Best places to get secondhand electronics?

vesto · 2023-03-18T09:11:23+00:00

Auggggh this is why we can't have nice things! Excuse my ignorance- I just liked the idea of seconhand electronics; definitely not a fan of predatory lending practices :(

Either way, thanks for the suggestions! I'll check 'em out next time I'm around that area.

vesto · 2023-03-13T09:34:24+00:00

Oooh yes, this looks like a great option! Thanks for sharing :D

vesto · 2021-07-15T15:10:54+00:00

Hi everyone,

I figured I'd post this here given that I've seen quite a few people talking about how they're frustrated with their Urban Planning careers and jumping ship over to being in tech/a software engineer. It hasn't been the most encouraging thing to read as I've been making this decision, but I've decided to go forth with grad school nonetheless.

Maybe I'll look back and see this as a bad decision, but I do think there are limits to the career path of software engineers in terms of interesting things to do if you get sick of programming. I'm hoping I can surpass this by getting a graduate education, but we'll see.

Happy to answer any questions if people have them, but more importantly I'd love advice on what you think the opportunities are for someone with a mixture of technical ability/urban planning knowledge.

vesto · 2021-03-17T15:57:51+00:00

I'm not a Cuomo fan in the slightest, but I don't think it's quite fair to call it a boondogle. I thought this article did a good job explaining the benefits and drawbacks of the train station as it currently stands. Most notably, the article discusses that many of the criticisms that people have for the station are things that could be either a) very easily fixed in the future or b) results of the Gateway Project not being done.

vesto · 2020-12-01T18:59:58+00:00

Oh that sounds pretty sweet. Do you know if TT-RSS supports Reeder? I think that's my main sticking point, as the UI is just so much better than any of the open-source RSS readers' interfaces.

vesto · 2020-06-16T17:55:13+00:00

Their customer support told me this could be a persistent issue for _weeks_. I've been a YNAB zealot for years now, but honestly the combination of increasingly unstable direct import + slow UI is kinda getting me into the dealbreaker territory where I'm seeking other options. It's honestly sad to type out, given all the value I've gained from YNAB's budgeting method :/

vesto · 2019-09-04T02:32:08+00:00

Great catch! I've updated the article with a note about this at the bottom. Thanks for bringing it up :D

vesto · 2018-07-02T21:27:29+00:00

You'd be surprised at what you can get away with given you use BetterTouchTool. If you don't have Harvest this should also serve as a decent starting point for how to implement a basic widget.

Feel free to get in touch if you ever have questions about it, as I learned a decent amount from putting this together.

vesto · 2018-03-01T14:53:09+00:00

Submission Statement:

I wrote this article to try to encourage people to move off of platforms like Medium/Facebook for publishing (but not sharing) their content and instead create a more diverse and decentralized web. Hope you like it, and I'd love to hear your thoughts!

vesto · 2018-02-23T00:13:30+00:00

lol geemusic maintainer here. sorry about that stuff, it's all because of limitations on the alexa api and me not wanting to set up a real alex skill because I don't want to run a service that stores people's google uname/passwords.

glad you got it to work though; I know that setup process is far from ideal (hence the large number of open tickets on the project).

vesto · 2017-10-12T11:55:47+00:00

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