In a corporate world of vague problems, shifting goals, limited time…sometimes it’s nice to be unencumbered by all that and just fly into shiny things repeatedly:)

That’s why I pick these impossible/pointless personal projects. I just want to have fun writing code.

This seems similar to my experience trying to suss out actual requirements from various incompetent/incoherent PMs. Gibberish in, software out.

LibreOffice UI hasn’t changed in years and I love it, my muscle memory is retained.

Also while ribbon style UI might be visually pleasing and initially approachable, I find simple toolbars with icons in a line are actually easier to scan and navigate. Whereas a ribbon typically has dividers and buttons of varying sizes making them easy to miss.

The company now offers affected users two years of free three-bureau credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Equifax, which require enrollment by June 30, 2026.

Aka…sorry for this breach, as a consolation, please give your personal information to this other company that will also “misplace” it…

Black is white. Up is down. The US government is making a freedom portal.

But….if someone sold a manually operated plastic extruder, that’s fine?

And if someone separately sold CAM software that’s fine too?

Just sayin’

I could not get to it on wayback machine, but this works

https://archive.is/D9vEN

Yes, and not only is this project very generically named, searching for what I was looking to do was difficult because of the wide range of options in terms of what a home dashboard should be…

Many people want home automation integration, I don’t have any (centralized) home automation

Many projects with UI designed for smallish touch screens (e.g. wall mounted info panels, where you need to tap to see info)

Many projects want a full fledged grafana type install, overkill for me/my tiny homelab

I was aiming for something more akin to those hotel lobby TVs which show useful local info and news on a fixed refresh cycle. This was also common on cable TV years ago: some channels would just show weather and news headlines 24/7 on a fixed cycle with music.

Classic pull up the ladder behind you move.

Kind of hilarious that one component of their complaint is that the DeepSeek model is more energy/computation efficient than theirs. Welcome to the free market?!