Bruncvik

Batteries can get quickly depleted when the wifi connection is unstable. My camera had to be recharged every month until I got a dedicated wifi extender in the hallway by the front door. Since then the battery lasts about half a year.

Leaving on the street is so 1980s... Nowadays it's enough to threaten them with changing the wifi password, and they'll clean up after themselves.

I had a Slack chat with my developers today. Towards the end of the discussion, one of the developers, who had been active throughout the discussion, asked Claude to summarize it for her. I'm now looking for ways to replace her...

Dual-wield book and back pain sword. My back hurts from hunching over too many books.

Nothing, other than the joke that England is responsible for more independence days than any other country.

At my age, wrinkles.

1. Political activism. Voting and canvassing. I live in a country where it usually takes fewer than 10,000 first preference votes to elect someone to the Dail (parliament), so each of my votes, and each person I convince, counts.
2. Retirement savings. In order to enjoy your retirement savings, you need a safe place to enjoy them. So, I match my contributions to my retirement savings plan with donations to groups that in my opinion are trying to make the world a better place.
3. Self-sufficiency. I'm not cutting myself out, but I am improving my independence on the rest of the economy: renewable power sources, vegetable garden, picking up skills to fix my stuff instead of replacing it, etc.
4. Hobbies. Mainly running and art, two hobbies where I can turn off my brain.
5. Data blocks. Removal of most of the social media from my life, filtering news sources.
6. Leading by example. Teaching my kids to be decent human beings with strong moral compass, who think for themselves. Wish me luck with that one.

I saw this quote on the desk of a proctologist I once visited.

I work for a tech company. A decade ago we got rid of user acceptance testing (and our entire QA team) and invested in a bigger service desk department. We only do unit testing, but actual customer facing bugs are discovered and reported by customers. AI, if we actually invested in it, could improve our quality if we used it for UI regression testing.

I can't think of any food or drink (save for alcohol, but I cut down to one drink per week) that I'd buy because of the brand. The majority of what I'm buying is from store private labels. Living in Europe, however, I do pay close attention to country of origin, and try to buy as close to home as possible.

So, sort of like Washington D.C. urbanities and tourists vs. much of the overflight country.

I think about getting this contraption once my balls start poking out of my shorts.