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Portal and Azure CDN are down here in the SF Bay Area. Tenant azureedge.net DNS A queries are taking 2-6 seconds and most often return nothing. I got a couple successful A response in the last 10 minutes.

Edit: As of 9:19 AM Pacific time, I'm now getting successful A responses but they can take several seconds. The web server at that address is not responding.

This is impacting the Azure CDN at azureedge.net. DNS A records for azureedge.net tenants are taking 2-6 seconds and often return nothing.

Many great memories with Mikeal at the first few NodeConfs, walking around Portland, debates over coffee in Oakland, and NodeConf Adventure at Walker Creek Ranch. Very thankful for what Mikeal has done in the JS community. So sad to hear of his passing.

Parking lot is completely full. I parked nearby and walked over. They’re giving away free mugs today with Micro Center Silicon Valley on it.

Huge Ubiquiti display and demo area. I didn’t buy anything today because the checkout line was too long. My daughter liked the Magna Tile selection in the toys area.

Really great to have this much selection nearby.

Looks very similar to Korea’s Saypen! My daughter loves it.

Made a time clock with ESPHome and a M5StickC. Clock in and out. Home Assistant sends the time to a Google Sheet. Super reliable.

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I work on Yahoo Mail for the web and appreciate your comment! Our team is currently hiring for several engineering roles and we’re investing a lot into the product this year.

You can still go look through it! I went a couple months ago.

Awesome! As someone who uses a lot of ProPresenter this looks really impressive.

The calendar view looks like a useful innovation.

Thanks for sharing it! I use Looks, NDI, and Resi in ProPresenter most of the time yet I am eager to see where this project goes for all kinds of new productions.

Yes. I made the mistake of setting up Google Home with my “Google Apps for Your Domain” account I used since around 2009. Now I’m married and can’t add my wife. It’s been years and no changes: it still doesn’t work.

Beats on repeat repeating on me…

LCD Soundsystem is great for this.

I don’t know the policy for email account retention for AT&T Internet email, so I can’t speak to anything about it…

But for your last two questions: Yes, it’s Yahoo Mail under the hood! That is still the case. Yahoo provides email hosting services for AT&T Internet users under a contract between Yahoo and AT&T.

However, all customer support for AT&T Yahoo Mail is handled by AT&T, so the best resource for help for those accounts would be AT&T customer service or their help site: https://www.att.com/support/topic/email-support/

Yes, I believe a local IMAP backup is the way to go.

Full disclosure: I work on Yahoo Mail, but I’m not speaking for my employer.

Have you checked out CFL? If users mark sender’s messages as spam, it can impact that sender’s deliverability. The CFL can help avoid these recipients by understanding spam reports.

More best practices for deliverability: https://senders.yahooinc.com/best-practices/

Full disclosure: I work on Yahoo Mail, but I’m not speaking for my employer.

Yes, this can happen after 12 months of inactivity for free accounts. Policy: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2018.html

For context, Gmail has a policy which allows for deletion after 2 years of inactivity: https://www.google.com/gmail/about/policy/

I’m sorry the service didn’t meet your expectation, but for others here who are curious, there are some options for keeping email storage active! These days there are paid Yahoo Mail accounts available which retain email for as long as you have the subscription active. (Or you can log in once a year with a free account.)

You can also use a IMAP app to save a local archive of all of your email. This works for all accounts, even free ones! More: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN5033.html

CyberPower OR700LCDRM1U.

I was replacing hard drives every few months until I used a UPS. Once I replaced all the drives I’ve been good ever since. UPS is essential for a NAS.

Been using this model since 2019. Just replaced the batteries for the first time this week after the UPS threw code E02 and had a very hot battery compartment. The cells were bad and there was no battery backup possible anymore. Things cooled down a lot after the battery was replaced and the battery backup works again. I’m happy with it.

It connects over USB to the Synology to tell the server to shut down on low battery.

I believe Walter’s comment (sibling to yours) is a common experience because there isn’t a solid relationship with superiors before the negotiation takes place.

Building relationships takes time. Restarting new relationships every couple years via job hopping can impede such a conversation and make it feel more transactional than mutually beneficial. Since short tenure is more common, this may be another reason Walter finds his colleagues’ experience common.

When negotiating, I knew I was solving the right problems for my superiors and I wanted to keep working to solve their problems but for wages which were more competitive. My bosses understood, wanted the same, and used the offers from other companies to make the case for a raise or promotion.

I would not advise going into a negotiation simply with the notion “I can get paid more over here.” That wasn’t the point of the negotiation. If you go about it that way I believe it would be damaging. A conversation only about pay feels transactional which is damaging to these kinds of long-term relationships. Instead, I was truly desiring to continue my good working relationship with my bosses, but for more pay, and the negotiation was the way for both of us to win.

Over a long time, relationship building snowballs and can be even more effective. The last time I did this after working at the same place for a decade, I got a call from the company’s CTO a few hours after my talk with my manager. He was traveling on business but made time for me to discuss my concern since he knew my work. The call was the start of a satisfying new career direction in a new department.

Using it as leverage with your current employer will damage your relationship with them, even if you win that negotiation.

I have used a better competing offer multiple times to negotiate with my employer of 13 years. My relationship with my superiors improved each time…

I believe how you go about this negotiation will determine if it damages the relationship, not if you do it or not.

Hi! I’m such a fan of your writing. Thank you! In particular, the story of the Tahoe casino bombing is one I love to tell others about, but there are so many enjoyable stories I can’t even begin to list.

I have one of these with the neoprene case and a MP3 player! I don’t think I have the serial cable anymore :( but I have this and an eMate 300 in a mind to refurbish someday!

Hey. I’m sorry to hear how finding friendships is challenging and feels impossible.

I believe it’s okay not to be “normal.” Do what is restful for you, which may not be normal at all. Then be looking out for others who like those things too.

Folks say relationships take time, but I believe it’s something which can happen gradually and then suddenly.

I don’t know what you enjoy doing outside of code. But doing things which are not code helps me rest and helps me find other folks over time who also like that rest. And the friendship grows deeper with these shared experiences.

A new job or address can help you meet new people. But think about what’s restful for you and then be looking out for people who like doing that.

I say restful because then the activity is motivating even without a friendship, but as you go do those things you tend to bump into people who also enjoy those things. And who doesn’t want to be around people who are just as motivated about something as you are? It’s a joy I wish for everyone and I believe it happens gradually and then suddenly. :)

I live with my wife. It’s important to do smart home things which work well for everyone in your space!

I don’t do a lot of fixed unchanging automation. I do a lot more ambient status and voice assistant integration.

It actually was really nice when my lady moved in after our wedding because my HomeKit things were able to work right away with her Google Home she was used to. :)

The webcam hall status light was to know when either of us are in a meeting. We are both working from home so it’s like a free/busy signal.

Yup, exactly this! I send custom documented Z-Wave commands to switch the wall switch dimmers LEDs into “status mode” and can then control each one with a custom color and blink.

I just send the same commands to all the dimmers so they all show the same thing.

For whole home power, I use a Rainforest Automation EMU-2.

It’s connected as a USB serial device to integrate into HA. The HA forums have a custom component for it.

This can be useful for monitoring the entire home power. No load center clamps needed, it communicates with my power meter over Zigbee.

I use two TP-Link HS110 outlet plugs for power consumption monitoring for my washer and dryer.

My dryer is gas so I don’t need anything special. Would maybe check out the smart Leviton load center mentioned in this thread for new construction.

It’s a few hours a month here and there over several years. I started with a few smart bulbs while renting and I have evolved the system as I moved to a new home and installed more things to solve a problem. I didn’t do all of this in a weekend!

What’s nice is the Home Assistant automations tend to stay working without major overhaul far longer than stuff I used in the past, such as SmartThings which I no longer use. Always better to use your own small server and code for things like this. IOT platforms and services change way too much and it’s a lot more work to maintain than local HA.

I have a UniFi Protect G4 Doorbell, so it’s as easy as calling the service unifiprotect.set_doorbell_chime_duration and setting the duration to 0.

I still get phone and other notifications when the button is pushed! Just no indoor bell.