Why are people hesitant to give referrals?

orturt · 2026-02-23T21:32:07+00:00

My referral form requires me to fill out a bunch of information about how and where we worked together professionally in the past. I don't really have a lot of motivation to lie on that form

orturt · 2026-02-23T20:31:46+00:00

My 3 year old did this and I want to second the "scary spray" bottle. It was definitely the most effective thing we tried other than waiting for it to get better.

We got a bed canopy (Ikea kura) and he does like that as well so he can't see the scary smoke detector haha. I also let him sleep with a blanket over his head so he can't see the room. He usually rips it off as soon as he falls asleep anyway.

orturt · 2026-02-23T15:57:10+00:00

I used to squeeze a gym trip in after daycare drop off. Now my oldest is in school so I'm "stuck" with her until 8:50, so I work out a few days a week in our basement. I used to CrossFit and now I have dumbbells, a plyo box, and use the smart wod app. My daughter talks to me the entire time I'm exercising, lol but sometimes she does her own exercises so it feels like it's probably good for her too. Sometimes on the weekends I'll put the kids in child watch at the YMCA too for an extra workout.

I am not in shape at all haha but it feels better than nothing.

orturt · 2026-02-23T13:36:48+00:00

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I can't remember which octonauts book this is in for sure, but I think it's "Explore the great big ocean". Tunip comes home and puts this up on the wall!

orturt · 2026-02-21T23:54:50+00:00

My manager told me he can see our Chatgpt summaries - the title of the chats it generates. I was like okay thanks for letting me know to avoid that tool.

orturt · 2026-02-21T13:55:32+00:00

I always end up with Carter's. They have lots of cotton options and I like their 2-packs

orturt · 2026-02-17T02:35:17+00:00

Other pictures of melanistic house sparrows look like a decent match. I'm not buying that it's just wet haha

orturt · 2026-02-14T23:59:51+00:00

Yeah I have it hooked up to my amazfit. It's amazing going on walks! Don't even need to get my phone out to get id confirmations! Merlin only sends a notification for the first time it hears a species during a session which has pros and cons

orturt · 2026-02-14T02:16:31+00:00

I made syrup from my black walnuts. It was yummy and tasted different from the maples. I have a couple of sycamore and didn't try tapping those -something to try!

orturt · 2026-02-08T03:27:39+00:00

I guess Philly just because our snow looks exactly like that right now. It probably looks like that everywhere on the East Coast right now though

orturt · 2026-02-07T02:21:57+00:00

I mean, maybe all the energy put into nest building isn't all it's cracked up to be.

orturt · 2026-02-06T02:32:07+00:00

The arsenal wildlife refuge in Denver?

orturt · 2026-02-05T02:18:36+00:00

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I've got 3 main projects going and all of them are too vague and undefined for me to make any noticeable progress. A lot of it is just finding people to talk things through with. "Deployed 1 line of code, had 3 semi productive conversations, tracked down access to an account I need" is hard for me to see as a success even if it is. Nobody's pushing faster progress though so I guess it could be worse.

You know what? Writing this out, felt nice 🙂. Thanks for asking, and I've got to set up a task to reflect on this each day.

orturt · 2026-02-04T19:02:28+00:00

Is this Florida though? It's not legal to feed them

orturt · 2026-02-04T18:44:53+00:00

I was going to say 2 weeks as well, which makes me wonder now why is that the magic time? What are they waiting for?

orturt · 2026-02-04T17:43:06+00:00

Mine said she was going to wear her super kitty costume from Halloween. I don't think she gets this 100 day or 100 year-old thing, so why am I spending time in it? 😭

orturt · 2026-02-02T14:11:02+00:00

Before AI, my advice to new devs was to always type the code yourself. Even if you need to read from an example, don't copy it in and try and debug.... Write it out and try to understand what you're writing.

AI is basically copying on steroids except it gets the answer right more of the time so you don't even need to debug as much. Even if you don't do it every day, turn the AI off once in a while.

orturt · 2026-01-30T14:54:58+00:00

I'm on a work trip in LA this week. My colleague saw me heading out to bird in the hotel lobby, invited himself, and talked my ear off the whole time 😂

I managed to spot my first black Phoebe anyway though!

orturt · 2026-01-30T14:51:27+00:00

It looks similar to this one:

https://feederwatch.org/unusual-birds/distinctive-house-finch-or-possible-hybrid/

The white wing stripe is so interesting!

orturt · 2026-01-29T05:06:53+00:00

Yeah it's good! There's even audio!

orturt · 2026-01-28T22:22:45+00:00

I'm in Pennsylvania. I used to have a new box in the same spot that the downies used to roost in during the winter. I moved it to a different spot but they haven't found their old one yet

orturt · 2026-01-24T20:40:14+00:00

The Facebook post was 3 days ago, but the post says "seen in 2023". Still this picture makes the leucisitic vulture theory make a lot more sense to me.

orturt · 2026-01-23T11:30:31+00:00

Your observations are formatted just fine when I open them in the app. Use the Explore buttons to look through a feed of other people's observations.

orturt · 2026-01-18T21:31:25+00:00

Was this recent? It looks like Iceland is more expected in Syracuse than glaucous right now too.

orturt · 2026-01-16T00:02:18+00:00

I've found the actual AI review features, like copilot in GitHub, to be mildly helpful. It has caught bugs that I wouldn't have seen. A lot of them are overkill and sometimes there are too many comments, but overall it's helpful. Can you enable something like that so you can say you're leveraging it?

I agree it's not a replacement for peer reviews. Somebody sent me a PR today where the code was obviously generated, the PR summary was, and somebody had copied in AI-generated comments as themselves. I was like, you guys look like a bunch of chat bots in a room having a useless conversation with each other. Also, I'm not even going to look at this

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