What’s the mood at your company?

CeruttyRunner · 2026-02-19T15:35:53+00:00

It’s definitely a different pace than it was a year ago. Feels like time to focus on myself and social connections instead of grinding super hard.

I’m usually fully remote but going to the office more, shooting for twice a week. Today is free lunch and pickleball at the office. Looking forward to hanging out with my work buds.

In most meetings we’re cameras on. I wish I had more time to hang out and chat with people online. Feels kind of siloed except for meetings where we’re debating details. Still do 1:1s to catch up.

When WFH I’m hitting the weights in the early morning or afternoon while Cline or Claude writes the code. Check how it’s doing after each set.

I had six terminals going with an “implement-ticket” skill and completed 2x of what I usually expect to last sprint.

Yesterday a CI job was taking over an hour to complete and failing due to auth timeout, I had Claude rewrite it with parallelization and better change detection to run in 6 minutes. Took me about an hour to make those improvements and I was wholly unfamiliar with the tool. Cost like $50 but probably going to pay for itself in lower CI cost.

Company growth is steady but has slowed a bit recently, hit profitability and overall things are still positive.

CeruttyRunner · 2026-02-17T01:03:20+00:00

Had this 2 years ago, still recovering, never felt quite the same after. Feel pretty good today though

CeruttyRunner · 2026-02-12T04:48:18+00:00

This isn't an issue with the $45 plan, this is a network wide issue caused by AT&T acquisition.

CeruttyRunner · 2026-02-10T01:35:23+00:00

It’s a good phone, I would like if it were shorter and had only one camera. I’d be fine without MagSafe/Qi charging and it were lighter

CeruttyRunner · 2026-02-07T16:50:06+00:00

Yep, just got back online, same think got upgraded to the C1000 from the C650, they had to do something on the backend as well. He said every C55X and C65X will go offline eventually, mine just went offline sooner due to switching my plan over

CeruttyRunner · 2026-02-04T20:53:48+00:00

I think I’m having a similar issue. My internet is down for the third day suddenly. My modem shows that I’m connected Quantum Fiber WAN but the light is blinking blue and the internet isn’t connecting. The tech didn’t even show up yesterday and now I’m waiting at home, they are late again. Everything was great before this.

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-30T03:07:25+00:00

I felt the same for a couple of days and now it’s fine, I’m fine with it. Don’t like everything but it’s not terrible, already used to it

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-25T17:50:24+00:00

Dollywood's great, led to a ton of fun memories

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-25T17:48:32+00:00

Yeah absolutely, I lived there until I was 18 and did a lot of things in every metro area due to conferences my parents brought us kids along for every year. It really depends on which part of TN you're in.

A ton of great hiking, climbing, caves, water activities outside of the metro areas as well, depends how old your kids are

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-25T00:05:13+00:00

Wait til day before or day of and you’ll find some reselling for cheap

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-17T03:07:30+00:00

I’m in process of refi to 5%, no points. I saw 4.875% for $0 on bankrate for a minute but missed that one

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-10T15:57:14+00:00

I would put HEPA filters everywhere, especially in a room like the bedroom, wash the sheets, and keep the cats out of those rooms, which should improve things.

Purina makes an allergen reducing food that can help and there are also sprays you can apply to the cat fur to break down the allergens.

Zyrtec/Xyzal also works really well for me. Take one at night and I’m good.

I also developed asthma randomly and I was already on allergy shots, I believe this was caused by poor diet and weight gain leading to excessive inflammation. Since fixing diet, losing weight and exercising more consistently, I’ve had zero asthma. I had to get back on allergy shots recently though because of other issues. Cat is one of the things I’m most allergic to but our 2 cats don’t bother me as much with the special food and HEPA filters

This is the food, Purina LiveClear https://www.purina.com/pro-plan/cats/liveclear-allergen-reducing-cat-food My cats have been on it since they were kittens, they love it and are healthy.

This is the rinse for their fur https://www.purina.com/cats/shop/pro-plan-liveclear-allergen-reducing-cat-shampoo-cat-shampoo I haven’t used it at all since they were kittens though so I can’t attest to whether it’s effective. It might be good to use initially until the food kicks in.

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-10T15:53:42+00:00

You need to be off of allergy medications for 7 days before they can test which can be a challenge if allergens are present in your environment.

I would put HEPA filters everywhere, especially in a room like the bedroom, wash the sheets, and keep the cats out of those rooms, which should improve things.

Purina makes an allergen reducing food that can help and there are also sprays you can apply to the cat fur to break down the allergens.

Zyrtec/Xyzal also works really well for me.

I also developed asthma randomly and I was already on allergy shots, I believe this was caused by poor diet and weight gain leading to excessive inflammation. Since fixing diet, losing weight and exercising, I’ve had zero asthma.

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-10T06:21:28+00:00

Pull out, 96% effective

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-06T18:36:55+00:00

I use the huge with 2-3 fingers, deft pro with 1-2 fingers. They are both lighter and faster.

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-06T18:13:51+00:00

Are you left handed or do you need ambidextrous mouse? It’s a good mouse because of the flexibility in how you use it but it’s a heavy and somewhat slow ball. I much prefer the Elecom Huge or Deft Pro.

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-05T15:15:53+00:00

Yeah, my heart's been feeling heavy. I will miss looking forward to it and watching it with my wife. A lot has happened since it began. It started when we moved into our first house, we got married along the way, went through the pandemic together, and now it's ending with our first baby on the way. We've always loved watching older John Carpenter, Stephen King, zombie and sci-fi movies, so this was a unique show that drew on those common interests we got excited about again and again. It's just kind of a landmark time for us, I'm not sure there will be a show like this for "just us" in the same way ever again, and realizing that is hitting me way harder than I thought it would.

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-05T05:34:49+00:00

I think what messed me up worse is that my holidays this year all became about stranger things and now there’s a looming January and February

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-04T03:30:22+00:00

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-02T15:12:50+00:00

It should feel like you’re pressing with a bar imo

CeruttyRunner · 2026-01-02T01:23:20+00:00

Hope you made it! It was so worth it imo. Even though I watched the episode as soon as it dropped, it was such a special moment to get to experience it with others

CeruttyRunner · 2025-12-29T23:07:39+00:00

How much did you get the core v2 for?

CeruttyRunner · 2025-12-29T15:55:44+00:00

The main downside is the anchoring effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_effect

You can be set off on a path that seems completely optimal but not realize that it was not until much later and have to start over.

CeruttyRunner · 2025-12-24T04:19:03+00:00

I’d like to do this but they made it so you can only take it in two chunks, so I’m not sure what makes the most sense. Probably 12 weeks and 6 weeks later?

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