Fired up to decentralize all the social networks. Bay Area tech veteran: Apple, Digg, BitTorrent, etc.

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Cake day: May 31st, 2023

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  • In the United States, at least: There are retail stores - brick and mortar, I know! - where various “beauty supplies” are sold. Find one where they sell hair bleach etc. They will also sell hair shears.

    I got the second-cheapest set they sold, for around $25. For our amateur purposes, these student-hairdresser-grade shears are more than adequate.

    I cut my own hair probably 6-9 times a year, and those shears are still the sharpest things I own, fifteen years later.

    (Shears are actually really specific cutting tools. Mine have only ever cut hair, which I credit for their long life)



  • I too have played the disappointed and befuddled architecture evangelist. The counter-argument that inevitably ended these conversations was: “This is a business. We make money by getting stuff out the door. Demonstrate how the time it would take to rework this code base would correspond to an increase in profits, then we can talk about how your time and people budget is impossible to justify.”

    “Pretty behind the scenes” doesn’t make any difference when you’re focused on getting people to build you a moneymaking machine as fast and cheap as possible.