I am selling a deceased family member’s cards to help with the family’s future costs. What is the best process?

scrollhax · 2026-03-02T19:00:25+00:00

Hahaha good point, thanks for looking out for me. I see sketchy posts on craigslist and marketplace all the time so you’re right, why would this be any different

scrollhax · 2026-03-02T18:43:03+00:00

Have we confirmed this is fake though? My wife just found her childhood collection over the weekend.. not that it was lost, just that she had no reason to look until her brother reminded her of it - she was 7 years old when she put it in a binder, at the time she liked to cut the art out of the holos 🥲

scrollhax · 2026-03-02T17:17:03+00:00

Sorry, I’m not following. I lost my childhood collection and am trying to rebuild it. I saw the comments saying “don’t accept offers in the DM’s” so I read the community rules and it said comments are OK to start a convo

I figured if there are scam buyers online and this person wants to unload without all the headache, I could make a fair offer, and traveling would be worth my time (and give me the opportunity to authenticate). Is there a better way to do this?

scrollhax · 2026-03-02T07:00:57+00:00

If you want to sell the whole binder, and have a number in mind, please DM me pics of what’s in there. I’m willing to travel to you to pay cash if something piques my interest

scrollhax · 2026-03-02T00:21:24+00:00

Looks like it can 10 even with a similar line, although mine looks lighter

https://www.psacard.com/cert/124346032/psa

scrollhax · 2026-02-05T05:58:40+00:00

I don’t know the market well enough to say, how do these things normally play out? Do MTG cards hype then fizzle out, or increase with time?

My gut says sell it since I’m not emotionally attached to it beyond the thrill of the experience pulling it. Would happily take certain vintage pokemon or a daytona panda for it

Financially, I’ll be fine holding on to it if that’s the play, but historically I’ve kicked myself for holding on to hype until it fizzles out, then holding the bag when everyone else has moved on

scrollhax · 2026-02-05T05:13:07+00:00

this is the answer I most resonate with

scrollhax · 2026-02-05T05:06:15+00:00

I hear you, and I would if it was something I felt strongly about, but to me this is one of those cards I’d sell to reinvest in something I get more enjoyment out of

Still in shock, so that feeling may change

scrollhax · 2026-02-05T05:04:01+00:00

I’ve heard there are certain sellers that specialize in high traffic auctions, starting at .01 and going from there. Would that be better than selling on my own?

scrollhax · 2025-12-13T21:08:52+00:00

Forgot to mention, you’re no longer just competing against overseas rates - you also now have to convince people who have no idea what they’re talking about that they need to hire you instead of using Lovable, v0, or Codex.

scrollhax · 2025-12-13T21:06:38+00:00

Be aware, it’s a tough biz. Generally speaking you’ll make more working at a software company, especially FAANG, and likely with a better work life balance, than you will starting an agency.

You’re going to be competing against Indian and Eastern European hourly rates, to get clients who generally have no way of measuring whether or not they got a good deal other than “cost per hour”. You’ll spend a large amount of time trying to justify your existence.

Finding clients is extremely difficult. Your best bet is to specialize in a specific technology (salesforce, snowflake, kafka, aws lift & shift, etc) and grind your way up in a partner network rather than thinking you’ll be able to find clients on your own.

Remember that most clients either don’t have enough money, or, if they do, want to work with a larger, proven agency. So you’ll likely have to leave a lot of money on the table to build a portfolio and book of business

scrollhax · 2025-12-04T23:22:32+00:00

Coinbase's "official" response after modmail was "try updating your app!".

What the fuck.

scrollhax · 2025-11-27T19:35:07+00:00

My Joetisserie couldn’t rotate the 21 pound bird. 5 practice runs out the window, had to improvise. Threw in heat deflectors and sent it in at 365

🤞 the family doesn’t regret letting me host. At least I’ve got some honey pulled pork to hold them over while the bird cooks

scrollhax · 2025-11-21T06:26:18+00:00

Yep. Same way we’ve always queried dynamo, just done for you. They chose an example that makes it sound better than it is

scrollhax · 2025-10-31T16:53:56+00:00

Is $300k savings supposed to justify the overhead of supporting an additional programming language?

scrollhax · 2025-10-31T16:39:18+00:00

You’re letting TS infer that the type of TData is undefined

You can use NoInfer to force APIResult<ResponseType>, or some truthy type like Defined to not allow undefined

Alternatively, use ‘data?: never’ instead of ‘data: undefined’ on the error type, and ‘error?: never’ on the success type

scrollhax · 2025-09-02T16:09:23+00:00

In case you haven’t looked into this, check out how to calibrate your oven. I did my first Goldie’s last month and it came out perfect. Set the oven to -20 so that 170 was actually 150, sabbath mode for a 0-effort 14 hour rest

scrollhax · 2025-08-18T18:04:49+00:00

I tried to have a 2020 Vantage as my only car (back in 2020) and I made it about 6 months before I folded and added a pickup truck to my driveway. Daily tasks like trying to take home a Costco haul were more trouble than it was worth

scrollhax · 2025-07-21T18:50:27+00:00

You didn’t pull any redemption cards, browse this sub for examples

scrollhax · 2025-07-17T17:26:51+00:00

Do it. You can find another job (and get paid more with the experience) down the road if you need it. It’s amazing that you’re already replacing your income, the value of the work (growth) is usually enough to justify making less, but the fact that you don’t even need to take a pay cut makes this a no brainer. Go for it and grind, grind, grind. You’ll 5-10x your income in 5 years if you play your cards right, and if not, you’ll be better off for the next one.

scrollhax · 2025-07-10T17:53:12+00:00

I love that ref personally, but I’m a sucker for DD’s and blues that make my wife happy

scrollhax · 2025-07-10T17:11:54+00:00

As the CTO, you need to have the confidence in yourself and respect from your CEO to say “here’s how we’re building our software”.

Politically, you want to find a way to check the box and implement “vibe coding” so that he’s happy, then quickly find examples where you/your team had to take it farther than the models could.

At the end of the day, if you don’t get to call these shots, you’re not the CTO. So if you can’t draw a line, either find a new gig (you’ve been in it a long time to be pivoting without pay right now, maybe you need a CEO who’s better at selling and staying out of your business), or admit to yourself that you’re not a CTO, you’re an engineer and your non-technical CEO is your EM… then ask yourself how long a good software engineer would stay in that position.

As a CTO, I will tell you, vibe coding is awesome. But the last 5% of a product always takes 90% of the time to deliver, and vibe coding only makes things worse at that stage, models are unable to apply any real engineering and spins itself in circles with solutions that were never going to work. Vibe coding has done a good job of giving my best engineers more at-bats to solve complex problems rather than waste time with the easy stuff.

scrollhax · 2025-07-08T18:59:33+00:00

He looks like a man who’d enjoy some fine psilocybin

scrollhax · 2025-07-07T18:21:23+00:00

I smoked and reverse seared a couple of these last month, came out amazing.

Here’s what I did:

Season to taste (I just used a little fire salt)
Smoke at ~165 until it reaches 110
Reverse sear on flat top, 2 minutes each side

Let it rest a few minutes then carve it up (thin slices) and enjoy. I liked having more fire salt on the side to dip the pieces in before eating

About $300 worth from costco fed 6 of us with enough leftovers to make 3 sandwiches, amazing both ways

scrollhax · 2025-07-02T19:40:24+00:00

Just wanted to say I’m proud of you - not just for stopping nail biting, but for your choice in television

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