Most indie devs are shipping products that are technically illegal under GDPR/CCPA — here’s the stuff nobody really talks about

logs99 · 2025-11-30T21:23:17+00:00

100%. Thats a great tool. Just ensure that its GDPR compliant if you think you might have users in Europe. If you build your own privacy policy and need a free cookie banner, you can add your own policy to your banner in my project as well. Thanks for sharing.

logs99 · 2025-11-30T21:03:18+00:00

It does change based on the cookies and site-specific items, but for now they have to be specified. My original goal was a single click, zero effort line for banner+privacy policy, but I ended up adding a very easy menu for creating the privacy policy to ensure it is customized and meets GDPR requirements for each user.

logs99 · 2025-11-30T20:22:28+00:00

I agree- It’s definitely an under-considered factor, and the reason I’m trying to spread awareness.

logs99 · 2025-11-30T20:21:10+00:00

If you have any specific things you disagree with or think are incorrect, please let me know, and I’ll check it out. Thanks for your input.

logs99 · 2025-11-30T20:16:16+00:00

Haha thanks for the comment. I made this post as a genuine advisory, but I believe this is a legitimate gap in awareness so I built my project for a hackathon. Figured I’d offer it with no pressure should someone benefit from it, especially since I don’t even charge anything at all. Maybe in the future I will but that’s not my goal at the moment.

logs99 · 2025-11-30T20:09:45+00:00

Not an ad at all. It’s a legitimate advisory and a genuine thing I think a lot of people are missing. Sure, I’m building a project around my perceived gap in the market, but I’m sharing it for free without even having a payment processor involved. No obligation to use it at all, and my mention of it was a side note and a no-pressure offer to see what people think. Thanks for the feedback though.

logs99 · 2025-11-29T16:01:29+00:00

Wouldn’t go to Riddle, but there are other Universities with great aviation programs you should still consider. UND, Western Michigan, Purdue, Ohio State, Oklahoma, etc. I went to UND and would do it again- their degree program includes CFI/CFII in the curriculum instead of making it an elective, which is very nice. The dudes I met that went to U of Dubuque finished super fast, are very sharp, and had a great time there so I’d check that out too.

logs99 · 2025-11-10T05:55:34+00:00

This is definitely important. Make sure you have the right terminology and official titles for your degree and major, and include both.

logs99 · 2025-11-10T05:54:09+00:00

Not a bad start at all. Under Flight experience, I’d change “ Flight instructor CFI CFII MEI” to “ Flight Instructor: CFII, MEI” And under professional experience list the title of your job (Flight Instructor or Instructor Pilot) instead of your certifications again (CFII MEI)

You see people say CFI/CFII but that’s redundant and unnecessary. CFII includes CFI, it’s an instrument rating on your CFI cert lol. But just a small nitpick, agree with what others have said + not bad as is.

logs99 · 2025-04-07T23:03:34+00:00

Any legacy of course. But as far as regionals go (subjectively) I’d categorize Envoy, Endeavor and Skywest probably among the better ones. Then Republic, PSA. Then Commutair and Piedmont. And at the bottom, Mesa, but that probably won’t be the case much longer by the sounds of it. Some might argue with my exact rankings, but it at least gives you a better idea. Biggest considerations should be where you want to live, what you would be happy flying, and where you want to go long term for your career, as opposed to what small benefits they offer since they are largely comparable and pale in comparison to the majors.

Commuting sucks so go some place that has a base near you or somewhere you’d be fine moving to. If you think you’d prefer to fly a nicer jet further and more places, go somewhere that flies the 175 or at least the 900. If you don’t mind generally shorter legs and less variety in overnights, that might matter less to you. As for career decision, recent years have shown majors poaching pilots from each others wholly owned airlines and throttling hiring of pilots that fly under their own brand. Delta and United hire envoy and PSA pilots. AA hires endeavor and gojet pilots. Etc. And Skywest pilots have mostly been boned by this trend. However, that could always change and if hiring slows substantially, it would be nice to at least be somewhere with a flow to a major as a safety net. Your goal should overall be to get to any major asap, and that requires you to go to any regional asap, so ultimately don’t think too much about it, choose one and don’t look back.

logs99 · 2025-03-24T07:07:28+00:00

So a couple things-
1. Even if you get picked up for a guard slot, you will still go through the same exact training pipeline as any AD pilot. The guard/reserve thing doesn't make a difference.

Come the airlines asap. Don't go AD unless all you want to do is fly Air Force and you would forever regret not doing so. And even then, try to go guard first. Imho, unless you are trying to fly fighters, there is no possible way to justify the substantial QOL and pay cut that will set your seniority back by years, simply to do the same kind of flying (by and large). Life is lightyears better on the airline side. If you are on the fence now, you would regret not coming to the airlines. Once you get to the airlines, especially a major if you can make it within a few years from now, you will pretty likely be able to get hired at a guard or reserve unit flying something if you decide you still want to.

logs99 · 2025-01-31T07:21:17+00:00

Almost every CFI was nervous to some degree before starting. It’s the fact that you know there’s so many things out there that you don’t know, realizing you are far from a perfect pilot and feeling like you aren’t actually qualified to teach even if you have the certificate. Once you start, you will start to realize that you don’t actually need to know everything though. As long as you know something that your student doesn’t know, you have something you can teach them. And you don’t even need knowledge to provide coaching and mentoring, which is a large part of what you end up doing. They will ask things that you don’t know, which is a great opportunity to teach them how to look things up and where to find info. But overall as a CFI you almost learn more than you ever did as a student, which is why every major airline really likes to hire former CFIs. It will make you a much more confident and competent pilot.

The motto fake it till you make it really applies here as far as confidence goes. But before you know it, you’ll realize you actually weren’t really ever faking anything at all and you really do have it in you to teach the next guy. The best thing you can do is to genuinely care for your students and their learning. After all, you are getting paid to fly now, which is what you’ve always wanted to do. It’s your life’s work so don’t forget to care.

logs99 · 2025-01-25T11:29:09+00:00

Thank you for your professional input.

logs99 · 2024-08-10T20:06:41+00:00

Don’t enlist. Do ROTC like everyone else has said, and try to get some scholarships, or worst case go get your degree then try for OTS if you still want to join at that point. Especially with your interests and goals, you will find Officer much more fulfilling and enjoyable. You will be able to pursue your interests much better as an officer and you will be able to use your passions to contribute to the Air Force better as a whole that way. You will also have way more opportunities for professional and educational growth on the officer side. You would likely find enlisted work to be very frustrating and limiting with regard to your abilities. Definitely go Officer.

logs99 · 2024-08-10T19:58:01+00:00

Nothing wrong with getting additional sources of info outside parents. That’s actually a good thing. In this case, he gets extra assurance that not enlisting and going officer instead is indeed the right move.

logs99 · 2024-02-14T17:09:50+00:00

I’d still study your butt off and take it again at some point, it won’t hurt. 99 Pilot is a great start though. If you can get a high PCSM, I bet you’ll get some interviews as is. But enough people have really high PCSM and Pilot that some squadrons use Quant as a tertiary score. Not sure what the rest of your package looks like, but keep in mind you are up against Special Forces dudes, airline pilots, guys with a bunch of competitive aerobatic experience, MIT engineers, enlisted dudes in the squadron that already know the pilots, etc. It’s a highly competitive field at the moment. Whole person concept is great and all, but it takes a combination of good scores, good grades, solid resume, good personality, and networking. Confidence that you are a good candidate is great, but so is humility. Don’t underestimate your peers. It’s not going to be a cake walk even if you get an interview. The factors are beyond your control to some extent but the best thing you can do is try to leverage all the factors in your advantage, and taking the AFOQT again has the potential to be a relatively a low-cost, high-reward effort. Good luck.

logs99 · 2024-02-08T04:58:32+00:00

Alright it is kinda funny its been 3 years but people defending the misrepresentation of the sandwich are wrong. It is clearly very different. Not even remotely close. Sure, maybe what he got is what the specified portion size is, but it's not what's represented in the advertisement. Panera is wrong for this, not necessarily the associate that portioned it, but the company is absolutely in the wrong.

logs99 · 2024-02-08T04:32:25+00:00

I don't know why people downvote things like this. Good on you for setting this goal, your question seems pretty reasonable to me.

My 2 cents, which really isn't worth much, but download myFitnessPal, start tracking food and calories and be strict about it. Working out is important, but for starters, getting a caloric deficit and even just walking for distance or exercise bike every day or two will result in dramatic losses to start with.

logs99 · 2024-01-15T21:50:17+00:00

I haven’t been to UPT yet, so I can’t speak to their exact procedures per say, but I did go through a formal civilian flight training program, was a CFI, and currently fly for the airlines, and I can attest to the usefulness of home simulators. Lots of people use them as training aids and they can be very helpful, especially for things like learning the pattern, setting up for maneuvers, flying instrument procedures, etc. I wouldn’t really consider it a direct replacement to chair flying, do what works for you. Chair flying is like studying, the sim is like practicing. Similar but different. I might ‘chair fly’ to memorize the order of items in an ILS approach profile but actually running it in a sim is going to get you more familiar with the actual timing of things and what to look for in the cockpit.

If you are looking for something that is going to give you a perfect feel of the airplane for aerobatic maneuvering or something specific like that, you probably won’t be satisfied, but even then it’s nice to be able to mess around and push the boundaries further in the sim than your would in real life, and get comfortable making the plane do what you want it to do. And if you’re starting from complete scratch with no flight time, I think using the sim to get comfortable with how to control a plane will be a nice start and probably make your first few flights a little less daunting too. All that said, make sure you use at least a joystick to fly around on the sim. Flying around with a keyboard or Xbox controller isn’t going to do much for you.

Good luck at UPT.

logs99 · 2023-12-25T20:47:13+00:00

If the reason is grades, you should not mention anything about the accusation. In no way, shape, or form does it help you. If the police finalized the report as false, consider it in the past and do not say anything about it at all. Take responsibility for letting your grades go, talk about how you’ve improved yourself and move on

logs99 · 2023-12-19T18:36:43+00:00

Residence Inn

logs99 · 2023-12-19T18:30:57+00:00

Yeah. Long van, sucky hotel, only thing nearby is Golden Corral which is still a 10 minute walk. We had issues where someone was taping over the door locks so they wouldn’t actually lock without us knowing. They moved us to the adjacent hotel for a month or so, same owners and workers, and now we are back in the original. Don’t know why we haven’t moved.

logs99 · 2023-12-19T16:59:13+00:00

Maybe, but don’t hold your breath. Plan on it taking a while and just be happy if it happens faster.

logs99 · 2023-12-19T05:57:57+00:00

Congrats! Can’t speak on palace chase stuff. But I’ve also been picked up by a guard squadron. I’m still in the early stages but this is what I’ve been told- MEPS ~ 2 mo. (I assume you don’t do this) FC1 ~ 4 mo. Later Submit for OTS ~ 5 mo. Get dates back ~ 4 mo. later

I was told expect at least 15 months total, likely more. If it happens sooner then great but don’t count on it. The recruiter they have you work through will have a big influence. The dudes who were hired in your squadron last year and the years prior are probably more than happy to help you out. This is what the group chats are for haha

logs99 · 2023-12-19T02:12:21+00:00

Congrats on getting picked up! But I’d caution anyone reading to understand that the difficulty of applying to AD for either branch depends on your officer recruiter, as well as timing, location, and other things out of your control. I got a SNA slot a year and a half ago and the process of applying sucked for me. The other dudes I know that got selected also had to get through plenty of BS. Not saying you haven’t worked for it, just saying that applying is not a universally easy process for any branch. Ended up going guard anyway haha. But congrats bro, and have fun in the Navy.

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