My discord server was flagged as "offensive" and removed from public listings without giving a clear reason why. It took me weeks to accidentally discover the cause, which was the name of a channel: #bugs-minor. Renaming it to #bugs removed the flagged status.
What do professionals do when the hardware fails? Do they have regular backups, then buy the same hardware on ebay and then restore the "golden" setup?
I recently tried to reinstall an old MacBook 13" that had a hard drive replacement. I couldn't log in to perform the install, Apple servers were throwing me an error. The only choice I had is to put another OS on it.
I had something similar happen with a translations file for a game.
It has a column with keys like "created.at" and a column with human readable translation.
Google Sheets automatically create links to anything that looks like an URL, so "created.at" becomes a link. And if you're not careful to immediately remove those auto created links, some of them can lead to malicious sites, then Google will detect your sheet containing those malicious links. In my case Google blocked sharing, but didn't take the document down.
Still, I believe it's terrible UI/UX, to automatically link to malicious sites and then penalize the sheet owner for this.
I started streaming my programming sessions live on Twitch, with desktop capture, camera and voice. It was super awkward early on, but after doing this for 3 years almost every day, I am more relaxed with 100 viewers than with 3 in the beginning. You just get used to anything that is uncomfortable if you keep doing it.
Two years ago I quit my SRE job and took a leap of faith to develop a game I would love to play myself. It's a crossover between Factorio and RimWorld. It is by far the most complex software project I have worked on throughout my 20-ish years in tech, and I'm loving every moment of it.
It will likely flop, and I did ruin my career for this, but it was my childhood dream to make games, and I can finally say I'm doing it. If you're interested to see the progress of my two years of work: https://stardeusgame.com - there is a demo on Steam.
I recently tried to answer the same question for myself when I wanted to figure out what color palette to use in my game. Basically the idea is that you can divide the 360 degree hue into even sections and get colors from that. Put different luminosities in the mix and set same saturation of everything, and you've got yourself a beautiful palette with tons of coherent colors.
I haven't found a tool that would help generating such palettes, so I built one for myself, feel free to use it:
For past 1.5 years I've been developing a game part time. The game is a 2D top down racing with procedurally generated race tracks. It is the biggest and most fulfilling pet project I have ever done.
You can find it on Steam or Reddit, search for "Bloody Rally Show".
I have used 1password for years, until they started pushing their cloud subscription for android app. Switched to KeePass, don't need wine for linux anymore, and regret not doing this earlier.
Lack of stars usually means that project is dead or has absolutely no community, so a red flag. Plenty of stars only says it's popular, not that it's a good fit for you.
Problem with sharing your behavior, even in aggregated form, is that you are becoming a subject for all the evil A/B tests which are designed to make you:
- buy more stuff you don't need
- look at ads longer
- more likely to click a button because of specific color
- scroll your feed longer because of the content you are getting served
I'm not sharing shit with anyone, no matter if it's anonymous, aggregated or not.