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Building hallway.fm and finding fun new ways to bend Laravel tools to my will.
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What’s wrong with that? It’s how I’ve named my kids and they’re all turned out fine.
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Good move. Anyone who skims it and answers anything other than 0 will have the name on their badge replaced with a rejected AWS product name.
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The Second Regreatening was a time of unprecedented peace, harmony, and prosperity until a secret agent of the Woke Legions toppled the emperor. We know little about the so-called Rainbow Ages that followed except for what’s in the few remaining works of noted philosopher Grok.
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There had better not be a redemption arc for him.
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Yeah. My teenager gets to book his own seat when he flies Economy Basic. But I thought maybe that was because his frequent flights from Zurich to Chicago have earned him status. We never book basic for ourselves because I prefer to fly without hand luggage. I'd rather replace stuff than carry it.
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I’ve only had it go wrong once. Years ago we had an overbooked flight where we didn’t pay for seats and they offered to rebook us. We declined and my then 6-year-old sat with a nice older couple from Chicago to Long Island. But he’d already flown several times so he was fine.
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Also, for Orlando check Discover Airlines out of Frankfurt. We got really good prices for a trip last year and they sell cabin upgrades dirt cheap at the gate if there’s room.
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If your kids are too young to fly unaccompanied they’ll be seated with you as part of the random seating assignment.
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“That’s okay. I can get home from anywhere in Basel. But she couldn’t.” I’m raising a real helper. I’m proud of him. And I need to keep a closer eye on him or my wife will end me.
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It would also be helpful to place them all on the south bank of the Thames to ensure plenty of foot traffic.
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This was not a good use of an hour. Every time I set out to try to do anything meaningful with GitHub, whether it's branch protection rules, setting up any sort of integration, etc. it just burns so much time.
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We send our toddler to a daycare every day where he’s learning to speak a language we don’t know ourselves. He and his brothers have a “secret language” they can use around the house and we only catch every third word.
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I’m rooting for this but it’s small potatoes for me personally.
The big win for me would be LaHood’s bill to let me claim non-resident status, pay an exit tax, and never file a personal tax return again.
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Yeah, it might make claiming the R&D tax credit harder for small businesses, but most US software businesses are currently breaking the law by not amortizing their developer salaries and instead deducting them as regular expenses. That's the big problem this fixes even if creates new ones.
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It's not the claiming piece that's currently a problem. It's the amortization requirement. All developer salaries have to be amortized because all software development is classified as R&D. This can be tough for small businesses to swallow.
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If have gone with Moistly Turntable.
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That's my exit strategy.
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The one thing I'll say about us not prioritizing many of the rituals that other couples do is that it can complicate immigration interviews when our marriage is a key component of the visa. Though I guess the two kids indicate that if it were a sham, we're seriously overbaking it.
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We were already married (we don't remember that date either). Most of the guests didn't know that at the time. So for us, it was just an excuse to gather our families in the same country for what we assumed would be the only time. It's been a fun decade or so.
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Try the dishwasher. Whenever anything goes missing here that’s where we find it.
Ours is two. Good luck.
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People said that about me for a while, but eventually my wardrobe came back into fashion.
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I think I’d actually prefer this to normal airplane seats for short flights.
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This message brought to you by an afternoon filled with a 9-year-old’s German and English homework and paperwork for the Spanish government.
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The density here isn't accidental. It's planned and nurtured. The same induced demand phenomenon that immediately clogs up any additional lane you add to a highway works for dense housing and transit too, once you provide them at meaningful scale.
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I can’t wait to watch you tag Verbs 1.0 live on stage.
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This might be the most profitable 3 hours I’ve spent in my IDE, at least in terms of value to the ecosystem. I can’t wait to show all of you what I’ve cooked up.
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So far my biggest win in this arena is Enums, complete with static and non-static methods with arguments and return types. And everything generated comes with pseudocode comments and a to-do list to make it super easy to take the next step.
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If my son were academically inclined I’d encourage him to pursue biotech. It’ll never stop growing. He’s not. If we were in America I’d point him toward a trade or maybe law enforcement. Those aren’t available to him here, so I’m not sure what to tell him.