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by peckrob 3y ago
About 6 years ago, the company [0] that owns most of the local newspapers in my state did a "mobile first" redesign of their website ... which actually was a "mobile ONLY" redesign. It was so, so bad it was almost totall
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by peckrob 4y ago
I am glad I'm not the only person who has had this thought, and I think it every time I see how many people some of these random tech companies employ. Those are the kinds of employee numbers I would expect from a much larger company
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by peckrob 4y ago
I’m in my early 40s. I know a guy from my college years who is now making a TON of money because he got into COBOL development early in his career and most of his peers are now in their 60s and 70s and retiring. I think he was among the peo
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by peckrob 4y ago
Similar story for me. I went to college at Auburn, which is located in eastern Alabama about 20 miles from the Eastern/Central timezone border. Half of our broadcast TV stations came from both Columbus, Georgia (Eastern) and the other
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by peckrob 4y ago
Disclaimer: not in the EU, but have lived through some natural disasters that involved power loss for extended periods of time. So this is some kind of general advice. If you own your home and you haven't already, do an energy audit [0
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by peckrob 4y ago
This is an excellent comment that really does distill down what an EM is supposed to be. As someone who's been on all sides of this (currently an EM, been a tech lead and an individual contributor in the past), I really think there i
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by peckrob 4y ago
I just sold my 11 year old Hitachi plasma TV a few months ago. Honestly, despite its age it had the best picture quality of all my TVs until I bought an OLED to replace it. The biggest downside to it? It put out a tremendous amount of hea
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by peckrob 4y ago
> This whole comment section is pretty frustrating. I agree. The amount of misinformation and/or active disinformation in this comment section is horrifying and disheartening. > My trans brothers and sisters have it way, way wors
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by peckrob 4y ago
> But then if you were spending 90% of your time online as a teen/early 20s it's not that surprising on a second thought. You know, this is a very enlightening point. I never really thought about it from this angle, but there i
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by peckrob 4y ago
A few years back I was going through some old floppy disks I found in a box and, on one of them, I found a screenshot I took of my desktop circa winter of 2000. In it was a window open with a MUD I was logged into at the time. Another windo
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by peckrob 4y ago
20 years ago or so I wrote a LiveJournal client that used the XML-RPC interface. At the time the choices were that or an older custom text interface. The XML-RPC interface was more understandable to a very beginning developer and even then
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by peckrob 4y ago
That makes sense. I remember hearing a story while I was out there of a race car driver that got ticketed doing like 130mph. His argument was that, for him , that was a reasonable and prudent speed. The State Trooper disagreed. :P
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by peckrob 4y ago
Around that same, the US implemented the National Maximum Speed Law [0], more commonly known at the "55mph speed limit" for the same reason. It is widely regarded as one of the least popular pieces of legislation ever enacted by C
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by peckrob 4y ago
I don't know why it isn't being mentioned. I am not in the Bay Area myself, but about half of my friends there have relocated in the last couple years. A bunch to Washington or Oregon, some to Texas, one to Nashville, and a few
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by peckrob 4y ago
Very similar experience here. Like you, I'd heard my fair share of HOA horror stories, so my first home was in a non-HOA neighborhood. * One house near the entrance was bordering on being uninhabitable; rotting roof with tarps covering
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by peckrob 4y ago
Jira is just infuriating. It is super configurable, but that configurability comes the cost of making it so ridiculously complicated almost to the point of unusability. See: "how do I add a status for tickets?" [0] [0] https:&#x2
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by peckrob 4y ago
What I usually recommend at that point is that users do one of two things: 1. Switch to a hosted solution like Shopify for actual order processing, inventory, etc and keep Wordpress around for the read-only business type pages or blogs. Let
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by peckrob 4y ago
Not a bad question at all. It's all about what the client needs. The advice I give on this subject these days is that Wordpress is fine to use for a blog or a very basic, low traffic read-only company websites. Think like a small res
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by peckrob 4y ago
I've done some Wordpress consulting work in the past. I wouldn't say I hate Wordpress. I advocate for it's use in some cases! I think it is a fantastic piece of software for what it natively does. You want a blogging plat
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by peckrob 4y ago
To me it's analogous to buying a house. If you buy a house over a certain age, especially one that's changed hands several times, there's a pretty fair chance someone died in it. You can either stress yourself out over that a
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by peckrob 4y ago
I've lived in four of the top 10 "most rainy" cities on the list. They way it normally happens in all of them is that you'll have a bunch of sunny days, then a day where you might get anywhere from 0.5-inch to 8+ inches
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by peckrob 4y ago
One of the reasons rail trails are fairly popular is because it preserves the railroad right-of-way for potential future use. Even if the rails are removed and pavement put down, it's far cheaper to pull the pavement up and re-lay rail
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by peckrob 4y ago
I remember seeing an SGI Octane [0] at Comdex. I think it was 1997 or 98? I was still in high school, but I remember thinking that it was just the absolute coolest thing ever. When my home computer could barely play DOOM, this thing was jus
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by peckrob 4y ago
I'm kinda with you, though I am more willing to use wifi as an alternative when wiring is impossible or impractical. The line I use in the house is, "if it's staying in one place and can be wired, it should be." My iMac
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by peckrob 4y ago
A few months ago I was banned from Twitter for sharing a meme that literally said "I fucking love outer space." [0] That was it. Just an image with some text on it. For some reason this angered some algorithm and 10+ years of twee
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by peckrob 5y ago
In my case it is predicated on a disaster being localized. Basically it assumes that I will have 48 hours to get a message out. Where I live is six hours from the coast so hurricanes and tsunamis are not a threat. An earthquake on the New M
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by peckrob 5y ago
The thing is, you don't have to be a Doomsday Prepper to just be prepared. It's about mitigating the risk of the disasters you are likely to face in your locality. I lived through the 2011 Super Outbreak [0]. Following the torna
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by peckrob 5y ago
In my undergrad years every major seemed to have what students referred to a "weed-out course." These courses were intentionally made difficult and often has inane non-standard grading policies (for example, in one, anything under
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by peckrob 5y ago
Aging is optional; it will improve the wine, but there's nothing stopping you from drinking it immediately and it will probably taste pretty decent. Many wines are perfectly drinkable after secondary fermentation has finished (and you&
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by peckrob 5y ago
DIY winemaking kits can actually make some pretty decent wines if you spend a bit of time and money getting proper equipment. Not a lot - $100 will get you a really, really good setup with two glass carboys for fermenting, siphons, thief an

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