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I've very carefully hoarded photos. I don't miss the photos, but I really miss the meta-data, more-so for scanned real photos. I loved photography back in the day, and so took a lot of film photos. Even having scanned them in I've ended up with meta-data around the scan or import date, rather than actual data.

And, anything from a digital camera will be missing things like GPS location, which phones include and I think is great. I've used location search so many times to find photos. I can't always remember when we went somewhere, but pretty often someone will ask about a photo from a trip to X place, and then location search finds it easily.

Photos themselves have bounced between iPhoto, Aperture, Photos, etc but largely remained intact.

The library is backed up to the usual 3 places: a local server (nightly rsync to a ZFS array), stored in iCloud, and in Backblaze, so hopefully safe. And of course, all are on my laptop too.

I've long wondered how much HN karma I could farm by keeping track of the top-X HN blogs and auto-posting the links with a bot.

There are also a number of other blogs I read that are semi-regularly on HN and aren't on the list that I expected to be. Maybe just didn't quite make the top 100, and I'm over-indexing on my personal preferences. eg. Matt Levine's Money Stuff crops up semi-often, and Bret Devereaux of ACOUP gets most of his posts on HN.

My father was gifted a pair of these for his 50th birthday, would have been 1989, in London.

Little ICE scooters. They were a lot of fun and not very safe. We had drunk guests damaging themselves in the street.

They became toys for my brothers and I, who had plenty of accidents but learnt to ride them reasonably.

The engines didn’t idle particularly well and had no gears. You had to pull start, hop on and go quickly while reving just enough to idle without it moving. It took practice. You could push start too with some practice, especially once warm.

Lots of fun, but mileage wouldn’t have been great for serious use and refilling a pain at a regular petrol station. Might have been 2-stroke, I can’t remember. Tiny engine, closer to a strimmer than lawnmower.

Huge fun though for just bombing around on as a tween and young teen.

I have been particularly irritated in the past where people use a lower log level and include the higher log level string in the message, especially where it's then parsed, filtered, and alerted on my monitoring.

eg. log level WARN, message "This error is...", but it then trips an error in monitoring and pages out.

Probably breaching multiple rules here around not parsing logs like that, etc. But it's cropped up so many times I get quite annoyed by it.

"It could have overwhelmed cell towers, toppling New York City’s cell service and preventing every Manhattan resident from accessing Google Maps."

Seems odd that the most important use they can highlight for cell service in NYC is accessing Google Maps. Not accessing 911, not some other vital use of cell service, but Google Maps.

NYC is full of free Wifi all over the place. So many McDs, Starbucks, and other restaurants and sites you can get Google Maps anywhere.

Especially at larger companies there’s very little difference between $10, $100, $1000, $10,000 from the perspective of the effort put in to pay for it.

You’re putting the same requests and forms, doing the same due diligence, getting the same approvals, etc. All contracts need to go through the same contract review, etc.

Few places I’ve worked have sensible rules to bypass that.

You still need to make sure you’re value for money, but aren’t as constrained as absolute price as much.

Project Binky is well worth a watch if you enjoy car restoration, upgrades/rebuilding, and generally extreme make-overs on classic cars.

What’s he a whistleblower of? He didn’t work at JS, so it’s not there.

This report seems off. From other more trustworthy sources (eg BBG/Levine) JS were trading the illiquid stock market to move options prices. This says large options volumes were moving options markets. Even if manipulated, and that’s not clear, he has it backwards.

Well that took me back.

For some reason no friends or family took me seriously when I brought it up at the time.

We did this when we renovated. Had a kitchen wall section chalk board painted for notes, as well as a much larger section of the kids play room wall.

The notes was useful space on the kitchen and the playroom one the kids just loved to doodle. Their friends were always impressed and loved to be able to leave a tag or doodle on it when they came over.

We tried a layer of magnetic paint too, but it didn’t work nearly as well.

I’m a manager, and have been for a while (although I also have 1-1s). Personally, I think project updates belong in stand-up, sprint planning, tickets, etc. Anywhere except 1-1s.

If you want a really simple framework just focus on the previous week and highlight what went well (ie. that needs repeating), what went badly and needs fixing (or coaching, etc), what needs changing (could be a combo of both above).

Every 3-6 months I try to have a more strategic conversation about career paths and making sure annual goals are on track. Effectively reviewing progress against them and making sure the person is on track for success, adjusting as necessary. Similarly, asking about what projects they want to do next, where do they think we should dedicate effort and focus, etc. If they had the resources what would they do? This can be a great way to learn about how they approach problems, and to uncover issues in process and tooling. I want everyone on the team bought in to feeling like they can make a difference, and it’s really helped my teams develop great tools.

Other good questions I like to ask periodically are around what’s frustrating, what could we improve as a team, etc. I want their input to improve the life of everyone.

I always try to ask for feedback and how I can improve, or what roadblocks I can remove for people.

Sometimes we just chat - teams work well together when they understand each other. I like to know what’s important to people, and what isn’t. What stresses them, and what helps them flow. Sometimes those things just come from less structured conversation.

I’ve found having a shared doc to jot down notes in the week really helps. A google doc, OneDrive doc, whatever. Just something that’s open and can throw in some bullets to talk about. Particularly when blocked on something, or I need to ask a question about how to strategically approach a problem, I’ll throw it in the doc. Then before the 1-1 I reread it to prep my thoughts. It’s worked really well for me with my managers, and with my reports.

Ask what they’re focused on and how you can support that. Ask about what their manager cares about and how you can support the larger department or org. Ask what they’re worried about. Ask what makes them happy.

The most value I’ve had from 1-1s has often been just getting to know people, and demonstrating empathy, compassion, and engagement. This is why I really hate the project based 1-1s - they end up being very transactional, and very 1-sided; just a list of “I did this ticket” type things. For people who are used to it, it can take a while to break out of the cycle.

Because it’s within a set of three speaker buttons.

The first has no sound, the second a less sound, the third more sound. They correspond to mute (no sound), lower volume (less), raise volume (more).

Within the set of three buttons it’s perfectly sensible and intuitive.

It wouldn’t make sense on its own, but on the keyboard it isn’t.

Yes, within the set of three speaker icons it makes perfect sense.

If it was a one-off it’s unintuitive, but on the keyboard where it’s used it’s fine.

Always seems that people forget piholes run really well in a docker container basically anywhere.

The pi bit of it is less important than the hole bit of it.

and with things like Tailscale or ZeroTier you can run your pihole at home and use it from anywhere on mobile devices too

I run a couple at home and they've been rock solid in containers on mini-pcs for a long time.