brandoncordell

Michael Kramer and Kate Reading (husband and wife team) are some of the best fantasy narrators available (in my opinion). I would pick up a book I've never even heard of if they're attached to the narration.

Just wanted to let you know that your link 404s.

I definitely prefer the old buttons.

What I absolutely can't stand is that the horizontal nav at the top isn't in a centered container. I use a wide monitor and the the navbar is slammed all the way to the left while the content is centered with miles of whitespace on either side.

As another poster said with PurgeCSS it isn't bad at all. I'm lucky enough that all my users are internal and we're a Chrome only business so a lot of that cruft can be left out and the speed of the page isn't a large concern.

Prototyping with VueJS and Tailwind on the frontend with Rails on the backend is pretty much my ideal workflow. It's so quick to get a feature done I still surprise myself.

It's definitely going to make it a lot easier than it is now. It's really not bad working with external libraries in Vue. I imagine the way that Bootstrap does it's Javascript will leave you doing a lot inside of Vue's lifecycle hooks (beforeMount, mount, etc).

So happy jQuery is gone! I'm also glad they're moving towards including more utility classes (this started in v4) but I've spent the last year with TailwindCSS and man is it nice. I just bought TailwindUI as well for the component aspect. I think it's going to take some convincing to move back to Bootstrap.

I'll definitely give it a shot on a small project though.

That's why I'm leaning toward TailwindCSS in almost every project. It's just a collection of classes. No prebuilt components, no big decisions being made for you, etc. It feels a bit freeing after 15+ years of CSS.

The hospital charged me $1,700 for 1.5mg of xanax during a 3-day stay. It's utterly ridiculous what they're allowed to get away with.

I'm a little surprised that the multipage demo doesn't have a working print stylesheet. Granted, most of these resumes won't be printed out but I think they're minimal enough where they would look great printed out. A few well placed page-breaks [1] would fix it right up.

[1] https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/p/page-break/

MacOS for Ruby, Elixir, and VueJS

Clone and run thoughtbot/laptop. Install thoughtbot/dotfiles and then personal dotfiles. Done.

And you can find almost any game you can imagine in the workshop for free. Best part is that some of the complicated games are scripted with Lua so you don't have to worry about setting up the game yourself.

Maybe my group is doing something wrong because Gloomhaven takes up at the VERY least 3-5 hours each time we play. That's only with 1-2 dungeons.

I'm going to say Slashdot as well.

Did Myspace have karma style voting? I don't really remember that.

Also Imgur was BUILT to be an image hosting service for Reddit. Out of the ones on your list it's the youngest service so it definitely wouldn't have been the first in pretty much anything.

This year has been a year of fiction for me. I haven't hit my goal yet but I've got some time still!

Annihilation (Book one of the Southern Reach trilogy) - Jeff Vandermeer

Authority (Book two of the Southern Reach trilogy) - Jeff Vandermeer

Acceptance (Book three of the Southern Reach trilogy) - Jeff Vandermeer

Artemis - Andy Weir

The Breach (Book one of the Travis Chase trilogy) - Patrick Lee

Ghost County (Book two of the Travis Chase trilogy) - Patrick Lee

Deep Sky (Book three of the Travis Chase trilogy) - Patrick Lee

Runner - Patrick Lee

Signal - Patrick Lee

Dark Matter - Blake Crouch

The Atlantis Gene - A.G. Riddle

The Eye of the World (Book one of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan

The Great Hunt (Book two of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan

The Dragon Reborn (Book three of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan

The Shadow Rising (Book four of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan

The Fires of Heaven (Book five of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan

The Way of Kings (Book one of the Stormlight Archives) - Brandon Sanderson

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm currently reading Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. Book two of the The Stormlight Archives.

I'd say the biggest surprises for me would be Patrick Lee. I DEVOURED these books. The Breach, Ghost County, and Deep Sky are a trilogy. They reminded me of X-files crossed with Navy Seals but that doesn't really begin to really describe the books.

I can't believe I got through so much of The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. The first book was so-so but the story really picked up in the second book. I'm getting to the part of the overall story that people say gets tedious and boring but I haven't experienced this at all yet.

I just finished The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson a few days ago. It's definitely one of my favorite books of all-time. It may be my favorite fantasy book but I won't know until I try to re-read it. I re-read The Hobbit every year. I never seem to get sick of it. It's going to be hard to knock this off it's thrown but damn is The Way of Kings close!

This is also the first year I've ever read so many works of the same author over and over. I probably won't do it again next year. Except for maybe Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan. I found it was _usually_ harder to get into the writing once I got such a familiar feel of their style and storytelling. This didn't hold true for Sanderson and Jordan they are still blowing me away.

And they're still making shitty videos with the kids that weren't taken away. I think they were pulled off YouTube again and had to start their own site for their content.

Just deployed this to production. It was by far the best js client I found for my needs.

I would love to see some sort of mutation batching if that's not too far out of the scope of the project. Right now I'm just using a class to build mutations in bulk and send them across in a single POST.

I watched Samsara while on LSD it was a very beautiful experience. Some of the scenes really hurt me deeply. I couldn't help but cry.

Also check out Ron Fricke's Baraka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraka_(film)). It's just as beautiful in my opinion.

> Haha, when someone calls themselves an engineer without being more specific, it's almost always either a civil engineer or software developer.

You went on to assume that he's a software engineer when in fact his is a civil engineer.

Also because you didn't like software development it's weird that someone else might?

Not the original commenter but I rarely sign up for things just to try out a product unless I'm already sure it's going to solve my problem.

I don't know how they're going to use my email. Are they going to send me useless emails in the future even if I decide that I'm not interested in the product? Are they going to make me confirm my email instead of letting me right in to try it? If I don't like the product can I delete my account or do I just have to forget about it?

I like when I can try out a product with as little friction as possible. To be completely honest when this happens it can sway my decision to use the product.

From what I've heard the Homepod had an amazing speaker but it was paired with a second-rate assistant (Siri) while most people that buy Alexa products care more about the assistant than it's included speaker.

Surprising to me but that's because it's written in Electron which is a notorious memory hog.

They've updated the article and Amazon has acknowledged these employees are getting paid for this.

Has it been linked to any deaths on it's own yet? AFAIK it's links haven't been much more than a line item on a toxicology report. One of these reports was a self-inflicted gunshot wound if I recall correctly. I think it's pretty disingenuous to call that a link. I'm not saying that you're being disingenuous but that people are using examples like that pushing the FDA for a ban.

I will see if I can locate the findings of the journalist that scoured the reports that were giving to the FDA.

1342 for me. Looks like it actually may be a real count. Although the count didn't necessarily have to start at zero.

I'm confused at what this is supposed to be? A bunch of products have the wrong image and the image that's shown is not nearly worth what it cost.

I'm 32. I have a wife and 3 kids (two of which don't live with me). My commute is 1h30m (depending on traffic).

I play every Wednesday and Saturday.

Wednesday is a short game, usually 8p-10p. My wife doesn't get home until close to 10 because my daughter has dance class (game is cancelled if I take her).

Saturday is a game I run. It's typically 7p-11p (although it can run past 12 sometimes). I've been running this one for quite awhile since before I met my wife.

I'm extremely grateful that she lets me have this hobby. Besides woodworking it's my only other hobby. I needed something that wasn't more coding. I used to sit at my desk at work and then come home and sit at my desk working on a side project but I burnt out super quick.

The thing that makes it possible for me is Roll20[1]. I've never met my group in person. I've never even seen a picture of a few of them. We met on reddit and a dnd discord and the rest was history. We're actually planning on an IRL game in the coming month or two, so there's that.

[1] https://roll20.net

Slackware was the first linux distribution that I was able to install when I was younger probably... 18 years ago or so. Crazy to think about.

I've been using YNAB for about 6 or 7 years I think. I really enjoy the software and the ideology behind it. It's helped me quite a bit.

I found a psychiatrist on HealthGrades. Saturday is my third appointment.

It may take you awhile until you find the right one but it's absolutely worth the time.

Stay strong.

I guess I'm considered a "super commuter" now? It takes me, on average, 1hr15m to get to work and 1hr40m to get home (due to traffic).

We bought a house in November and I just moved to this job. It was a "can't turn down" type of position even though it wasn't super close. Where we live we paid $200,000 for a 2,400sqft 4bed/3ba/2ga on a fenced 1/2 acre with a pool.

If we sold the house and bought something for $200,000 where my job is, we'd be looking at a 2bd/1ba condo at most. That's not going to fly with 3 kids and 2 dogs.

It's a shitty commute but I do it because it's an awesome job with amazing benefits and I'd do anything to better my families lives. I distinctly remember my dad driving 3 hours one-way to a job for about 1.5 years because he couldn't find anything closer.

It's true I lose relaxation time. I just bought a new car that I really enjoy driving (even in traffic) and I still can get things done that I would do in my free time anyway, e.g. Listen to audiobooks, listen to podcasts, etc. Right now I'm learning German on my commutes.

I may not stay content with the commute forever but for right now the pros outweigh the cons.