This reminds me of a time when I had become jaded as a camera store employee. I got in the habit of telling people that the cameras they were hoping to buy were essentially landfill filler. This website would have been a useful resource for confirming that point.

Oddly, it was an effect tool for up-selling cameras. The higher end cameras tended to last slightly longer before getting binned.

A few years ago I made the decision to go back to school (for two years) to be a web dev. It cost me approximately $25k. Immediately after graduation I added $25k to my yearly income. There is a ton of work for web developers, and there will continue to be for some time (even if something comes along that makes web devs redundant, there is still decades of maintenance work in the market).

It may be important to clarify exactly what you mean by web developer though. I work in many different portions of the web stack every day (database, server side code, front-end code, etc). The more diverse your skill set, the more opportunity there will be.

At any rate, web is a really good entry point, and after a few years in industry you'll probably start to see different branches of development that appeal to you more. If you start out as a web dev there will always be different avenues and opportunities as your career advances.

As someone who developed parnosmia later in life (I can only smell certain things), I found this article very interesting. Living without the ability to smell is somewhat more isolating than one would think. That, and I have to really trust someone if I want an opinion of whether the milk's gone bad

If you have to even ask, throw it out.

I'd rather not make another trip to the shop

We definitely need to give Swiffer an honorable mention. Dust in your house? Why not clean it up and create an enormous pile of trash at the same time!!!

It's not clear to me that you're saving much of anything by using, for example, a washable duster versus a disposable duster. It takes a lot of water to wash things at your home. It doesn't take very much water to make a box of disposable dusters. Etc, etc.

K-cups are decidedly bad, because they waste plastics which are non-renewable. Dusters could be made, today, using only renewable resources.

I googled around and it seems the swiffer cloth has never been compostable.

As in it's made of plastic? Ooof, I retract my statement.

Well water isn't trash, so just by virtue of producing the swiffer it's creating more waste than the alternative.

I always appreciate commit messages that are informative and well structured. That said, I'm not a fan of specific formats for commits. The commit messages in a project are where a lot of that project's collective "personality" is stored. If you look through the commits for a project with a "colorful" variety of messages, you'll get a sense not only of the work that was done, but of the people who helped create the project.

Somewhat related: @git_commit_m on twitter has some great (and amusing!) examples of what not to use for commit messages, which are pulled from github's public data set.

This whole article seems like an offhand way to get people to stockpile aquarium antibiotics. This guy is obviously on Big Aquarium Pharma's payrol.

“It’s like salmon,” he said. “They’ll return to the place where they were spawned.”

Mark my words, someone is going to memorize the entire thing and use it as a party trick.

Anyone have comments on how this might stack up against AG-Grid?

AG-Grid has some features that tabulator lacks, like multi-cell editing and cell group selection. (but these features will be coming soon to Tabulator)

AG-Grid focus's on being a fully functional spreadsheet where as tabulator goes more down the route of interactive table.

Tabulator has a publicly visible development roadmap so you can see roughly when new features are going to come online.

There is a new release every month or so, so if there is a feature you feel you need you can create an issue on GitHub to get it added to the roadmap.

Most importantly, Tabulator is FREE even for commercial use!

Ag-Grid lost my business for having a very complex, immovable licensing structure. I'm not sure who pays them but someone must be OK with it since they're still in business. It's a shame because I really like the quality of the code and would gladly pay their asking price if they would have a realistic outlook on educational organizations or startups.

I am VERY excited to start trying to use this instead.

The company I work for pays for Ag-Grid, which makes me sad. Overall I find it has been fairly difficult to work with, and there are a lot of breaking changes when upgrading from older versions. I think we could get away with something like Tabulator for most of our use cases. I'm definitely going to try to sell it to the team