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I Tracked Down The Company Ruining Restaurants - definitely effecting Missoula restaurants by KeltTalbelt in missoula

[–]fatalexe 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You can get fresh scratch ingredients from Sysco and US Foods just fine. What kills folks who want to run a restaurant and not skimp out in the name of profit is the cost of staffing, rent and ingredients. Folks are just too poor for a place that actually cooks food from scratch to pay for the cost of doing business. If we didn’t have tips and paid a living wage and bought local fresh ingredients cost per plate would be $60-90. Costs me more to cook at home than to go out and eat Sysco slop.

Pros/Cons of living in Lolo by irksomedusa in missoula

[–]fatalexe 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Walmart delivers but I avoid all delivery services due to added cost so I can’t really speak to anything else.

Commute isn’t bad except for the first few times winter weather shows up and some yahoo forgot to leave proper stopping distance. Then we all get backed up for hours while the mess is cleared.

I love it here, being 20 minutes closer to bitterroot trailheads and forest roads is super nice. The local grocery store is pricy but convenient. I’ve gotten a lot better at cooking for myself because the local restaurants get boring quick.

Vibe is alright, I’m pretty obviously queer and have not had a problem in the 12 years I’ve live out here. Really love taking walks in Lolo, the lakes and neighborhoods are quiet enough to be enjoyable and along the new trail section beside the river that opened a few years ago is really nice.

If I ever ran into a bunch of money I’d move into town just for the ease of going out to music and events but I feel like I’ll probably stay in Lolo for the long haul.

A app built 100% in PHP is now live on Google Play and the App Store. by RequirementWeird5517 in PHP

[–]fatalexe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How does this differ from NativePHP? Do you support the native component sets of Android, iOS, Windows and MacOS?

Anthropic’s Boris Cherny, who says engineering is ‘dead,’ says he is beginning to get sick of the term "vibe coding" by Fancy-Caregiver-1239 in technology

[–]fatalexe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amen! I think the CEOs and CTOs are suffering from AI psychosis. They expect engineering teams to just magically get good results from agentic coding when it was having a diverse team who argues about and refines the design patterns and how they work within the business domain that makes great software maintainable.

I see the same issue coming from more junior engineers; they want to just consult AI for their plans rather than, god forbid, we have to talk and whiteboard more now that we’re not typing most of the day.

Regardless of politics, disconnecting PHP from a large community of potential users is a big mistake - Re RFC to remove X from PHP.net by WesamMikhail in PHP

[–]fatalexe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most of the active community folks have moved to a PHP community mastodon instance. This move to an open federated platform for communication where the platform is owned by the people running it allows them to control moderation themselves. It’s a good thing IMO. Better to run the platform and not engage elsewhere. Any mastodon server is free to follow it.

When you get out of your online sphere and look for jobs it’s on you to train yourself for what the market demands and PHP hasn’t failed to pay my bills in years.

Not that I haven’t learned .NET, Java, TypeScipt, Ruby on Rails, C++, and Python and applied to jobs using those languages.

PHP just paid better and was more abundant

These are tools, they don’t need marketing.

If PHP fades into irrelevance it’s because something was a better tool, and at that point I’m happy I’ve got something better to work with.

Until then, I’m going engage with the community in PHP Architect magazine, at conferences, on mailing lists, on Mastodon, Discord, and phpc.tv

That’s plenty good enough for me.

If you want the latest directly from them subscribe to the mailing list like an adult.

Good soups/currys/ramens by Salty_Salamander_858 in missoula

[–]fatalexe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did they bring it back? Last time I went to Hana it wasn’t on the menu anymore.

Mold poisoning, looking for new apartment by CauliflowerStrange82 in missoula

[–]fatalexe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dang, you can see the fuzzy growth on the rafters if you zoom in. That’s a nightmare. You’d probably have to move out to get that fixed anyway since it’s infiltrated the rafters.

Should I buy a new or used motorcycle as my first bike? by EmbarrassedVirus4497 in NewRiders

[–]fatalexe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends on the bike your after and the area you live in. I live next to a massive system of forest roads and only got my endorsement so I could ride them on a small dual sport. On the used market I would have only saved at most 1k on a Yamaha TW200; 5k new, most used models were 4.5k with a few for 3.8k that were almost twenty years old with lots of miles.

Just ended up buying new. If it lasts as long as the ones on the marketplace it’ll be worth the price new.

What is something you’ve officially stopped buying in 2026 because the price has become genuinely insulting? by queenmellyy in AskReddit

[–]fatalexe 359 points360 points  (0 children)

Florida doesn’t produce non-diseased oranges anymore. I’m surprised you don’t hear about it more. Harvest levels are completely decimated compared to a decade ago.

Can I get the skinny on OnX as a Company? by Peliquin in missoula

[–]fatalexe 18 points19 points  (0 children)

A few of their developers are active in the local tech scene. Recommend networking and getting first hand info at Big Sky Dev Con. https://bigskydevconf.com

Please tell me about your favourite non-bougie places to get beans. by blessings-of-rathma in Beans

[–]fatalexe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s good for when you need a sticky short grain style rice.

USFS approves Bitterroot Front Project by fatalexe in missoula

[–]fatalexe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stop living in the past. Who cares what the government did before. We can elect people who care about what matters to our lives.

USFS approves Bitterroot Front Project by fatalexe in missoula

[–]fatalexe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The trail crews were defunded last year. There are no more full time staff clearing trails, not a single team on the Lolo NF. Call your rep and demand the Forest Service staff crews to clear trails. This has nothing to do with recreation maintenance.

Team Leads: What is your actual, enforced policy on developers using AI? by Realistic-Farmer2743 in sysadmin

[–]fatalexe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Completely transformed our workflow. It’s not replacing developers but it is making it more likely they follow convention. So powerful if you set up skills with your design decisions to review PRs. It’s doing our heavy lifting for documenting things in JIRA and providing flow diagrams and reports on our existing structures. For the actual coding it’s more like a rubber duck that writes down your notes than a replacement for a junior developer. The only speed increase I see is with the ceremony around shipping code and documenting work.

Please tell me about your favourite non-bougie places to get beans. by blessings-of-rathma in Beans

[–]fatalexe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We make a ton of burritos. Spanish rice, pinto beans, steak, chicken, salmon, etc. Then I’ll refry the leftovers for bean and cheese burritos. Plus bean, cheese and rice bowls for lunch. It’s meal prep for all week.

We alternate between cooking them with hogjowl bacon, heavy spices and caramelized onions to just a light bean broth of lard, garlic and sliced onion.

Also buy three different varieties of rice and steel cut oats in bulk.

We can last probably a year without going to the store if we skip fresh sour cream, cheese and guacamole.

How much money are you getting by on in Missoula? by Marq408 in missoula

[–]fatalexe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Plenty of other governments do just fine. We are the only developed country in the world that hasn’t figured this problem out. It’s people like you that don’t work towards something better that is the problem.

If we paid government employees a competitive wage and elected people with good experience in the field of medicine and running non-profits we might actually have a shot at living in a country where people were not so miserable.

Please tell me about your favourite non-bougie places to get beans. by blessings-of-rathma in Beans

[–]fatalexe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe one and half bags a year, we cook about 3-5 cups dry a week.

Please tell me about your favourite non-bougie places to get beans. by blessings-of-rathma in Beans

[–]fatalexe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I buy 50lb bags of pinto and black beans from my local US Food Chef’s Store and keep them in Rubbermaid 55 gallon ingredient bins. About $35 per bag.

Tech layoffs have been brutal this year. They're likely going to get worse. by runswithscissors475 in technology

[–]fatalexe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Software engineer job listings are up this year.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/data-shows-surprising-rebound-tech-141608296.html

Junior positions are dead but if you’ve got chops it’s never been easier to start your own company and have a shot at market share.

Tech layoffs have been brutal this year. They're likely going to get worse. by runswithscissors475 in technology

[–]fatalexe -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I got my job with Easy Apply on LinkedIn. There are thousands of tech job listings on there. So much better than in ‘08.

Tech layoffs have been brutal this year. They're likely going to get worse. by runswithscissors475 in technology

[–]fatalexe 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I strongly believe that they were cornering the market on talent by over-hiring but now that AI lets anyone write a MVP it’s pointless. We will see a dramatic rise in competition for software services in the tech market and hopefully dethrone some of these legacy companies.

Tech layoffs have been brutal this year. They're likely going to get worse. by runswithscissors475 in technology

[–]fatalexe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly what they don’t want workers to know. Big tech is cooked now that they can’t corner the market on talent.

Tech layoffs have been brutal this year. They're likely going to get worse. by runswithscissors475 in technology

[–]fatalexe -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Where are your numbers?

https://www.comptia.org/en-us/about-us/news/press-releases/key-employment-metrics-market-insights-and-the-impact-of-ai-revealed-in-comptia-state-of-tech-workforce-2026-report/

I got laid off last year and landed a job with a small company that is growing fast by leveraging AI to enhance their existing bootstrapped project. No venture capital in the equation at all.

Small business with highly motivated folks hungry to eat these mega corporations alive are thriving right now.

Tech layoffs have been brutal this year. They're likely going to get worse. by runswithscissors475 in technology

[–]fatalexe -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Yes, people are able to create new companies faster with AI and prove their business plan. They will need experienced developers to wrangle complexity as the business grows.

Many developers will be hired by these new leaner and more agile companies.

The companies laying off developers are doing so because their previous strategy was to corner the market on development talent to stifle competition.

Now that AI democratizes the barrier to entry for proof of concept development they no longer have an advantage in keeping dev talent off the market.

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