🏜 Eric Jakobsen

#whathelpedtoday is meant to serve as a repository for things that have been helpful and made my days better. It is a list I (and anyone else) can go to when struggling to find things that might help. Feel free to add your own to the list by using the hashtag #whathelpedtoday

see y'all next year!

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

Well I guess the news is out I won’t be hosting Wheel of Fortune or playing Lois Lane or hosting Wheel of Fortune as Lois Lane

Before you begin your thinkpiece, the Supreme Court DID NOT strike down Affirmative Action Admission preferences for legacies, donors, employee families and special recommendations are still allowed The Court struck down Affirmative Action For everyone except WHITE PEOPLE

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

I made a fun thing! 🤓 API: a simplified example (with cats) 🦄One of the benefits of being an artist in tech is that you can draw your own diagrams to help understand and encode information/concepts. 🐈‍⬛AND YOU CAN INCLUDE CATS

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

@katiehom Definitely! I have run into that too but I was not prepared for spanakopita levels 🤣

@gentlegiantdev I never considered this. I do find it amazing when I have a 12" frying pan overflowing with raw spinach that cooks down to about a 1/2 cup. 😅

the amount of spinach in a spanakopita is truly astounding

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

i am so close to BINGO now "oceanic animals rise up" is my center square

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

Pro tip: want to preserve some of your laptop stickers? Use a sheet of wax paper after you take them off and they’ll peel right off like new 👏

@AlexRobinett @leonnoel Congrats Alex!!

So now that I’ve signed the offer letter…. I can officially say I’m going to be a software Engineer II! This has journey has been a long time coming. I couldn’t have done with without #100devs Community! Thanks @leonnoel for his time, resources and care!

Wow: Google IS killing Google Domains; selling it to Squarespace. This is 10 million domains sold. Millions of customers like me learn again (and again!) that you cannot trust Google to keep their own products alive. Show me another vendor that throws away customers like this…