Seems like this should be obvious, but it's not about the grass. It's about the loss of agency.
Readit Newsstevenbrianhall commented on No Salt jakeseliger.com/2024/08/0... · Posted by u/jdkee
Damn - this + the hospice piece really hits home.
My dad is rapidly loosing his battle with ALS. He has always loved to cut grass. He has very limited mobility (in some ways he is lucky, most people with late stage ALS are basically paralyzed. His progression is respiratory focuses so he is loosing the ability to breath faster than the ability to walk) but with some assistance has still been able to use my zero turn mower and get a little joy out of cutting my grass.
Just this Sunday he reached the point where he can't cut anymore...I guess he is out of salt :'(
> I guess he is out of salt :'(
Ouch, this one hurts. I lost my Dad to pancreatic cancer last year and had a very similar experience - he loved jumping on the tractor and cutting the grass on his little farm, but we went so quickly from him asking me do it temporarily while he recovered from surgery to him never getting on the tractor again.
So sorry for what you're going through, and wishing you some peace wherever you can find it. My email is in my bio, please reach out if you need someone to talk to (I have no useful expertise or advice of any kind here, but will gladly lend a listening ear).
When I moved to my current job a year ago, I shut down my business and closed a checking, savings, business checking, and credit card account with Bank of America. I had a Simple invite sitting around, and thought it made sense to consolidate and...Simplify, making my single Simple account my sole bank.
I couldn't be happier with that decision, and believe that I have been saving money (in both fees and in general) because of Simple's interface.
So with this news, I feel excited for their team, but still very nervous. I joined Simple precisely because I was tired of dealing with a megabank (like many folks here), so if Simple can continue to buck the trend and stay customer-focused and agile, then I'll continue to be all-in.
I can't recommend Codewars highly enough as a way to sharpen your skills. It's like a slightly more verbose, prettier Project Euler.
They currently support CoffeeScript, Javascript, and Ruby, but are working on supporting a ton more. Definitely worth investigating.
stevenbrianhall commented on Show HN: Kite - Start building a web app in one click runkite.com/beta/... · Posted by u/Elesant
I've downloaded the client, added an app (Django, Rails, and Node). When I tried to view the page, it 404'd and then promptly walked me through SSHing in and starting the server process.
I'm impressed.
Later in the day I'll dive a little deeper, but between frictionless "add an app" process to the way it feels like a local development environment - I think you've got a winner here.
Now, when can I pay you for this service? :)
stevenbrianhall commented on Ask HN: Freelancers - what do you use to generate quotes and invoices? · Posted by u/zensavona
I'm a huge fan of http://www.freeagent.com/
stevenbrianhall commented on Ask HN: Please help a first-year CS student contribute to OSS · Posted by u/jpau
I actually just committed my first Open Source contribution patch to the next Wordpress release yesterday afternoon - http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/25086
After asking lots of questions, I was pointed to http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/, which does a pretty decent job outlining the workflow. It helps to read a lot of tickets first to get a feel for what they're fixing - http://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/14 and then find a neglected (but fairly recent) but and chip away at it.
It's overwhelming, but I've found a great amount of confidence in just picking a (tiny) bug, fixing it, and watching the process work. Good luck to you!
stevenbrianhall commented on Ask HN Googlers: would you invite a fellow geek to visit the Googleplex? · Posted by u/phaser
I'm a Googler and would be glad to show you around one afternoon. Shoot me an e-mail (address is in my profile) and tell me a little more about yourself and we can work out the details.
(Edit: También hablo Español si te hace sentir más cómodo.)