Sherri W (SyntaxSeed)

Programming, tech, gaming & other geeky topics from Sherri Wheeler.

Occasional business, handiwork, electronics, parenting and fitness content.

🐘 PHP/JS developer with miles to go before I sleep();

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Location: ON, Canada
Website: https://sherriw.com/
Blog: https://blog.syntaxseed.com/

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2024-10-12 13:01:13

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Relevant:
- Most of my work now is backend with #PHP & #Symfony and/or #Wordpress.
- My dev PC is on #Ubuntu & I have 0 plans to switch or add another machine.

2024-09-14 13:50:07

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Wow! 🤩
I'm pretty sure this is the location of a boss fight against a dragon!

2024-09-05 00:57:02

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No no... *money* is people & it has more rights than you. The bigger the money the more this applies.

2024-09-01 03:36:35

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For real. It's painful.

2024-08-28 15:56:03

My friend group is chewing on a discussion about DMs who charge for their services which we all agreed was a cool side-gig & a perfectly valid thing to do - both to charge if you're good and to pay if your group needs a #DM.
The contention came when a friend discovered one who was charging $45 CAD ($33 USD) per person per session.
It was unclear if this friend was shocked anyone would pay that or that anyone would charge that. The avg was ~$25.
Thoughts? 🎲
#TTRPG #DnD

2024-08-26 22:56:35

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The fact that Sanderson acknowledges this flaw is fantastic. It also helps so that it won't bother me to keep reading.

2024-08-26 22:43:38

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My biggest criticism of Mistborn is that the world is entirely men besides the main character. And she hates anything even slightly feminine (for good story reason). In fact a group of our semi-protagonist young men discuss women as being a diversion not to get too invested in. The whole atmosphere doesn't feel great as a female reader.
Nice to read though, that a movie might be in the works & there's interest in diversifying (Sanderson has acknowledged the problem).
https://screenrant.com/mistborn-movie-fix-books-biggest-problem-female-characters/

2024-08-25 19:51:24

Finished Brandon Sanderson's book Mistborn.
Wasn't the story I thought it was going to be, but an exciting & satisfying read nonetheless. I haven't read enough novels in the last decade. It's nice to be into a series again. Ordered the next 2 on the spot.
#fantasy #books #reading
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2024-08-23 00:44:49

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I swear if those banks come crawling for government bailouts over this they should be closed down for good.

2024-08-23 00:43:56

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OMG. Who has a single tear to shed for these banks? Did they totally ignore the facts that
A) #Twitter wasn't really profitable before Musk bought it.
B) Musk's stated goals before buying it were changes that everyone who loved it knew would hurt it & its users.
??? This was the most obviously terrible deal for those banks & they totally ignored the warning signs & let Musk fool them.
I don't know how billion dollar loans work but I hope there was collateral.
#finance

2024-08-18 00:01:04

Our family will be taking a vacation soon to Pigeon Forge #Tennessee. It will be our first time in the midwest.
Looking forward to combining our #Canadian politeness with some southern hospitality into a megazord of manners! 😁

2024-08-05 00:23:33

Brainstorming reasons to send the kids to bed early so we can watch the last two House Of The Dragon episodes.
🤔
#HotD #parenting

2024-08-04 21:39:53

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Rhe 2013 Tomb Raider was excellent. A bit quick-time event heavy like games in that era were. But really fun. Rise is its successor - got it on sale & worth every penny.

2024-08-04 21:36:41

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Dude! So good! yes!

2024-08-04 21:35:44

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The movie was ok-ish. But I haven't played the games. I don't have a PlayStation & when they landed on Steam they weren't really on my radar. 🤔 I always got the impression they were more combat-heavy?

2024-08-04 17:17:52

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I once went on a field trip in elementary school where we dug up fossils in an ancient seabed. It was the singular moment of my elementary school life. I wanted to be Alan in Jurassic Park.
I still have that fossil collection.
When I realized that digging up ancient bones & civilizations in the sand wasn't realistic, I went full 180° into tech. Back in the 90s computers were The Future.
I have no regrets but wow games like Tomb Raider are a treat.
Where are the fossil digging games though? 🤔

2024-08-04 17:12:02

Been playing the #TombRaider games from the 2010s. Currently a good way into Rise Of The Tomb Raider.
Man these #games are my *jam*! 🤩
I really can't get enough of treasure-hunting movies, games & stories. Indiana Jones, National Treasure, etc.
My original career plan as a kid was archaeologist until my mom had a real-talk moment with me about the reality that you can't do that here where I live & will most likely end up in a museum or classroom not in the field. 🤣
Programmer was plan B. lol
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2024-08-02 23:46:58

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Well...... I'm in southern Ontario and we've barely gotten any snow the last few winters so.... there's lots of Canada that's not very cold. 😁

2024-08-01 21:39:17

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Ooo that's a tough job!

2024-08-01 19:20:59

In hindsight, a heat wave wasn't the best time to tackle extensive yardwork but, we are running out of free days for the summer. 🥵
Behind our yard is a farm field. It's tilled right along the edge of everyone's fence leaving a 1.5m strip that gets overrun by aggressive weeds waist high. Which find their way into our yard.
Too many years of neglect & it got crazy. Took weed whacking then carefully mowing a couple inches at a time to tame it.
Before (neighbour's) & after (ours).
#gardening
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2024-07-30 04:05:45

Weird. Youtube link preview cards are linking to a undefined YT channel. I read it's on YT's end... but shouldn't #Mastodon just not show the card in that case?
#MastoHelp #mastoadmin
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2024-07-30 03:54:47

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After Covid we saw a wave of mistrust against #science & #medicine. When the hollowed out tech industry faces a painful correction people will be left hanging when services & products they rely on either vanish, become too malicious, or get prohibitively expensive. Rapid price increases & ads in #streaming services are already leaving a lot of people priced out & feeling betrayed.
Even a technologist like myself feels the #tech in my life is less helpful & more harmful than 5 years ago.

2024-07-30 03:47:43

This video "The #AI Bubble is Bursting" is so important not just because of it's discussion of AI & #LLM tech in general, but the #economics & market discussion around it.
What happens when this massively inflated #tech implodes & the wider rot in the industry too? How long can our services & products keep getting worse while still growing in stock value?
I worry that the fallout will cause a backlash against tech & will extend to #science too.
https://youtu.be/T8ByoAt5gCA?si=nW1tCHHX2rja40Gk

2024-07-29 20:05:51

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Awww darn. 😓

2024-07-28 19:30:13

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It actually helps make them less of a target to scavengers & invading hives!

2024-07-28 19:07:17

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Wow! Final count from 2 hives: 218 lbs of #honey total! (Does not include the weight of the jars.)
It's been a very hot summer here in southern Ontario so the #bees must have been extra happy! 🐝
#BeeKeeping #apiary
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2024-07-28 18:27:28

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Step 5:
Poured from the plastic barrel into glass jars. Labelled with a logo & warning not to feed to children under 1 year old.
Yummy!
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2024-07-28 18:25:58

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Step 4:
Honey drains out of the steel barrel, through 2 layers of filters to remove wax, bee parts & other bits. It pours into a plastic bucket with a spigot in the bottom.
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2024-07-28 18:23:37

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Step 3:
Load 3 frames into this big steel centrifuge. It's anchored to the floor. A hand crank is turned to quickly spin the frames inside & pull the honey out. It drains down the sides to the bottom of the steel barrel.
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2024-07-28 18:21:11

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Step 2:
Carefully pick the wax caps off the frames. The wax is collected in a sieve to drain some of the honey clinging to it. My cousin uses the wax to make various homemade products.
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2024-07-28 18:19:05

My parents have 2 bee hives. Did a big #honey extraction day with the family today. Both hives were weighing in at over 200 lbs each!
It's such an interesting process.
Step 1: The frames are carefully removed from the hives, leaving enough for the #bees through the winter.
#BeeKeeping #apiary
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2024-07-27 23:38:57

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Well said! Husband & I looked at eachother at one point today & said "Omg this is our life & our kids!" 😁 A good moment to be thankful.

2024-07-27 22:09:29

⚾ It's tournament weekend for the kids' little league #baseball. 2 games for one son & 3 (!) for the other. Everyone is tired & filthy. It's a heat wave. Coaches have run out of pitchers with any arm left.
Whew.

2024-07-25 19:35:09

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100%. My kids are 8-12 & their internet use is still VERY limited & supervised and boy oh boy is this not the norm. Most of their friends have no limits or supervision and even have cellphones already. 😬

2024-07-24 23:30:41

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Hm. I'm logged in but free plan. Still has stats. It's really just the current streak that bugs me. Too many 11:58pm panics. Lol

2024-07-24 23:21:17

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They did????

2024-07-24 21:52:32

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I've used that one. It's really nice.

2024-07-24 20:09:27

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LOL! I had the NYT Wordle puzzle open which I gave up doing almost a year ago after a particularly painful streak loss. 😓 And an SCP web story I had always planned to read but never got to. That one got bookmarked for Capital-L Later.
Plus a couple shopping sites for kids' stuff that is more in the "maybe for Christmas" category.
So nothing of value was lost. 🤣

2024-07-24 19:40:51

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You inspired me to bookmark & close a few of the tabs I was hanging onto!

2024-07-24 19:28:51

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And if your site is one that could be targeted by more advanced methods, you better have more security than a captcha no matter how good it is.
I personally see 0 problem if my captcha solving is actually helping label or categorize images.... if I'm solving a puzzle or doing a mini task anyway on a captcha, it might as well be useful.

2024-07-24 19:27:41

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While I'm not a security researcher.... I am a #webdev & I absolutely see a drastic decline in brute force login attempts when I put reCaptcha on a login form. Most clients want Google Analytics anyway so they aren't super concerned with the privacy aspect of embedding 3rd party services.
Most bots trying to brute force sites aren't using elaborate captcha solving tools - they're just trying to submit the form. Even a honeypot catches many unsophisticated attacks.

2024-07-24 11:32:48

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No... but the first house my parents had did. It was my great grandparents' war-time house!

2024-07-24 11:19:20

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I believe those are for businesses dropping off night deposits. 😊

2024-07-24 03:35:19

Might be nice to bring back these old-timey ice doors built into the front of the house, but for packages these days. 🤣
For those who've never seen one, they have an inner & outer door so the ice man can place your ice (or milk) delivery inside. Inner door can only be opened from inside the house.
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2024-07-22 00:54:55

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Oooooo!

2024-07-21 22:51:43

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// Other

2024-07-21 19:01:12

This may seem strange to our American neighbours & I'm sure I don't speak for all my fellow Canadians.... but this month of US political news has been intensely anxiety inducing. I don't know if it's because I live so close to the border or because Canada is so affected by what happens in the USA, but oof. Stomach completely in knots.
I feel for you all who are on this rollercoaster. Good luck folks. Hugs from #Canada.
🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸
#politics #uspol

2024-07-21 18:55:46

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Hm. I might order a set they can play on right away & a set of replacement sticks to try a repair on when a stroke of bravery hits me. 😁 No sense wasting the old ones!

2024-07-21 18:26:00

Putting your country before yourself is what we should all want in a leader. Wow.
#politics

2024-07-21 15:50:52

Anyone have experience with these SplatDance replacement #Nintendo #Switch controllers? They're less than half the cost of official ones ($40 vs $100 CAD).
And yes I realize that they aren't the better hall effect joysticks.... but I'm just not in the mood to disassemble ours & delicately replace the sticks for only $10 savings.
#NintendoSwitch #VideoGames
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2024-07-20 19:15:58

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2024-07-19 04:01:11

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I really struggle to reconcile the rich corporate bosses being staunch republicans and yet so many of their corporations rely on and advocate for the cheap labor their supply chains get from immigration.
Sucks to boil human lives down to dollar value but money seems to be the only thing they care about & they aren't even good at that.

2024-07-18 16:03:38

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Yeah I might consider that if I replace our main TV but I don't really want to set up any extra media center/box/fire stick/etc business at this time. Going to stick with what we know for now.
Our main TV is a Samsung which has been pretty good but the storage space is drastically small & the dashboard is exploding with ads which I've been in a constant wack-a-mole to block their ad domains.
I assume you need an Apple TV subscription to use the box? Does it have their competitors' apps?

2024-07-18 13:53:50

Hello #AV fans who know all about #television brands! 👋
Looking for advice about the best ✅ smart #TV brands. And which to avoid ❌.
Prioritizing for something good on features, privacy & no/minimal dashboard ads or ads inserted into your streams.
We'll likely be using it for things like Netflix, Disney+ etc & attaching a Chromecast.
Thanks!
#tech #HomeTheater #Streaming

2024-07-17 12:33:42

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The final round of this insane battle was key.
Our ranger negotiated with the kuo-toa leader to buy us an extra day before the next attack (time to find their missing artifact).
And a few characters made a desperate attempt to save one of the men being kidnapped. As Zack The Warrior's dad was being pulled into the well, 2 people grabbed him, I cast Sleep which got 1 pair of arms grabbing him, and our druid turned to a giant spider & caught him with web. Whew!!
To be continued!
#DnD #TTRPG

2024-07-14 01:24:25

A scary & sad day for Americans. My heart goes out to our southern neighbours. 💙🇺🇸❤️
If politics continues turning into a war of insults & hate & violence, we all lose; especially the most vulnerable among us.

2024-07-13 23:02:39

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I'd worry that it would put the surface your arms & papers are on, too high to be comfortable. You'd need higher chairs.

2024-07-12 21:10:49

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At best I think this will be treading water for corporate bottom lines while spreading more misery via the resulting job losses & environmental damage.

2024-07-12 21:08:25

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"To break even on what they’re spending on AI compute infrastructure, companies need to vastly scale their revenue"
Doesn't revenue have to *also* come from consumers increasing their purchases of a product or service?
I just don't see people or small businesses around me being flush with cash they are ready to spend if only there were #AI features. Quite the opposite in fact.
They might cut costs only to break even with falling income from financially exhausted customers.

2024-07-12 15:18:26

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That's cool!

2024-07-12 13:49:49

Waaait a minute. All this time I've been thinking of the concept of a #TTRPG gaming table as a special (expensive) product with a recessed lower area for the game, that you can cover up with panels when you're done. These are very expensive.
BUT! What if you instead cut a sheet of wood to be about 6" smaller than your dining/kitchen table, sand it ultra smooth then paint it a neutral colour with a grid?
Then it sits on blocks raised UP! Your character sheets can sit on top. 😱
#DnD
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2024-07-11 17:33:32

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Wow I thought this happened ages ago! Several of our games reverted into demos & I can't seem to get the full versions anymore.

2024-07-11 02:05:59

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A well rolled fireball 🔥 from my sorceress caused a lot of damage! But then the leader of the Kuo-toa attackers rose from the water & summoned a huge tidal wave of water 🌊that carried in 3 giant sea turtles 🐢 with battering rams on their backs! They're heading for the castle gate!!
Most of our ground forces outside the gates have fallen but the "clarablaster" (played as a gatling gun in the #DnD manual) has put down a good chunk of the Kuo-toa's first rank of forces.
TBC next session!
#TTRPG
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2024-07-10 22:00:06

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The party climbed the walls & took their positions!
Unsure what to expect, because the defending soldiers struggled to describe their foes... the #Victorious4 suddenly saw a shocking sight!
Orderly ranks of Kuo-toa rose from the sea, and began attacking!
Luckily a gnomish captain Clarabell, had a unique invention perched on the wall! A "crossbow-cannon-device" nicknamed on the spot the "Clarablaster"! Will it give the party an edge in this epic battle??
#DnD #TTRPG
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2024-07-10 21:47:46

The #Victorious4 continued our #DnD adventures by arriving at The Keep only to find the valiant defenders exhausted & short handed due to nightly attacks from the sea!
Our DM (my husband) had dug into our Heroscape stuff and built this huge recreation of The Keep. 😁
After brief discussion with the captains the horns of the watchers on the wall sounded! The latest attack has come early!!!
#TTRPG
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2024-07-09 00:22:07

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Woah! That's different. Ours comes in a big bag with 3 smaller bags inside.

2024-07-08 22:14:22

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Yes & it's great. But the bags don't have to stand up on their own (there's a pitcher style holder for them) and you don't have to stab them with a weak straw (you use scissors or a special little cutter called a Snipit).
The bags enable milk to be frozen. 😁

2024-07-08 11:12:57

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Oh yes, I've seen the CapriSun too!

2024-07-08 01:56:45

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How was this not just a temporary fad? To build the brand & stand out from those stodgy tetra pack juice boxes??
Ok Kool-Aid, you won the liquid sugar brand awareness competition. Time to engineer a container you can actually open without showering your lap in food dyes, and that can actually be recycled. 🤦‍♀️

2024-07-08 01:52:51

You gotta be impressed by Kool-Aid's loyal adherence to the worst designed beverage container of all time. Made even better with now the most flimsy cardboard straw on earth.
#engineering #food #PlasticWaste
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2024-07-06 03:24:17

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But it makes for a good opportunity to play a second time on my own and follow those quests and choose the other main route in the 2nd chapter. So still lots to do.

2024-07-06 03:22:33

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Fantastic. We're using a mod to play with 5 of us and it's been just a great experience of getting into trouble, following the story and sharing great loot, etc.
We made a rule to live with the concequences of our actions unless we TPK, so there's some high stakes to not screw up dialog choices or aggro enemies. So fun!
I will say that romancing NPCs is kind of off the table because it's awkward among friends, & we aren't really doing the character storylines either.

2024-07-06 03:11:17

#BG3 #BaldursGate3
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2024-07-05 04:34:27

⚾ We have a space station orbiting the planet but we can't make catcher's shin guards with straps that don't pop open constantly when worn by kids.
Umpire calling timeout every batter so the catcher can rebook them. Is this some kind of "the suffering is the point" situation?
Literally the same dumb hooks as when I played 3 decades ago!
#baseball
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2024-07-04 12:40:38

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Oh man I didn't know about the need to have them sit so perfectly. That's hard for kids who are always on the go & not always super careful with their belongings. 😓

2024-07-03 22:57:43

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Doc: This could improve his quality of life.
Husband: How? He'll still need glasses. And now he'll *have* to wear them even though his Rx is so minimal.
Doc: But it could reduce his Rx progression later on.
Husband: How does your Rx affect your quality of life? It's glasses or no glasses. Do most people even notice a point or two difference in Rx?
Doc: ...
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Seriously this sounded interesting until I learned the drastic difference in price beyond insurance coverage.

2024-07-03 22:55:40

The latest upsell at the #optometrist is "myopia control" lenses for kids.
The idea is to slow the progression of #myopia (nearsightedness). About $300 more per pair. Gotta wear them till at least 18 starting at age 8-12.
But if your kid's like mine & might only need them sometimes... you now HAVE to wear them all the time.
They also reduce your peripheral vision through the lenses.
And at $300 per pair, say you buy new ones every couple years, that's around $1500 more.
#parenting #glasses

2024-07-03 04:04:53

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Brave's got some shady baggage. Might I recommend @npub19rt…adh9 browser. Also chromium based & privacy focused. Been my main browser for a while now - very useable with great features.

2024-07-03 03:46:40

The changes to #chrome to undermine adblocking extensions must have hit recently. My kids started complaining that their fav web games are now covered in #ads. 😓

2024-07-01 18:45:10

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I can literally see the US border from my upstairs window & it's a constant source of low-key stress wondering when the mess down there is going to boil over, and whether those of us in border cities are safe. 😓

2024-06-28 21:43:42

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When people (women mostly) say they want a village, what they really want is:
- More men to join into the childrearing/household side of labour.
- Society & employers to acknowledge the need for accommodations & flex time to allow for these things - the doctor's office is only open M-F 9-4 people!!!
- Bosses to stop thinking men who prioritize family aren't promotion material.
- Government to stop enacting barriers and maybe actually help for a change.

2024-06-28 01:43:22

There are about 350 MILLION people in the USA.... and you all got these 2.
I'm sorry neighbours. Oof.
#debate

2024-06-27 21:31:17

Ooo seems like half my wishlist is on steep sale for the #Steam summer sale. 😁
#VideoGames

2024-06-26 22:09:50

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I like the visual of having the pieces all sorted & easily viewed in one of these plastic parts organizers. I buy them at the dollar store.
Especially for games with a lot of grabbing specific pieces during play rather than each player getting most of *their* pieces at the start. In this latter case I do like you & keep each player's pieces in a bag.
There's just something about all those little sections full of cool tokens. 🤩
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2024-06-26 11:40:37

Been reviewing the kids' RESPs & just organizing #finance stuff.
On a whim I looked up what the average #tuition at our local #Ontario university costs.
As of 2023: $6,000 / semester !!! 😭
That's double when I went there.
Ouch.
#OntEd #education

2024-06-25 02:56:25

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Because it works like a charm. I *really* struggled to _not_ look at the boards. 😓

2024-06-25 01:47:53

The CGI ads on the boards of #NHL broadcasts are absolutely not ok. 👎
It's animated even during play (!) so as I'm trying to watch the puck I've got cars whizzing across the screen, cartoon characters dancing, logos flipping around, words scrolling.
Plus the fake boards they render over the real ones are whiter & cleaner than anything else on screen & it practically glows.
This SUCKS. 😡
#hockey #advertising #StanleyCup

2024-06-23 23:49:56

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I honestly can't believe it still works & the battery holds a charge!

2024-06-23 23:47:11

Dug out my old Walkman Mp3 player for my oldest son & he's so excited! 🤩 It's full of 90s & 00s alternative rock, some audio books & guided meditations. LOL a real 'treasure'.
It's his first personal device so it's perfect. 😁
Look at this gem:
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/112/668/593/474/166/362/original/eca9cb93865c45fc.jpg
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/112/668/597/609/195/405/original/351e3b6e68f21618.jpg

2024-06-21 23:24:04

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Man I love simple & targeted plugins just like this! 🤩
It's been getting harder & harder to find plugins like this that don't try to take over the universe with features.

2024-06-21 13:44:43

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Yeah that's more or less what I was thinking.
Thanks for the discussion!

2024-06-21 12:10:32

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There is CloudFlare in front of the sites currently, though I'm a little fuzzy on what it's doing and how because I haven't dug into that yet.
Currently the sites are sharing a big, old CentOS 7 managed server that was grandfathered into GoDaddy.
I don't care for GoDaddy hosting & I'm also not keen on multiple big sites sharing the same server because it's too "all eggs in the same basket" for me. And one of the sites is going to jump majorly in traffic next year when it launches.

2024-06-21 10:38:25

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No no, thousands of static images. 😅

2024-06-21 02:52:38

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Yeah a lot of static assets. My far future plan is to move them to a CDN but there are utterly thousands of them from many years of site growth so that will be a process. 😬

2024-06-21 02:41:16

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It's usually a vanilla WordPress site with some front-end caching plugins. Looking at breaking several high traffic sites off one big CentOS GoDaddy managed server onto smaller individual servers like DigitalOcean droplets or similar.
Unfortunately I've never had clients with sites that need much more than basic shared hosting. But this other client gets a lot of traffic to graphics-heavy WP sites.

2024-06-21 02:27:25

Is there a rule of thumb or calculator that people use to estimate what size of server/VPS they'd need given application type and estimated daily visitors?
I feel like I'm usually just going by "feel" but I don't have enough server admin experience to have a trustworthy gut for this.
I'm usually building #PHP web apps with #WordPress or #Symfony.
#DevOps #SysAdmin #servers #WebDev

2024-06-19 19:02:04

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Ug I hate that.

2024-06-19 18:56:29

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The downside of the alternative is that you have to be online while using it so they can make sure you're only using 1 instance at a time. Then people get complain-y about that. I think both can work but per-device licenses really should give 2 devices as the absolute minimum. It's too common to have a work+home machine or a laptop+PC etc.
It always feels nitpick-y to me if it's only 1 device.
Although selling additional devices to the same user at a steep discount is pretty good too.

2024-06-18 22:52:48

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A girl can dream. 😆

2024-06-18 22:42:28

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Hmm! I know there was an HD version on Xbox years ago but it would be nice to see it come out on Nintendo. Now a sequel would be REALLY nice...... Lookin at you Ubisoft. 🤣