I won’t disagree with this poster at a Barbeque place nearby.
Thoughts
Reminiscences of the days gone by, when sales were not what these drove.
Rakshabandhan - the celebration of one of the funnest and purest relationships, of a brother and a sister.
So Amazon Echo devices are losing market share to Google Home now? All these devices look to be placeholders for now. Things they do are trivial, they need lot of tricky tweaking to make them helpful.
Post initial few days of newness, they just become music players with voice.
Why do Linode services and offerings look so .. dated? As if people behind just didn’t look around, look what the competition was offering, especially Digital Ocean. DO has really upped the game in hosted VPS with one-click apps and far better integrations.
Puzzle time with daughter - assembling beauty, a piece at a time.
Every time there’s a story around ads, I grumble knowing that so much talent is wasted on such trivial a thing as advertising — our AI overloads must be happy us humans are busy fighting away our intelligence.
It’s time to catch up on all the lost sleep last week working late on the hobby projects — so much was done, but so much more of the health was lost. Eyes’re burning hot, cursing me to go to sleep.
So a good 10 hours sleep now, followed by a walk to get some work done close-by.
The biggest struggle for me while using Mastodon is the fact that it does not recognise Markdown. Like Twitter, statuses are plain text with no understanding of html - no formatting, no hyperlinking. I’ve been “ruined” by Markdown - if an editor doesn’t support it, it’s broken.
Me. Words. And Chai ☕️