That’s what I like about Ruby ORMs. They did all the conversion for you, and you could have SQLite on your dev box, Postgres on the test server and MySQL on the annoying production host that wouldn’t run anything else.

This was 18 years ago though.

Our dog is kinda gray, but his hair is banded black/white/black. So it shows up on anything.

Unfortunately he sheds like 2 dogs so we’re ultimately in the same boat.

Reusable grocery bags are the most embarrassing, so I end up cleaning them every week.

Dog tax:

I’m 6’3 and tall to most people, but fit under most doors just fine.

Basement stairs can fuck right off though I’ve done that lotsa times and it managed to be a surprising painful thing every time.

Also I think I’d laugh if someone said and if the short guy things to me, I get called things like string bean and “big guy” by bros who don’t know me.

Building up massive credit card debt was always my dad’s plan at the end. But sudden heart failure got him before that.

Actually our dog does sit that way. He looks broken when he does it too. The rest of that photo is whack though.

Of course I can’t find a good photo of it now, but if you look closely you can see it in this one.

He’s a Swedish Valhund btw, weird little dog.

Ellie dozing in the snow.

Most of New England is named that way too. The problem is that the same road ends up with 2 names depending on which direction or end you are in.

Got luck getting an ambulance dispatched to the right place (in my unfortunate experience).

As a designer who turned into a developer, had to do minor server stuff, manage my own freelance projects and debug it all…

I quit and started working in old cars and handyman stuff. Not a Luddite, but fuck marketing, temporarily organizing pixels, and spying on users for pennies.

Enablers are bad, yes, but invading aggressors are worse.

Your comment reads like “both sides” Russian propaganda.

The proof is sort of in the lifespan of the milk.

I haven’t noticed it going bad sooner yet. It’s possible that other adulterants start showing up, but there are still lawyers that can sue companies if they find them fucking around.

That said we need to kick the fucker who are enabling this shit, out of the government ASAP.

We put out nog and cookies for Santa (me I’m the dad now) and carrots for the reindeer.

The weather in New England and upper New York is very much like German weather, and sometimes worse. We’ve had snow on the grounds since the 30th of November and it’s only barely reached 0C in the last week.

It was -15C a couple nights ago at roughly the latitude of Rome, next to the ocean too. And only about 50km northwest (inland) it went down to -25C.

This has been a colder December than average for the last decade, but we have mountains that regularly get meters of snow each winter, and they are way lower elevation than the alps too. Also as we all know the last decade has been stoopid warm.

Mt Washington has measured the highest wind speed in the world.

I used to use ORMs because they made switching between local dev DBs ( like SQLLite, or Postgres) and production DBs usually painless. Especially for Ruby/Sinatra/Rails since we were writing the model queries in another abstraction. It meant we didn’t have to think as much about joins and all that stuff. Until the performance went to shit and you had to work out why.

Or just building a straight close of your idea and crushing you. Happened to my startup.

I was working with the education division about a decade and a bit ago when they had an open source platform with sensors and motors. Then iRobot abruptly killed that division too, right as our project was getting going.

I haven’t felt good about that company since.

They can keep Toledo now that they’ve ruined it, but it’s clearly a chunk out of Michigan if you look at the maps.

Fucking Ohio. Except Cedar Point maybe, haven’t be there in 15 years though, it might suck now too.

So you’re saying it’s not going to get better for me next year either?

It wasn’t as long when I fist saw it, but I don’t know if it got longer than this as I moved away years ago.

Some people just want to watch the nerds squirm.

This guy used to live near me: