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Our first home was in a 7 unit townhome complex with a HOA. Complete opposite problem, we could not get people to vote to raise dues, even though we had a delinquent account and our expenses were 95% of our dues.

Me and my wife ended up having to manage everything, she was accountant, I did snow removal when the snowfall was not enough to trigger the company we hired to come out, vendors contact, etc. It got to be a lot.

We kept looking around and seeing the major maintenance headaches coming in the next decade and the utter lack of savings by the association and it was scary. We ended up leaving and now we have no HOA. We are still treasurer and snow removal though.

My in laws are in an HOA and their board is obsessed with preemptive maintenance. They are redoing siding on every property over the next few years and assessing more than ten thousand dollars a unit. Utter insanity and waste.

I have other friends and family who have no particular feelings about their HOA, so apparently they are not all evil, but man is it tough to believe.

I play the game with SiriusXM to only pay the intro price and listen to that 90% of the time I am in the car. XM has a weird collection of DJs, some are obnoxious or grating, but also after many years of listening to them they feel like people I know.

The local NPR backed station the Current is good but their audio quality is terrible, even their HD stream is muffled and wonky. They also eliminated many of the DJs I had grown to like and I never got that same connection with their replacement, which definitely impacted how I listen.

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Nothing to panic about.

Once my visiting family departs I am going to finish building the Little Free Library I started last month. We have lived in our current home for 5 years and it is about time I share my love of reading with my neighbors. https://littlefreelibrary.org/

We watched the Australian Episode of Everybody Feed Phil, and Mel Brooks made an appearance. He seemed a bit old but when I looked him up on Wikipedia I was shocked to learn he was 99. Still working, still funny, what a life.

Haven't encountered that yet, but probably something I will need to solve. I started with just a few newsletters I already subscribed to with Kill the Newsletter that never had that problem, I need to research what the various sending frameworks do to track opens these days.

This looks nice. Ran through a 5 question Go scenario and got 4/5 right. Which feels about right with my current depth of knowledge.

One of the very first pieces of code I wrote when I was figuring out if I liked development was a flashcard program to help me study in college. I really wish I still had that code.

I built my own version of Kill the Newsletter. Been testing it with various newsletters. Learning that a lot of the popular email newsletters are horrific, but if you have any, popular or ones only two people read that you like, I want to know!

I also bought some steel table legs and rebuilt our kitchen table and bench yesterday. The table came with wooden legs that always seemed unstable, I would confidently stand on my table now.

It seems fairly obvious that the "identity" portion of this is more important than the actual cost of providing the storage. Though maybe more folks than I imagine can hit the 5GB limit quickly. I have emails dating back to 2008 and just calculated I am only using 8.5GB. I keep everything so getting down to 5GB would be a hassle more than a challenge.

I would argue that Google really wants to earn your storage dollars. Their constant notifications on my device warning me I was low on space is what drove me to Immich.

The fact that this also shuts off access to many public library Ebooks on these devices should be getting more press. My wife exclusively uses her Kindle for library books and it looks like it will be impossible to get legally acquired library books onto her device from our library system, which is using libby/overrdrive.

My eyes.

Track it! Any Spreadsheet. Columns: date, where you filled up, how many gallons, dollar total, odometer reading, mpg function ((currentodo - prevodo) /gallons), ppg function (total / gallons).

You could also install something like https://lubelogger.com/ (naming decision aside), if you happen to do any self-hosting. It is a lightweight vehicle tracker. It has a fuel tracking screen. I personally only use it to track maintenance, but have been thinking about starting to track fuel consumption given the current disruption.

This is the way.

I have been using HA to water my garden for 4 summers. I setup a Tempest weather station this fall, and will have some fun experimenting with using rain and temperature data collected in my back yard to make watering decisions.

I would be curious what a $5 hetzner or equal vps could handle. Is pandas docs that busy?

That said, free is no longer free if you have to worry this much about it.

The honest answer is you probably won't find it. Historical documentation is hard, it is the first "features" cut when teams are scrambling to meet a deadline. There is no malice in this, it's just something that the end user doesn't need or see so when shit hits the fan, it get skipped.

Commit logs, slack/email/etc, documentation silos, or issue trackers are your best bet, other than actually being able to talk to the author(s) of the code.

But in general, the decision was made because in the time the developer had to implement the feature or fix, this was the best solution they could come up with. Hopefully if there were clear tradeoffs, there is some comment as to what they might have done with more time. Likely though they were rushed, told their team they wanted to go back and fix this, and then were ushered into a new project the second this one stabilized.

I think gghhjnuhbb has the best alternative to finding actual documentation and that is sitting and putting yourself in their headspace. That can sometimes lead to insights you might have missed.

This looks interesting, and honestly makes me want to fire up The Roottrees are Dead and see if I can use this to solve the second act.

Funny, I am taking an American Sign Language course, and one of the components is talking about dates/days/weeks. Next Week, Next Monday, Last Tuesday, etc. I was talking to some of my classmates who were all struggling to fully understand when to use what sign(as was I), and I pointed out that talking about next Friday in English can get confusing depending on how each participant thinks about things.

Not surprised an LLM gets this wrong, lots of content consumed with various ideas on how these things should should work.

We are currently porting a game to Switch and everytime I boot into Windows I die a little. So slow, so messy, and just icky.

Not really any places where things get sold, but opt-in in the background for newsletters is bad in certain sectors. Ticket platforms are terrible. I like to use a new email for every event and boy does that lead to new round of clicking opt-out until I can deactivate the email after the event has concluded.

I switched to using masked emails with Fastmail primarily so I could see who sold my data. The potential security benefit was not really a driver. Having 1Password be able to generate a unique email makes it a no-brainer these days. For those services that require a username that is not your email, they can usually be used without the domain part. Works really well.

I even wrote a tiny little local only web app that I can use to generate a masked email on my phone, so when I need an email for an in person thing I can just show them my brand new weird email directly on my phone.

Basically the same as cleaning up after they hired the cheapest dev they can find. Something our little shop has been doing for 4 years now. Can't wait to charge to debug a 100,000 line vibe coded WordPress plugin.

Not sure, I use dnsimple for dns and wrote my own little service to update my A record, no ip6 in my corner of the world so have not checked for AAAA record support.

Pork bun is my favorite.

This looks nice, I like how many of these tools have been surfacing. I recently started using https://readeck.org/, which aims to solve some of the same problems and really like it. Much better than a "bookmark" tool for things like articles.

My two favorite parts of Readeck are:

- it provides a OPDS catalog of your saved content so you can very easily read things on your e-book reader of choice. I use KOReader on a Kindle and have really enjoyed reading my saved articles in the backyard after work.

- you can generate a share link. I have used this to share some articles behind paywalls with friends and family where before I was copying and pasting content into an email.

I am currently maintaining and adding to a React app started in 2016. React is fine. 9 years of decisions by numerous people that are no longer working on it, and I can still improve and update it. I can even bring in developers with no experience on the code base to change things. I would change 75% of it now, but that is not a React problem, that is a normal development problem.

React is fine, it is stable, standard, and still works for almost any use cases. There are not many JS libraries that have stood that test of time.

I’ve noticed an increase in small distilleries creating their own versions of Malört over the past five or so years. It reminds me of the renaissance Fernet experienced 7 or 8 years ago. Malört is definitely an acquired taste—taking a shot of it feels like punishment—but if you enjoy bitter liquors, sipping some chilled Malört after a heavy meal might not be unpleasant.

I’d guess that bitterness is the flavor most people are least interested in exploring, and that makes sense. It doesn’t seem to have the same endorphin payoff as other tastes. It’s an interesting flavor, and I think you need to have an interest in digging into unusual flavors before diving into the world of bitter-forward spirits. I think it makes sense that the rise of better cocktails has led to spirits like Malört seeing growth.

I think a quick blurb about what this does, either above the form or in help, would be useful. It was not clear to me at all. I expected something related to weather based on the domain name. Had to visit the HN page to grok it.

Otherwise this is a great idea, love the idea of using temp.now as a temporary email address.

Yep. Made the mistake of not paying attention to the material so I actually received the aluminum version. Was happy to find this and exchange for it.

I just received a Moka Pot for Christmas. After spending a few weeks taking notes and adjusting the grind size and amount I am very happy with it. I found that the 7 setting on my Induction stove leads to very little bitterness.

I think that the Moka pot on the induction range to be a nice demo of induction's benefits over gas or electric(resistant) ranges. Extremely accurate and reproducible heating, decently fast, and basically no waste heat. Instant off as well without needing to move the pot.