u/MissNobodyyyy

I'm trying to find a bakery in Dallas for an upcoming birthday and would love some recommendations. Looking for places that actually taste amazing, not just pretty Instagram cakes.

Open to: • custom birthday cakes • vintage/lambeth style cakes • fun or Unique flavors • cupcakes or smaller cakes too

Bonus points if they're reliable, easy to order from, and worth the price. What spots do y'all always recommend?

So i run a small business and there's a lot of dumb stuff i end up doing every day. Emails, client reports, moving things from support tickets to github.

I tried to set up an agent myself first. I can't code for shit. That lasted maybe an hour.

Ended up using autoclaw because someone on reddit mentioned it. Didn't have to figure out all the technical stuff myself so that was good tbh.

So of course i tried to connect everything at once. Email dropbox wp even a phone line(it broke everything). Had to rip it all out and start with just email and added more stuff after that once i stopped trying to do everything at once.

The first week was annoying though. You're just sitting there telling it about your business, like who your clients are and how you write things. Felt like i was wasting my time the whole time. But now it remembers all of that between sessions so thats actually the reason it works at all i think

It does my inbox overnight now, sends me a wp in the morning. Writes client reports that are like 80% there. Moves bugs to github from support so my dev isnt copy pasting from slack anymore which he was losing his mind about before lol.

Some of the stuff it writes is straight up garbage and i just redo those myself. But the rest saves me time so idk, good enough for me.

Been looking into C++20 modules as a way to get our build times down. I get the pitch. Modules compile once and the result gets reused rather than every translation unit going through the same headers.

We're on a ~300k loc codebase, CMake + Ninja, MSVC on Windows. Clean builds are sitting around 12 minutes. Modules support has felt fragile every time I've poked at it which has made me hesitant to commit.

Has anyone here actually seen build time gains on a codebase of real size, and whether a migration is realistic or if mixing with legacy headers makes everything worse.

See this a lot. Someone watches a big streamer, sees their setup video, buys similar gear, then wonders why their stream still looks bad.

That streamer spent years learning. They know their lighting, they tweak every setting, they understand why things work together. You just bought the same stuff and put it in a completely different room with different lighting and expected the same result.

I did this too early on. I kept thinking if I just get better gear it'll fix everything. It didn't. What actually helped was sitting down and learning. Lighting. Audio levels. OBS settings. How to actually make things look good with what I already had.

Someone with an old Logitech webcam and proper lighting will look way better than someone with expensive gear who never learned the basics. I've seen it so many times.

Before you buy anything else, work with what you have. Even a phone camera can look decent if you understand light and positioning. Learn why something looks good, not just what gear makes it look good.

The amount of time I spent figuring out settings, testing audio, fixing overlays, all of it. It lot of work. Most people want to skip that part and just throw money at the problem but it doesn't work like that.

My setup now is nothing crazy. Neewer ring light, emeet pixy, blue yeti on a boom arm. Looks clean cause I actually learned how to use it not cause it's expensive.

What did you waste time or money on before you figured this out?

Looking for places with good scenery, swimming or just relaxing by the water. Bonus points if there are cabins, hiking trails or good food nearby. Willing to drive a couple hours if it's worth it

Been thinking about renting a core aerator for my lawn but not sure if it's really worth the effort. My soil feels kinda compacted and grass isn't a thick as I want. For those who've used one, did you actually see a big difference? And is it better to diy or just hire someone? Any tips before I commit. Thanks