I was not paid to promote any of these. These are just tools or types of tools I would recommend. In roughly most to least utility. Skil rechargable screwdriver Very portable, powerful enough for most tasks. I often use it in lieu of a drill. I like this design because the rotating collar feels very…
Read More Tool endorsementsUserscripts are a powerful way to take back control of the web, but their design hasn’t kept pace with the modern web. In particular, they struggle with content loaded in the background—think single page apps, HTMX, and infinite scroll. Recall that userscripts are designed to run at page load, and while there are several options…
Read More Userscripts at the SPABrands I don’t like. I don’t have to explain why, but the answer is almost always some combination of bad quality, bad privacy, and spam. Hmmmm Avoid Dead to me Bonus brand rankings US IP camera brands: Reolink > AMCrest > Foscam
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My electric utility gives me nice a good amount of data, including a download button! This made me want to get this data into Grafana so I could explore it better. Getting the data That “Download my data” button is tempting. The data ends up looking like: and I noticed the API returned a little…
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An hour after second coat of Feather Finish
Writing some notes to my future self so I remember these tricks. Tools/materials used: Step 1: watch this video. He’s got another good video on the subject too but I can’t find it right now. Step 2: fill big gaps. I filled them up with caulk so the cement wouldn’t drip under the floor and…
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Taco Bell Mexican Pizza
In Demolition Man (1993), John Spartan is frozen for decades only to be thawed to fight a familiar enemy in an unfamiliar world; where every bathroom has three shells and Taco Bell is the only restaurant left in America. In software development, regular maintenance costs a lot of time, so we “freeze” apps all the…
Read More What is “Taco Bell Future”?For meetings, I switched to typing my notes. I figured out some tricks to regain some of the flexibility handwritten notes offer. When I jot down questions I want to ask, I begin the line with ?? ?? How does this affect our stonk prices? And when there’s a point I want to make, I…
Read More Use ?? and !! when typing notesI really didn’t want to write this, but every good link about structuring unit tests is dead. And I don’t want to hype this too much, but learning to arrange my tests in a certain order was one of the biggest productivity gains in my career. You should arrange your test into three distinct sections,…
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