Yes. I did maintenance at apartments for college students (which is probably a factor), and plunging their toilets was a regular occurrence. We kept a plunger on the golf cart for this reason, they often didn't own one.
One side note since you mentioned Drano: it made things more difficult for me because they'd use it on more than just clogged toilets: clogged sinks and bathtub drains, which are caused by hair. Using Drano when it's already backed up just dilutes the Drano, rendering it next to useless. I'd have to go fetch gloves and then rigorously clean the acid off my needlenose pliers after removing the hairball.
I used to use RealPage OneSite when I worked in facility maintenance. As recently as 2018, it was an old clunky webapp that only worked in Internet Explorer.
At the time, I was like, why has no one disrupted them yet? but I later realized building boring, complex software like this is hard, and convincing an org with hundreds of satellite offices to switch is even harder.
I like having my terminal attached to my editor, but I don't like it integrated with the editor. Some of the integration features are cool, like clicking to view a file in the editor straight from an error message, but I always get frustrated with the integrated terminal's small size, and it's not convenient to resize it. Or it can slow down the editor when a lot of output is happening (VS Code). Sometimes it's a third-party solution that isn't well maintained (Atom, Sublime Text).
Ideally, I'd love a way to glue sets of windows together and move them around as one piece, without being a tiling window manager.
Great looking tool! I have a UX nitpick about the pricing page, the loading indicator saying "fetching our best prices" gives me the impression that the prices change frequently, and that I should check back later.
I'm curious about this too, as I've only used credit unions and branchless banks. Credit union branches are plastered with loan and mortgage advertising, and the people who handle the loans are salespeople, but I've never been "ambushed" upon walking in.
What do you dislike about tab groups? Or is Chrome's implementation on mobile not good?
I think the current design is ugly. The way Edge handles them in the vertical tabs sidebar looks a lot better than the way other Chromium derivatives handle them in the tab strip, but still not the best. I like Vivaldi's implementation better, but the UI is relatively laggy. I miss old Opera.
I use Hugo for my blog and keep it NPM-free. I try to be careful with my dependencies (currently 3; 2 of which I maintain), which I manage using Hugo's modules feature and keep local copies using the `hugo mod vendor` command.
My posts are in Markdown files, and I write them using either my text editor or Typora, which is a little more WYSIWYG and makes adding images so much easier.
Hugo's archetypes feature is great: running `hugo new posts/title.md` quickly scaffolds a new post based on a template from a Markdown file, with frontmatter entered already, and then opens that Markdown file in Typora, ready to start writing (you can add your editor in Hugo's config). While it wouldn't be too difficult to make a script that does this, I loved having this out of the box.
I remember installing Ubuntu just to be able to use OpenShot, there was nothing like it on Windows where I had to do most of my work. Great to see that it’s cross-platform now, as of about 9 years ago.
The man in question is Thomas Midgley Jr., the inventor of leaded gasoline, for those who don't want to watch a 24min video that buries the lead (pardon the pun).
Evernote started going south for me in 2014. I switched to OneNote and things were great, but it’s far more than I need.
These days I just use Apple Notes and it’s been flawless.
Notion looks neat but I’m wary of startups now. I’d probably use SimpleNote if I switched.
I also have a bunch of scattered markdown notes everywhere, wouldn’t be too hard for me to just sync a folder and use something like Typora to make adding images easier.
I'm in the same boat. I ran and maintained my own VPS for a decade to host several WordPress sites. I'm not a sysadmin, and package updates can be a nightmare if you only deal with it once every few months.
Ultimately I gave up and moved to SSGs + CloudFlare Pages, and put the WordPress sites I couldn't convert on managed hosting. My life has been so much easier.
This all will change in the future - I do think the free SSG hosting is a temporary loss leader for these companies. Hosting on a VPS would yield faster builds and serving static files isn't hard. And I'm sure there will be even easier ways to host WordPress sites.