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Cake day: August 24th, 2023

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  • I think musicals are fine, but the music has to be genuinely very very good. You can make a mediocre movie and still have it be somewhat enjoyable. I can’t listen to mediocre music and feel the same though.

    I also just think they come across better on a stage than in a movie. It feels so weird to me sometimes for a movie to have this incredibly close in depth feeling to it, just for it to zoom out to a cast of people dancing and singing and shit.







  • I’m actually certified in a version of SCRUM. I’ve been on a total of one project which did it in what I would say is the correct way. Where the primary purpose was to gauge work and plan around the developers capabilities and needs, instead of having deadlines imposed arbitrarily from the top. It worked great and we delivered a useful tool in a relatively quick period with pretty inexperienced devs.

    Every other time though it’s a poor excuse for managers to waste time with useless metrics reporting and whip the devs into coding faster.




  • House plants, rugs, lamps and wall art go a long way towards making stuff look more adult-like and “complete”.

    As far as amenities go, a space heater is pretty meh and they cause a fair amount of house fires. Don’t recommend it. Someone said heating blanket which I will second if you’re trying to save cash.

    Rice cookers are great, but honestly rice isn’t that hard in a pot so I would prioritize other stuff first.

    Bidets are life changing, and they help save on toilet paper which is nice.

    The French press is a really cheap purchase for making coffee and quite versatile.



  • I mean you can definitely get a headset combo for cheaper so it’s not necessarily worth it unless you really like crisp audio quality. I listen to a lot of music too so it was worth it to me to save up and get a nice pair of headphones for like $120. Been using them for like 10 years.

    Regardless I would say buy something with a replaceable cable. Those cables tend to go bad before anything else and it’s a lot cheaper to buy a new one for $10 than replace an entire device.


  • Fuck a headset. Mic quality is typically dog shit compared to a stand alone mic.

    I recommend you buy a nice pair of quality headphones instead. You’re gonna either want those or a nice set of speakers, but typically the headphones are going to be cheaper.

    If you decide you want to do some online gaming or voice calls in the future, you can always buy a standalone desktop mic for like $50-100 and the sound quality will be immaculate.