Vivaldi also has tab groups.

might one say “one for the cock, one for the lock”?

My last job had those, prepandemic. It was nice.

Current job has an accessible button to open the door that I can hit with my knee.

Plenty of kids go to the library. When I worked in a public library, it’d be fun to check in books and find a stack of 20 toddler books on, say, “dinosaurs” or “dump trucks”. You could tell when someone’s kid went through a phase.

I can’t guarantee an online researcher/visitor has anything other than a browser and I sure as heck don’t want to walk them through installing something on whatever machine they’re using. I do enough tech support as it is.

Current plan is to have the web server do it, it’s just another thing on my plate that I need to figure out how to do.

We use it at my library/archive to convert EADs (XML finding aids) into something we can present to a human.

This change breaks something that’s been working for us without issue for over a decade, and it’s personally a PITA because I’m the only dev-adjacent person in the library and fixing this takes me away from other stuff. (I’m spread thin and we’ve been in a hiring freeze for 5 years. I love my coworkers but there’s so much work stuff I have to deprioritoze in order to do the important stuff, it feels unfair when a big corporation decides to break something on me.)

Yesterday’s technology today at tomorrow’s prices?

Prepaid cards have numbers that identify them.

Which, btw, makes perfect sense. As a shop that takes credit cards, I would want to know if someone has signed up for a subscription service with a prepaid card, since the card may run out, prematurely cancelling the service.

There’s a big database at the backend of the credit card processor that keeps track of all this stuff. The shop can tell a lot about you based on your card number.

We had a medical scare just yesterday. I was in the ER for 8 hours with my partner over a non-life-threatening but still emergency problem.

An ultrasound, cat scan, and much poking and prodding later, we still don’t know what is up. The AI was at least able to predict next steps (if A then discharge and follow up with PCP, if B then surgery this week, if C then emergency surgery), something the ER was too busy to do for several hours. It was reassuring. The AI also gave me (working) links to more thorough resources on the topic.

Currently two doses of the MMR vaccine in childhood are recommended in the US, as of 1989 iirc. I got a fresh dose recently as an adult because I knew I’d had the first MMR shot but wasn’t sure about the second, plus I really don’t want measles. The pharmacy didn’t give any pushback when I asked for the shot.

Erin in the Morning is a reputable source, too. That blog has been sharing trans girl scout cookies for years.

Yep. Good news on that front: libraries I’ve worked at just don’t keep records of what you’ve checked out after you’ve returned it, unless there was some sort of fine or something. Can’t give up data you don’t have and if the library avoids storing the data for anyone then it’s hard to accuse the library of selectively hiding data.

That’s so “Gift of the Magi” 😭

I know what I’m playing with tomorrow

Some folks just don’t get that not everyone loves guns or wants to have them around. When we visited my in-laws, my partner’s dad tried to insist he bring home his childhood guns. We lived in Massachusetts at the time, a state notorious for not handing gun permits out willy-nilly, and neither of us had a permit. Dad was like “just keep in in your car, it’ll be fine”. We drove a hatchback, we didn’t even have a locking trunk, much less a gun safe.

We did not go home with any guns on that visit.

Partner’s next visit, partner flew and his dad tried to give him guns again. Still no gun permit. Yeah, let’s fly through Logan airport with a gun in carry-on luggage. Never mind partner was flying to a third state prior to heading back to Massachusetts. Just nuts.

Even teenagers sometimes prefer dead tree books to ebooks. Back when I worked in a public library, we could tell when a book was assigned reading because we’d suddenly get 10 requests for our 2 copies. The students had access to the ebook, they just preferred paper.

It’s what’s available within walking distance of my office. That’s the only reason I ever go there–to pick up a sandwich and a coffee over lunch.

It means I didn’t finish my thought. Oops. I’ll go back and edit.

Plastic recorders are great. They’re portable, durable, and most 5th graders have one. Only downside I see is you can’t blow them through a gas mask.

Low quality ones are also wicked cheap. ($2 at my local dollar store)

I’m a public (state) employee. My name, title, and salary are posted publicly. I don’t see why ICE agents shouldn’t enjoy that same level of transparency.