Triple-check that our mortage is paid off in the event of my death, so that my wife and children will have a place to live after I (sole breadwinner) am gone.

I think the root cause is the complexity.

Split the problem into manageable chunks, then attack the chunks. Apply recursion as needed.

This is part of a more senior skillset, as some times a senior will be breaking up the problem and assigning the smaller pieces to other devs.

My therapist, provided I reach the breaking point at a convenient time when we have a session scheduled.

Laser cutter control software is windows only, just haven’t had the time/energy to rip out the entire control system and rework it to be open source.

Getting some gains out of it, but I’m still limited by the fact that I can’t put anything proprietary into any AI tooling. Not motivated enough yet to roll my own.

For generic Q&A/searching, templating, etc, it’s been a decent stackoverflow replacement.

Bluetooth speakers for music in the kitchen, attached sound system for steaming TV, over-ear noise cancelling bluetooth headphones for desk work, over-ear bluetooth ear protection headphones for shop/yard work, earbuds for shopping/etc (fuck store muzak).

Learned the default account password and figured out which teachers had not changed their password from the default. Learned that all teachers had access to a share drive with all student records. Read through a lot of information.

Did not look at porn on school computers, because wtf?

At grad event, in front of elderly relatives, was called out for looking at porn on the school computers, other student was credited for breaking into all systems. More pissed about the latter.