Just a geeky little guy

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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • I’ve been using Raindrop for about five years. The solo dev really impressed me with his responsiveness to user feedback, so I started paying for premium ($30/yr) even though I don’t really need the extra features.

    I’ve used the mobile app, Firefox extension, desktop app (Linux and Windows), and the web app. All have worked flawlessly and have grown more feature rich without ruining the user experience.

    The features I use the most are:

    • Endlessly nestable folders that I can give my own icons to make them significantly easier to navigate around
    • Public collections so I can save my favorite GIFs and memes on a public page I can refer back to and share
    • Tagging, descriptions, and notes so I can save a lot of context for each bookmark and why I saved it
    • The built in preview for the mobile app feels buttery smooth, so I seldom open tabs in my mobile browser when I’m visiting my bookmarks
    • The main premium features I actually use are the broken link detector to find links that no longer exist and the permanent copies of those pages

    I haven’t had a chance to use the REST API, but it appears to be documented quite well.

    Overall I’ve had such a pleasant experience that I’ve never looked at any other option.




  • Oh my goodness, the exact same thing happened with me and Guild Wars 2!!! 😱

    I was a teenager at the time and my family burned logs to keep the house warm in winter. My Dad upgraded the smoke detectors so that they were all linked. In other words, if one alarm went off in the basement (where the wood burner was) then every detector in the house would go off.

    This sounds great in theory, but in reality it turns out that the detectors would go off on a near weekly basis. Whenever someone tossed logs in the burner and smoke escaped. We got desensitized to the beeping and it became second nature to just cancel the alarm when it happened.

    Fast forward to the closed beta for Guild Wars 2 and I was up late, trying to play every possible minute that I could before the weekend was over. My door was closed, headphones on, and I was REALLY immersed.

    The smoke detector started beeping. And it kept beeping over and over and over. Normally, at this point my parents would’ve cancelled it. That kind of struck me as odd, so I opened my door.

    Ruh roah, raggy.

    A wall of smoke was on the other side of the door. And the smell was NOTHING like the usual wood burner smell. It really hurt to breathe and my eyes were not having a good time either.

    After shaking my Dad awake, we called the fire department, got all the animals out, and nobody got hurt. The damage was serious, but the entire house didn’t go up. The upstairs needed rebuilt and there was a fair bit of smoke damage.

    I don’t want to think about what would’ve happened if I wasn’t up playing that closed beta 😅