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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • My dad, whenever someone would bang their head, or stub their toe, or hit their thumb with a hammer, would say, “doesn’t it feel good when you stop?”

    That’s kind of how I feel about programming. It’s like repeatedly hitting yourself in the head with a hammer because it feels so good when you stop. I’m so addicted to the feeling of solving the problem, that I keep seeking out problems to torture myself with.


  • On the other hand, it needs to be made clear to the less tech savvy consumers, and that is sometimes far from easy.

    My mother-in-law received a rechargeable electric lighter as a gift. The instructions included told her to use the 5 inch long USB C cable to plug the lighter into her computer to charge.

    She doesn’t have a computer.

    She does have a smart phone that came with a USB C charging cable and power adapter. It took us almost 20 minutes to get her to understand that she could take the cable she uses to charge her phone and use it to charge the lighter. She was incredibly confused by the concept that a phone could share the same charging hardware as an electronic lighter.