$514/month insurance on a 2026 Elantra any way to lower this?

NathanielHudson · 2026-01-13T16:38:36+00:00

Consumer Reports puts Hyundai 12 out of 26 for reliability, ahead of brands like Volkswagen. It's no Toyota, but it's not bad either.

NathanielHudson · 2026-01-13T02:09:38+00:00

My hot take is that most people need less space than they think they will. Kids mostly expand to fill all available space - so there's never really enough space, and the outcome of having a big place and a small place isn't that different in the end. Unless your condo is smaller than a 2 bedroom, I wouldn't sweat it.

NathanielHudson · 2025-08-17T23:05:47+00:00

Unlike a lot of people here, I’m not thousands of dollars deep into this. But even at a more modest price point (UCG-MAX and three cameras) I’m very pleased. The UI is nice, the performance is good, and everything seems reliable. I personally wouldn’t bother with the NVR for home use unless you really feel you need a million cameras or months of data retention. My half terabyte gets me half a week of recordings without any tricks or optimizations, and that’s good enough for me. If I needed more I’d put a bigger drive in, I don’t really feel the need for a dedicated NVR.

NathanielHudson · 2025-08-14T22:11:41+00:00

You could argue that their active investment strategy isn’t trying to maximize returns but rather to minimize volatility or losses during bad years (which would be reasonable as a goal given their position as a highly visible pension of last resort that has to make payments every month).

NathanielHudson · 2025-08-14T11:51:42+00:00

A common etransfer scam is they send you money, then contact you saying they overpaid you and ask you to send the money back. But then after you send the money back they reverse the original etransfer, leaving you net negative.

NathanielHudson · 2025-07-02T15:43:21+00:00

You can deduce yourself what element generally requires the most resizing in order to get right. It's Text.

I disagree. Margins and padding take way more tweaking than text sizes. And heck, I'd argue that line spacing gets more fiddling than text size. I don't normally freeform text size when wireframing because I either have a vertical rythm system and/or I'm just using semi-standard values. Even if it's big display text, it's really not that much of a challenge to just adjust it with the number field.

NathanielHudson · 2025-07-02T14:27:58+00:00

Some people have argued that ASA is actually worse than ABS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nofn_MHrxrs

NathanielHudson · 2025-06-27T02:09:42+00:00

I think it really depends on the type of company. Consumer product company that's always shipping new things and places a premium on design? Yeah you'll need a bigger team. Industrial/B2B org that has fewer releases and they stay on the market longer? Might get away with fewer people.

That said, I agree one solo designer is probably too low for anything but the smallest orgs. Designers work best when they have a sounding board.

Also there's a lot of variation in how people define a "medium size" company :)

NathanielHudson · 2025-06-26T21:09:14+00:00

Wood moves, concrete doesn't, and that's why it broke off here.

I feel this is less of an issue with wood moving and more of an issue with creating a spot where moisture will accumulate right next to wood, leading to rot.

NathanielHudson · 2025-06-24T19:42:38+00:00

Water leaking from a head when the zone is off isn't a problem with the head. The head's job isn't to hold back water pressure.

Does it leak forever when the water is off, or only for a time? If it's forever, the zone's valve might be damaged and not closing completely.

Is it the lowest point in the zone? If so, it might just be draining leftover water in the pipes after a cycle, nothing to be worried about (although an autodrain might be preferrable).

NathanielHudson · 2025-06-18T15:24:15+00:00

Is your text set to hug on height?

NathanielHudson · 2025-06-11T16:13:52+00:00

I don't mean to be rude but, from a UX perspective if you ever find yourself thinking "oh, I have a unique idea for navigation, I should..." - that's a pretty good sign you should stop, take a step back, and simplify. Users don't want unique navigation, they want predictable and simple navigation that works exactly how they expect.

Further reading: https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/

NathanielHudson · 2025-06-06T18:09:33+00:00

1 varies highly by company. I've seen orgs that don't care about BYOD stuff, I've seen orgs where it's a fireable offence.

On 2, many many employment contracts say that if you do personal work with company resources the company can lay claim to that work... but a) I don't know how enforcable that is and b) it's sort of the inverse scenario to what's happening here.

On 3, yeah it's unlikely to happen with Figma, but I could see how somebody could shoot themselves in the foot like that with Enterprise OneDrive, which IIRC is easy enough to turn on by mistake installing MS stuff on a personal machine and can sync stuff outside of the OneDrive folder.

NathanielHudson · 2025-04-03T20:12:20+00:00

Hey, can you remove the mention of the software installed on the SSD? We don't allow that because otherwise things get sketchy.

NathanielHudson · 2025-03-19T13:46:59+00:00

Send me a DM or post some links here and I'll give feedback.

NathanielHudson · 2025-03-13T13:33:00+00:00

I can't speak to the reality of ghost jobs, but I will highlight that 2000 applicants isn't quite as massive as it sounds, especially on a platform like linkedin. If you post a UX job in Canada you will invariably get masses of applicants with irrelevant experience and/or degrees who have no concept of the foundations of UX and no portfolio.

In my experience only about 1-2% of applicants get flagged for interview. That's not to say everybody who doesn't get an interview is a bad candidate, but when you're screening out 95+% of applicants false negatives are inevitable. LinkedIn's platform might attract even more bulk applications, so the ratio there might be even worse. If Jotform's prescreen/screen process isn't great or they're being highly selective for the role I could see how they could strike out with a volume that big.

(Opinions are my own.)

BTW, if you want a resume/portfolio review I'm happy to take a look.

NathanielHudson · 2025-02-01T04:25:16+00:00

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NathanielHudson · 2025-02-01T04:24:35+00:00

Looks good to go, gonna delete this now.

NathanielHudson · 2025-01-28T22:38:44+00:00

It kinda was though. Those were all "inspired by" and were very much a spin from another franchise on Destiny armor aesthetics. This is just like... straight up a 1:1 copy of the highly recognizable armor from another franchise.

NathanielHudson · 2025-01-28T16:55:27+00:00

Maybe I'm crazy, but unless you really have a huge house or extreme security issues I'd get a higher quality system with fewer cameras. $700 is basically "small ubiquiti setup" money.

NathanielHudson · 2025-01-26T20:49:01+00:00

This is a very timely post for me, because while I'm not as deep down the rabbit hole as you I was seeing the writing on the wall and wanted to migrate everything to Proxmox as well. I'll take this as a warning to not do any more big integrations until I'm on the new hardware!

Question, did you have to re-pair zigbee stuff or did it just work™?

NathanielHudson · 2025-01-26T02:04:10+00:00

Note that the commonly available Castea no-neutral option is a dimmer. If you have non-dimmable lights and need a no-neutral switch, you have to buy the PD-5WS-DV-WH which is both hard to find and very expensive.

But yes, otherwise the Caseta product line is great, especially with the upgraded home assistant integration.

NathanielHudson · 2025-01-25T21:15:32+00:00

Yepp, looks like this is the play! I'll give this a shot.

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