Store dates where time is known (and matters) as
ISO 8601 timestamps in UTC 2020-05-26T10:33:58Z no matter what the users timezone convert to UTC. Convert it back to the users locale for display. Make sure to store the users time zone somewhere (not EST but America/New_York so DST calculations can happen via your time lib). Storage of a time zone with your user (or somewhere) is important so you can convert back for things like reports and downloads where you don’t have the benefit of the user’s computers time zone.

For dates that don’t care about time. Birthdays, store YYYY-MM-DD. For display once again convert to what ever the users locale calls for on front end.

After years of API design for a national platform with customers across America this is the only way to stay sane.

I find it has to be sometimes when you have a tight deadline, bad requirements and fixing it will take longer then you have to spend on the project. In the non Silicon Valley corporate world this is very common. I tend to think of the new code as legacy code sense it is forced by the existing code base.

I've been forced multiple times to make the judgement call.

@liammartens For sure! Your opinion is totally valid. I was just providing a different perspective as well

@liammartens I can understand if you are doing audio or video work the need for multiple ports. When doing design I don't use a Wacom or anything, just my trackpad. Also don't have any physical external authentication I need to use.

I could most def be the minority. Sometimes I do audio recording but then it's just a single thunderbolt cable.

My backups also occur wirelessly to an encrypted HD on my network

I use my 2013 MacBook Pro, and honestly I almost never plug anything into it except for power and my iPhone. For presenting most times conference rooms have Apple TVs so we can just steam the presentation. I get they aren't for everyone but if you prefer OSX the lack of different ports isn't necessarily a deal breaker.

I as a consumer would love the price to be lower but as an Apple user you vote with your wallet and as for me it's still worth the cost. Not for everyone but I still see value in the product. Some people don't see the cost being worth the value which is totally cool.

(I also use Windows 7 for my second job and Red Hat Linux on servers if that lends to my credibility)

Reading Elon Musk's biography, this quote is in that book but it's not a quote from Elon, but Jeff Hammerbacher of Facebook.

I use 1Password and have a random password for every site now. Too many big name sites have been hacked to trust anyone.

@Rabb, yeah we use contractors for QA at my company and the way our contract is setup it really creates an us vs them mentality. Meanwhile dev is like "Can't we just get code delivered into Prod as a team?"

Lol, I just ranted about QA, this was how my interaction started as well.

I think it's okay to be disappointed but life is too short to spend too much time. You still started a club that is getting written about which is an awesome accomplishment! Don't let the fact that you can't be in the photo ruin that!

Yeah I am all about security and being fully patched but there are just some days (Fridays) where restart right now is not feasible.