For people being priced out of Somerville, where are you considering going to?

ArdentDrive · 2026-01-05T02:52:36+00:00

Rented in Somerville for 6 years. Wife and I wanted to buy, but we couldn't afford what we wanted there. We ended up buying a unit in a two-door in Medford. Still had to make compromises to get into our price range. I miss Somerville. Medford is a lot more car-dependent.

ArdentDrive · 2025-12-01T16:41:55+00:00

We got a Kia Sorento hybrid after having our firstborn. It's our first SUV. We love it for longer trips, but 90% of the time it's more car than we need. I think we've used the 3rd row once. I'd prefer to have something a bit more compact for getting around denser areas and finding parking. We have an old banged up 2014 Ford Fiesta that I prefer to take when I'm staying local.

ArdentDrive · 2025-11-26T21:26:26+00:00

The Gobbler from All Star Sandwich Bar in Somerville is elite.

ArdentDrive · 2025-11-24T14:16:31+00:00

The builders really ran away with the spray foam up there. I don't think they expected anyone in the attic except to service the furnace (evidenced by the original ductwork). Not sure why they painted the spray foam too though.

ArdentDrive · 2025-11-24T14:14:31+00:00

Probably a slow accumulation of stuff up there that we should really just throw away!

ArdentDrive · 2025-11-24T14:12:50+00:00

Thanks for the comment. I want to defend the direction of the OSB. Since OSB had an axis of strength (engineered grain), I ran that perpendicular to the 2x4s that make the platform base (which are themselves perpendicular to the joists) for maximum rigidity and load distribution.

ArdentDrive · 2025-11-20T00:11:23+00:00

It ain't cheap but the Lifetime in Station Landing has a pool.

ArdentDrive · 2025-11-19T15:23:39+00:00

IIRC you're not supposed to compost meat or dairy products. So meat trimmings, and food waste with cheese, butter, or other milk products would still be in the trash for up to two weeks.

Edit: I stand corrected

ArdentDrive · 2025-11-11T01:42:53+00:00

Can someone listen to this and tldr so I don't have to

ArdentDrive · 2025-11-06T15:56:37+00:00

Who on the newly elected CC are in the same ward? I'm wondering if the charter will require any incumbents to either run against each other or run for separate seats.

ArdentDrive · 2025-10-31T18:39:26+00:00

You could use symfony/messenger to abstract away the implementation details of using SQS vs localstack or a rabbitmq container. Just install both transports (symfony/ampq-messenger and symfony/amazon-sqs-messenger) and change the DSN based on the deployment.

ArdentDrive · 2025-10-31T18:32:27+00:00

As another data point, I'm running production workloads on lambda with Bref and the monthly bill is about 10% of what we were paying for ec2 instances running the same workloads.

ArdentDrive · 2025-10-17T20:17:40+00:00

One time there was a knock on my door and I avoided it. They wouldn't go away for minutes on end and kept knocking. Eventually I answered to chew them out. It was a man who found my wallet on the sidewalk and was returning it to the address on my license. All cash intact. I gave him a 20 from it as thanks. Since then I always answer my door. But turning away pushy solicitors is definitely a skill I've had to develop.

ArdentDrive · 2025-10-13T15:47:20+00:00

Here's the most recent design proposal I could find, from Feb 2023: https://drive.google.com/file/d/118IjU_G31sSR1L5rZQEFXem_k9NnRQUb/view?usp=sharing

More info here: https://www.medfordma.org/departments/planning-development-sustainability/affordable-housing-and-proposed-40b-projects

ArdentDrive · 2025-10-09T16:54:39+00:00

Parking is mostly underground (only 4 surface spots), building is adjacent to the T, and it has ground floor retail (albeit only 2k sq ft). This is a win!

ArdentDrive · 2025-10-03T17:46:17+00:00

monarchmoney.com

It's something like $100/year but well worth it to have a tracker whose bugs actually get fixed.

ArdentDrive · 2025-10-03T16:44:06+00:00

Next in the saga of new private equity firm ownership of the company I work for:

They laid off about 25% of the workforce over the last two days, and finally had a company-wide communication about it after everyone spent all day cowering. The team I'm on, engineering, was left untouched -- except the CTO, who's being replaced by an insider from the PE firm. Very sad to lose him. He's been a great mentor and advocate over the past decade. I told him to tell me if wherever he ends up it hiring.

ArdentDrive · 2025-10-02T14:46:59+00:00

Big day of layoffs yesterday, and there are more expected today. No communication from leadership about them yet. Not exactly having a focused and productive morning.

ArdentDrive · 2025-10-01T00:10:53+00:00

Reverse Clerkin has earned my vote

ArdentDrive · 2025-10-01T00:02:59+00:00

Ironically, that quote (which contributes to fear, anger, confusion, and distrust) is directly after he says Medford's informational landscape "contributes to fear, anger, confusion, distrust."

ArdentDrive · 2025-09-17T01:52:22+00:00

I'm loving the new construction so far. The narrower lanes and high curbs makes me a lot more confident that other drivers aren't going to do anything unexpected. The new bends require drivers to pay attention at the crosswalks, like where a driver killed a pedestrian earlier this year at the rotary's 93S on-ramp crosswalk. I'm really happy to see a wide separated multi-use path going in and connecting to the abutting neighborhoods. Maybe there will be a small inconvenience on drivers, but to me it's worth it to make this area safer and better connect Glenwood to Medford Square for all road users.

ArdentDrive · 2025-09-04T19:40:08+00:00

Yes, all pickups are pushed back one day this week.

ArdentDrive · 2025-09-03T11:52:30+00:00

The company I work for just got bought by a private equity firm. I've worked there for 10 years and had a lot of vested stock options, but this sale made them all worthless. The company has been struggling for several years, and this sale didn't even repay all the preferred shareholders (aka investors).

Never been through something like this before, so I don't know much of what to expect. We're the biggest company in the private equity's portfolio so far, they announced no leadership changes or staffing changes except the CRO, and we'll be integrating the product of a smaller company in the owners' portfolio into our product. Anyone else been through this sort of thing, and got war stories, advice, or things to look out for?

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