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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • If I can rent it out for the night so its just me and my buddies it’d be great! Of course it’ll need a completntary extra tall dude who sits in front of me, a crying baby, an old lady with a nasty caugh, and the dude with an obnonxious laugh who seen the movie 6 times and spoils everything.




  • Its features are great, like any other web confrence software that does the same.

    However the constant UI changes lead to a lot of issues for IT people who have re-tech the entire staff how to use it every update. For a small business thats not probably too bad. For somewhere with hundreds of employee working from home who barley know where the start menu is - that’s a nightmare.

    The “new” teams doesn’t work with business accounts. you have to use the specific, now seperate, version for “work and school”. Guess which one the everyone’s existing desktop link is to? Now IT has to get everyone to use the right version of teams…an absolutely insane choice and terrible end user expirence.









  • I can solve problems and always get my work done, but I don’t even know the language/framework I use daily well enough to explain what’s going on, I can just do things.

    Solving problems and getting a result that someone else is happy with is 90% of engineering. No one knows everything, your job is to use what you DO know to figure something new out.

    The last 10% is what you need to work on - being able to confidently explain to a boss what you do in way that they understand while sounding complex enough to justify your pay and subsequent raises.

    In time you will learn whatever system your using.

    However, on the flip side, if the current job isn’t getting you anywhere and everyone there sucks. Leave, take the better paying job for a little while, continue working on your skills and look for a engineering job elsewhere.


  • I use Spytify, so I “download” my songs real time in the background. If anything it makes me more intentional about what I do grab. Grabbing the entire discography of an artists may take a day, so a little pre-veting is necessary. you find out why some of the big names only have 1 or 2 hits out of a hundred, but you also find some great songs that didn’t make it.

    I’ll usually aquire a few albums at a time. I’ll give each song a quick pass (jumping to random parts) to determine the following

    1. is the song awful and/or nothing like what the artist normally does = Delete.
    2. is there dead space (a really long start/end of silence) or random talking/noises = trim
    3. is it the volume stupidly loud/quiet compared to other songs = fix*
    4. stupid rap section in the middle for no reason (thank god that trend is basically gone) = cut
    5. what playlists does it belong in?

    *I use MP3Gain for bulk volume adjustment, it does pretty good and is non-destructive, though not every player respects the adjustment (a tag in metadata or something)

    I don’t catch everything doing this, mostly because I spend a few seconds on each song, but it does filter out a lot.

    Sometimes it takes a few listens to decide “I dont like this song” - delete.

    I’m not a completionist (or try not to be) for albums/artists. If I don’t like the song, its gone. If there’s one part of a whole that I don’t like, its chopped out.


  • Spytify

    It records Spotify music real time, at the highest available bit rate (as long as you set it). Uses Spotify API to pull track metadata and album art. Its smart enough to not records ads and auto deletes tracks under 30 seconds (I think you can change the time)

    It’s slower than YouTube DL, but having all the metadata sorted out for you is a big plus.

    Its probably about 98% error free, sometimes a second of a song ending gets put on the next track. A quick cut/paste in Audacity and it’s fixed.

    It works best if you have a separate audio device, otherwise other computer sound gets recorded too. I’m not going to do a full tutorial (unless someone asks), but basically you set the audio for Spotify on audio device #2, and continue as normal on audio device #1. It has a loopback feature too, so if you want to listen/record the same time you can.