Is there a generic (non-brand) name for these boiling-water faucets? (That’s not a mouthful like “boiling-water faucets”). I think we call them quookers here, which is also a brand name, and I slightly dislike that practice. I mean, “brand name for generic thing” is very common, but the brands and things differ per country, so it’s like a layer of jargon to decipher.

I do my time tracking in org-mode, and export it to JIRA once a day or so. It is quite a specific/tailored setup, written in a mix of elisp and, well, org-mode (specific names and tags are used to configure some settings), but I’d love to look at this tool to see if I can extend my workflow by using it for the “massaging into a nicer shape” part. I might end up writing some extensions for either side (org-mode input format and JIRA REST calls output format).

My current tooling quantizes everything by rounding start and end times to the nearest full 15 minutes, and starting a new task at the end time of the previous one when clocking in, so that my team lead does not have to report so many fractions of hours to higher layers.

That fills me with determination.

That is an interesting source. Thanks for the link!

I like that I can hear that omitted space there.

I would suggest pronouncing “pain killers” in a nice French accent (pan keelUHRZ) when telling the joke. Writing it down might not be necessary then.

ETA: not a native English speaker (nor French). Nor a dad. Also, I tried saying it out loud a few times, and it still misses something. I do see potential, but it might need someone better qualified to fix this completely.