Heya! I've had to come home from work because I'm too run down with some kind of flu.

I'm going mad. I can't work out, can't go for a run. I can't focus on any freelance work. I don't have the energy to paint or record anything. I've just about got the energy to vacillate between my desk and my bedroom, but it's driving me nuts being so unproductive. I'm on a losing streak in online chess.

I've already eaten way past my maintenance calories. My hoover doesn't work so good else I'd be hoovering the apartment. I've done laundry and the dishes. I need a productive, non-thinky, preferably arty, low effort task.

So, what do you lot do when you can't do anything? When you're sick, run down, out of energy, or just having a day of paralyzing executive dysfunction -- how do you get through it without driving yourself up the god damn wall?

I just sold my PS5, so I'm back to PS2. I've got F1 2006, which is actually pretty fun, along with a bunch of other games (incl. Colin McRae 3) - but is there a racing/rally sim this community would recommend picking up?

I've been working in web for about a decade. I have no formal education, but I've been in various agencies and in-house teams. I have done some cool stuff but it's limited. I mainly work in wordpress, building custom plugins and themes from scratch for mid size businesses.

I am not technically challenged. The most complex of my work is basically just figuring out client requirements, designing and pitching something that makes their requirements make logical sense, and then building it. The stuff I build is usually no more complex than typical CRUD work.

I don't really know what to do. I'm stuck. I want out of this basic, boring, unfulfilling work. Has anybody managed to make this jump, or similar, and how did it go?

The blending looks basically non-existent, and super splotchy. Is this a result of too much water on the brush, and too much paint too? I was looking to create a glaze by thinning the paint super far down, and testing it on my nail before the model, but I think I must have left too much paint in the mix and the brush might've been too wet.

Taken on my dodgy little Motorola, and edited in Affinity. Definitely need a better control of the fonts, I want a suuuper heavy, super condensed, sort of squished font, kinda graffiti-esque ideally.

The controls I have found for the fonts are like, a bit vague? Anyone more familiar with Affinity Designer have any recommendations for having more manual control over text placement, sizing, shaping? 👀

Learning to work with Affinity Designer 🥳

I know I spelled liege wrong :(

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33814221

Hey all! Got something I'd appreciate your opinions on in regards to the tech stack I'm planning to use:

The Main Question

The web app in question is a sort of project-management tool. Broadly, users will need to be able to:

• log in
• create and manage (e.g. update text content of/delete) "goals"
• assign "goals" to "years" or "quarters" (give "goals" end dates).
• view "goals" by status e.g. "completed", "not started", "finished"
• create and manage (e.g. update text content of/delete) "items"
• arrange "items" into "lists"
• add "items" to "goals"
• carry out "process reviews" in which they can check off or add "goals" that they've achieved that week/month.

In your opinion, is a MERN stack right for this? A web app that focuses heavily on user interactivity, with a lot of reusable components in the front end (I designed with that in mind). Would PERN be better? Would a totally different stack be your choice?

Some context - skip if not interested

I've worked full time in web for over a decade, but mostly focused on PHP. I've built some stuff in React but am not particularly experienced with it.

I've recently become dissatisfied with my role, and want to move into something a little different (and with a bit of a nicer paycheck to boot!). I've become interested in React agan.

With that in mind, I've made contact with somebody who was conveniently in need of something developing, but not urgently.

I've communicated that I'll not promise anything and won't take money for the work, but can walk through a wireframe/design/development process with them for free as part of upskilling on my side, and that I'm happy to provide support if they choose to reach out to an agency for development at any point on their side (just making sure all my cards are on the table, I'm not overpromising, taking money for a project I can't deliver, or in any way deceiving them of course).

I've done similar before for projects I'm interested in so all good. We're in good spirits and the work has gone well so far.

Thank you! Apologies if this isn't the right place to post something like this 🙏

Hey all! Got something I'd appreciate your opinions on in regards to the tech stack I'm planning to use:

The Main Question

The web app in question is a sort of project-management tool. Broadly, users will need to be able to:

• log in
• create and manage (e.g. update text content of/delete) "goals"
• assign "goals" to "years" or "quarters" (give "goals" end dates).
• view "goals" by status e.g. "completed", "not started", "finished"
• create and manage (e.g. update text content of/delete) "items"
• arrange "items" into "lists"
• add "items" to "goals"
• carry out "process reviews" in which they can check off or add "goals" that they've achieved that week/month.

In your opinion, is a MERN stack right for this? A web app that focuses heavily on user interactivity, with a lot of reusable components in the front end (I designed with that in mind). Would PERN be better? Would a totally different stack be your choice?

Some context - skip if not interested

I've worked full time in web for over a decade, but mostly focused on PHP. I've built some stuff in React but am not particularly experienced with it.

I've recently become dissatisfied with my role, and want to move into something a little different (and with a bit of a nicer paycheck to boot!). I've become interested in React agan.

With that in mind, I've made contact with somebody who was conveniently in need of something developing, but not urgently.

I've communicated that I'll not promise anything and won't take money for the work, but can walk through a wireframe/design/development process with them for free as part of upskilling on my side, and that I'm happy to provide support if they choose to reach out to an agency for development at any point on their side (just making sure all my cards are on the table, I'm not overpromising, taking money for a project I can't deliver, or in any way deceiving them of course).

I've done similar before for projects I'm interested in so all good. We're in good spirits and the work has gone well so far.

Thank you! Apologies if this isn't the right place to post something like this 🙏

I've been using Surfshark for years, but this month they've sent at least two push notifications to my phone that were purely marketing.

I don't pay to see adverts.

Are there any VPN providers people would recommend that don't let their marketing department off the leash to bother their customers?

A few colleagues and I were sat at our desks the other day, and one of them asked the group, "if you were an animal, what animal would you be?"

I answered with my favourite animal, and we had a little discussion about it. My other colleague answered with two animals, and we tossed those answers back and forth, discussing them and making jokes. We asked the colleague who had asked the question what they thought they'd be, and we discussed their answer.

Regular, normal, light-hearted (time wasting lol) small talk at work between friendly coworkers.

We asked the fourth coworker. He said he'd ask ChatGPT.

It was a really weird moment. We all just kind of sat there. He said the animal it came back with, and that was that. Any further discussion was just "yeah that's what it said" and we all just sort of went back to our work.

That was weird, right? Using ChatGPT for what is clearly just a little bit of friendly small talk? There's no bad blood between any of us, we hang out a lot, but it just struck me as really weird and a little bit sad.

Hey! For the last few years, I'd do five months of sobriety at the start of each year. My drinking got much more noticeably out of hand towards the end of last year, and I subsequently failed to maintain a sober stint at the start of this year, and that then rapidly spiralled into reckless drinking, endangering my job and further damaging my financial situation.

That sort of scared me, along with some other symptoms and a general sense of unease, and so I committed to a year of sobriety. I chose a defined timeframe to keep my goal achievable and give myself an actual defined target, but am secretly hoping to "trick" myself into seeing how sobriety feels for a long enough time to want to maintain it afterwards.

I've been journalling, and I've been working hard on improving the small things in my life I neglected while drinking, and the big things that I believe could have been contributing to my drinking. I do feel much happier, much more in touch with myself, much more grounded, and the people around me have commented that I seem happier and calmer. Things feel like they're moving in the right direction.

I went tonight to a party for a friend, celebrating an anniversary. I had a fine time, chatting and joking, but I couldn't stop thinking about drinking. I know the cravings will pop up at random times, and I've made an effort to stay social during this stint and have been in situations with alcohol and not caved. However, the temptation just did not stop building tonight. I was already trying to work out ways to justify drinking. I played the tape forward, I tried to think about how embarrassing I can be when I get drunk, I tried thinking about everything I was proud of, I tried changing the group I was talking to and joining a new conversation to get some dopamine and distraction, but I couldn't shake it.

Eventually, I resolved to make my excuses and leave. There was no drama or anything but I just felt, and still feel, pretty defeated. It was weird. It was worrying.

I spent the whole journey home catching myself fantasising about drinking when my year is up, or even before. Romanticising the idea of going out into the city, to some quiet bar one random night, and having "a few". I know what a lie that is, and how it's not real, and how I don't want to blow up my life any more, but it's just really got its claws in me tonight, by the looks of it.

I'm asking here for a few things, really:

1. Is there anything I should or could be doing to solidify my sobriety and build a stronger foundation? Relying on my own willpower seems like it'll fail at some point inevitably.
2. Should I be pushing to solidify my current sobriety if I'm clearly so conflicted about it? Am I even actually conflicted?
3. Do you ever stop missing it? It's not even just that I miss the "good" parts. I miss the bad parts. I miss the miserable hangovers, just feeling like absolute shit after torpedoing my finances and sabotaging my plans for the day. It's so weird.

For context, my last drink was April 21.

Sorry for the long post. Thank you all for reading, and for the work you're all doing in this community! IWNDWYT!

My boss thinks it's very cute to talk about AI as much as possible, and today asked if I'd heard of "vibe coding". I said yeah, and explained to my coworker that it's where you get a chatbot to write all your code.

My boss has just announced that he's vibe coding. I know the project he's working on. It took us months to put that codebase together, and there are a lot of very complex functions and plugins in that site that we've written to integrate with all the systems our client needs the site to use.

What am I supposed to do here? He's just letting a chatbot go rogue on the codebase. Do I just leave him to it with the full knowledge that it'll fall on me and my colleague to repair all this damage, presumably while being accused of breaking the site in the first place? I need the money from this job so unfortunately leaving isn't an option at this stage.

Hey all! I just played my first game of 40k recently, using a ~1k Thousand Sons list. I got pretty roundly stomped by my opponent using Space Marines.

Admittedly, I didn't really make use of rituals or stratagems, and I'm sure we missed plenty of unit abilities, so it may not have been super representative.

Either way, are there any TSons players here? I'd like to pick up some tips if there are any 👀

This is the greyest morning since March, it has to be! Did you have a good Summer this year?