal this was!
So far I've played and finished:
- Sable
- Control
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Hellblade I just finished tonight and it was just fantastic. Control is now among my top favs.
Next I'm giving Call of the Sea a try.
#games #VideoGames
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2024-05-30 14:55:11

Ontario Energy Board:
"We welcome comments on your energy company's recent petition for a rate increase! Your voice matters!"
Also #Ontario Energy Board:
🙄😡
#OEB
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2024-05-30 01:54:34

One of my best friends has #CrohnsDisease. So do I.
When she caught #Covid a year or two ago it kicked her out of remission & back into a bad flare up. I've been worried about that myself. 😓
Even if Covid or Long Covid symptoms don't get you, how it interacts with other chronic conditions is poorly known & very bad news.
#Crohns #IBD

2024-05-29 17:02:50

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💯 This can't be said enough!
My father-in-law had a bad stomach ache. He hated doctors & tried to tough it out. Blamed the pizza he ate. It was some kind of internal rupture that became sepsis & killed him. He was unconscious before we even reached the hospital.
Please for the sake of those who love you - treat unusual & unexpected symptoms seriously.

2024-05-29 12:54:57

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Absolutely. And the worst thing you can do is cling so firmly to the "moral high ground" that you become a door mat.
But I do think that we all must decide what makes us different than our opponents. What makes them in the wrong & us in the right? 🤔

2024-05-29 01:51:57

Kids at the ball park just broke out a tube of Pogs!!!
#toys

2024-05-29 01:39:02

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Even at the elementary school level, when I help my kids deal with the (endless) bullies, I teach them to strongly defend themselves & their friends. But there is a clear line we don't cross into becoming the bullies ourselves.
It's not weakness to have lines you won't cross. It's the opposite.
What you're advocating just creates an endless cycle of retaliation & hatred. The world will never improve if you fight evil by becoming evil yourself.

2024-05-28 13:33:21

Wtf #CloudFlare... 😱
https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

2024-05-27 22:41:08

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Yes... I switched jobs on average every 2 years because tech jobs don't pay well in my city & it was the easiest way to get a raise!