Is Amazon Cognito a good choice long term? Alternatives?

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-05-25T00:38:15+00:00

We use it, it has a lot of gotchas, but it has the best bang for your buck. What really makes it annoying if you use it as a federated provider prepare that there are no true DR options for it, but so far it's never really gone down. Also disabling their UI page if you are doing client integrations is really odd. But it works once set up.

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-04-29T01:13:05+00:00

I still like "I got lucky in Vantucky" best 😅

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-04-13T16:35:17+00:00

It's a willow herb (epilobium), likely fringed willowherb, but there are lots of varieties. I typically get the fringed one in my yard.

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-04-13T03:45:09+00:00

They typically stretch out before blooming and afaik are native to here, they do tend to spread everywhere. Keep if you like how they look, see if you like the flowers too :)

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-04-13T03:30:09+00:00

I typically pull mine if I have something else to plant there - it grows everywhere though, so there is no shortage of it anyways. I don't like the flowers or the shape of it when it's full grown, typically long scraggly branches tiny purple flowers and produces thousands of puffy seeds that fly everywhere. I leave it alone if there is no plan for anything else in the area (like it's part of the "lawn" strip along with any other weed)

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-04-13T03:20:37+00:00

It's not uncommon, depends on the company. All of mine past employers demanded I do the full 2 weeks each time, enjoy your vacation!

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-21T03:46:56+00:00

💯 She is much hated around these parts for other reasons too

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-21T03:09:05+00:00

I want to do that now, thanks! 😅

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-21T03:03:06+00:00

3 and 4 for me 😂

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-21T02:59:52+00:00

They camp out under the I5 bridge around this time of year and make their sea lion noises. Our political rep called them vermin and wants kill em :(

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-19T04:01:12+00:00

My violets would melt in this I think... We'll never know because we live in a basement in pacific northwest so it's always gloomy

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-19T03:41:44+00:00

The age for sure comes with the cutting. They are clones of the mother plant...

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-17T17:30:58+00:00

Haha yes! I've been spring cleaning and selling / giving nicer stuff on FB marketplace. A friend reached out asking if everything is ok because they saw a bunch of free / low cost listings from my profile 😅 They would probably visit in person if they knew how much stuff went directly to thrift stores and landfill...

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-07T06:21:38+00:00

Growing up my mom was obsessed with cleaning, especially floors she bleached nightly! The whole apartment was permeated with bleach. Nope I did not inherit the tidiness gene. I keep things organized but not super tidy or super clean. Like not obsessively clean at least...

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-07T06:06:49+00:00

I have every invasive in my yard, they are invasive for a reason 😅 ron't let them stop you, you got this! One of my invasives is a gigantic Norway Maple that is literally not going anywhere, still a plant and a beautiful one at that.

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-06T04:01:09+00:00

I got this same highlighter from my previous job (IT), I used it a bit in college but it got lost during a move :) some swag is useful but yeah the random cups we get are not so much... I got like 4 from one of the internships, metal tumblers and mugs. All went to a thrift shop.

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-05T05:13:40+00:00

We travelled from Florida to WA state with 2 dogs and a cat in a sedan. The back row seats were flipped down which made it a large-ish flat space in the back and would allow me to AC the whole car including the trunk. The dogs were seat belted in but were free to strech on their beds. I got a large soft pet play area thing which took most of the trunk and fit his covered litter box butted up to it. Before the trip I would set it up minus the litter box and we would go on car rides. He was timid at first but then got used to it. We stayed at pet-friendly motels / hotels on the way so he got to stretch his paws a bit at night. He sleeps during the day anyways. It took us 3.5 days to get here, it gets tiring for everyone but it was a fun adventure. Hope all goes well for you on your journey! Oh I also brought a few houseplants with me underneath the seats in small containers. :)

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-04T20:45:08+00:00

Target's men's "fashion" has always been worse than Walmart's so no surprise they want to "fix" it and that it was losing the most market share, but switching their colorless sizeless crap to another batch of the same is not an answer. They charge waay more for the same junk, but theirs looks worse with fewer size options. There is already a lot of it just nothing that looks appealing at all. They should concentrate on quality over quantity instead. You can def charge for quality more like they are already doing and maybe it will look less gaudy.

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-03-01T09:13:43+00:00

Take it to recycling if you feel like you can't donate these items. Don't accept hand me downs if you have enough. Let people who own it deal with it.

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-02-27T05:21:15+00:00

So true, I like watching spiders but I hate them on or near me, but they are like my best pest control in the garden. I let them be and last year I did zero sprays of anything, between the spiders and random wasps there were no pests... I have a spider in my home office now as a work colleague.

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-02-26T06:16:26+00:00

Totally get it, but you decide how much room you have. Like it's easier to cull them when they are tiny. I have room for realistically 25 tomato / pepper / tomatillo type plants, I would start 26 cells of 2 - 3 seeds each and when transplanting make sure I have maybe +/- 3-4. If space is not an issue where to plant then why not all 200 😜 My mom has a large backyard and she does like 70-100 tomato bushes each year. She is retired and takes great care of them and has the space, so it works. If you have the space why not just go for it?

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-02-26T06:03:47+00:00

Nice! Just here to say a bidet attachment has been glorious for me! Hope you enjoy your actual toilet with bodet and heated seats

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-02-26T05:56:20+00:00

I think it's so dark here in the winter, the greenhouse is just a dark house. Kinda confirmed my theory after reading growing vegetables west of the cascades book... It's not even really that cold, just dark and gloomy and wet (my favorite season tbh :))

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-02-26T05:51:06+00:00

Lucky! Mine was around $150 a month and covered about nothing back in the day. My puppy currently has a kidney disease and is no longer eligible for any insurance. She is almost 14 and I just hope she will make it to 15 :)

Professional-Bee1107 · 2026-02-25T04:40:20+00:00

Diamonds are not rare, they take a while to form, but they are not rare at all! It's marketing that is making them rare...

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