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Small business accounting software is universally terrible. Yes, even the product you really like.

The unsung hero here is whoever set up the integration template as straight down the line text. Never include in-jokes or anything else that shouldn’t be public in test content.

We mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list this evening. We apologize for the inconvenience, and as the jokes pile in, yes, it was the intern. No, really. And we’re helping them through it. ❤️

— MaxHelp (@maxhelp) June 18, 2021

Knock, knock.
“Who’s there?”
@auspost
“I’ll be right out”
Just kidding, I’m a contractor. I don’t knock on doors, I just fill in the card that you weren’t home and take your 20kg package to the post office in the neighboring suburb. Byeeee!

Some marketing dickhead is running anonymous billboards “Hang in There, Melbourne. Stay safe ❤️”. All it does for me trigger a nice big injection of early morning post-lockdown anxiety.

I’m now fighting the urge to go back to bed for some cat cuddles.

Managing a WordPress site & the Docker container is not a frontend role, especially when it gets 300k visitors a month. Calling it such will get you a “there’s a plugin for that” attitude and if you’re lucky your site will be slow; unlucky & you’re on have you been pwned.

yes, recruiter spam is making me angry.

Jab one ✅

WWDC announcement I’d like to see: Disabling notifications even disables App Store and O/S notifications.

WWDC announcement I’d like to see: No longer prompted to enable Siri every time you install a security update because you may have changed your mind since saying no when installing the last security update.

WWDC announcement I’d like to see: Apps now boot when the internet flakes out.

WWDC announcement I’d like to see: Peripherals work upon booting first time everytime allowing users to enter passwords.