Vibe coding without any real backend engineering skill is epitomized by Lovable saying it did a thing when it only did half a thing.

No nuke testing since '92 but carrying that football around with him has turned into a kid attempting to not touch his trick or treat harvest.

Love the classic price hike before the sale scheme. Wow 50% off but it never hits that top value unless there's a dip that follows. Plus in this case, I might as well wait until it goes down another $100 again.

If you're shopping on Amazon on Prime Day or one of the big sale events, use camelcamelcamel to see if you're actually getting a deal. This sale is a "Prime Big Deal" at 43% off and yet it's gone down to this price 20+ times in a year. It's also never even hit $26, much less the $36 listed.

I get a compression error on a 1080p 13-sec video

Also, as recently as June 2023, I gladly coughed up $50 for the premium experience (I think there was a deeper dive on nutrients I'd wanted to see). Now? DOUBLE the price.

Logged back into myfitnesspal after a good while. The downfall. Paywalling features like macros that were core to the experience years ago just screams stagnation. Shrinkflation but for software. They couldn't innovate, can't find new revenue streams, so they're holding free users by gunpoint.

Def an undercover agent

California's a good example of how this doesn't work. 6M folks in CA voted for Trump and much of that red-leaning voting power came from CA's bread basket areas. The state as a whole could vote to annex but 38% of the state isn't going to up and leave.

Emailed my Senators and my district's Representative for the first time ever. I hope and pray for America's survival.

The problem with this is what is defined as aid. To the American people, defense spending is just as much "aid" as humanitarian efforts. If you ask someone how we're aiding Ukraine, the answer is in funding their side of the war. And in that case, the percentage greatly balloons.

He deleted it but for the sake of posterity:

Same same

Watching a hostage situation.

The hills in the foreground are in a landfill zone owned by waste management. They ironically provide the best views of Mount Rainier in my area.

Threads on Instagram team understands user psychology and growth mechanisms. Few notes on what I think is a solid implementation.

I think Greenland is a particularly interesting talking point when assuming that there's a enough of a Russian undercurrent in USA leadership right now that you're looking at two behemoths working together to squeeze the life out of the EU. Russia moves further west; USA moves further east.

I don't code. But if I operated a ubiquitous search engine and I heard about a mystery gunman on the loose, I'd be curious in pulling a query that maps a few key search terms (name of victim, location/event details, bullet phrases, anything gun-related) to a device/IP address.

I had to change my car's battery today. To do that, I had to crawl into the trunk from the rear seats, open the liftgate with the emergency kidnapper latch (no power to open it the usual way), and use 4 tools to get the old battery out. BMW has some of the most questionable design I've ever seen.