Aww thank you. I went for a long walk this evening and now I think I'm ready to face it again. Maybe.

I decided to check out another React course I'd bought ages ago, but there's a problem with the starter code in codesandbox and so I have to decide if it's a better use of time/brainpower trying to get that to work or go back to the course I don't like and really I just want my old job back.

It's so frustrating when you just do not learn well with a certain course or instructor that EVERYONE ELSE seems to think is the absolute best. I'm trying not to beat myself up, but even though I know that people learn in different ways, I can't help but feel like a total idiot.

I remember that these Charming Men played one of the times I went, and I have a picture of me with Richard Blade somewhere, but I don't think anyone from his inner orbit was there.

I had no idea the convention was still going on! I went a couple of times in the early 2000s.

Young pope Leo, undated but he appears to be in his teens or early 20’s

young pope leo looks like a ska scene regular who goes by Upbeat but no one knows his real name

I don't know how I never got into Interpol.

Cat with maze toy

Oscar Wild has a new treat maze! It took him 5 minutes to get 5 treats instead of 10 seconds. I think this would be especially fun for kittens, but he seems to like it, too.

Would you say that it was a pleasure that had yet to be known by the world?

"no matched song"

The new Now Playing app on my pixel phone is great. Here's how it responded when I played Temptation by New Order as a test.

Since getting Audrey back from 2 weeks at the body shop, I've seen about a thousand other Mini Coopers out and about, and today I SAW HER TWIN. We maniacally waved and honked at each other.in addition to being the fastest color, Ice Blue is also the coolest. #MiniCooper

Puzzle with many pieces missing

Mini Cooper with giant piece missing from the middle of it

PSA: Donating a puzzle with this many pieces missing is truly monstrous behavior.

quote: My CTO said publicly that there is no space for developers in software industry anymore and everybody has to adjust by maybe being a reviewer and a security application expert. There's no space for CTOs anymore because LLMs can produce bullshit faster than them.

Best comment on r/webdev today:

Add a food to a movie name.

Ghost Pepper World

Don't know about the other ones, but at the big one that started at Waterfront Park, speeches started at noon. My friends and I were hanging out somewhere between the Hawthorne Bridge for that, and by 1:20pm we still hadn't even made it to the Morrison. Next time come down!

This is your only post, but goddammit it's a good one.

Bizarre Love Triangle (Remastered) YouTube video by Even as We Speak - Topic

#BestSongHeardToday

Even As We Speak's 1987 cover of Bizarre Love Triangle, which I had never heard before this evening, which is absolute madness.

(Just because I'm saying this song is the best I heard today, doesn't mean best EVER, it just means it's new to me and extremely pleasing to my ears.)

This beauty!

As long as I take out the em dashes, no one will know that Claude wrote my resume bullet points.

I will say, lately the radio stations have been handing me a lot of good stuff in the genres I like that I've never heard before... a massive improvement.

I'm not exactly a sound quality connoisseur, but I like it (except 2 things: 1. The way they're encouraging people to upload mountains of trash content, and 2. They've ignored my 43955 support requests to remove The Jam as contributing artists on slop tracks they had nothing to do with).

I somehow missed this for the first 46 years of my life.

I used to do that when I sold on Etsy. It was fun!

I LOVE that song, but I never realized it's a cover. (Homer Simpson disappearing into hedge)

I'd be thrilled! All I got from my last order was the wrong (and worse) laptop charger cable.

jangle pop for the miserable Playlist - jangle pop for the miserable - 38 items

Well, I could've made this playlist myself.

Just praised Claude for correctly generating my pretend syllabus for the pretend class I'm pretend teaching. SEND HELP.

Every time I abandon a chat in Claude and start a new one, I feel like I'm lowering a pair of cartoon shoes into a vat of dip. (NOTE: I'm taking an AI course because I need a fucking job, not because I love AI or don't think it's going to ruin the entire planet in every possible way.)

This evening, I went to my friend's house to pick up my bag of prescription cat food that was delivered there, ended up binge watching the entirety of Deadloch season 2, and then came home... without the cat food. This story has been brought to you by #adultADHD.

This house is so St Louis it makes my heart ache.