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As a dev: for all their flaws, web apps are easier to distribute, portable, and have a lot of support in frameworks. They also require little infrastructure in most cases.

As a user: web apps run without installing anything, are mostly portable between my browsers of choice, and run in a sandbox to protect my computer.

Probably 90% of my needs can be served by a web app if it is well designed. If I can't have a web app, I will look for a flatpak version and failing that I will look for it in my distro.

This. Especially if you're a naturalized citizen. The certificate of naturalization is expensive and hard to replace. It should not be your only id. Keep it in a safe place.

If you are a permanent resident, you should already know that you must carry your card on you at all times. That is more important now then ever.

Note that you will need to mail the original certificate to the authorities to get your passport. You will get it back after a couple of weeks, but in the meantime you will have nothing, unless you paid to get a certified copy. It is a large piece of paper that cannot be folded, so it's not practical to carry around.

While you're at it, get your driver's license updated with the federal id. Make sure the BMV records reflect your status. Register to vote. In other words, document your citizenship in as many ways as possible.

During my recent travels I carried a photocopy of my naturalization document plus my passport. I was not asked for it, but my reasoning was that if they took my passport I at least had something. I also had a physical notebook with important info in it, i.e., not just in my phone.

It doesn't have to be that way, if you have a CI/CD process that prevents it.

Don't get your hopes up. My flights were absolutely packed about 2 weeks ago.

That is famously a bad idea.

My main one is to learn shortcuts on your most used programs. Using the mouse for everything is a waste of time, but that has been said multiple times.

My second is to create scripts to do a bunch of repetitive tasks. For example, I have a script I run on my work PC after I log on to the VPN that starts my "always on" programs (like notepad++), unlocks the hosts file, etc. I have some sendto scripts for converting files with pandoc, fetching multiple git repos in one go, etc. It just speeds up things and avoids errors versus me doing them manually.

On Windows I use PowerShell and on Linux I use bash, meaning they work without additional software installed.

Jeg tenkte ikke på at mange innvandrere kanskje kunne bare sitt morsmål pluss norsk, men det har du helt rett i. Jeg tror de som har gått gjennom norsk skole sikkert kan i hvert fall litt engelsk, men det er verre for de som kom hit som voksne.

Har du erfart at de som f.eks. snakker arabisk bruker det som felles språk når norsk ikke strekker til? For eksempel hva skjer på en arbeidsplass i Norge, det det finnes norsktalende og flere grupper av innvandrere på samme sted: polsk talende, arabisk talende, osv? Snakker de engelsk?

Ja folk og steder er veldig variert, selvsagt. Min erfaring fra jeg på Sunnmøre generelt er at de yngre snakker engelsk helt fint. Det finnes også det som unngår engelsk fordi de selv synes ikke de kan det så godt, men de forstår ofte godt engelsk likevel så lenge det ikke går for fort med vanskelige ord. Denne gruppen består mest av de eldre, men også noen få yngre jeg kjenner. Det er sjelden jeg har truffet noen som ikke forstår noe engelsk. Men det er selvsagt bare hva jeg har opplevet, ikke en universell greie.

Norwegians will speak English to you whether you want them to or not. Learning written Norwegian is relatively easy.

Jeg er norsk og bor i Amerika, dog ikke i de områdene Amerikanorsk snakkes. Jeg hadde ikke hørt om det før nå. Det er visst en egen norsk dialekt som snakkes i norske samfunn i deler av USA. Det er ikke den norske versjonen av Spanglish. Kunne vært artig å høre en innfødt snakke med den dialekten.

Yeah, I get it. I've had many libraries fail me in as many ways, which is why I consider it lucky to not have to implement my own. I work in .net these days, but there have been times where I had to just dig into the xml inside the xlsx and use xml tools. Those were mostly one-offs, thankfully.

Back when I did Java I had a frustrating experience with IBM's libxml causing our app to crash after several days due to a memory leak. I didn't have access to the production environment so it took me probably 3 weeks to find the cause and only after digging through a crash dump provided by the sysadmin. Not related, but you triggered my traumatic memory :)

I don't know what you're trying to do with Excel, but based on your posts, I can only wish you good luck. I'm happy to say that I have been able to outsource low level parsing to third party libraries for my needs so far. Well, except the interpreting semantic formatting part. That was on me.