Right now I’m essentially babysitting just about the worst product my company has ever released. And, in all reality, it’s not a horrible idea. The idea behind the product is really pretty fantastic. In fact, the idea sells the product more so than the product sells itself. That’s really where the trouble comes in. The product is riddled with poor design choices and terrible implementations. It’s proof that no matter how good an idea is, good ideas on their own are not enough to drive the success of a product. The product has to be well designed, well supported, and well thought out. This product I’m working with? It’s none of those things. It’s scampering from one poor choice to the next in a cascade of blatant cash-grabs that billion dollar businesses want to purchase but we’re stuck supporting.

These are the contents of my ~/.vimrc file.

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree'
Plug 'sukima/xmledit'
Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline'
Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline-themes'
Plug 'mg979/vim-visual-multi', {'branch': 'master'}
Plug 'plasticboy/vim-markdown'

call plug#end()

set tabstop=4
set laststatus=2
set selection=inclusive
color desert
set gfn=Essential_PragmataPro:h11
syntax on
set nowrap
set noshowmode
let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1
let g:airline_theme = 'deus'
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#enabled = 1
set backspace=2
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set nu
autocmd Filetype markdown setlocal spell

set linebreak
set textwidth=0
set wrapmargin=0
set enc=utf-8
set fileencoding=utf-8
map <F9> :execute '!pdflatex ' . shellescape(expand('%')) . ' && start "" ' . shellescape(expand('%:r') . '.pdf')<CR>

PragmataPro Essential font, purchased LEGALLY from that Schiavi guy. Directly from him, as a matter of fact. Would be great if he made the entire font $30 instead of just the “Essential” slimmed down version, but whatever. Iosevka is coming for him.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You boot your work computer up, and you give it five or so minutes to settle after the initial shock of it being asked to do things after peacefully sleeping. Then you notice that it’s been a minute, and your computer should be ready to go, but you click on the “Start” menu and nothing happens. So you do the dirty deed and you press Ctrl + Shift + Esc and look at what the hell is consuming your entire laptop’s resources, and causing the fucking thing to swap to disk. What’s that process?

I write a lot of negative stuff on here. Most of the positivity in my life has stayed within the four walls of my home, and to an extent my place of work. I think it’s time to change that, though. I’m sure everyone loves to see me seethe and boil on here, or everyone just cringes as I shout like a lunatic into the ether. Either way, I think I’m going to mix it up. I’m going to write about things I’m grateful for, things I like, and things that overall make me happy.

At Least 42 People Found Dead Inside Truck Carrying Migrants In Texas.

These deaths are on Biden.

They are a result of his deadly open border policies.

They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law. https://t.co/8KG3iAwlEk

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 28, 2022

Here’s a moronic leap of logic for you: “Your open borders are killing people.”

Except the people dead were trying to cross illegally. They were doing so because THERE IS NO LEGAL RECOURSE FOR EXPATRIATING TO THE US. BECAUSE THE FUCKING BORDERS ARE NOT OPEN. THEY WOULD BE ALIVE IF THE BORDERS WERE OPEN.

Four day streak of shotgun posts to the blog!

It’s always annoying to be waiting on a part to do the next thing you have to do. I’m not sure there’s anything I could be doing right now to mitigate the time loss, but even if there was, it wouldn’t be mitigating much. Work stoppage is work stoppage. This game is full of that, and the mantra is almost universally “hurry up and wait”.