One night, after a particularly bad thunderstorm, our phone lines started picking up an AM radio station before you placed a call. My parents swore up and down somebody had left a phone out of the receiver and after unplugging every station in the house, we realized the problem. Now I can still pick up that same radio station if I hold the male end of a cable plugged into a guitar amp. At least the station plays decent music!
I absolutely love windy.com. Prior to having a ForeFlight subscription, I found it to have the most accurate hourly forecasts before heading up on a flight. Both the website and mobile app are stellar, and they put extra effort into building tools for pilots. They have the best visualizations for cloud layers, let you toggle UTC time, and they integrate with airport info beautifully. I’d set notifications on METAR updates prior to heading out so I’d stay up to date.
All of these reasons can be seen as justifications for reducing reliance on cars altogether. Public transportation is a viable alternative and introducing friction for drivers, while not the primary intention, can directly correlate to _reduced_ emissions and congestion [0]. If a driver is going to violate traffic laws and put others at risk because of their impatience, I'd argue that keeping these individuals off our roads is far more important than pandering to them. Socioeconomic status does not dictate one's ability to park legally.
Except, as a seller, I have multiple avenues to deliver my product to customers other than Walmart. On top of that, Walmart charges a fee per sale [1], and doesn't get to double dip into additional services rendered on top of that product. As soon as the sale is done through Walmart, they're cut out of the picture. Could you imagine Walmart demanding a 30% cut of profits if I sell a video game with in-game purchases--just because they performed the task of stocking it on the shelf?
It depends on the situation but like some of the commenters here, I use two whiteboards for rapidly putting things together. I have a larger one for drawing out the architecture—relationships, expected behaviors, purpose statements, that sort of thing.
Then, I've got a smaller one that lets me design a rough skeleton for UI (when applicable). If I can wrap my head around how I can expect a user to touch various parts of the project, I can better plan for what data requirements I anticipate needing.
But when it comes down to development, it generally boils down to avid use of GitHub. I have an unhealthy obsession with checkboxes on GitHub issues and pull requests. I used to compile todo.txt files like others, but found that they fell out of date or that I never had any reliable means of tracking what I had previously worked on. If you delete the bullet points, it's hard to find when or why.
So I split features into PRs. One, two, or three thousand lines of changes on average for a small feature here or there. When I need to clean up bugs, I've gotten a bit lazy and will just sneak them into commits on master. Squash and merge lets me point back to the PR that I created and I'll throw a description of all my work into the body of the PR.
GitHub issues lets you know what work needs to be done and when the PR is filed, the issue gets closed (i.e. you put a small "This closes #N" in the body and when the PR is merged, GH takes care of the rest).
It might not be an efficient system but I've tried things like Trello or project boards in the past and I couldn't bring myself to shuffling a deck of a hundred cards every time I touched one small thing. As soon as you increase the distance between your code and your project board, it feels like going through that many more steps just to update everything. It works for some but everyone is different.
I use Google photos, primarily because of how friendly it can be cross-platform. It's especially helpful that I can easily build custom albums with just a couple of taps and usher it out to any contact, regardless of whether or not they already have an account set up. Sending invites over text message or any other messaging platform is dead simple. I used to support Apple's shared albums but I haven't been engaged with that platform since I started to use the G Photos app to back up and free storage space on my phone. It also made switching devices relatively painless since I didn't have to worry about 10+ Gb of transfer.
If it didn't feel like Apple was playing catch up with Google Photos, I might've used iCloud more. Also, I hit that 5 Gb threshold very early on.
