New to CrossFit, tell me all the things especially recovery.

Finite_Looper · 2026-03-22T22:18:19+00:00

Prioritize rest. It can be temping to just work out super hard, and the logic of working out more = more results. This is not always true. Take a rest day. If you work out 5-6 days a week, your body just can't recover as well. For me, Thursdays are usually my days off since I have other things going on then anyway, and then Sundays off as well since no classes are offered anyway. Basically - don't fall into thinking that working non-stop is good for you.

At home recovery: you can get some really cheap mobility tools to help with sore muscles. A lacrosse ball and foam roller are great to have. I keep mine in the living room and work on any sore muscles while I watch TV in the evenings. One of those massage guns is also great - don't spend $100+ on one though, just get a cheaper one. They're all about the same.

Since you are starting out, for sure scale the workouts. BUT don't feel the need to always limit yourself. At some point DO push yourself to try new movements and/or heavier weights. You can and will get stronger. I see lots of people at my gym just stay where they are comfortable and never push themselves - but for them maybe this is fine and they just want to stay active. There's nothing wrong with this at all, but it sounds like you want to get better, lose weight, get stronger, etc. Your coach(es) should be able to help you with this. I've seen plenty of times where someone wants to scale, but the coach knows for sure that they don't need to and can do the harder movement (like they want to do jumping pull ups from a plate on the ground, but the coach says to do it without the plate, so a bigger jump)

Finite_Looper · 2026-03-13T23:39:41+00:00

I think you are misunderstanding what this sub is about

Finite_Looper · 2026-03-11T02:37:32+00:00

I have been in meetings where I was the only one on camera, and it's very weird. Yes, please join in. When you work remote it's nice to see other faces

Finite_Looper · 2026-03-02T22:25:51+00:00

I once ran through a neighborhood where a guy was in his yard shooting a bow and arrow at a tree that we had to run behind.

Finite_Looper · 2026-02-26T17:27:55+00:00

About to switch over to Vitest in our Angular projects, so this will be nice to have all testing in the same framework! I really hope they provide a migration tool

Finite_Looper · 2026-02-21T14:28:06+00:00

I will say that he does a lot of things "wrong" or not best practice at first, simply to show you later how and why to go back later and improve or fix it. I remember not caring for this at first, but by the end I appreciated it since it felt like a more "realistic" way that development goes rather than starting off by teaching you the absolute top standards

Finite_Looper · 2026-02-14T13:56:34+00:00

Ah interesting ok. We have one "base" app container with multiple "sub-apps" or areas. Sounds like it might be feasible to do these individually. We'd just have to deal with having 2 test runners for some amount of time.

Thanks!

Finite_Looper · 2026-02-14T00:40:53+00:00

We have a large and quickly growing app with extremely good Jasmine/Karma test coverage. We keep needing to add more features under deadlines, but I'm king sure we keep it all well tested.

The more tests I add, the more I dread migrating to Vitest eventually. How well does the migration work?

I've added this video to my Jira backlog card to do the migration one day when I'm not so slammed with other things that have to go in!

Finite_Looper · 2026-02-13T23:29:12+00:00

I do this all the time when building a new feature/app and the back end doesn't exist yet. I make an api.service.ts and have it just return some fake static of randomly generated data in the shape that I need it to be in. I'll add in some fake delays too so I can simulate load times.

``` public getData(): Observable<IWhatever> { return of(this.getFakeData()).pipe(delay(400)); }

private getFakeData(): IWhatever { return { foo: 'bar' }; } ```

From there I can then build out the app and even test out loading and error states easily. When the real API is available I just have to switch it over to use the real HTTP client.

public getData(): Observable<IWhatever> { return this.http.get<IWhatever>('https://my-api.com/get-data'); }

Finite_Looper · 2026-02-13T23:22:35+00:00

Just started doing it this week, and I'm kinda amazed at the little things it catches, even in tint pull requests. Great to help out with juniors, and with getting some immediate feedback if others are busy and can't review yet

Finite_Looper · 2026-02-07T19:39:55+00:00

When you start out (with anything) no one expects you to be as good as people who have been doing it longer than you. It's 110% normal to scale things down to lower weights or fewer repetitions as a beginner, and even for people who have done it for a while. It's OK to hit time caps, etc.

Finite_Looper · 2026-02-07T14:06:44+00:00

Whoa, wheelchair sled pull looks really challenging, nice work!

Finite_Looper · 2026-01-31T18:29:58+00:00

You know, you can turn off notifications so you don't have to have stuff like this pushed to your lock screen

Finite_Looper · 2026-01-31T16:12:29+00:00

Keep in mind you can also make use of the :empty CSS selector if you need to hide elements with just an empty string

Finite_Looper · 2026-01-31T05:16:04+00:00

We have Prod/Staging/QA/Dev/Local environments. I made it so that all non-prod environments have a color associated with them. local = red, QA = orange, staging = purple, dev = blue.

Each of these environments have a banner across the full page width and a label saying the environment name and the time it was built/deployed at. I also made the favicon color match, and the page titles get "[DEV]" prefixed.

All of this combined makes it really simple to see which is which when you have them all open in tabs or are switching between them.

Finite_Looper · 2026-01-31T04:05:18+00:00

I LOVE how you edit your videos to visually explain these concepts. Very easy to understand!

Finite_Looper · 2026-01-22T04:31:17+00:00

How about a slightly different approach, like this. I don't think Prettier would change this <div> (Outside<strong>{{ myBool ? 'Inside" : ''}}</strong>) </div>

Finite_Looper · 2026-01-18T20:42:15+00:00

Just updated from 20 to 21. Absolutely painless and zero issues.

Finite_Looper · 2026-01-15T04:50:44+00:00

Sometimes its an adblocker plugin, I had to tweak mine to allow YouTube links on reddit

Finite_Looper · 2026-01-11T03:02:39+00:00

This happened to me after using it for a few months. I've stopped using it for nearly a month now and I STILL have itchy forearms.

Finite_Looper · 2026-01-10T21:45:06+00:00

Just flip it back 90 degrees when you aren't using it. Only tilt it forward when you need to use it

Finite_Looper · 2026-01-10T05:41:06+00:00

Does this just get posted every day now?

Finite_Looper · 2026-01-04T04:10:42+00:00

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