Error'd: No Rush

This week, friend Adam R. sent in an entry and included with it a link to a short-form YouTube video. Presumably this was a mistake, because I watched that video and the next one and the next one and the next one and after two hours I still haven't got this column ready. I won't share the video link with you. You're welcome.

What Adam really wanted to say was: "The USPS offers a sincerely service called Informed Delivery that,every morning, emails you scans of the exterior of yourpostal mail that you're expected to receive that day, whichis a genuinely useful service (#not-sponsored). In today's digest, however,the subject line had an extra None thrown in there.Some Python script gone wrong that wasn't tested before production,perhaps?" We get lots of NaN, null, and undefined submissions, but None are actually rare.

Carlos sent us a fresh email, reporting"Mint Mobile hit the jackpot buttheir template engine didn't."

"No Rush" stated Robert F. calmly."My Carbonite backup files will be deleted in 11250001 daysif I don't reconnect the drive. Well, there's no rush,really. They have given me 30,822 years to reconnect it.(It was never disconnected in the first place!)"

"Roosting indeed" harumphs The Beast in Black."Somebody should tell Claude Code that it keeps using thatword but I do not think it means what itthinks it means. On the other hand, considering how sssllllllooooooowwwwit usually is, perhaps this is honesty."

Peter S. has been driven to madness by Sixt, right along with me."Now that I am silver, Sixt's top offer is tofill all mandatory fields in their data extension. I wonderwhat gold gives me."

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