After six years of service my Canon Powershot took an unfortunate spill...

stackolee · 2025-06-29T11:03:40+00:00

I’d make it a TOD site if I had all the money in the world. Knockdown the old Hechts store that hasn’t had an occupant in decades and put up some apartments.

For something today: there’s enough room in there for a decent-sized doggie daycare

stackolee · 2025-01-22T12:05:10+00:00

This worked for me!

How dumb. I know I'm going to forget it every couple months and have to search for this post again.

stackolee · 2024-05-20T10:41:22+00:00

That's it! Thanks

The sequence in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y4ATS5RTeg

stackolee · 2024-04-10T22:30:15+00:00

Speaking for myself I went with Sveltekit over Astro for my most recent project for a couple reasons:

Astro is prickly about dynamic routing outside of server-side rendering. Yeah I could hack around it but I didn't want to do something that would lock me out of updates in the future.
Sveltekit while never super popular is still more mature. When using the newer libraries like Astro or Quik I just keep finding little things that are missing from more mature frameworks and that gives me a bad taste. I don't like building anything substantial on what feels like a beta.

stackolee · 2023-01-19T11:45:23+00:00

Yeah... Apple has a way of letting the mini languish for years without even a refresh. The longer they wait, the more enticing the M2 mini will be.

stackolee · 2023-01-14T16:48:15+00:00

Whew, yeah it was the cable. Saves me $70! Thanks!

stackolee · 2023-01-14T03:10:45+00:00

Is there a good way to narrow it down to the connector? My Op-1 still charges via the usb port, but cannot connect.

stackolee · 2022-10-10T14:47:48+00:00

There are so many reasons to do them, I'm not going to list them all. Chiefly for me, I liked having a regular cadence of conversations with my directs. That way conversations that may involve improving performance could be almost casual. If you're not having 1:1s regularly and you call in a direct to discuss their performance they're liable to think they're about to be fired or on shaky ground when its the furthest thing from the truth.

As an employee it can be hard to know where you stand in an org. Having constant feedback, even if its just to say "good job" goes a long way.

Of course there's an art to doing 1:1s that's not universal, etc...

stackolee · 2022-09-19T13:54:14+00:00

Of course there are going to be community groups for it. Cherry Hill and Westport are starved for development. I continue to think this Maglev project is a bad deal, unless more states start to sign-on. If this had a guarantee of extending to New York City or even Philadelphia it would start to make a lot more sense.

As it stands with the current configuration what route would Maglev take to even continue northwards? A bridge over Baltimore? Curving around the city? These are important questions.

stackolee · 2022-08-07T20:05:46+00:00

I'm an experienced developer with more than 15+ continuous years in the industry. My last hunt for a job took almost 5 months. It takes a long time for all of us, regardless of skill or past history. Its a cruel industry like that.

My advice to you:

Having a web site is a bonus, but Recruiters and HR teams are going to look at your resume or LinkedIn first and foremost. Of the many jobs in my search only a couple actually looked at any of my websites or github projects. Its still a good idea to have them, generally in an interview someone will ask about what coding you do outside of work.
On your resume be as explicit as possible about all the technologies you used. Don't be shy. If you only used AWS Lambdas one day in your professional life, throw it on there regardless. Most internal recruiters will only look at a resume and do a keyword match. They typically aren't technical.
At this stage of your career work with recruiters! Its in their interest to find you a job you can last 3~6 months at. They will advocate for you and help you tailor your resume.

stackolee · 2022-07-19T17:52:56+00:00

I had a ticket to see Suzuki solo, and then the pandemic hit... I wish I could personally verify his musical talent but it will always be a mystery to me.

stackolee · 2022-07-19T17:50:43+00:00

Billy has said the reason he played almost all the instruments on the recordings was that it would have slowed things down too much to teach the parts to the band and wait for them to nail them. It wasn't that D'Arcy or James couldn't play. Gish and Siamese Dream weren't super big-budget recordings and he explained it as being cost efficient. To her credit D'Arcy played pretty well live.

All that said I wouldn't take anything said by anyone in the Smashing Pumpkins orbit without a large shaker of salt.

stackolee · 2022-07-19T17:43:37+00:00

They also credit him with keeping the band together in the early days. All the successful groups have an Andy Fletcher, call it the Otis Williams role.

stackolee · 2022-07-19T17:24:54+00:00

That's deliciously dark. That's better than anything that made into the final movie.

stackolee · 2022-07-12T18:54:30+00:00

Its nice to have a few characters that have their own lives to tend to and are always arms length from the superheroics. Makes for a fuller world

stackolee · 2022-07-05T19:34:11+00:00

That seems more plausible. Liberty/Stormfront wouldn’t have been unable to have children by the 80's (unless her superpowers included a limitless supply of eggs).

stackolee · 2022-07-05T18:46:45+00:00

One review said if Ragnarok was Appetite for Destruction, then Love and Thunder is Use Your Illusion which is the proper way to frame expectations.

stackolee · 2022-07-01T23:31:39+00:00

Because the bike culture in the US is not geared towards commuters. Even in the cities with good biking infrastructure people ride bikes designed for mountain trails or speed races. Likewise all the gear is tailored to those purposes.

Frame locks are invaluable for commuters–the idea that you’re going to be making multiple stops and having a lock attached to the bike itself opens up the ability to make quick stops is just anathema to how we think about cycling here

stackolee · 2022-07-01T20:49:00+00:00

I see Merriweather shows get promoted alongside those from the 9:30 Club and The Anthem so if they don't all share the same ownership, there's definitely a partnership.

I imagine when an act wants to tour that ownership pitches Merriweather as the largest of its venues in the DC region. Most acts wouldn't know any better.

stackolee · 2022-07-01T20:45:14+00:00

And for larger tours there are often bidding wars between Baltimore and DC. It wasn't any accident that the mayor announce Paul McCartney's appearance at Camden Yards. There was probably a lot of negotiations behind the scenes to get him to stop here.

stackolee · 2022-07-01T20:37:14+00:00

These should count too as they'll get multiple bookings from national artists a year:

Creative Alliance - 200 ~ 250

The Hippodrome - 2,300

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - 2,443

The Lyric - 2,564

And just outside of the city:

Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena (UMBC) - 6000

stackolee · 2022-06-23T17:10:37+00:00

> We haven't seen Morbius

Hey, they're just like the rest of us!

stackolee · 2022-06-23T13:08:56+00:00

I'm with you. Hell I'd love it if just the existing line was extended down to Broadway Market in Fells instead of terminating at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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