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I work as a cashier at a pizza place. The way it works is that you order your pizza with the people that cook it. You can watch them make it if you want, and then you come to me. You then tell me what you ordered so that I can ring it up in the system. If you changed anything on your pizza, you have to tell me. Even though you already told the people making the pizza. It’s not the best system. Unless Jake is reading this. Then I think it’s a really good system.

The other day, a woman came up to me and a coworker and asked for a to-go container for her salad. We serve salads in the same bowl no matter what, but have lids available for to-go orders. My co-worker grabs a lid and hands it to her with a smile. She looks unsatisfied. “Do I put the salad on this?”

That’s a true story. She was serious.

I’m also astounded at how many people come to me complaining that their pizza was wrong. You just watched them make it. You didn’t notice it was wrong then? What the hell man? You’re making my life harder. If you’re gonna order a complicated pizza, pay a-fucking-ttention.

It’s official. I got a job.

It’s been a long time coming. I’ve been needing a job. I’ve also already had the job for a little while now. I just didn’t post about it. I work at a pizza place.

I’m a big fan of podcasts. I haven’t actually been listening to them for that long, but I’ve enjoyed them a lot since I’ve started. That’s why I’m excited for today’s post: I’m gonna talk about some of my favorite podcasts.

Which podcast app is best? This is a question that plenty of people ask. I won’t be going in depth on the different apps and the features they have. All I’m going to say is that I’m a huge fan of Castro on iOS. Now, let’s talk about some of my favorite podcasts!

Forensic Files is a crime podcast. It was a tv show first, and it still is. I wasn’t aware that this was available in podcast form until very recently. I’m quite excited. I used to watch the TV show with my nana all the time.

The Vergecast is my favorite way to stay up to date with tech news. I like the people on it, they cover stories I like to hear about, and it’s not boring. In fact, I’d venture to say it’s entertaining.

Everything is Alive is a work of art. Ever wanted to know what a bar of soap was thinking? Of course you have.

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Couples Therapy with Candice & Casey is one that I just recently started listening to. I used to watch Casey’s videos all the time, but they got less interesting to me after a while. I’m hoping the new format could get me interested in his content again.

What if you want to make a podcast? Well, I think I’ve found a pretty good app for that. It’s called Anchor, and it’s supposed to make it easy to publish on all platforms. I haven’t given it a try, but it’s available in the App Store. Maybe I’ll try it out at some point. If you’ve used it before, let me know on Twitter how it works!

I’m gonna use this post as a place to jot down my plans for watch/play. I’ll keep it updated as plans change.

watch/play for servers

Originally I created watch/play for streamers, but it works just as well for servers. If you’re a game server admin, watch/play is a great way to show off your server. Featured content creators that play on your server while showing viewers how to join in on the fun

watchplay.xyz is here

Thanks to namecheap’s prices, I’ve gone ahead and gotten watchplay.xyz. The basic tier sites will be hosted on this domain. For example, watchplay.xyz/diskk

the watch/play dashboard

For now, sites will be fully managed. In the (distant) future, users will be able to edit the site themselves once they’ve been approved for the platform. A fully visual editor will be available so users won’t need to know how to code. This will only be available in a more expensive tier, but it will allow full customization of the site.

easy sign-up

At some point, I plan on building an easier way to sign up so users don’t have to email me.

managed vs unmanaged

Are you a streamer? I’m a big fan of watching Twitch streams, and today I’m introducing my new platform for their websites, watch/play.

watch/play is the easiest way for streamers to get a website that shows off both their stream and their game server. For users, it’s simple. Your new website gives them all the information they need to do whatever they want: watch or play.

If you’d like to see an example, check out the first watch/play website I designed for Voluption.

Oh RTD. Why is it you have such an issue with me?? I’ve been taking the bus almost daily, and almost daily I’ve had issues. The latest of my adventures started off well. I was even early! I let the first bus that arrived at my stop go on by to kill some time. I didn’t need to arrive too early, and the next bus was scheduled to show up just 15 minutes later.

The bus got delayed, but only by about 2 minutes. I was still doing great on time. I got on my bus, headphones in, and waited to arrive at my stop. My issue was assuming that the bus would eventually arrive at the stop. The bus pulls over to the side of the road, and the driver says something over the speaker. I’m not sure what exactly he said, but everyone started getting of the bus. It was clear it wouldn’t be going any further. I grabbed my skateboard and pulled up Google Maps.

There was another bus stop I could skate to not too far away. Great. I skated towards it, got there, sat down, waited. I looked at the maps and saw a dotted line going around the corner. Hmm, I seemed to be at the wrong stop. I started skating to the other dot. Nope, that’s where I came from. Back to the first dot.

Eventually the bus arrives. I flash my phone to the driver, demonstrating that I, as a young man, have a youth ticket that permits me to ride this bus that will hopefully go further than my last. I sit down closer to the front than I normally would when the driver takes off, not wanting to stumble and fall. All goes well. I reach for my bag to make sure it’s all good.

Wait. My bag is not with me. That’s strange. Where is it? I look around my seat, as if it could be hiding somewhere. Nope. I soon realize I have left my bag on the broken down bus. I signal to stop, one stop away from where I get on. My sense of direction isn’t great, but I do my best to retrace where I’ve been to get back to the broken down bus. I’m somewhat confident it will still be there, since it’s supposed to be broken down. At first I’m not sure if I’m heading in the right direction, but then I see a bus on the side of the road. The number matches the bus I took.

I skate up and look inside the window of the bus. I don’t see my bag, but I’m almost positive this is the bus I was on. The doors are closed. I peek into as many windows as I can, still not seeing my bag. I walk to the front of the bus, and finally I see the driver. He seems to know immediately why I have returned. He asks me if I forgot something, and I say yes. He hands me my bag. Thanks, bus driver!

I haven’t been on the bus since, but I’m hoping that my next experience will be a little bit nicer. After all, there is a lot of room for improvement. I’m really not sure if I could have a worse bus experience. Maybe I am just getting all the bad experiences out of the way. Maybe the bus just sucks. Time will tell.

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G Suite used to be known as Google Apps, and it used to offer a free tier. Things are different now, and you’ll be coughing up $5 a month for your custom email address if you do things Google’s way. Fortunately, Google’s way isn’t the only way.

If you’re setting up a custom email, you probably have a website and a web host. You’ll need to set up an email account with your web host. It doesn’t need to have much space, as we will be downloading the messages into gmail and removing them from the mail server. Your web host probably has a tutorial for this. Take care of that. Here’s what you’ll need:

Your email address

Your username (May be the same as your address)

Your password

The SMTP address for your host

The POP3 address for your host

The SMTP and POP3 ports. I use SSL ports.

That may look like a lot, but your web host should make this all pretty easy to get. I’ll update this post at some point to include some help with this.

If you don’t have a domain or web hosting yet, you’ll need that first. You can check this page for deals on both from Namecheap. I use them for my domains and they are great.

Now, let’s head to Gmail. Once you’re there, go to the settings. Once in the settings, we are going to go to the accounts & import settings.

You’ll notice I went to the forwarding tab first. This is the wrong tab. Don’t be like me. This tab will show us the different accounts we have Gmail checking, as well as the accounts we have allowed Gmail to send as. For you, there probably aren’t any there yet. You’ll notice I’ve added a few.

Why are we using POP3 instead of IMAP? We don’t want to store our messages on a web server. Gmail won’t host our mail server for us for free, but they will store the messages in your Google account. Basically, we are using your web host to send and receive email, but we are storing the messages in your Google account. Loopholes!

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Remember all the information I had you get earlier? We’re going to use it all now to allow Gmail to send and receive email through your web host. Let’s start with allowing gmail to send as your custom address.

Click “Add another email address” and enter your name and email. Check “treat as an alias” and then click next step.

Enter the SMTP server URL, your username, and your password. My port is for SSL, so I’ve chosen to connect securely using SSL. That’s all there is to it! But now we need to allow Gmail to check your mailbox.

Click “add a mail account” and enter your email address.

You’ll choose POP3, and then enter the server details just as we did for sending mail. Be sure to uncheck “leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server” if you only want to store messages in Gmail.

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I began my day with a healthy dose of procrastination. In fact, instead of getting out of bed to catch a bus, I’ve begun working on this post. A post about my experience on the bus. I’ve begun working on a post about my experience on the bus before I’ve even left the house to get on the bus.

First I needed to get to the bus stop. I don’t walk, for obvious reasons, so I use this very dirty cheap penny board knock-off to get around. It serves its purpose quite well. I put my destination into Apple Maps and it told me where to walk skate. I set off and quickly arrived at the bus stop. I waited silently next to an old woman who was there before me. We sat on opposite ends of the bench. By this point I forgot I was documenting my journey, so I didn’t take a picture when getting to the bus stop. I’m really good at blogging.

The bus arrives and we board. She boards first. I board next. I show the driver my pass on my phone, which she barely glances at. I have also been informed that I could be buying a youth pass, which would have saved me some money. Now I know.

The bus ride is quite boring, so I had to bust out bloons tower defense. This isn’t a sponsorship, I’m just lame.

Unfortunately, I must have missed my stop. I got very into my game, and I expected Apple Maps to tell me when to get off of the bus. It did not. Not to worry though, I got off the bus a bit late and got onto another one. I switched to Google Maps, which proved to be much more reliable. What a great experience.

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Wow, it’s 4:13 a.m. that’s early. I’ve decided I’m going to write something every day. Maybe I’m just not thinking straight since I’m up way too early, but right now it seems like a great idea. Writing more will be helpful. I can grow my blog. I can improve my skills. I start college this fall, and they probably love it when people know how to write. That’s probably one of their favorite things.

So I’m going to write something every day. Maybe it will go really well. Maybe it won’t go well at all. I guess only time will tell. In the meantime, I’ve set up this blog with a fabulous theme.

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Today, I took the city bus. Before I made it to the bus of course I had to make it to the bus stop. I did that successfully on my tiny skateboard. I was greeted by a woman who wanted to use my phone. She promptly excused me, informing me that my phone was out of minutes. My phone doesn’t have minutes but that’s cool.

She finds another man to ask for a phone. She’s lets us all know that she’s got to call her brother to see if he’s got any mamba. She needs some mamba. She returns the phone and offers part of her, idk, joint (?) as a thank you for the call.

I board the bus and sit down quickly. I become uncomfortable when I realize I’m in a section meant for, I dunno, not me. I mean, it was empty except for me. That seems like a sign that it’s not for me. But I wasn’t gonna STAND UP and MOVE.

So there I am, in the wrong section of the bus. TheN, DRAMA! I hear a commotion! There is an altercation in the back of the bus! The driver gets on his Walkie-talkie and informs everyone that they should behave!! One dude leaves the bus through the back door. He returns through the front door to yell at the other dude to GET OFF THE BUS! He calls up his homies and lets them know they need to pull up at this bus stop. There’s a situation and they need to come take care of it. Who are his homies you ask? The POLICE!

He calls the cops! He started it and he called the cops! Oof! What an experience!

The folks on the bus are very excited. One man recorded it, saying that he would be on YouTube. So I am looking forward to being famous as a bystander. For bookings, please tak to my manager.

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I made a poll on twitter wondering if I should start posting on medium or tumblr and it was 50/50 so that’s sketch

I heard tumblr is dead so I’m just wondering if it is? Thanks