giftcards are a more controlling form of cash. It is not more thoughtful. Genuinely a shittier gift where you lock down where someone can spend their money.

When you can give a real gift to someone, do that. When the choice is between cash or a gift card, then never choose a gift card.

why limit what someone can buy. Just give them cash.

one morning my wife and I were talking about Penis Pumps. Then I left for work, got annoyed with managing how many different AWS account credentials I had to manage in my dev-box terminal, and wrote a script to manage it for me.

I named my script PPump because lmao. My team lead saw me use it one day, logged into my dev-box and took the script and published it to our internal GitLab without knowing why I named it PPump.

Now one year later our entire office has PPump baked into the default devbox image. Every day people penis pump into their AWS accounts. They have no idea and I can’t ever say anything about it.

Anyway this meme speaks to me in primordial ways.

“I’m out of the office wearing the same dirty clothes for the fifth day in a row. I am alone and depressed. I can’t afford rent, let alone a tree. I’ve been binge-watching porn and sleeping non-stop. Baileys is my breakfast. 40oz are my water. I will return, depressed.”