I'm several months into https://www.clearboxlegal.com, a service for affordable legal help with citizenship applications.
Right now we're trying to figure out our funnels. We've had some pretty good success doing things that don't scale particularly well, like going to immigration events. Now I'm working on getting better visibility across the country (SEO, Google Ads, etc...).
Subheadings are one of those little things I've wondered about the proper semantics for a million times and always end up doing something slightly different on the fly.
Worse, it has changed content rules and semantics in backward-incompatible ways. Meaning there are pages out there that used to be valid, but aren't anymore. And since HTML spills to EPub specs, I recall there were EPubs or EPub spec examples/test suites themselves having to change specifically, epubcheck being actually used for validation and hence directly noting this backward incompatibility.
In a nutshell, hgroup was originally criticized and rejected when W3C was still redacting HTML specs received from the loose group of browser devs and other people calling themselves "WHAT working group" because it paired headings of multiple ranks in a way that confused assistive technologies in browsers. But the first (and at the same time the last;) W3C HTML recommenndation created as unredacted WHAT WG spec snapshot under the W3C/WHATWG "memorandum of understanding" actually smuggled hgroup in. Then Steve Faulkner removed HTML outlining and the whole concept of sectioning roots that was part of Ian Hickson's vision of "HTML 5" for the longest time, but W3C never actually started a new recommendation process afterwards, and the charter for the HTML WG at W3C, Inc. has ended last year. See details at [1].
Arguably, with this change in 2023, we're now post-HTML5. But don't tell the people believing in a single "HTML 5 standard".
unlike the <blink> tag where younger people will just stare at you in a creepy extended unblinking gaze. it would be so much more satisfying if it still made them blink.
You might want to check out RescueTime's slack integration. It can sort of do what you're asking for. You can configure it to update your Slack status with whatever category of app you're spending time in.
Unless they've changed something in the last year since I used it.
I went through a bit of a roller-coaster reading this thread.
First I want to say, good for this guy! He noticed himself getting into a bad place and made a change. A change that he seems psyched about. That's legitimately great.
But as I was reading it, I couldn't help thinking "That's not burnout. WTF is this guy talking about???". Taking a few deep breaths, the rational take is more like "Wow, burnout hits everyone differently. This guy's experience seems WAY different than mine."
When I hit my breaking point, I couldn't do anything. I couldn't THINK about doing anything. I was so burned out that even the thought of starting something new sent me into panic attacks. There was no optimistic story I could tell myself (or anyone else) about the future.
To me, burnout felt like there was a gear in my head that's supposed to turn at 100 rpms and it had gotten sped up to a million rmps, and it was stuck that way. And it was throwing off sparks and teetering and threatening to fly loose at any moment. When I finally left my job, it took a solid 6 months of doing nothing for that gear to START feeling like it was slowing down to normal speed. It was the worst.
I had a similar conversation with a manager a few years back, and it went much better than I expected. It's tough, because on one hand you're literally saying to the boss, "I'm currently unhappy and unable to work at the level I expect of myself.", but hopefully they are able to empathize enough to want to work through it. It could easily go the other way, though. My advice is to be prepared for it to be a conversation that leads to you not working there anymore, but at the same time be open to being pleasantly proved wrong.
Also, burnout feels terrible. Really sorry to hear that. Good luck!
> "I'm currently unhappy and unable to work at the level I expect of myself."
I think this is a really good way of putting it. I think it's also important to realize that you may go through stages of feeling like this fairly frequently. It's when you don't do something about it (often because you feel like you can't), that it gets to be a problem.
The conversation "I want to do more / I want to do better. Here are the things that are in my way", feels a bit awkward at first, but in reality it is music to a manager's ears -- especially if your manager has been thinking, "What's going on with Joe? I really expect more from him." Often they are afraid to broach the subject because they don't want to put pressure on you and potentially make things worse.
Removing roadblocks so that people can do their work really well is the job of a manager. I think that many people don't realize this and as a result don't take advantage of/empower their managers. Often people view their manager as an impediment to work around (or simply as the gatekeeper to getting a higher salary).
Even if things are going well, I recommend that people get into the habit of saying, "I want to improve X, but I'm having difficulty because of Y" (even if Y is, "I don't know what to do"). See how your manager reacts and whether or not they can help you (directly or indirectly). A good manager is worth a lot!
Right now we're trying to figure out our funnels. We've had some pretty good success doing things that don't scale particularly well, like going to immigration events. Now I'm working on getting better visibility across the country (SEO, Google Ads, etc...).
I'm learning a lot, but it's slow going.