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"html": "<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/mariposta/image/upload/w_1200,c_limit,q_65/raindrops.jpg\" /><h2>I love remote work, and I'm hugely grateful for all my online friends around the world who I get to talk geek with. But there's also something special and unique about friendships IRL. I didn't realize the toll the pandemic had taken on me until I was flat on my back.</h2>\n\n<p>Sufferin\u2019 succotash, did that rug ever get pulled out from under me. Time, money, and planning\u2014years in the making\u2014<em>gone</em>, in a snap. In case you were wondering, I had been expecting to attend a major tech conference in Portland, Oregon as well as host an event which people from all around the world had signed up for. Then suddenly\u2026</p>\n\n<p><strong>BAM!</strong> I got Covid. \ud83d\ude2d</p>\n\n<p>But that\u2019s not what this essay is about. I\u2019m one of the lucky ones. I\u2019m generally in good health. I managed to avoid the more debilitating strains earlier on in the pandemic. I got all my vaccinations first. So for this altercation with the virus\u2026well, sure, it really sucked and I was laid flat in my bed and easy chair for a few days\u2014yet <em>this too shall pass</em>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I <em>do</em> want to talk about is my anger and frustration in the aftermath of it all. Obviously it goes without saying that these are Hashtag FirstWorldProblems, but as I\u2019ve come to discover over the years, the worst thing you can do with anger is ignore it.</p>\n\n<p><strong>And I was pretty damn angry.</strong></p>\n\n<p>I think it was one of those straw-that-broke-the-camel\u2019s-back sort of things. It\u2019s not that I was merely angry about the immediate frustrations of what happened. As I said, <em>this too shall pass</em>. It\u2019s that I was angry about this whole blasted pandemic and how it wrecked havoc on my relationships with local professionals in my field.</p>\n\n<p>You see, I moved to the Portland area in 2017, and by 2020 I felt like I\u2019d <em>finally</em> been making some meaningful inroads into the community. Winning friends and influencing people and all that. Enjoying a wide variety of meetups. Here\u2019s a fun fact: I first learned all about <strong>web components</strong> and the \u201cShadow DOM\u201d (what the heck is that?!) at a local web meetup. Not a blog post or YouTube video or a Zoom call. An event <em>IRL</em>. Or how about this: in March 2020 I was literally about to sign on the dotted line to contract with a local Portland company\u2026my first substantial project with a firm in the area. I was hugely excited!</p>\n\n<p>And then\u2026<strong>LOCKDOWN</strong>.</p>\n\n<p><em>Fuuuck.</em></p>\n\n<p>Fast forward two years, and this time I was hopeful that maybe\u2014just maybe!\u2014we\u2019d finally rounded the corner on this thing. The tech conferences were coming back. Maybe the meetups would come back too. And then we could put this whole dreadful ghastly business behind us and feel human again.</p>\n\n<p>Welp, guess we\u2019re not out of the woods just yet. \ud83d\ude35\u200d\ud83d\udcab</p>\n\n<p>Slowly, bit by bit, my anger has been dissipating and life is getting back to normal for me. I\u2019m mostly back on my typical pace of work and content creation and all that jazz. But I wanted to share with you my little pity party. It forced me to realize the depth to which I had been grieving for the lack of real, human connection in my local community.</p>\n\n<p>Listen folks, I <em>love</em> remote work, and I\u2019m hugely grateful for all my online friends around the world who I get to <strong>talk geek</strong> with. But there\u2019s also something special and <em>unique</em> about friendships IRL. And I understand now the toll it\u2019s taken on me to have neglected that side of things all this time.</p>\n\n<p>While what happened to me last month was a <em>major blow</em>, I hope it can at least serve as a wake-up call that I need to prioritize the connections I\u2019ve made and can make in the future in my local community. I don\u2019t need to wait for the perfect meetup to appear or some flashy tech conference to roll into town. <strong>I can be proactive myself.</strong> I can reach out to friends and colleagues more, crawl out of my shell.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Easier said than done.</strong> I\u2019ll let you know how it goes!</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo credit: <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/photos/uUySeXRQqA4\">Jessica Knowlden on Unsplash</a></em></p>\n\n\n\n <br /><p>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/creativity\">#creativity</a>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/remotework\">#remotework</a>\n \n </p>",
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How do I not have a full-time day job right now, and yet I'm *still* behind on everything? Anyway, come join for a plan with me tomorrow so I can get my life in order. 5PDT/8EDT youtube.com/watch?v=M8-wYv…
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Is the future of code letting AI do most of the work? Is it allowing “the cloud” decide what to write next? Who knows. Maybe. I hope not. spicyweb.dev/zero-boilerpla…
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"text": "Is the future of code letting AI do most of the work? Is it allowing \u201cthe cloud\u201d decide what to write next? Who knows. Maybe. I hope not. spicyweb.dev/zero-boilerpla\u2026",
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McClanahan is exaggerating here. These are factors that would complicate the granting of a clearance, but not eliminate the possibility. Oz has said he’d renounce Turkish citizenship, which is a factor in his favor.
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Who's running the POTUS account? Tweets like these are banal fluff. Yes, we know it's not Biden's "fault" that gas prices soared. But the fact remains they're ludicrously high. Inflation is out of control. Whatever the admin is doing, it's appreciated—BUT it's not working. ☹️
I led the world to coordinate the largest release from global oil reserves in history, directed the sale of gasoline using homegrown biofuels this summer, and more.
The...
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"text": "I led the world to coordinate the largest release from global oil reserves in history, directed the sale of gasoline using homegrown biofuels this summer, and more.\n \nThese actions have already helped to blunt what would have been an even larger Putin Price Hike."
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"text": "It\u2019s now been one week since the respiratory symptoms started on what I\u2019m still about 98% certain is COVID-19, despite the lack of a positive test.The worst of the respiratory symptoms only lasted a few days, with the cough having mostly cleared up by Wednesday. I\u2019m still coughing somewhat, though, and I continue to be fatigued much more than usual for me.Being vaxxed and boosted certainly helped a lot, but it wasn\u2019t a complete preventative. Also given my fatigue levels I can\u2019t help but worry about long COVID on top of my already deep-seated chronic issues.I did feel well enough to go out for a little bit today, as I had a package which I had to bring to the post office to refuse (long story which will get its own blog entry eventually, maybe). I was only in the post office for maybe 30 seconds and I double-masked, of course. Afterwards I also popped into the grocery store (still double-masked) to get a snack.Given my negative test results and my triple-vaccination status I\u2019m apparently at very low risk of spreading it to anyone else, but given how \u201clow risk\u201d it was for me to get it in the first place I\u2019m still being cautious. And of course I\u2019m not exactly feeling up to being around people anyway. I might still make a regular grocery trip this weekend, though. As nice as getting them delivered was, I need to do things outside of the house just for my own sanity. Maybe I could do the curbside pickup thing. I dunno.This weekend I plan on finally setting up my new drum kit, although that will also require a lot more organizing of my basement and that feels like maybe more than I can handle right now. I also want to play DDR again but that also feels impossible.Maybe I\u2019ll feel better tomorrow.",
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There is a guy on my city council who is a regressive right wing extremist, and in spite of the vile things he’s said and done, there are plenty of voters that are likely going to put him back in office because he drives his truck around the city picking up trash.
Depressing.
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"text": "Ran out of onions and tried Trappey pickled tabasco peppers in my martini and am happy to report it works"
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