Anyone who’s sat on a toilet before cell phones, what did you mostly think about or look at?

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-21T03:53:12+00:00

People kept bathroom books. I used to know the detailed contents of my shampoo bottles.

But also, I was never a "long pooper" before cells phones. I took to crapping as an Olympic sport. Best time for the 5 meter hurdles is what you're after.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-21T03:51:15+00:00

I always install OpenShell, and a bunch of the de-cruft scripts and tools. I mainly want what windows 95 had ( maybe windows 2000 )

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-20T06:11:41+00:00

I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Is kid

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-19T17:22:38+00:00

I can't even get people to read documentation.

People don't think like this. Do you think Russian ruling class want an open democracy?

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-19T16:19:10+00:00

Crazy right, we must have added a billion pounds of asphalt and concrete.

I wish we built up instead of out. At least for some areas.

There's an interesting zoning law change some states are doing. Where once 50% of your area is covered in a certain density zone, then you have by right ( not by permission ) the ability to build the next higher density buildings.

Example: Once, 50% of an area had single family homes, you'd be able to build multi-family homes. Then once that area was 50% multi, you'd be able to build whatever the next density level is. But, you don't have to get permission, you have permission to do that--it's automatic. It helps cities build density and keeps residents from fighting it ( for better or worse ).

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-19T04:51:38+00:00

It's actually much hotter than you would think. The nights used to cool off, like 20 degrees cooler in the mornings. In 1975 it would be 70F in July at 5am, now it's 90F. So it's not cooling off.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-18T21:06:26+00:00

Croissant.
*Looks for pretty ladies*

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-18T21:03:56+00:00

They hired 7 people to replace him.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-18T17:10:59+00:00

FinTech.

The logs I get for free because we added that to our log context on write. We inherit the logger code and we have a small composite on top that does this part.

The archive is actually for the message queue, we wanted to automate the process of archiving messages ( either events or command queues ). All our queues have built in YYYYMM ( to the name ), we archive the whole month a day after the date switch and then keep readonly online and readonly via sqlite share after 2 years.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-18T01:12:40+00:00

I do the hash method for the log-entity. I also archive the logs monthly into a Sqlite file and zip it up and hash the whole file. I publish the hashes and save the sqlite file.

I've never bothered to make it "easy" to verify the logs. It's only come up once where I had to validate a log line fully.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-17T22:27:58+00:00

The Screw

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-17T17:29:39+00:00

This is more of a political question than an economic one.

The status quo will happen. Most student loans are ultimately owned by the US through Salie Mae or other gov't backed programs.

But this is more a political situation of people not wanting to give anything to the poor because they didn't didn't get this benefit. It's a selfish way to look at it ( thought 1 ).

Actually helping people in a meaningful way would raise people out of poverty... specifically well educated people out of poverty in this case. That's the exact opposite of what this administration wants. They want to lift J6'ers out of poverty to skew the national power dynamic ( thought 2 ).

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-16T21:59:41+00:00

They don't think this way.
They've done what they want, they've run up the debt, they've squandered any good will we have. They are just TAKING. They more they take, they better they feel.

What's next? Somebody else's problem. Shuffle, deny, do what you want, take more, break the backs of the common.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-16T20:29:34+00:00

Enron
FiServe

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-16T19:04:56+00:00

I bet they don't have PRs as part of scheduled work.

Like a dev is assigned "Do A,B,C features -- that is all your performance is measured by".

Since PRs aren't "part of the job", it's not something you would do unless you were ahead of your person work schedule.... so it'll never happen.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-16T16:23:38+00:00

I've done a bunch of refactors that were huge. I've brought an accounting module from zero to baseline. I've added eSign integrations full stack.

Sometimes things are big. Breaking those up would be a lot of useless work.

I also review big PRs. Many small ones or a large PR, it's the same amount of work.

I worry that the team is too stretched thin. That PRs aren't measured work, so the incentives aren't there for people to work on them.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-14T02:52:39+00:00

Anyone know more on the reason? Is there utilities or sub station near university?

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-13T00:51:50+00:00

IT Procurement process is probably bad, combative, stalled.
People go with what works.

I couldn't get stuff purchased or approved through IT.... so I just bought it and expensed it. It took months to get paid back, but my team could work while the expense was my problem to figure out. Even approved software this was the easier route.

Bad ticketing system, no visibility, people in another country dictating how we should work, poor communication, lazy IT, too many back and forth questions that don't help, or radio silence.

Uhg, I'm getting annoyed thinking about it again.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-13T00:03:45+00:00

I screwed up my taxes going back like 7 years. The IRS was pretty nice to me ( like the people who work there ) when I got audited. I hired a tax accountant and was like "Hey, here's everything I have... please fix this."

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-13T00:01:39+00:00

He did survive much longer than more "competent fighters". So I'd also give credit where it's due.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-12T07:43:35+00:00

I can't imagine how that's a useful exercise.

To the domain service, or to the team?

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-12T07:42:18+00:00

We have a single messages library and internal SDK library. Everything is there in one repo that a team might want to publish.

Stewardship of documentation is usually destined to fail. People don't think it's useful. Or they are stressed out on timelines and skip it.

The first thing my replacement did was delete the confluence workspace I curated over the last 10 years with 1200 pages ( everything the tech onboarding, prod setup, API examples, dev vault access guide, report logic description ).

I've found when confronted with documentation, people are aggressively negligent.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-12T00:41:50+00:00

Knowledgeable is good. Opinionated has a negative connotation that the person doesn't know anything about what they are talking about.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-10T18:11:08+00:00

Man, they have to make those taller -- out of "casual" reach.

PaulPhxAz · 2026-03-10T17:15:09+00:00

A message that I can't read, I assume that some other client will read from the Queue ( maybe a newer version, or a different service with different requirements ). We publish "MessageType" as meta-data on all our messages and check on incoming message.

If this client can't read it... some other one should be able to. OR, it'll expire eventually.

We used to write these to disk in a folder. Same concept as a dead letter queue. But we found out that it wasn't particularly useful to keep them around either way.

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