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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Before buying your fitst home:

    • bring someone with more experience than you to have a look at it, maybe even a professional
    • scout out the area (on foot) during the day, evening and night
    • visit local businesses like cafés, restaurants, bakeries etc.
    • look at statistics like crime and air quality
    • have a talk with the neighbors, get a sense of the community if you can, otherwise just observe while taking walks
    • if applicable, call the home owner’s representative (or whatever the equivalent is where you live), ask them about the home, neighborhood, community, expenses, plans for the future etc.
    • have a set budget of how much you want to spend on it before you move in, don’t overstep that amount







  • I dislike Mastodon for the same reason I dislike Twitter. It seems to me like it’s more centered around individual people and what they share rather than building multiple communities around multiple things that interests me.

    Sure, I can craft my own community, but then I have a feed where I only encounter posts from the same people, and chances are, opinions that I already agree with. It’s not as easy to switch from a tv show to programming, for example. Yes, hashtags exist but they don’t even come close to communities on Lemmy.

    The worst part are the types of posts that only reiterate how stupid “the other side” is without seriously trying to understand their arguments. This is not only true about politics but many other topics as well.


  • I was working on an enterprise web application, there was a legacy system that everyone hated and we replaced it with a more modern one.

    We got a ticket from our PO to introduce a 30 sec delay to one of our buttons. It sounded insane, but he explained that L1 support got too many calls and emails where users thought said button was broken.

    It wasn’t, they were just used to having to wait up to 5 minutes for it to finish doing its thing, so they didn’t notice when it did it instantly.

    We gradually removed that delay, 10 seconds each month, and our users were very happy.