Did he at least help re-run the whole section or just patch the cut?" Honestly at that point I was just grateful he came out on a Saturday lol. He did patch it up proper but the whole thing was my fault for not testing the wall first. Classic case of me saving five minutes and costing myself three hundred bucks and a case of beer. My wife still brings it up every time I grab the multitool.

That cheap bag of 50 dice thing reminds me of the time I bought a bulk pack of miniatures and half of them arrived missing arms.

Austin meetups changed everything for me too. I signed up for a local DevOps meetup after my AWS cert got me nowhere, and three conversations there led to a job offer within a month. That cert was $150 down the drain, but the handshake at the meetup was worth ten times that.

Midjourney killed it for our real estate listings too.

Man, @allen.amy that bike on fire analogy hits way too close to home... I spent three whole days trying to add a dark mode toggle and it turned my whole list into a blinking mess. Every time I think I've got it, the code just stares back at me like "you sure about this, buddy?