royaltjames

On 'The Uselessness Of Scale': I found after spending substantial time learning, customizing, and using tools like docs/roam/notion/obsidian/logseq/bear/etc is that what I truly lacked is a medium for playful design and frictionless neural-to-text.

I found kinopio.club on a whim and it has been the highest ROI tool from getting the maelstrom of brainsauce ripped out and straight to something like paper. It's shame free, and anti-pornographic, unlike the way I feel with all these crunchy roam-likes.

Split finances leading to divorce sounds more like a symptom of incompatibility rather than causation.

Staggering that I have newlywed friends who still haven't - even after 4 years - decided on kids or not, finances, everything big. AND NOW WE WAIT...

I just learned so much from this post's comments. Thank you all for sharing in this.

I funded their crowdsource and bought 2 more licenses for gifts. Then they moved to a subscription model webapp which nullified the OG licenses.

You're doing a great job. Talking about mother sauces is definitely not gatekeeping, more like dropping knowledge on the uninitiated. It's the gateway to a vast (and in many ways overwhelming) beautiful world of classical cuisine.

Some people go their entire lives 1. not making scratch hollandaise 2. knowing it is a mother sauce 3. adding to the mother sauce to make bearnaise, etc

Thank you for linking this! I just ran the gauntlet comparing all these tools and this is the first that feels sane. YNAB is fine, but they did me dirty in 2008

Oh thank the gods

Feelings rant:

I've played DF since just before the massive z-level update (2008?) - I was living in a girl's college dorm with my girlfriend and her roommate's boyfriend that was living there turned me onto DF and Fallout, etc.

DF has been the one thing I have turned to over the years as a therapeutic device when I'm in deep depression and meds/therapy doesn't feel like it's doing it: the function of procgen obscurity, guided freedom of choice, and even the simple repetitive mundane nature of it that doesn't feel like it (even the looped guitar track) helps me really get through some dark days.

I'm worried seeing the steam updates like Tarn is begrudgingly making UX/UI changes for "the people in our community that can't handle ASCII" when he is obviously NOT a UX/UI guy (evidenced by the product of DF itself). The textbox styling look like he's just adding bland graphics as #goodenough.

If they patreon'd a $100/month tier where I could support a team to help translate his brilliant spaghetti into clean, streamlined frictive processes (militia workflow having broken defaults, navigation, etc), and maybe even some devs to optimize his legacy code so embark can handle larger complex sites and maybe CO-OP (come on I can dream). So much of the flow has always felt like I have to do this because this is how it is done in DF.

tldr: I am worried Tarn is not a UX guy, begrudgingly building UX for DF, when he (and WE) are missing out on a massive opportunity to build something with less friction and more [FUN].

Data is forever

There's this weird part of getting older, where the world doesn't feel so exciting and mysterious anymore. 35 for me is a great age to be lost. 44 is a great age as well. I am broke going to the foodbank right now and my world is so small and simple that it feels manageable. Went from 7 figures to this. I'm looking for work and some time soon I know i'll experience lift to my quality of life. I have recent chronic pain (physical and mental).

It all shifts when we share. Sometimes the hardest/most elusive part is acceptance but in that recognition, momentum builds.

I'm rooting for you!

> I'm not sure what the compensation model for recruiters is, but it seems to encourage bringing in as many candidates as possible over treating them with honesty and respect.

Recruiter here. You nailed it!

Recruiters are influencers: nothing more, nothing less. I'm writing a video essay to help me grieve the human-centric inane events you are describing that I lived daily for years.

Compensation model differs but if people are interested I can let you know.

Sometimes it’s the recruiter that originates the lie, sometimes it’s the company/process that dictates the lie. Regardless, your interview process is a datapoint that I have collected to influence hiring managers to allow more remote roles if they really liked you. Sometimes that data has been used to boot other agencies from working for them so I can have more control and make myself and my team look better. Who tf knows really? There is but only asymmetric information in this deal.

It's disingenuous from the start sometimes. I've hired loads of devs that weren't looking for a job (passive candidates) even pre 2020. A lot of those wanted remote or even partial WFH and I still got them to commute from West Seattle to Redmond. Sometimes it works out where the recruiter can establish rapport with a candidate enough to coax them into a hybrid situation (i've done it dozens of times) for $5-15k more a year (puke emojis). For me, that eventually turns into self loathing, disdain.

How do you make it to hiring committee, when you wanted remote as that was established from the start (on your side)? The recruiter (mistake by moving too fast, lies, who tf knows why) may or may not have known you wanted remote and at the worst expected you to be a fence sitter and pushed you through as 'it all comes out in the wash' (on their side). Maybe they take candidates through the process to stack rank them and see who they can make exceptions for and yeet the rest. Who knows: everyone is different as much as the company they are interviewing for.

Like, I have read the posts about tech hiring being broken, and let me tell you what. It's more than just a mental athletic gauntlet of tree traversal and finding big O. Together - candidates and recruiters alike - we are helplessly nibbling at yet just a mouthful of the present soul crushing sausage-like shitberg.

Ironic that you pointed out an error in blog post's 2nd sentence when you also have one in your 2nd sentence. Either that or a nag trap. Or an unconscious parallel humility.

In any form of communication, it's the worst.

Can you suggest me a good math book to read?

Hoarding of any type is a disorder, just like how addiction used to (still is) be considered a moral defect.

Cough syrup not being evil -used as intended to alleviate symptoms but not cure OR chugged like a panacea ambrosia delivered by the gods- is such a weird analogy to write as the burden of use falls on the individual rather than the collector.

How dare people prescribed highly addictive advertised as nonaddictive cocaine start taking it spoonful up the butthole~

Salary isn't How People Get Rich Now, seems like you missedthecue.

Your comment reeks of the same virulent narcissism that plagues humanity (thank you modern advertisement). Much like those incarcerated (clients) who rely on asymmetrical information (plea deals, lawyers), you've been groomed to unconsciously defend yet another human trafficking pipeline/system.

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God I hope so. Just found a blend that's helping me feel human for the first time in these 35 years of living. I'm in the same boat with Mirtaz, altho I'm finding success with pairing it with Viibryd.

A big help is genesight testing for upfront compatibility/sensitivity for a consultancy approach, rather than spray and pray.

Thank you for saying this. I've been trying to use Spotify for a year now and it leaves so much to be desired on process. You're doing gods work

Might as well bootstrap to ripping up handfuls of $100s in a cold shower on full blast

This rules! SO FAST

Search 'vegan' and Colorful Guac displays

Ingredients 2 large ripe avocados 1 lime juice 2 garlic cloves, Minced 13 cup choppled scallion 13 cup choped red bell pepper 14 12 ounces diced tomatoes with jalapenos 14 cup snipped fresh cilantro 2 tablespoons Braggs liquid aminos

ah yes another paradox

Roguelike is my favorite genre and I find myself able to really enjoy the facemeltling, perpetual obliteration of my efforts with every restart. Games with tireless agonizing to detailed layering (shoutout Noita) are what defines the genre. It's less of a templated category, and more of a culture. I suppose it resonates well since my childhood was absolute hell and unstable.

DawrfFortress really does a great job of defining losing [FUN]. Nethack captures movement and packages the inevitable illusion of choice perfectly. It's funny how this entire list I've played relentlessly for years daily, and how paradoxical it is by design that hardcore roguelikes are the only times I feel alive and well.

Because it's hilarious to quantify and state. Why ask ridiculous questions?

Sent you an email!