This is exactly what's wrong with [at least] the United States right now. Every business wants to be focused on growth, not performing a service and #maintaining “a book of business”.

It’s like a multi-level marketing scheme. There’s only so much to insure, so much that people can invest. So many markets are, if not finite, then, frankly, dependent on population growth, no matter how shiny your product looks.

Rob Peter to pay Paul and eventually the only option left is to rob Paul.

Unless the way you change your business magically grows the pie, it’s a zero-sum game, and endless growth, by definition, is not sustainable, though the pursuit is too often destructive (like this one).

https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2026-05-27/state-farm-reduces-compensation-for-19-000-agents

#TasksCompleted
#Maintaining

So I got the Lantern working easily enough. New bulbs and battery. The AC Adapter is at home so we will plug it in when I get back.

Redid the Laptops CMOS battery and Thermal Compound. Last night trying to update GCC it was burning around 85C. Now its down around 50C. Cleaned all the fur out of the Heat Sink and replaced the Thermal Compound with PTM7950 and it seems to have improved the situation.

All and all a successful day.

Are you one of the 10'000s of #CXX #Python developers using #pybind11? Do you care about great #autodocs and #autocompletion in #interactive workflows?

The pybind11-stubgen project seeks support in #maintaining it! We #pybind11 maintainers would move it to the #pybind mainline org, but we need a community to help support the .pyi stub generator <3

Chime in here:
https://github.com/sizmailov/pybind11-stubgen/issues/244

#opensource #sustainability #CallForMaintainers

#AnotherDay... #AnotherDollar...

And, #TheStarmertron is #Maintaining an #ImplausibleDeniability...

#Afterall, the #AngryOrangeWotsit might #DeclareWar on the #ChagosArchipelago...

#Welcome to #TheNewNormal...

#Meanwhile...

1: #TwitterX is still a #DumpsterFire
2: #Mastodon is #Lovely; and,
3: #There is a #FreshPotOfCoffee on the #Go...

Have #AnotherPrideMonth; #OrSomething...

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“in our Light we have no Need of any Denial, and accept all, yea, Illusion itself, discriminating only in our Minds between Phenomena by Comparison with some convenient Standard, for the Purpose of maintaining the Order of our Conceptions in Respect of the Relation of any Being with its Environment.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/11/in-our-light-we-have-no-need-of-any-denial-and-accept-all-yea-illusion-itself-discriminating-only-in-our-minds-between-phenomena-by-comparison-with-some-convenient-standard-for-the-purpose-of-m/

#acceptAll #aleisterCrowley #anyBeing #book #book111 #byComparisonWith #conceptions #convenientStandard #denial #discriminating #Environment #illusionItself #inOurLight #inRespectOf #liberAleph #liberCxi #Liberא #maintaining #noNeed #onlyInOurMinds #order #phenomena #purpose #quote #Relation #TheBookOfWisdomOrFolly

Our next #JCON2025 session is live: 'We #Hate Code - The !joy of #Maintaining Dead Code' with Gerrit Grunwald

Do you love to maintain #code that you didn’t wrote? Probably not…
As systems grow and #evolve …

Grab your coffee and hit play: https://youtu.be/0BAxb-jcRo8

#Java #JCON

Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work

https://ashishb.net/programming/maintaining-android-app/

#HackerNews #Maintaining #an #Android #app #in #Google #Play #Store #is #a #lot #of #work #AndroidDevelopment #AppMaintenance #GooglePlayStore #TechChallenges #SoftwareEngineering