I understand the need for hoarding tabs but it boggles my mind how people navigate tiny tabs and remember where everything is. In fact, they probably don't since I keep seeing people clicking back and forth a few times before finding the right tab.

I have been using tree style tabs on Firefox for so long, I can't function without it. I can nest tabs together and collapse them, but most importantly, I can read all the tab titles due to the vertical layout.

I'm down to 7800 tabs (30 windows) on my main desktop. 4K on my other, 2K on my laptops. High was >11000 tabs. Firefox makes this easy; takes ~30 seconds to open all those windows and load a tab per window (plus ~8 pinned tabs)

"% string" in the awesome bar completes against tabs only. Helps a ton, along with some about:config settings that open new tabs from pinned tabs at the right (end) of the tab list. Also windows for separate contexts (though tab groups may also work here now, and avoid the overhead of opening a window/loading a tab at startup).

And "About Tabs" extension from glandium (who works for mozilla)

Yes, I was almost hoping for a "this was AI-generated" disclaimer at the end!

I have been so happy moving out of Google Photos and storing everything on my NAS + cloud backup. I don't have to worry about Google re-encoding my videos and not letting me get my originals back.

I was off by one digit... at least it went to a good cause

A note about Google Authenticator. There are alternatives which imo are much better, like LastPast Authenticator or Authy. They work exactly the same but they can back up your codes securely. Big plus if you lose or change your phone.

On Android, I really like Aegis, https://getaegis.app. Open source, biometric unlock, automated backups. Available from the Play Store and Fdroid.

Yeah I just learned this in fact, that the Google Authenticator app is one thing that does not sync to my google acct seamlessly (read: without asking). Learned it the hard but not unrecoverable way thank goodness.

Since it's just based on TOTP, seems like writing your own would be one of those bad idea "I could do this in a weekend!" fun projects :-)

+1 for Authy. I like it because it has cloud sync and has a desktop app available as well.

I had experience with a product using an event based architecture at large scale, and to be honest, it was a pain to work with. For example, traceability, or troubleshooting in general, was very hard since events would spawn more events etc. making things much harder to track than expected.

Unless the scale is an issue, nowadays I always prefer a more state-full approach when possible.

Agreed. These features are only relevant to picking, not to inserting the actual key.