If your inkjet printer has the right tray, you can buy printable CD-Rs for about 25 cents a piece in bulk. And somewhat unrelated, I've also been printing out a lot more of the photos I take.
I got a Canon PRO-100 printer for $25 off of Facebook marketplace, they practically gave them away with higher end DSLRs so they're easy to get second hand, and a set of generic ink cartridges is about $15. With generic ink and generic photo paper, you can do a 13x19 prints for about 50 cents each. It's not archival grade printing, but it's pretty good and affordable.
The HN perennial video, "You Suck at Excel" by Joel Spolsky [1] really changed my view on spreadsheets. I had never bothered to learn them enough to utilize naming or any of the features that make spreadsheets much more comprehensible. I was very happy to see Google Sheets added named tables recently, too.
I've recently been experimenting in Apps Script to write my own (physical) book collection record system with a USB barcode scanner. So far I have nothing polished enough to show, but it is a very cool platform. I found it a bit frustrating that I couldn't just import NPM packages, but at the same time it's a good excuse to embrace simplicity and skip a library like Axios, and rely on its built-in fetch()-like API.
1: The original YouTube video has since been taken down, but you can still view it through the Wayback Machine:
Résumé/CV: https://jacklew [dot] is/JackLewisResume [dot] pdf
Email: jack [at] jacklew [dot] is
I am a full stack developer with 10 years of experience, most of which doing Node.js backend services, React frontend UIs, both in Javascript and Typescript, and backed with Postgres databases. Most recently I was at an autonomous vehicle startup, working on data pipelines, vehicle log offloads, and processing logs, mostly in Python/Spark, but also working with lower level components in C and Rust.
Those mosquito things are awful, I'm in my early 30s so I can't really hear 17.4 Khz tones anymore, but my neighbors have this awful animal repellent device in their garden that goes off during the night, it's about 12-15 Khz and is infuriating.
Résumé/CV: https://jacklew [dot] is/JackLewisResume [dot] pdf
Email: jack [at] jacklew [dot] is
I am a full stack developer with 10 years of experience, most of which doing Node.js backend services, React frontend UIs, both in Javascript and Typescript, and backed with Postgres databases. Most recently I was at an autonomous vehicle startup, working on data pipelines, vehicle log offloads, and processing logs, mostly in Python/Spark, but also working with lower level components in C and Rust.
Classic 45-47 maneuver, first create a problem. Then solve it, often poorly and incompletely. Finally, claim victory, another 300 IQ 5D chess move in the books.
Or set a little timing booby trap. Like in this, "We're going to cut Medicaid, but only after the midterms, so if you start screaming about it, we'll blame the Dems for it."
I got a Canon PRO-100 printer for $25 off of Facebook marketplace, they practically gave them away with higher end DSLRs so they're easy to get second hand, and a set of generic ink cartridges is about $15. With generic ink and generic photo paper, you can do a 13x19 prints for about 50 cents each. It's not archival grade printing, but it's pretty good and affordable.