Squiddles

That's fair--the right stack is the one that delivers on time. I wish her good luck and less stressful future sprints

I feel like when you're managing a team you also have to consider the skills you want future devs to have to have. Not saying this is necessarily the case for you (for all I know you already have a mix of React and Angular), but on my teams we have bottlenecks when we need to do work in certain plugins because only one person knows VB6, or WPF, or has the license for the third party library needed to compile the plugin. The dev may not be available for weeks/months because other teams need work done in that tech. If everyone's using the same stack you can just assign tasks to people based on their availability.

There's a lovely wildlife illustrator--Liz Clayton Fuller aka ipaintbirbs--who, in addition to her completely serious professional real bird illustrations, draws things like a chickadee in cowboy boots/hat, a dynamite-toting goldfinch, and a junco in JNCO jeans. When I hear Beehaw I think of the mascot, which makes me think of Liz (Sorry for shop links. Her silly stuff isn't in her portfolio page)

Another tip from my experience: I live in a hot/dry climate and had inconsistent and discouraging results the first year. The game-changer was using timers to water automatically. And the drip line is actually more efficient--we use significantly less water than our neighbors even though we grow way more. Auto-watering is the full trifecta: lazy, efficient, and effective.

Looks awesome! Toothache plants are wild.

I love the weird little nosehair-like inflorescences that Peperomia get! Their weird flowers is why I bought my first plant, which snowballed into plants taking over our house and yard.

The backyard is now lousy with dinosaurs (chickens), so everything that's growing is in the front yard this year and I pared back the edibles. For food, lots of chard, beets, peppers, okra, and eggplant, since that's what we end up using out of the garden. The street-visible bit has zinnias, snapdragons, strawflowers, the more attractive herbs (fennel/dill, hyssop, perilla), and four o' clocks.

Guards! Guards! is commonly recommended as a starting point. It's a good book (they all are), but personally I recommend Men at Arms or Feet of Clay. They're still early in the watch series, but the writing style is more fluid and compelling. I feel like Guards! Guards! was a turning point if you read the earlier books, but IMO he hit full-stride right around Men at Arms. And once Vimes embraces his rage at injustice it maxes the gauge and bits of steam start shooting out.

Discworld is always a brilliant choice. Good luck getting through Shepherd's Crown. I can't do it. If I never read it, it never has to end. "People will always remember the songs he never had the chance to sing. And they will be the greatest songs of all."

Planescape: Torment. You're an immortal amnesiac scouring the world and the abyss to find the source of your immortality and destroy it so you can finally die. Hijinks ensue.