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A French developer can create a CMS, abandon it, and move on to a humble career in software, and a college student in Houston can fork that CMS, convince another software developer to help him continue the project, turn that into a rather profitable business, and become a wealthy and (until very recently) well-regarded internet person.

daniel.industries/2024/02/29/to-find-an-alternative-to-wordpress-just-go-back-to-the-beginning/

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I quit my job checking email for other people to focus on checking email for myself.

Exported my Notion in an attempt at migrating to Obsidian. The ZIP was 8.5GB, named `GUID1_Export-GUID2` and contained another single ZIP named `GUID2-Part-1`. That ZIP contained a folder `GUID2` with my stuff

I just spent an hour on the phone with first the a doctor's office, then the insurance company, and I've decided to just never attempt to get health care for anything ever again, and someday just die, hopefully quietly

We've all been raised to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, and successful authors like Chuck Palahniuk. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact.

I am attempting a Logseq/Notion to just @obsidian migration. The data transfer is a challenge for more reasons than I can fit in a toot. But the desktop app runs so smooth (I'm on PopOS on slow-for-2024 hardware) that I'm still trying (2 days in). I just confirmed it is Electron. HOW does it run better than MOST apps, and WAY better than any other Electron apps (VSCode being a distant 2nd)? Theory: no JS framework?

So we are supposed to burn the ships but NOT burn the bridges? It seems like the former would be worse, right? Do we unload the ships' cargo first? And what about ferries and barges?

Son, 9, scrolling YouTube, laughs.

Me: what?

Son shows me thumbnail that made him laugh.

Me: yeah that's KISS.

Son: so emo.

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Somewhere under there is a website. I can't imagine why @TexasObserver is struggling with all these growth hacks in play

The news has been so bad lately I couldn't even watch Weekend Update on SNL