patrickserrano

I just recently switched the email associated with my Xbox account from the Hotmail I created in '98 or '99 to my current email address. That Xbox account is probably the oldest account I'm actively using since it's from around when Halo 2 launched.

I'm sure I have logins for older accounts stored in 1Password, but none of them would be anything actively used.

There is a setting to allow location for the "Networking and Wireless" system service. I wonder if disabling that would prevent this from working?

Came here to say the same thing! Whenever I'm using my work PC the alt-tab behavior of windows drives me nuts.

If you're in a city, get a dog assuming you're ok with the responsibility that comes with having one.

About 5 years ago my wife finally wore me down and we got an English Bulldog. The friends that we made at the dog park have become some of our closest friends, and it's great having friends that you don't work with because you don't end up talking about work.

I'm not a very extraverted person by any means but whenever I'm out with the dog I end up talking to people I never would have. Especially when I take him to a dog friendly bar (shoutout to DBA in the East Village!)

Ninety-eight percent of drivers who try Lyft’s maps stick with them — rather than switching to Google, Apple, Waze, or any other app.

I find this surprising because my personal experience is the exact opposite. At least in NYC, drivers use the Lyft (or Uber) app for managing riders but use a dedicated mapping application for navigating to the destination once you're picked up.

I have ADHD, and this is how I use Slack too. Works wonders and makes it manageable.

Another thing I've found useful is just leaving channels where I find little to no value. If there's something important you need to be involved in, 99% of the time you'll get added back and can catch-up to contribute. In my experience with Slack, you end up in channels for "visibility" on things that have no impact on you and you have no impact on.

I live in Manhattan and my wife and I just had our first kid a few weeks ago. We've been talking about it for months now, but we want our kid to have that kind of independence and familiarity with the city. On one hand it's good for their development and on another hand it just seems practical that they be able to navigate the city on their own for safety reasons.

I've offended a lot of suburban friends and family though, because they don't understand how we could raise a child in NYC let alone give them any kind of independence. I've been told that it's irresponsible, that I'll be endangering him, and that I'm crazy to think the city is a safe place for a child, among other things.

how does that work for controllers through?

At a past job for a while we did Kanban with the sprint as a time box and it worked really well for the constraints we were working in. When we had work with deadlines, we'd flag that work as needing to be done in the sprint time box and put it on the top of the pile. Otherwise the team just kept picking up the next item, and we'd do a single review meeting at the end of the sprint to check in and see how everyone felt and what was accomplished. It was less of a retro and more of a temperature check.

It worked really well for a team that served a lot of different stakeholders and also had to field requests from customers since the priority of the work was always changing even if the deadlines for the work didn't.

I've been using Overcast (iOS) since it launched. Marco has done a lot of work with his Smart Speed and Voice Boost features over the years and they're a core part of what keeps me using the app.

I struggled with trigonometry in high school, to the point that I had to repeat the class twice. Each time I took the class it was the exact same lesson, and I struggled.

During my senior year I was able to take a course through BOCES on audio production. That course related some of the trigonometry I was struggling with to a subject I was deeply interested in.

I don't expect Math teachers to start teaching audio production, but it would have been nice if the teacher had seen me struggling and at least attempted to approach the subject from a different angle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm currently working on an MVP and moved it over to railway.app

Overall the process was smooth, the React + Vite frontend app was up and running as soon as I connected GitHub and added the envars. But the dotnet backend took a little bit of trial and error to get running because it didn't like my initial Dockerfile.

Overall the process has been pretty smooth though I wish the docs were a little more robust and had more examples.

If you don't mind using MDM you can get something akin to roaming profiles on iPads. It's an enterprise feature, but it was introduced sometime during iOS 13.

I agree though, native multi-user support would be great. Though, I'd hope it's better than what we got on tvOS.

Not the same thing by a long shot, but you can turn on "Hide Alerts" for group chats. My wife has all of her long running group chats set to this to prevent alerts all day when her friends are chatting.

I know it should probably be on the org itself to inform new users that those settings are being used, but I wish that Slack would do a better job of letting users know too. It's a weird experience noticing a typo in a message and not having the option to edit without any feedback as too _why_.

Google interviews sound awful if I'm being honest. The last recruiter I spoke with said it involved a technical test and phone interview, after which they'd see what teams had openings and that it would be 3-4 2+ hour interviews per team before an offer was made if I was a fit. Who has the time for this?

Glad I'm not the only cynical one ;)

That's still a huge burden to put on a woman. My wife is 6 months pregnant and even being white and fairly well off financially it's been a struggle for her. She's been extremely sick and getting adequate care even in NYC has been astonishingly difficult despite using one of the most recommended practices I've ever encountered. She's in pain all of the time, struggles to get around, and would have had to take unpaid leave if she wasn't able to WFH with a boss that's understanding and flexible. Not every pregnancy is as hard as my wife's, but not all of them are as easy as your friend's girlfriend's either.

There's also a cost to being pregnant outside of just the medical costs. Assuming you have insurance that covers the doctors, you still need new clothes, new shoes, eating more, medications, tools to help support your pregnancy like a belt to take the weight off your back, etc because of the changes to your body. Those things aren't accessible to everyone.

Adoption is amazing for those that it works for, and I'm glad it's an option, but it's not a replacement for abortion by a long shot. (And all of this is ignoring the trauma both the mother and the child deal with later in life)

I feel like saying "Free for existing users with a current subscription" would be a lot more clear. I'm a customer who owns an older perpetual license and a lapsed subscription but it's not free for me since I'd need to restart my subscription to use it.

Other have said it, but you should probably take some time off. And by that I mean, actually take time off without checking email or slack, or quickly helping put out a fire. I worked for a high growth start-up and I'd always end up checking in on something or answering some questions during my time off and it just negated any benefit from taking the time off.

Also, you mention not having motivation to work on personal tech projects, and I can relate to that. I don't have a good answer except that you don't have to do any of those projects now, and it's probably better for you to find a non-tech related hobby like cooking. You'll use a different part of your brain, while also creating something and solving the occasional problem.

Also, and I say this to most people who are struggling with work, but therapy is a great outlet to help you explore the pressures of work and strategies to deal with them. When I worked at a start-up, half the reason I was in therapy was to have a neutral outlet for venting my work frustrations that wasn't my significant other. It's not for everyone, but I highly recommend giving it a shot, especially if you have insurance since there's no real downsize except for the hour or so the session takes (especially now that a lot of therapists are doing virtual visits).

Couldn't agree with this more. At my last company there was a fair bit of time put into making the deployment process for our microservices as simple as added a new YAML file to the deployment repo. That file pulled a custom chart, and as a dev you just needed to configure a few variables to get everything up an running. But if you were deploying something that couldn't use one of the pre-configured charts it was a bit more work, especially if you've never done it be hand before.

Probably 98% of the devs were blissfully unaware of that complexity that the charts abstracted, and it let them focus on the services they were writing. I wasn't one of them, and always made sure to thank the devops team for simplifying the day to day deployments whenever I had to deal with writing a custom one.

+1 for taking small steps. As someone who's dealt with anxiety for years, it's one of the most reliable ways for me to actually make progress when I'm overwhelmed.

I'll typically try making a list of the small steps I need to take, though I recognize that for some people seeing that list might make the anxiety worse. But for me it's a tangible step that allows me to cross off items and visualize the progress as I go which ends up reducing my anxiety about the task at hand. I do it for everything from work related projects to general "cleaning up the house" type work.

While it’s frustrating to deal with situations like this, in my experience Apple doesn’t have a problem compensating customers for the trouble. I’ve gotten free iPhones, an upgrade from a 15” to a 17” laptop, and free headphones among other things. You just need to ask, as it’s rare for Apple to offer.

That's the one I thought this article was about.

Out of the box macOS doesn't have a button to maximize the way Windows does. The green button in modern macOS is for full-screen and option-clicking that button will bring back the old "zoom" behavior which expands the window to fit the content being displayed. It's a lot less frustrating of an experience when you realize that the button doesn't do what you assume it does.

When this comes up among friends I always ask, "If you had diabetes you'd take insulin right? Why is mental health any different?"

Find a psychiatrist and see them regularly so they can monitor your mood and response to the drugs. And stick with the therapy while doing this.

The combination is key, the meds will make getting through the day easier, and the therapy will help you find coping mechanisms and be more self aware of your emotions in a productive manner. This sounds hard and dumb but will be easier with the meds.

Then as you feel better you can work with both providers to adjust your meds or test removing them if that's something you want.

But at the end of the day, you need to talk with professionals. They're trained to help and will allow you to talk about specifics in ways that could identify triggers. Take it from someone with years of therapy and psychiatrist visits under my belt. It feels like it's not working at first, but you need to keep with it and follow through.

Good luck and I hope you find the help you're looking for.

Looks really interesting! It'd be awesome if I could import data via CSV or connection to other sites. I know it's a bit of an edge case but as an example, I'm a vinyl nerd and have my collection catalogued on Discogs. It'd be great to be able to pull that data in here to keep everything centralized so it's easy to access in the event of an insurance claim or the like.

I have an LG OLED TV and I use pi-hole to block all of the creepy ad-tech that's built into to. Whenever I want to check if there are updates to anything on the TV, I disable the pi-hole for 5 mins and manually check for updates.

This is a good starting block-list: https://gist.github.com/wassname/78eeaaad299dc4cddd04e372f20...

Mela on iOS[0] is a very similar app with some great polish. One nice thing with Mela at least, is if you use the built-in browser it can get around some paywalls like NYT Cooking. It also integrates with the Reminders app for grocery shopping lists.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mela-recipe-manager/id15484660...

Honestly, this looks amazing for times when I'm in a meeting and want to look a piece of more complex code but don't have a local copy of the repo. The Azure DevOps repo UI leaves a lot to be desired, especially if you know where a piece of code is called from but don't know where it's defined off the top of your head.