For a couple of weeks now I've been bashing my head against the wall trying to get Stripe to work. I was so sure it was my problem that I never stopped to consider that it might not be. Mostly because I couldn't find a single person online who's had the same problem. The payment kept failing when trying to get the 3DS authentication. A few weeks ago I had no idea what that meant, all of a sudden I've read pretty much everything the stripe docs have to say about it. Finally it got to the point where I had no roads left to explore. I had tried everything. The annoying part is that to get the support you need to ask the AI chat to forward your request to an actual person. Which was something I had been trying to figure out for a while too. It got to the point, it felt easier to try an alternative method of payment (within stripe) than trying to find support. Finally yesterday I thought of asking the AI how which eventually connected me to an actual person. Turns out they are stumped too. But at the very least I know it's not a config somewhere. I've tried them all at this point. Never have I ever said it but I prefer talking to people for support. I'm not lazy, I'll read the docs and try everything I possibly can before I think of bothering someone but at that point it should be easy to reach someone if needed.
Deteriorating quickly
I had the habit of doing a bit of typing practice everyday. Lately I haven't been doing it very much. I'm surprised how quickly it has deteriorated. It makes it even more noticeable when in Vim (btw). As I find myself doing things that I never intended or that faintest idea of how it got to that place. So I've been incorporating it back into my day. Every time I find myself bored I'll do a quick fifty word practice. I think the hard limit of practicing it for fifteen minute was too much. I'm finding it that when I put hard limits or expectations of outcomes on myself I perform very poorly. On the other hand if there are no expectations I tend to outperform by huge margins. Strange how operate sometimes. Another example of this was, this blog. A month ago I set myself the goal of writing 300 blog posts before the end of the year since I started writing mostly everyday. Before I put this number down I was well on track to exceeding that number but since I've hardly written anything. Lesson learned. It's sounds weird, I find it very strange myself but if that's how I operate I'm happy to lean into it. I'd rather write 323 blog posts instead of aiming for 300. It makes even less sense when I say it out loud but there is no clear logic to how I operate. Maybe there is, I just don't understand it. Anyway, what does it matter. You can only write one blog post at a time anyway. It does not matter how many I write in 365 days, I rather still be writing a 1000 days later.