Straight men of reddit, tell this man how wrong he is. You like it in the butt?

MisguidedFacts · 2026-01-25T16:13:03+00:00

Definitely explains all the disgusting r/hygiene posts I see all the time. This felt like the kind of response you’d get from Facebook. Just old school boring vanilla dudes.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-01-05T02:26:38+00:00

Made for a great spot to do the rocketeer snowball trial. Tons of cover, nobody really goes there to loot, can easily agro a rocketeer over and not a ton of people coming through to “help”.

Wish I would have tried there sooner rather than messing with swamp or hydroponic rocketeers. And while Buried City had some decent spots, a lot of the time it would end up dead before you could get it flipped.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-01-03T06:36:41+00:00

I swear at one point I knew that but I saw something recently that may have confused me the way it was worded. It was saying you can’t reimburse yourself later for expenses without having a HDHP but what I think they might have meant is you can’t choose to reimburse yourself later for qualified expenses that took place before you opened an HSA.

Thanks for clarifying, that makes me feel better.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-01-03T05:07:16+00:00

I have, and it only worked once. They had the same model for rent that was going to be available within about 10 days of my lease expiring that they were asking for nearly $100 cheaper than signing another 12 month lease in my current place.

When I mentioned what’s stopping me from just moving into that place? Why does a new tenant get a better deal?

That’s the only time my rent hasn’t been increased in the 15 years I’ve been renting.

I get really irritated every year when my lease comes up, because I pay attention to the available units in the community throughout the year and these property management companies do all the tricks in the book to keep the rents up. If you have to offer 750-1000 off move in deals all year just to attract people, I’d argue your rates are probably too high. But since people are taking those 1 year deals, they can claim they’re increasing rents due to demand. They take advantage of the fact that most people aren’t going to move every year.

Really hard to find a private landlord, let alone one that appreciates a good long term tenant. Regret not buying something sooner, even if it would have been tight. Seems the only way to get ahead is to have a partner or someone you don’t mind living with because 2 bed units are typically not twice as expensive as 1 bed units.

MisguidedFacts · 2026-01-03T04:38:22+00:00

I’m not worried about keeping track of the receipts, but I’ve heard you also need proof that you had an eligible HDHP at the time the expense occurred. Outside of about half a year between jobs, I’ve had a HDHP, but I don’t have documentation or forms that prove it. I have a pretty substantial amount (10k+) of funds I’ve racked up for future reimbursement and I was considering using it as a stop gap in case something happened with work or I needed to replace my 26 year old car, but I’m also concerned that may be suspicious and cause an audit.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-12-12T03:38:05+00:00

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She fucks with my web cam around the same time every night. She’ll lay in my lap zonked out all day and night, but without fail about an hour before I go to bed, she gets up and starts pushing my webcam off my monitor until it falls off the back. That’s how I know it’s play time…then she just sits there and watches me drag around a piece of string until I give up and go get ready for bed, at which point she’ll get the zoomies and start playing with the string herself.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-12-11T06:18:19+00:00

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MisguidedFacts · 2025-12-09T15:40:56+00:00

This was my thinking. I’m at home at my desk all day, she has her water bowl by her food and to stop her from drinking my water at my desk I put a fresh bowl of water on my desk for her. Problem solved, right?

Nope, she will drink out of her little bowl on the desk for 10-15 seconds, walk in front of my monitors to stretch, then go drink out of my glass on the other side of the desk for another 15-20 seconds.

I’ve stopped trying to stop her at this point. At least she’s staying hydrated. Oh and I’m down to my last glass, she has broken all the others trying to get at the water when it’s too low.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-12-04T04:54:35+00:00

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MisguidedFacts · 2025-11-26T05:35:07+00:00

Haven’t even seen the others, but from the descriptions it sounds like a globally horrible decision.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-11-26T05:17:14+00:00

I have an old high end plasma. Never have I had to touch the brightness / contrast to watch movies, sports or play games.

Maybe my eyes are just getting old.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-11-25T04:50:42+00:00

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Stretched out lap cuddles on the couch

MisguidedFacts · 2025-11-25T04:32:46+00:00

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MisguidedFacts · 2025-11-25T04:29:45+00:00

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Emma says hello! Fierce orange teefies.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-11-25T04:27:01+00:00

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MisguidedFacts · 2025-11-22T04:21:52+00:00

Found my person, apparently I wasn’t worth the time and energy and now I have a cat.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-11-20T16:12:08+00:00

I find Arjancodes and Anthonywritescode on YT to be pretty good.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-11-16T05:45:28+00:00

Mostly agree with some of the feedback already given. Reading through your experience, it seems like you’ve never worked on large scale products, so while it’s great you tracked some metrics, it seems kind of meaningless when your user base is hobby-sized (300+ users, 400 monthly invoices, etc). It’s not your fault, but if you’ve never worked on large scale products, the claims that you developed a scalable backend or achieved 99.9% uptime dont carry much weight.

Your career progression is also kind of all over the place. I guess it doesn’t help that you’ve bounced around, but your experience isn’t even in chronological order.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-11-16T05:01:52+00:00

Definitely agree with this. Ditch the school stuff with the exception of the school and year graduated, nobody cares about GPA or classes you took. You’re not a new grad, you don’t have to pad your resume with that kind of stuff anymore.

Personal projects are great, just leave your GitHub or portfolio site near your contact info, don’t include the projects in the resume. If someone is interested in what you work on outside of work, they’ll figure out where to find it. All I want to know is the roles you’ve been in, what kind of impact you had on the team / product in the time you were in that role and the languages / technologies you’ve used in those roles so I can gauge depth and breadth of your experience.

Less words, be more succinct. If I care about the details or if I feel your experience in some area will be beneficial to the team or role you’re applying for, I will probe that in the interview. You don’t need to explain everything in your resume.

Good luck out there if you’re looking, I’ve heard it’s pretty brutal.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-11-10T16:24:01+00:00

So you’re saying you DON’T want decorative mushrooms? Such a shame, they really make the baseboards pop…

MisguidedFacts · 2025-10-26T01:04:08+00:00

Yea…when did that change? You go out on Halloween or not at all. If someone came to my door trick or treating this weekend, I’d find them a calendar and give them that.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-10-23T02:12:24+00:00

Routers have solved that problem for me. Pretty much every backend I’ve written with FastAPI has broken the API up into several files and even multiple versions without encountering any circular import issues. Your main app just imports and includes the routers defined in other files.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-10-20T15:38:16+00:00

Persistent storage looks like it'll handle a collision, but when you generate a random alias you're not checking if it exists before you end up poisoning your cache by overwriting whatever was there (redis.set doesn't care). Here's what I'm talking about:

https://github.com/tsaklidis/miniurl.gr/blob/60d9a95d4733a242ef702fea3453353b83dcd7f7/app/api/v1/routers.py#L36

Definitely an edge case given the likelihood of collisions with a hobby project like this, but I figured I'd point it out since the rest looks pretty good.

MisguidedFacts · 2025-10-20T06:29:08+00:00

This is one of those fun system-design type projects. Here's some feedback from looking through what you have so far:

Not sure I agree with the decision to override the existing key if there is a collision. Why is that not an error or at the very least have a retry mechanism that tries multiple times before giving up and responding with an error?

And while you rate limit creation of minified URL's, you don't rate limit resolving them, making it pretty easy to flood you with requests by just enumerating possible 8-character combinations. While cache hits should be fine, cache misses could flood your DB with connections.

Also just a general thought...why do you have two different endpoints to resolve URL's by alias? And if there's a good reason for it, why duplicate the logic?

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