I think the adoption of 3d secure will be better in preventing fraud than giving banks more access to my personal information.

I suspect access to this information won't be limited to fraud detection but loans, mortgages, etc.

What happens to people like me who don't really use social media as well?

I'm in that same boat. My guess is it's going to end up being just like having no credit previously. The advice is to open a credit card and use it a little bit every month and pay it off entirely to build up your credit. They will recommend creating social media accounts and posting a little bit regularly so that your social media credit score can build.

I'm afraid we are building ourselves a tech dystopia, not the bright future that most of us have thought.

> They will recommend creating social media accounts and posting a little bit regularly so that your social media credit score can build.

Hey, now there's a great use for genAI. If we decline to the point where social media use is basically required, I'd totally just set up an LLM to post made-up stuff automatically for me so I won't have to bother doing it myself.

They are not talking about that, they are trying to catch money laundering and traffics etc. And using that as an excuse to suck all of people data for marketing.

I started off with a regular desk and instead of throwing out my old desk, I just bought a standing desk converter and I really like it. I alternate between sitting and standing throughout the day and it has helped significantly with my back pain. Here's the standing desk converter that I bought[0]. In hindsight I wish I started off with a high quality adjustable desk but I don't regret my path at all.

[0]: https://www.vari.com/varidesk-converters/for-desktops/

The fairphone now looks like the next phone I'll purchase when I need to. I'm still surviving off a pixel 2. The battery is crap but I always keep a portable on me to account for that.

I love using chrome overrides to test if a front-end bug is fixed on production data! The feedback is immediate and I feel more confident with a PR.

It works well for me since I'm not allowed to export the production data onto my machine or testing environments for HIPPA reasons.

This is way better than reviewing an exception from obfuscated javascript (without sourcemaps) and trying to figure out where it occurred.

I would say it's less about listing one task, but focusing on doing the most important task at one point in time.

I loved the book four thousand weeks, refreshing reminder that we have limited time and attention and prioritization is the most important thing.

I think making schema changes via migrations would be explicit and should lead to it being predictable. Maybe the best of both worlds is the ORM spitting out what it thinks the migration file should be based on the database schema and the new model changes?

The migration process then runs the actions in the migration file. If it fails in new environments this is telling that something is different in that environment and needs to be investigated.

This is how it works. ORMs generate migration files automatically.

Yes I thought ActiveRecord's ORM addressed a lot of the pain the OP mentioned with traditional ORM's.

ActiveRecord is also the first and only ORM I've used extensively and I've been a fan of it. Prior to that, I used to stick to raw sql, most apps were smaller but even then it felt like a drain to write repetitive sql to find, insert and update records.

Agreed. I have found myself sometimes asking Chat-GPT for guidance related to obscure error messages and occasionally its more useful than google or stack overflow.

When it doesn’t hallucinate, which in my case it’s most of the time.

Sure, but if you try it out, you pretty quickly realize it's a hallucination. Unfortunately the type of GPT content we're now getting on Stack Overflow and its sibling sites is mostly unvalidated GPT hallucinations.

This looks like my type of browser. I currently rely heavily on the vimium chrome extension.

Does this support profiles by any chance? I currently use chrome profiles to separate work and personal

Looking forward to giving it a spin

you should also checkout https://qutebrowser.org/ which is pretty mature.

A dealbreaker as it doesn't suppport ublock origin extension which is essential to browsing the web these days.

Qutebrowser can use the same adblock filters that ublock uses.

Not really as customizable though, ublock has useful features like build your own filter and pick/create to block annoying webpage widgets. I do wonder if the python based aspects of qutebrowser might give a large surface to fork it and make this type of "hacker's browser" out of it though.

You can use your OS to do that: Run: `env HOME=~/nyxt-profile-work nyxt` and `env HOME=~/nyxt-profile-personal nyxt` for separating profiles.

Just wanted to thank you for writing this. I recently had a child and I thought with discipline I would be able to maintain my pre-parent lifestyle but reality is quite distant from the ideal goal. I am making small improvements each week so I'm grateful for that.

From what I’ve seen it gets easier as they get older. But I also am told the pain is worth it, I hope your journey is good! :)