Reminds me of Matt Berry as Lazlo in What we do in the Shadows.

The last time I went to an oil change place, I wanted it done because I was leaving town the next day. I usually have my regular mechanic (who is excellent and honest; a rare breed) do it, or I do it myself.

The ten minute oil change took an hour and change. They tried to upsell me on a bunch of bullshit and gave me stink eye when I politely told them I just need a conventional oil change, thanks.

They overfilled it by about .75 of a quart. I had to take care of that myself before the aforementioned road trip. The car only holds about four quarts in total.

They charged twice as much as my mechanic who knows what he’s doing and gives a shit. Never again.

I think OP’s screenshot is tactful and effective. It’s similar to my approach. Which starts:

“Thanks for the invitation, what’s on the agenda?”

Then I decide to accept or politely decline and ask for minutes.

What if you enjoy your work and find value in it; and the meeting is pointless bullshit that just breaks your focus?

Do they ever test anything that’s not on a huge screen before rolling to prod?

I feel this way all the time. I used to have to tell my (often less experienced) coworkers “that’s unusable on a device, which is how 75% of our traffic will consume it.”

It was usually because it looked nice on a huge monitor, and in an emulator.

There’s also that period before you leave when you prepare to be away from home all day, and the period after you return home when you decompress. Most people aren’t magically relaxed after dealing with the commute home.

It used to take three hours of my waking life per day. About 18% of my weekday life. 540 hours per year. At $40/hr that’s 21k of free money to the house. FWIW I’d rather have that time to myself and family, but there’s the number.

It’s right there in the name, but then there’s CFML, which is unpopular, but it definitely features logic, variables, and data manipulation.

Found the dev.

Gotcha. Then maybe it is time for them to have a conversation with the friendly network administrator. You might have lost your logs, but university network appliances usually log alot.

Perhaps it’s something that I’m missing. What do you mean when you say their email is confirmed?

Usually when this happens, it’s a result of someone taking advantage of an application vulnerability, e.g. sql injection. Sometimes it’s more serious, like a script uploaded and a privilege escalation to execute it. The email value written to your database could be anything.

Not to condescend, but this is a good learning experience. If they were able to write to your db, they could likely also read from it, dump the whole thing and harvest the data.

How can you determine that someone didn’t use their info as subterfuge? It sounds like most people could find that information and use it. You’ll need a little more evidence.

Personally, I’d ask them if they want to pen test my next application and see how they respond.

For many, a mobile device is their sole computer, and things of importance to them are stored on it.

I found this useful. Admittedly, I don’t know much about the site though.

https://www.inverse.com/health/measles-mmr-vaccine-birth-year-booster

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LibreOffice too for that matter. Kick 'em a few bucks if you can spare it.

https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

I feel like the Adobe marketing is somewhat pointless. Anyone that has been in the target industries for any amount of time already know the deal.

GIMP is not Photoshop. They are not competitors. It’s a difficult transition. I’m not sure we should even bother drawing a comparison.

I’ve used Photoshop since 1992. I know, I’m old. I started using GIMP about four years ago. I recently got to the point where I can function.

Money and momentum is a motherfucker. Adobe has fuck you money. GIMP has volunteers. Those that don’t like their site should volunteer time or money.

Edit: fwiw I like the GIMP site better too.

There were plenty low quality digital point and shoot cameras though.

Absolutely, and thanks for asking. Also, congrats! I’d recommend looking at credit unions (US/Canada) and higher ed. Both are non-profits and good stepping stones. Either can be a career if you don’t want a ‘stepping stone.’ Depending on how altruistic you want to be, you can find either that serve underserved communities. CUs pay better, but are more corporate and demanding. Higher ed doesn’t pay as well, but is more laid back if you can ignore politics, which there is a ridiculous amount of. I worked at a HBCU (US) for a long time, and it was pretty great. Depending on where you are, it’s usually pretty easy to find an open spot at either.

Mom took him to a big office building parking lot on a Sunday when it was quiet. At least that’s how this classically trained driver learned.

Me too, 2010ish though. I wish I could figure out how to boycott AWS. As an aged developer with a little bit of influence, I’ve steered plenty of clients, employers, and peers away, but I still use the internet. There’s no detaching from that.