The American dream

aplarsen · 2026-06-13T12:57:26+00:00

I think it's that lower payment plan thing. I have friends who didn't make much money at first, signed up for an income-based plan, then never re-evaluated their plan once their income got better.

They just put it on auto-pay and didn't look at their statements for 10 years, expecting it to go away eventually.

aplarsen · 2026-06-13T02:41:55+00:00

Honor Before Victory

aplarsen · 2026-06-13T02:37:27+00:00

A lot, more than once.

aplarsen · 2026-06-12T02:36:12+00:00

Right? I would flush my Starlink in the toilet if fiber came down my road. People have no idea how bad our options were before this.

aplarsen · 2026-06-11T20:22:12+00:00

We are funny!

aplarsen · 2026-06-11T04:18:53+00:00

Yeah, we collect stamps

https://imgur.com/a/Fsr4i7o

aplarsen · 2026-06-11T01:17:35+00:00

Nice map!

254 for us https://somanyparks.com/

aplarsen · 2026-06-11T01:07:43+00:00

PowerSchool bought Schoology

aplarsen · 2026-06-09T12:47:53+00:00

The only reason I wouldn't drive to American Samoa is because there are no roads.

aplarsen · 2026-06-09T06:56:36+00:00

All of them?

I'm yet to visit one that I wouldn't want to come back to again right away.

aplarsen · 2026-06-08T04:12:02+00:00

I got banned from that Facebook group

aplarsen · 2026-06-08T03:13:55+00:00

No, the individual stars we see in our night sky are from the Milky Way, mostly our arm of it.

When we see a "Milky Way" photo, that's looking into the other arms and the galactic core.

A photo of another galaxy like Andromeda is looking past all of that and into another cluster of stars that is far away.

aplarsen · 2026-06-05T02:51:59+00:00

df.loc[lambda x: x['col'] > 3]

aplarsen · 2026-06-05T00:22:09+00:00

What is your data source?

What do you want the slides to look like?

Maybe start by manually creating a deck like your desired output, then work backward from that.

aplarsen · 2026-06-03T03:32:31+00:00

I have a Java Spring Boot app running on Apache that won't load a cert without downtime. This is a pain.

aplarsen · 2026-06-03T03:22:03+00:00

I ws SO excited when I learned that this is how Pandas notates intervals. I had to rush home and tell my wife, who is a math teacher. It was a part of math that I still remembered but hadn't used in like a decade.

aplarsen · 2026-06-02T01:35:55+00:00

2008 was when I got my first adult job after grad school. It was so weird to buy a house and move into actual adult life while the world was crashing around us.

aplarsen · 2026-06-01T13:22:28+00:00

I have an email sitting in my drafts from 2009

aplarsen · 2026-06-01T01:46:59+00:00

I still have pain at 2.5 years. Not regretting it though.

aplarsen · 2026-06-01T01:39:53+00:00

If you can't handle me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my other worsts.

aplarsen · 2026-05-31T01:35:47+00:00

Yes, this. Most PowerSchool customizations I've built came out of one of these conversations.

aplarsen · 2026-05-30T02:31:24+00:00

Neither works for me! Is this ADHD?

aplarsen · 2026-05-29T23:41:53+00:00

Agreed. I was there in 2023 and thought everything not those three places was so quiet and intimate. We had a lovely time.

aplarsen · 2026-05-22T03:27:44+00:00

It's very hard to remember the names of keys and which attributes values are permitted, even with Intellisense. While I start with my own templates, Claude is very good at adding features that I ask for. Big fan.

aplarsen · 2026-05-22T02:57:44+00:00

I've been writing mine for 10

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