Ze Frank had a great personal site with a dozen JavaScript / flash apps that let you draw with different brushes etc. fun time waster

Books. This year I’ve caught up with harry Dresden and Carl & doughnut. Piranesi was great. A solid recommend. Sanderson’s Tailored Realities was a nice collection of snapshots into different parts of his universe

This is not how anyone ever wants to show up on the news, let alone internationally

Dropout.tv Great content, rewards creative talent, more than fair price

I just got a work complaint from an angry client about my rep’s performance. Well over 50 emails over 4 weeks, it was a lot to review. I had ChatGPT give me a summary of the client complaint and it highlighted just where my side started to fall apart. I hate the slop, but this time it helped

Fair enough

What professions are your parents in? (Not asking for anything personally identifying obv)

Yes. I don’t even look into the post details, just keep scrolling past

Ask your current place if you can switch to a month to month plan while you lock down a new location

Will be though to avoid having to cover both places for a week or two at first

The fish screensaver from WindowsXP is still available https://live.serenescreen.com/v2/

Does that make you the assistant to the branch manager?

have you considered purchasing (or renting?) a Horga’hn?

It’s a tv cartoon, but Invader Zim covers that gap

hackernews, likely

The amount of employer tracking that’s possible there makes me always feel that I’m being watched and metric’ed on my ‘productivity’

Teams insists on reordering the sidebar based on activity — it breaks my mental focus on work tasks when I’m ALWAYS looking for the chat thread I know is there, freaking somewhere, I was reading it just 10 minutes ago

Compared to slack’s remind me later feature Teams pretty much doesn’t have one, and the half assed one is too noisy and is hard to use

Why does ux layout eat so much screen space? We have a channel for the team to say hello at the start of shift, the lunch/goodnight.

The UX lets you see maybe 3-4 total posts at once. That is one example, but it takes so much effort of scrolling to be sure you’ve seen everything

Mobile notifications are a joke. When I’m not working I want to hear from one single emergency channel, it’s my time, not work’s. But even with all itifs but that one channel set I get pinged for every single reply in every team

You can look at a post, even click into it, but the notification will not clear until you leave for another page and go back