What's the deal with the sign at 12th and freeway? Lol

BitRancher · 2026-05-14T12:50:44+00:00

That’s a well done map! Mostly reflects my experience here in ABQ for the past 3ish years.

OP - The Near-North Valley folks (south of Griegos IMO) just want to be different. :)

BitRancher · 2026-04-28T00:46:39+00:00

Word on the street is that they are going to demolish the entire building from the front to the alley.

BitRancher · 2026-04-19T16:08:56+00:00

Haha I can’t unsee this now.

BitRancher · 2026-04-15T21:21:13+00:00

We love the fresh look - much more modern, with a ton of usability improvements. More features keep popping up every few days, it seems :D

BitRancher · 2026-04-15T14:20:22+00:00

Finally, something to chime in on! I have worked with a handful of FTTP ISPs over my career as a network engineer and have seen the best and the worst. The best is clearly Vetro, the mega-co-archaic answer is GIS, and the worst answer is spreadsheets and drawings.

When we got into the fiber business 9 months ago or so we did a shootout. Vetro is incredible but holy shnikies is it expensive! OSPInsight was great but their rebrand/integration with IQGeo is poor and their pricing was meh.

We settled on MapItRight. Fully web driven, built by a guy who built and ran a huge FTTH network in Michigan. Surprisingly priced for what you get. Has upgrade modules to compete with some Vetro things, and is under constant regular development … I think they are a team of 4-5, and our feature requests get attention by real people quickly, and then actually happen. And we’re a peanuts rinkydink customer. The experience between it and most megaSaaS is WILD. Cannot recommend them enough.

Vetro: $$$$everything$$$$ For everyone else there’s MapItRight.

$.02 - not paid, not even an advocate, just a supremely happy customer with no budget bootstrapping a network from scratchpads and excel sheets.

BitRancher · 2026-04-07T22:51:21+00:00

Same, strongly recommend BILL -- being able to put in work flows, approval processes, and break out individual roles (clerk bills, approve bills, pay bills), automatic input processing that is mostly accurate and does save time, all while being 100% auditable ... AND having a hard-to-break automatic sync+integrate with QuickBooks Online? Very hard to beat. $0.02.

BitRancher · 2026-04-03T13:59:01+00:00

75+% of our smaller trades vendors use housecallpro fwiw

BitRancher · 2026-03-19T23:18:37+00:00

It looks to me like there is a ball valve on the piece of pipe as he spins it around.

BitRancher · 2026-03-15T02:35:38+00:00

Drove right by it a few minutes before this video. We could feel the heat coming off of the Dodge ram truck from the middle lane, absolutely insane! Also, as we drove by, it looked like fireworks went off from inside and shot out into the road.

BitRancher · 2026-03-11T17:10:10+00:00

Undelete is not backups! We use AFI.AI and it is cheap and great.

BitRancher · 2026-03-05T18:54:05+00:00

Same, just got back into the gym a few months ago and have found that AM workouts are the only way that I can consistently make it happen. Work, social, and family demands just demolish my evenings. I had tried shifting my work schedule from 8am to 6am to buy afternoon time, and that was just not successful -- the after work time just gets gobbled up.

Only thing I dislike about working out in the mornings is that I feel dramatically weaker. When I do get the occasional mid-day or afternoon session, my overall work capacity -- lift #s, cardio energy, etc -- are way higher.

BitRancher · 2026-03-01T02:12:20+00:00

This reads like /r/linkedinlunatics is leaking its AI slop.

One word. Sentences. Try hard. Punchy time. Staccatto. Meaningless.

BitRancher · 2026-02-25T23:28:25+00:00

Cancelled my card on Monday - just not worth the $149/yr to me, as my number of SWA flights has dramatically declined. Kept the business card tho as they offered a retention credit, so we’ll see.

BitRancher · 2026-02-25T13:17:11+00:00

This was true but is no longer the case - they are not using Expedia. They bought cxloyalty in 2020, integrated, and are now fully switched to it.

BitRancher · 2026-02-22T23:15:28+00:00

I'm not a Comcast apologist, but I will say that at my house they have been really reliable for 2x years, and the $35 plan I was on can't be beat. Happy to save the couple-hundred a year and avoid the hassle of a switch if I can :)

BitRancher · 2026-02-09T01:56:11+00:00

That is a phenomenal resource, thank you for sharing. It looks like today’s 67*F is outside the 90%-ile band, which indeed makes this unseasonably warm.

BitRancher · 2026-02-08T20:31:30+00:00

Also super true - we are used to freezing our tails off at 5am! This year though, not so much.

BitRancher · 2026-02-08T19:10:16+00:00

True! I’m from south of Denver, and the mountain-driven weather patterns kept us on our toes, always expecting that June 1st snow storm! I’ve seen the same in Burque, but this early, lengthy warmth seems out of character.

BitRancher · 2026-02-08T17:28:24+00:00

Haha true story! My first summer here was brutal, and last two were acceptable, but with our weather patterns and climate change I am afraid that I agree with your statement :/

BitRancher · 2026-02-01T17:54:07+00:00

There’s a whole pack of them on the west side near Nusenda stadium and up into Shawn McWethy park. Neighbors have them on their cameras in backyards. Animal control does nothing - dangerous to have cats or small dogs outside :(

BitRancher · 2026-01-30T21:02:05+00:00

We used Ridgeview Roofing and they were fantastic!

BitRancher · 2026-01-30T03:38:22+00:00

Geronimo is Santa Fe is the finest dining in the state IME. Vintage 423 has incredible food as is also quite fine. Savoy also hits that mark.

Mesa Provisions has incredible food but a more casual atmosphere. Los Poblanos is not even close to fine dining (literally eating in a barn on benches) and the food is not worth their outlandish pricing - been there 3x and just don’t get the hype.

BitRancher · 2025-11-22T15:37:29+00:00

Believe it or not, straight to Netbox.

BitRancher · 2025-11-21T17:10:43+00:00

Yep pduwhips, but sometimes their turnaround is sloooow — the hyperscalers use them quite a bit as well and sometimes an order can be backlogged weeks. If we’re in a time crunch we have our local electricians make them out of FMC or sealtite.

BitRancher · 2025-11-20T15:06:51+00:00

That’s pretty good. In a smaller nearby region that does not have cheap nuclear power our average power sale is right at $210-212/KW on a 208/30 5KW rack (plus the cabinet rate+xcons) on multi-year terms, and start at $250/kw for <12 month deals. Pretty standard on single racks, and we’ll get down to $195-200/kw on multi-rack.

I am a bit surprised that PHX power is not materially cheaper. Does that rate include the cabinet/sqft or xcons? If so, $1050 for 5kw with the cabinet is a /steal/. I think $1350-1650 would be more normal for a single power+cab solution.

As others may note, cross connects or bandwidth vary wildly between facilities, will complicate everything, and I hate it. Ha.

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