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Coding? Add billing and invoice generation to https://pepahana.com - a simple activity reporting tool I started last year. If I get motivated enough, maybe start on team and organization tools for it.

Non-coding? I want to write more. Lots more. Maybe finish a novel this year. That would be nice.


The only TRUELY passive income I have is a YouTube video, unedited, published in 2012 that generates me $500-$1,500 a year. I do absolutely nothing to the video to promote it. YouTube seems to recommend it every fall and it has been a nice little Christmas bonus each year.

Other than that, a few games I've published generate ~$100 a year without input from me. Everything else requires at least a little bit of my time on a regular basis and I wouldn't count it as passive.


Time off. I worked for over a decade in the automotive industry (sales, service, mechanic, etc) and most of those jobs offered 2 holidays and 1 week of vacation.

My current employer gives me 17 hoildays and 25 paid vacation days. Pretty much the best perk ever.


Whatever the default font is for my editor. I've never found font to be a barrier for me. I'm currently using Atom, so I guess Menlo or Consolas.


A simple reporting tool for tracking and reporting project/task activity.

It's cool because work requires me to submit an activity report each week and I wasn't about their terribly inefficient form, so I built a web-service to track my activities.

It's nothing special per-se, but it's significantly less complicated than other free options I've found for this sort of reporting and I like things that don't require me to learn how to use them.


MacBook Pro 2015. Because work gave it to me.

All my desktops are Win10.


I've been tapering off of my antidepressant for 3 weeks now after 4 years.

The sudden flood of emotions has been weird, but familiar. I can't imagine going decades without.


Many cars on the road today have no mechanical linkage between the steering wheel and the tires. This is nothing new.


That's not how a electronically assisted steering rack works. There is a manual connection with a little bit of slop and that slop provides some difference between steering wheel position and input shaft (to the steering rack or gear) position which triggers the power assist. It's basically the same as an old school power steering gear.


Very very, very, very few cars are steer-by-wire. In fact, the Infiniti Q50 is the only one.


And it doesn't have the best track record[1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/06/infiniti-q50-steer-by-wire/


Damn, I spent all night last night trying to get jspdf to work for me and gave up. Breezy looks like exactly what I needed! Serendipity.


Mancala


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