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Good Vacuums Suck
A good vacuum sucks more than a bad one.
Scott Hanselman on Email
Email is where your keystrokes go to die
Changes to your Google storage plan
I got an automated email from Google a couple weeks ago notifying me that they were changing the pricing of their Google Drive storage plans. My initial reaction was the standard sarcastic “oh that's wonderful, how much more is it going to cost me now?”
I had been paying $2.50 per month for 25GB of storage. The new plan will be $2.00 per month for 100GB of storage!
20% less for 300% more. Google, seriously, how do you even make money?
My Response to "Questions I Have For People Who Have Their Life Figured Out"
A friend shared “Questions I Have For People Who Have Their Life Figured Out”, and I thought it was interesting enough to be worth writing up an open response.
Anonymous Companies
Permalink: Anonymous CompaniesI'm not sure that I support the idea of removing privacy for businesses. It's essentially an argument about restricting the liberties of companies, which is a restriction of the liberties of the people who make up those companies.
As Benjamin Franklin famously said:
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
I certainly understand the sentiment behind being able to hold people accountable, but I think it could also open up the ability for abuse.
No one cares how long you've been failing
I'm going to be honest here: No one cares how long you've been failing. I'm not concerned if you've got a problem that's been bothering you for two seconds, and I'm certainly not bothered if it's something you've spent weeks trying to sort out.
To be perfectly candid: I don't give a fuck about your time.
Quote Styles Updated
I've updated the way quotation-only posts are styled across the site, which included some new blueprints and templates in Kirby CMS. Nothing too fancy, but it was nice to change things up a bit and make quotes stand out and be a bit more readable.
"My Understandings" by Of Mice & Men
Permalink: "My Understandings" by Of Mice & MenI don't mind it, I don't mind if you're overrated. Or if you're staring at the edge of the world. But keep in mind that I'm a sore eye, with blurry vision but I can see, yeah it has to be you love, that I've been dreaming of. And if we climb this high, I swear we'll never die.
Code Reviews
When working with a team, always send code through a code review process.
If the code is so trivial that it doesn't need to be reviewed, then you definitely need it to go through code review.
The reasoning for this is that if you knew there were issues with the code you'd have fixed them already. The more certain you are that there are no issues, the more important it is to send it through code review.