Not on the smack talk bored

[PhDhawk]

Does Harold Ensley star in any of them?

Wow, dated yourself on this one!

Nobody else will date him.

[ChalkRocker]

Misleading.

This thread has a topic. Same as another on the OT.

Disappointing.

Sad.

[jhawks99]

Funny story about me and Harold. It was shortly after Mrs 99 and I got married. We were both working in restaurants with mostly opposite schedules and didn't get to spend a lot of time together. We both had a Sunday off and planned to do something when my fishin buddy calls me and asks if I wanna go crappie fishin, cuz it was the season.

Mrs 99 had to work late the previous Saturday night so she agreed that FB and I could go fishin in the morning, "just don't be at it all day."

We hadn't had even a nibble until we were ready to pack up and leave, about noon but then they started hitting. Like every cast we were pulling in 1.5 lb crappies. It was crazy, we ran out of bait and we were casting bare hooks and still pulling them in on every cast. Nuts.

I get home about 3 or so and Mrs 99 is not happy. She's hungry and super pi$$ed at me and demands that I just take her to McDonalds. We get our burgers and sit down and this old dude in a Ford station wagon pulls into the parking lot. The station wagon has stickers all over it saying "The Sportsman's Friend". Yup, Harold himself. Sits right down next to us.

It didn't improve Mrs 99's mood even a little bit. We went home and I cleaned bout 50 crappie while she read her book in the bedroom.

[pdub]

Pretty crappie day for her.

[jhawks99]

Yeah, that was probably 30 years ago. She's not over it.

[pdub]

Wordpress frontend drag and drop builders.
The absolute fucking worst.

[ousdahl]

I’m in charge of a SquareSpace website.

It’s pretty much Wordpress I guess.

What’s bad about drag and drop front end?

[pdub]

Squarespace is actually a cleaner, better way than these janky ass drag and drop WP options.

I would compare it to TDub walking into a cheap model home and the new owners wanting a ton of customizations. Because of the way it was set up, it's going to be a time suck/counterproductive.

Just today I spent 1.5 hours doing something that should have taken me ten minutes.
Not an exaggeration.
Reverse engineering the nasty ass bloated coded with divs upon divs with ids like et_pb_gt_150209 and 75 fucking classes. ( end rant )

Drag and drop is fine if you just want it to look like they intended.
( which in the end means many of the sites are all gonna look the same )

If you want something custom, just do it custom from the get go.

[Deleted User 89]

sounds kinda myspacey

[Mjl]

Was just dealing with something similar today. Not exactly, but just the use of a certain tech because some demo showed how much you can do right out of the box. Some high up person sees that and dictates we use that. As soon as you throw real world use cases at it, that shit gets way more expensive.

We were given a goal of having something go through Power BI instead of the all custom stuff we have now. That's so dumb, the tech is a tool, not a goal. Yes, my custom way took longer to get going and doesn't have any out of the box features. But it's super performant, easily maintainable and customizable, and doesn't bind us to Microsoft.

[ousdahl]

How did Microsoft manage to become the standard issue of word processing and stuff?

It’s still so clunky.

Or rather, it works fine as long as you don’t try to change margins, add or move an image, create a new paragraph, or do anything besides change the font to comic sans.

[ousdahl]

Semi-related, for a while I was doing some marketing work for this sketchy developer dude. He was building pre-fab homes by the block, basically turning a pristine alpine meadow into Overland Park.

But he wanted me to do some campaign about how he offers custom homes.

I assumed it was like, pick any floor plan or layout you want. Design your dream home from the ground up. Lots of secret rooms and stuff.

No, you still have to pick from one of 3 pre-fab designs.

Wait, what? How is that custom?

I dunno, tell them they can pick out whatever countertops they want or something. You’re the marketing wiz, make it sound custom.

It was at that point I told the guy we really shouldn’t be having this discussion on the smack talk bored.

[Mjl]

How did Microsoft manage to become the standard issue of word processing and stuff?

It’s still so clunky.

Or rather, it works fine as long as you don’t try to change margins, add or move an image, create a new paragraph, or do anything besides change the font to comic sans.

People still use Word? Huh. Not sure the last time I used it.

Although I do regularly use VS Code for text editing, so yeah, still Microsoft.

[Deleted User 89]

i use word and excel, and always have

a buddy tried to get me switched to latex coding for manuscripts, but the learning curve was more than i was willing to deal with at the time

[pdub]

As soon as you throw real world use cases at it, that shit gets way more expensive.

And at so many levels.
From a personal website that you think you can get done for 300 bucks to a 10k templated system.

IMO oftentimes you can actually save money going custom.

[ChalkRocker]

I always go custom.

It's who I am, really.

[ChalkRocker]

Speaking in terms of my massive lifestyle, I mean.

[ousdahl]

I’m so tempted to go start a “thread to be moved” thread on the hoops bored.

Which bored will it get moved to!

[jhawks99]

We need a Jazz Board.

[ousdahl]

^^^^