Pete the Cat is also great, however the 7 minute Bluey episodes (and ~3 minute "minisodes") is very nice. Pete the Cat runs 23 minutes.
All that said, I have been known to adjust the playback speed on YouTube to get the total play length of Bluey to a convenient length for a given situation.
+1. I think Bluey is great for parents, but I can think of many shows that are better for children. Better in the sense that they teach children how to deal with challenges at their age and how to navigate the world around them.
Numberblocks goes hard in the later seasons, but sadly Netflix no longer has those.
I really enjoyed the adaptation of El Deafo on AppleTV. Its brilliant use of audio effects to explain the evolving technology of the little girl’s hearing aids had me in tears.
Colourblocks is another great one from the BBC. The two things I really like about CB and NB is that
1. they are designed to be part of a curriculum and so they build across episodes.
2. Every so often the songwriters decide to remind you that they are capable and not just ripping off old songs like other shows do.
I do like the Stillwater show, but I am still disappointed that they replaced the Zen and eastern stories from the books with more generic western tales.
I sublet my apartment; my regular monthly rent with utilities' daily equivalent allows me decent hotels / lodges in S-E-Asia, S-America. Food and services are generally cheaper at these destinations too. I'd say 65-70% of my current travel is "paid by" my regular Western-European lifestyle. On top of that, saving up a couple 100 USDs per month for general "travel" in my monthly budget.
After meeting many people on my travels, I realized that this "lifestyle" is less about money, and more about the mindset. I'm not splurging, also not frugal, but some people are. Having an Excel (Libreoffice) spreadsheet helps a lot with planning :-)
Edit: I don't have debt, children, neither spend money on luxury items (or, well, items at all, I'm a minimalist).
In my case I saved up for 8 years then moved to the country as a student (much cheaper rent). Mine was Japan but other countries would be even cheaper to live in.
Didn't do anything special to save except not having kids.
There are many theories about weight training but the practice is that you have to lift a certain volume of heavy weights. I think it is the same with protein.
There was a study that said you got better results if you drink a protein shake and then work out. So that became standard advice for a decade, then somebody did a study where they gave people the shake before or during or after the workout and it was all good.
Some people have GERD and other problems if they eat too soon before a workout. When I was in my late 40s my digestion became more sensitive and I found I could not eat so much before I had to go to the gym. Working out hungry might train your ability to burn fat, but many people can't sustain hard workouts if they're too hungry. Serious athletes like Micheal Phelps who train hard all the time have a hard time eating enough to support all the training they do so it is no wonder he became a spokesperson for a proton pump inhibitor.
My sports nutritionist and doctor disagree and basically tell me to eat nonstop lol.
I also have suffered low bone density from not fueling. I was diagnosed with RED-S (relative energy deficiency in sport). My body was canabalizing muscle and bone for energy.
I suspect age is a big factor here (I’m in my 40s). But I definitely will fuel before working out from now on.
When Sublime Merge was initially released I liked it a lot. Mostly because of it's snappy speed (like Sublime Text). But since a year or so I'm using lazygit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit), which at least for me is the best git tool ever.
A lot of people on HN don't like it when you share your opinion about how an open-source developer monetizes their work. For what it's worth, I agree. I feel like it would be a lot less discomforting if the ads were simply below the actual description of the projects.
I'm not accepting it yet, but I'm working on dealing with the anger and sadness better. While it seems that not enough is changing fast enough, a lot is changing actually. The awareness is growing and getting louder. Stay positive, but don't confuse it with expectations in your mind.
I switched a few years ago from WhatsApp to Signal. I was kind of the one and only person in my Signal contacts then. Most people didn't understand why I left WhatsApp and convincing didn't really help. By the time more and more people started to use Signal too so today I miss no one. I think the topic behind it is way deeper than the technical stuff or which app to use. Use what you are confident of. Important people will use whatever is available to stay in touch with you, because communication is not about technology but about relationship. Thats why there is no point in convincing people to switch the app. That happens by time, or not.
