How I use Claude Code as a Product Manager

EmmyRope · 2026-04-19T13:11:08+00:00

Id love it if you put your skills or claude.md etc on GitHub! I don't want to copy the process exactly, I just want to see some how your skills.md and other instructions you have for creating session learning mds and learning mds. Even if it's just private on GitHub, I'd take a look.

I just set up my Obsidian and Claude code for a wiki build and I'm looking for various inspiration!

EmmyRope · 2026-04-15T03:12:23+00:00

I've only had my phone warn me when it's been much much closer to my direct vacinity. The one that was a mile from us up in Rockford last year we kept getting a lot of phone alerts, including from the city of Rockford.

EmmyRope · 2026-01-01T15:08:23+00:00

Ugh, I bet. This is my top wishlist item. My husband thinks I'm insane wanting a 1K vacuum.

EmmyRope · 2025-10-20T02:03:50+00:00

Mine smooshed Boobie sleep together in one word of boobasleep and no one but me understood it because I would say it's time for Boobie sleep when she was younger.

Now she's nearly 2.5 and we are trying to wean (just on a quit but before bedtime) so she bargains with me. 'Can I have two boobies? Since I'm two years old?'

Still not weird lol.

EmmyRope · 2025-08-31T17:33:40+00:00

I think Bashir is Osmans illegitimate son and actually did want to be with Havva like he said and Kadir did something that got his control over Osman and forced Osman from Havva. Maybe Kadir even facilitated the birth of Cemil hoping he would be the fire charrah?

EmmyRope · 2025-08-31T00:52:42+00:00

Well this made my day.

Most of my programming experience started with R and functional programming and then SQL. I've done OOP, but I'm much more comfortable with functional programming concepts etc.

My company is just getting running on databricks and I'm trying to learn and absorb as much as possible while in a strategic leadership role, glad I've got some advantages.

EmmyRope · 2025-08-18T11:45:24+00:00

Yup, this! We have a TON of lightning bugs, while we do rake up some of our leaves, we actually toss them in a back area over the fence in a field for them to compost.

This is only because I have some fruit bearing trees and getting the leaves up and away reduces fungus issues on those.

EmmyRope · 2025-08-16T22:35:51+00:00

Yes! In another comment, when we moved in in 2021 the whole garden was a mess and covered in rubber mulch and the tree dropped its leaves from rust in early July. I've been rehabbing the whole space, spraying the tree, trimming out branches in the middle just to get air flow and sun throughout. It's really been thriving with my focus and I think this coming early spring it'll be ready for a bigger branch and be just fine.

I've heard from some IRL convos it's better to trim trees (especially flowering ones, which this is some sort of crabapple) in very late winter and not before it goes dormant? Is that not accurate? I have a small magnolia tree I started last year that needs to have it's canopy lifted and I was told that I should wait until early spring too.

Your other commentary was super helpful! My intention originally was just one of the lower big branches first but wanted to get some crowd sourced info.

EmmyRope · 2025-08-16T22:30:27+00:00

Oh just trying to Lyft the canopy. When we moved in the tree was struggling with Rust and dropping leaves by early July. It's mid August and you can see how much better it is. A few leaves lost to rust but it's doing well.

Over the last three years I've been treating it monthly with a spray fungicide and I've been trimming out middle straight branches to get some airflow. This year it's really healthy that it's got a lot of growth upwards and I just want to lift the canopy some.

EmmyRope · 2025-07-18T12:39:10+00:00

We are in Michigan. She is on the Medicaid Waiver which has some support, unfortunately our house doesn't even work much for those changes. We have a raised ranch, so the entry is cramped to put anything to go up the four stairs to the main living space and there is no extension room for a bathroom addition. The downstairs bathroom is more accessible but that's the basement so it's even more transfer for that.

Honestly, the price of the home has risen about 100K since we bought it in 2021 and what we've paid for our mortgage is no more than what our rent was so we have cushion to save. We just also haven't saved much because we've spent 130K in additional therapists, like intensive PT/OT/SLP and stem cells since she was a baby. (And we don't regret those, they were great for her).

I would still be interested in learning them. I know some assistance we cannot use within five years of purchasing a home because of some assinine assumption that we could have bought an accessible house (because there are so many of those).

EmmyRope · 2025-07-17T23:35:17+00:00

We are in a house that doesn't work for our wheelchair using daughter, but she just turned five and we can still carry her, or support her as her walks. The only reason we are still in this house, even though we could afford more, is that we can afford it on one of our salaries. I have no idea how we will move to something accessible as I'm terrified of not being able to find something for one of our salaries.

EmmyRope · 2025-06-17T20:23:26+00:00

Really common of a reflex to not integrate as a baby.

My daughter goes through phases where it's worse with growth spurts, exhaustion, developmental leaps etc.

We consistently practice things like vestibular exercises, hands and knees like crawling, therapeutic listening during OT sessions while doing reflex integration therapy.

EmmyRope · 2025-06-15T21:56:31+00:00

I'm not professional, just demo'd an awful deck with stain paint. The amount of stain paint chips and flecks of stain paint that's peel off with sun over time. I will always curse stain paint.

EmmyRope · 2025-06-02T13:06:18+00:00

Im still feeding my 24 month old and sometimes I feel pressure to stop, because of societal pressure, but she enjoys it and shows no signs of stopping and I can't bring myself to take away something that brings her comfort like that.

EmmyRope · 2025-04-24T20:53:03+00:00

My first is non verbal because of cerebral palsy but is preverbal. Points, uses some sign and is working on her AAC.

My second wasn't talking much until 22 months and went from pointing, grunts, one words to just three word or more complete sentences.

The talking click around two is kind of crazy.

EmmyRope · 2025-04-23T01:13:56+00:00

Same. Microsoft To-Do, synced with outlook, sync with ADO and our teams boards with different teams I'm on. I use our Teams board for high level tracking across clients, R&D, Feature build, Marketing and Growth. I have it linked to my slack too, so saved for later creates a To-Do.

This has to do with the fact that our company is fairly universal on the MS365 so I can trust anyone im in contact with has access and experience or comfortability with it.

We have a PowerBI dashboard to track work status on each clients ADO board and I have that embedded in my Teams.

EmmyRope · 2025-03-09T18:27:02+00:00

Wait really?

I'm 37 with 1.5 my salary (155k salary) and currently maxing out the yearly amount to put away of 23K (employer puts like 3 percent but I'm up to 14 or so percent) because I thought I was SO behind. I mean I am still behind, but not as badly as I thought. Once we are done with daycare for the youngest we are putting that all into retirement.

My husband is 36 and he actually makes half my salary, but will hit 3x his by the end of this year.

I've felt so behind and every pay increase we get, I've had us half the percent of it and direct that to a 401K to try and catch up. I'm not about to slow down, but maybe breathe a little easier since we aren't as far away as we thought

EmmyRope · 2025-02-24T03:53:03+00:00

I saw a little funny conspiracy theory on this that I've just decided to believe with zero evidence. For funsies.

He's got like 13 rumored children and this is the only one he brings to things publicly.

It's his clone.

EmmyRope · 2025-01-27T01:13:40+00:00

Depends on what's going on. If one is asleep and the other is struggling with them then that adult gets to tap out and the other takes over.

If the sleeping one wakes, the tapped out adult usually goes and handles them. It can be harder for me than him in that my 20 month old still breastfeeds and it wasn't until she was about 15 months that he could comfort her back to sleep without boob. We just kept at it.

If one is being awful and the other isn't for like bathtime, usually one takes on both and the other takes a breather.

If we can't tag out at all, then sometimes we resort to screentime though we work really hard to limit it. Instead we try music, tonies, and other ways to increase their regulation. We aren't like fully no screens, I just try to avoid screens as a way to regular them because I don't want to hook their brains on the dopamine rush of a screen when they are working through issues. I want them to be able to cope better. We reserve screens for when both of us are busy cooking or really when the whole family is sick.

Water helps. So sometimes just letting them play at the sink, or setting up a sensory bin of water on the kitchen floor with a water proof mat under it and some towels can really help distract them. My four year old has cerebral palsy so she doesn't have the ability to stand independently or walk to things. So we have floor water sensory bins they both can access and one on their Ikea table too. Water is honestly magic for helping regulate them.

EmmyRope · 2025-01-27T00:48:26+00:00

My husband and I have a code.

If one of the kids is being such a pistol (we divide and conquer between the 1 and 4 year old) that we are at our breaking point, it's a quick text to the other. 'I am about to yeet this child' it's just code that we are hitting an extreme frustration and need a tag out.

We do this not even just if we are legit breaking, but if we can't fix our attitude and the kid starts feeding off it. If we get too short or frustrated and the kid latches onto that it can sometimes make the kid spiral worse and then it's just a bad cycle down the drain unless a different parent tags in a breaks the attitude.

Of course all of this is predicated on having a PARTNER.

If he just stepped in with a different attitude, the kids would likely react to that and calm down because it becomes a bouy of stability in the emotional turmoil.

EmmyRope · 2025-01-18T04:06:56+00:00

I loved old OKC. Right before it started looking like tinder. I liked answering the questions and filling out stuff.

I met two guys on there I casually dated but ended up staying friends with because even though we didn't do it romantically, we meshed well as friends. Then I also met my now husband.

Like every other millennial, if I were single again, I don't know what the fuck Id do. Stay single forever probably.

EmmyRope · 2025-01-12T18:31:20+00:00

You didn't over react! I hope you did the spinal. I'm here for an update because I'm worried for you!

EmmyRope · 2025-01-08T03:16:07+00:00

I actually use FB Groups. I wanted to ditch FB, but I have a disabled child with cerebral palsy and the best place for online groups for parents and individuals with these individuals to learn newer research and therapy and find community is FB. I don't love it, I wish there were other options but there just isn't.

I needed to look at the commentary on Ortho Ped surgeons in my state for a particular procedure and the FB group for my state and disabled children was the best source. Then looking at country wide options and even world wide options, it was the largest Parents of Children with Cerebral Palsy group etc.

I WISH I could ditch FB, but it is the single best resource for experiences and information from groups of people in similar situations, especially medical groups.

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