I used their mapping and geocoding APIs for years, back when I was negotiating contracts. They’re good (at least in N. America) and 1/5th the price of google.

Twin size are plenty big for my 350lb frame to cocoon up in. King sized blankets are 7 feet wide.

For close to 20 years now my wife and I have bought twin sized flat sheets and blankets for our king bed. We’re both blanket hogs and now we get to be by not sharing. People used to look at us like we were crazy when we mentioned it, but I hear more and more people doing it and even saw and article calling it the “Scandinavian method” or something else pretentious sounding.

We’ve been doing it so long I feel like we invented it, even though that’s a silly idea. But I am half Scandi so, you know, maybe it was named after me.

I’m going to assume this was Daniel O’Brien’s doing… because he’s the only Last Week writer I know specifically.

That’s actually the area I currently work in, though not banking specifically. We do financial software for small governments. All the software was written in the 80s and 90s and we’re babying it along well into the 2030s in all likelihood. Those old systems require very specific environments which we’re now trying to emulate in the cloud. It’s fairly specific at the end of the day. And because this small government segment is currently undergoing consolidation I know what we see is the norm.

Thankfully I just have to maintain the cloud infrastructure and making it as reliable and secure as possible.

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I don’t like living in the future as much as young me thought I would.

I would say you can’t separate the two. It’s a natural extension of Gall’s Law, the simple system that works is the stack.

You know when users complain about the lingering bugs, unexpected slow downs, and slow delivery of new features caused by tech debt (even though they don’t know that). That’s them caring about your stack, whether they know it or not.

General popular buy in.

If 5% of the country tries to strike it’s just going to get 5% of people fired with a poisoned reference on their CV, and get a story on page 3 of a billionaire owned newspaper. In the US right now 45% of the country would actively oppose a general strike, 30% would be oblivious to it happening until they got to work that day and wondered why Chris and Pat aren’t in, and 20% would decline for fear of reprisal (sans union protection).