I hope you can take some solace in the fact that you gave her a good life and made her feel loved. May you one day meet again.

I’m a big proponent of buying local whenever possible. This plus something similar for physical products is really useful no matter where you live.

Vimium. Allows you to use your keyboard to navigate instead of needing to always reach for the mouse.

Switch to Firefox

Same, the physical camera button and 3.5mm headphone jack on the Xperia are awesome

Haven’t had this particular brand, but I’ve made vegan musubi before with another. Turned out great and tbh I couldn’t tell the difference. The only downside was the price difference.

That’s refreshing to see in a world of ever increasing enshittification. Wish more companies move in this direction.

Somewhat related PSA. I used to have an unscreened window in my home office and started noticing birds would fly into it on occasion. Found out it’s actually pretty common and can be fatal to the unwitting bird, so I put some post-it notes on the window to help them see/avoid it. There are ready-made products for this exact purpose as well. Both seem to do the job and cut down on collisions.

As a bonus, King’s Canyon is also adjacent to Sequoia National Park, which is equally stunning and home to the largest single stem tree, the General Sherman giant Sequoia.

Use libro.fm instead and part of your subscription goes to an independent bookstore of your choosing

Looks very relaxing and peaceful. Some of my favorite camping trips have been in the eastern Sierras.

This is what I try to tell people who just want the cheapest things possible. We’re voting with our dollars what kind of world we want.

Also, shipping things across the sea burns some of the worst fuel for the environment so I’d rather buy things made here and support the local economy whenever possible.

MSFT has a $3T market cap and $60B of free cash flow each year, so I doubt they’re hurting for money. This is how “growth at all costs” incentivizes myopic decision-making and doesn’t really help foster an environment where studios are willing to take creative risks. Even when they succeed (a la Hi-Fi Rush) they’re on the perpetual chopping block.

“The layoffs will continue until morale improves”

$6.4B for HashiCorp on the heels of $4.6B for Apptio and $34B for Red Hat back in 2018. I wonder how long until they expect each of these acquisitions to be accretive?

Recently moved over to porkbun after dealing with a couple billing issues with namecheap and not getting the best customer service. Been pretty happy so far.

They also recently won a deal with Rakuten Mobile to supply RAN equipment in Japan

https://www.nokia.com/about-us/news/releases/2024/02/27/nokia-wins-deal-with-rakuten-mobile-in-japan/