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NOT Trick-or-Treating

47. I want to be effective. Now. Time is not on my side. If the tech I learned and mastered gets me from point A to B, and the users love the results...that's all I need.

Read Joel Spolsky's "Fire and Motion" if you have concerns.

Yea, I can register a domain name, spin up a wordpress site on some shared hosting platform and point it to that domain, install some nice-ish template, connect an email service, and even get some basic pages, (very) basic content, and a handful of useful plugins on there in an afternoon.

Honestly...what other stack could get you that far in 3-4 HOURS?

Also nothing new: Online banks. "Hey, put your money in us and get this great interest rate!" Couple years later: "Oh, now you get .005%. Enjoy."

I've implemented Vuex on a Vue 2 project to reduce adding props all the way down in my sub-components. Looking back, I would only add Vuex to a project if it needed it. Hint: small projects do not need it. Just rely on "Events up, props down" for your data flow.

Bringing the egg....versus being the bacon.

...and I can concur on the performance. It's hilariously fast.

I've been running a website and API with .NET Core for over a year...deploying to Digital Ocean droplets that run Ubuntu. Using MySQL instead of PostGres, sorry HN. It all runs like a champ, and costs me $17.05 USD per month. I only have about 100 users, so I'll scale if/when needed. I built it all on a refurb $700 macbook air I bought in 2016.

Adjusted Gross Income?

Agreed. I don't sneak up on the ant colony that's become too close to my house before I dispatch it.

Why I have not been buying their stock over the last 15-ish years, I'll never know. My buying habits have certainly (fractionally) contributed to their success.

The fact there are simultaneous vaccines entering final phases of testing as I'm typing this is breathtaking. These usually take years, decades even.

And Yes, I've really enjoyed getting my food selected, paid, and delivered from my phone.

Visual Studio Code! :O

Wordpress. Downvote me, but you know it will be there 20 years from now.

Downside to this is you fall under Google's terms of service. They could cut you off at any time and leave you without a backend. That being said, I've ran my little Google Chrome extension I've made last year using Sheets API without issue.

I worry that other far more advanced civilizations out there routinely stamp out any new "pest" civilizations....much like how I handle ant colonies behind my house. They get too large or too close...then I knock them out.

6 hours of actual heads-in-the-code software dev work. It does vary, sometimes I get nearly 8 hrs, but meetings/etc drop it to the average of 6.

I own a swimming pool and do most of my own maintenance and water chemistry. I created https://poolforthought.com as a place to organize my knowledge. I later realized other people want the same info, and now 7 years later it's made about $20k USD. Ads and affiliate links drive site revenue. I have about 12k email signups of people who want a pool maintenance ebook I'm creating (for a price). I should finish that thing. It's money just sitting there waiting for me to capture.

skimfeed.com

I actually use this site to aggregate HN.

Do you read directly from SEC's EDGAR system?

This is the answer.

The (US) stock market collectively "thinks" the economy will pop back up relatively soon (Q4-ish, 2020). If that rosy picture in the stock market's mind turns out incorrect, then rally go bye bye.

I read the title as car-shaming....and thought wow that's a thing?

I know a few people that have ~$400K USD leisure boats, and they really are not that large. ...and this is in Iowa, USA, mind you.

My point is...you get alot of boat for $17 Million USD.

If this goes sour...stock market go down arrow.

(It's been propped up on hopes treatments like this will work).

What on earth are all those empty office spaces going to be used for if they are vastly underutilized?

Very slick UI. Also, very intuitive. I like the countdown...made me feel like "oh crap! I better get started on this task".

I was just yesterday contemplating cutting my sides, leaving a fairly proper mullet.

I assume this is the real dead cat bounce. Buckle up.

I'm right there with you (although I'm 46). I'm doing regular buys into S&P, a little bonds, and even a few blue chip + high dividend individual stocks that have been beat down by the crash. The money I already had in stocks and stock market funds...I'm leaving that alone. Those will come back over time, and I'll have all the extra that I bought during the crash and recovery at discounted prices.