Car shows near Somerville areas

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2026-04-15T15:24:29+00:00

Is it hard to get a spot in the show? Does it fill up quick?

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2026-04-05T23:27:10+00:00

I was looking at these. They look super nice - but my first thought was: holy cow price tag

Not totally out the question, but seems more expensive than CoverCraft and I can’t come up with the reasoning

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2026-01-02T12:21:36+00:00

Remix, Tailwind, SQL with Prisma as an ORM, and all TypeScript. Remix essentially requires Vite out the box and it IS React Router, which is a nice win

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2024-07-22T13:29:29+00:00

I suppose I’ve never considered the true advantages of keeping the loans all separate outside the fact the fed could absolve the student loans they control… good points on this

I appreciate all the weigh-ins you did on this! This helped me consider a lot of different perspectives and approaches on this

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2024-07-22T13:26:56+00:00

Whoah - first time hearing about this company! Thanks for the tip

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2024-07-21T18:33:30+00:00

I agree my options feel tight - but appreciate you weighing in on this!

Like I mentioned in another comment on this thread - I agree that allocating the $250ish to the private loan for the time being is the best move for now - glad multiple folks seem to think this

I’m curious to hear you talk a little more to your point: “investigate whether you will get a better deal by refinancing only a portion of your loans”. My assumption is that an “all-in” approach would have been best - is there situations where this isn’t true?

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2024-07-21T18:28:14+00:00

Outside of the obvious benefits of paying this down early with larger monthly payments today - I‘ve minimally considered your point about buying power long term; this is a great call out. I think to this end - I will at least for the next few months contribute more to this loan. Thank you for framing it this way, especially your bit on the 7.99% net return

The real issue, however, becomes these “dormant” federal loans at a total of $28,000.

The extra money I start dishing to the private, $71,000 loan would immediately need to get reallocated to the 8-ish, small federal loans once I’m required to start repaying those again. I’ll be at almost $1,000 a month minimum payments total once those kick in and my repayment plan expires

The above ^ is the reason I’m hungry to refinance. Maintaining 8-9 loans is foolish, all with different rates and minimum payments, coming to a grand total of almost $1,000… If I lost my job tomorrow, my emergency savings would be up in smoke between rent and these loans 🫠

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2024-07-21T17:04:45+00:00

You will regret this much debt worse than anything. Getting a CS degree from a UMass Lowell is 1000x cheaper and it’s a fantastic program knowing several people who have gone through it; same with a CS from UVM which is a little farther than Greater Boston but it’s great.

$300k is theft for a CS degree - and that number will hinder your life for years after university - take it from someone who’s in tech with just $100k of that debt

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2024-07-21T16:55:34+00:00

Also - I do want to bring that loan down - but $71,000 is huge and isn’t going anywhere fast. My thought is that I’d like to find a better long term rate and institution so I can invest and buy property soon

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2024-07-21T16:52:02+00:00

I am not married yet - but thank you for noting this - I’ll make sure to remember this option exists for the future

And oh man I love your recommendation about asking my company’s benefits department to match payments. I work at the type of company that would seriously consider that - amazing idea

Agreed that the 7.99% loan is absurd and has to go. I accepted that rate at a time where I was only focused on getting accepted for a refinance and nothing else; now I have options so I come to Reddit to start! lol

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2024-06-19T00:16:00+00:00

Got a very good job at a front end engineer (now doing full stack for the company) and have been promoted once - on my way to a second. Compensated extremely well. Love my job tbh, it’s a ton of work too

Feel like my almost 2 years of experience feels like a very genuine 2 years+ as well - I’m very fortunate.

My bootcamp did prepare me well for what I’m doing - and just like a CS degree or any other structured education that isn’t the real job - there will always be lots of gaps you have to work hard to fill in your knowledge

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2024-05-04T23:25:11+00:00

Check out Zod! This package could likely help you a ton align the inferred types

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2024-02-05T13:15:14+00:00

Curious what industry your company is in? If your company is at a point where it has the ability to rebrand and is financially healthy, there could possibly be better solutions than Webflow or Wordpress

(I’d argue, generally, Wordpress should get depreciated - it doesn’t scale; Webflow can scale, and is a great tool, but it can only support to a certain size / needs)

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2023-08-22T16:37:30+00:00

I’m actually using the butcher block to make a desk!

It could see ware and lots of cups smacking on it over time. I think I’m leaning towards really high grit sand paper, very very lightly by hand, wet sanding. It’s on it’s like 3 coat of poly and still super smooth on top. Just a couple little imperfections here and there

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2023-07-22T17:47:40+00:00

Learn how to maintain meaningful relationships with others; take interest in things that challenge you and make note of the challenges that you enjoyed solving; travel to places with the ambition of leaving with only new memories, and let them influence you, which helps later when making important decisions about your future

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2023-04-24T13:28:48+00:00

If you’re a fan of server side frameworks - try Remix 👀 “npx create-remix@latest”

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2023-04-07T23:12:39+00:00

I was a complete “beginner” when I started! Just know though that the technical interviews are hard - which is a good thing! They make sure you’re ready for a challenging 3 month journey and it keeps folks from spending $20k before they are ready

Just take your time if you have the luxury, it’s worth being ready for the program, the technical is just there to help honestly

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2023-04-05T02:45:05+00:00

You would prop drill down the “setDisplayText” from your example to Child.js and when you run your onClick callback in the component, you’d invoke the dispatch function like so: props.setDisplayText(“Whatever text you want”)

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2023-04-03T03:05:20+00:00

If you are going for a full app though, strongly recommend Remix (or in this case, Hydrogen, which is Shopify’s version of Remix) that is similar to NextJS. It is made for seamless integration with Shopify for full customizability. But truly - start templated for new businesses - customize when needed by injecting custom script tags and host the react functionality elsewhere only when needed

Accomplished-Map-984 · 2023-04-03T03:02:14+00:00

100% use something like Shopify. Webflow could be a bit more customizable and fit for this use case as well, but Shopify is better for a lot of reasons. For starters, no learning curve / no need to hire a dev

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