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rvergheseon I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

People pretending to be charities and scamming donations. The idea would be that all legitimate charities are registered and have a permit. If they don't, it's likely a scam.

rvergheseon A new Go API for Protocol Buffers

What are you going to do for APIv3?

Version it as google.golang.org@v2? google.golang.org@v3 (but @v2 doesn't exist)? Release an @v2 which is identical to @v1?

rvergheseon More bosses give four-day workweek a try

But doesn't this rely on everyone else working 5 days?

If everyone had a 4-week, it would be just like the current weekend. You can't go to the bank or dentist, because they would also be off.

Perhaps you could get the same effect and quality of life by taking Sunday and Monday as your days off and working Saturday.

rvergheseon Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a toll on society

In my opinion, it's not about amount of time available, it's about scheduling. There seems to be a real aversion in the current generation to committing to doing stuff at a specific date/time. Try to plan an event and get people to promise to show up. Even if they enjoy the event, and know that they will be free, they'll still balk at making that promise.

Perhaps people feel that if they commit in advance, they'll miss out if something more interesting pops up. But nothing more interesting pops up when the day comes around, and you end up watching TV because nobody would commit.