My wife, who had the good sense to flee the country at the first sign of illness, won’t be back until late tonight. I’d trade my spleen for DoorDash right about now.

Joining me in this lovely day off are a 9-year-old with the same symptoms and a 2-year-old who had to one-up us by adding frequent explosive diaper inadequacy to his respiratory woes.

And we are out of some essentials.

Yeah. You kind of have to commit to the bit in advance and be careful not to break cover.

Just pretend you’re American. It explains away a ton of social booboos.

Finally, we are in early talks with airlines about the prospect of using this solvent as an alternative to petroleum-derived aviation fuel, as well as incorporating it into all economy-class catering.

Due to these findings, we are reformulating our shampoo, toothpaste, and birth control to make this solvent the primary active ingredient. We are also working with partners in the steel industry to incorporate the solvent into the smelting process.

Due to these findings, we will immediately start reformulating our shampoo, toothpaste, and birth control pills to make this solvent the primary active ingredient.

I think it's because the first and most obvious use case for Enums when they were introduced to PHP was to replace constants. As people started discovering all the other ways they can be used, their thinking about the naming convention has evolved.

CNN: "The FAA is going to require billionaires' private jets to divert to slightly smaller airports."

Dems: "Well, obviously we can't let that happen. Sorry about your healthcare."

This is exactly the problem. The number of people who know the minute details about who passed what tax credit when rounds to zero. Here's how the last few weeks played out for normal people:

Dems: "Republicans are about to take away your healthcare, and we will absolutely not let that happen!"

It's disappointing, but the only thing that's surprising about it is that it took them this long to do it.

The Democrats were winning. The messaging that the Republicans owned the shutdown was resonating, and they were fighting a fight that actually mattered. By giving in with zero concessions, they've basically taken ownership of the shutdown and the consequences to follow.

In our house everything in that bowl would be called a pineapple.

There are two other Laravel developers within walking distance of my house. I had no idea.

Admittedly, the ones I know are freelancers, not an agency. So they're only risking their own dollars per hour. Which might make it a little easier for them to keep that extra margin to a minimum. They have less risk to pad for.

Value-based pricing is not a good fit for you. But there are certainly very reputable, highly trusted people in our industry who do it well. Their relationship with their customer is not denominated in dollars per hour, and neither party thinks in those terms. That's why it works for them.

They don't overpay. They pay what you agreed they'd pay. If I want something done and you tell me it'll cost me $100k and I agree to that price, it doesn't matter one bit to me whether it costs you $98k or $9k to deliver it. I just care that I got what I paid for at the price I agreed to.

I guess the only piece of your original assertion that I strongly disagree with is that if you overbid, the customer gets screwed. If it's worth whatever you charged, the fact that you were able to deliver it at a bigger than expected margin doesn't make it unfair to them.