Here’s what I do: Spend time at my local marker space. It’s easy to bond with people when you have such similar interests. It’s really amazing how exactly aligned I am with a set of the people there. Being in SF already biases people towards certain interests. But going beyond that to the inner circle of tech obsessed nerds, makers from all over the world that moved here with a purpose, gives me a form fitting community that probably only exists in a handful of locations on Earth. Play social deduction/deception games. I have a free social club of 100+ people that meets at least once per week. We all practice lying to each other and reading each other. Yeah it’s only a couple hours per week but it’s highly focused on social muscles we often only exercise infrequently elsewhere. No social media. Pretty much no long distance friendships (outside of stints where I play a lot of video games with someone). I genuinely do not give a damn what’s happening to people I haven’t seen in years even if I could know everything by looking at their feed. If I want to catch up I’ll make plans to have them visit me or I will visit them. There are people I do this for on a regular basis, but it’s a short list. I do not comprehend the appeal of social media. All of my social brain is exercised on face to face interactions. I think the biggest factors here are living in a city (I was pretty isolated when I lived in the suburbs) and having enough free time.

Might want to vendor everything?

That’s the way to go indeed. We’ve done it, not difficult, just a bit of gruntwork to keep them updated when needed

I don't know what this means in this context.

Make copies of the entire GitHub action dependency tree.

I never really felt this. If you have a job where you're actively learning by doing the work then you shouldn't need to learn outside of the job.

Most amazement focused at LLMs comes from technical ignorance. Someone getting 100 lines of html that roughly conforms to their prompt is astounding to a muggle. To a web developer it’s a mild convenience.

I remember mentioning this to my high school chemistry teacher and was told I was wrong. I think I even lost points on a test.

It's because you was wrong (or at least not correct). The Mpemba Effect wasn't scientifically proven, and can be explained away with error in measurement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkH2iX0rx8U

That video is also, outdated.

A reliable way of reproducing the effect was found in 2021. [0] Though the precise cause is still unknown.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-021-00349-8

Then I was wrong, at least until further research into the topic. Such is the tale of science.

Well there's probably far less attack surface.

Technology is here to make us lazy

Presumably the Snap War.

Sounds like you had a bad experience with a contractor.