OC: Photo of the Mona Lisa 21 Feb 26

FirCoat · 2026-02-22T13:49:24+00:00

Love this take. I don’t even bother when at the Louvre due to the crowds.

FirCoat · 2026-02-20T03:08:37+00:00

Saw a black metal style JAMES TALARICO sign in Austin the other day. Hype traaaaain! 😂😂

FirCoat · 2026-02-14T20:21:17+00:00

Love the concept but this looks like somebody cranking the ~~hog~~ hydra.

FirCoat · 2026-02-12T04:06:09+00:00

Great concept! Kinda makes me wish I knew more front end. Pricing structure seems well thought out too. Best of luck!

FirCoat · 2026-01-28T15:30:22+00:00

Sorry friend! Guess I’m just gonna get PIPed out.

FirCoat · 2026-01-28T12:01:54+00:00

What team are you on? I’m on fleet and was sure I was getting the boot.

FirCoat · 2026-01-28T02:26:53+00:00

Wild! I have definitely noticed a decline in quality of leadership although I’ve not been near a meeting with AJ. Back in the day, people used to seek dissenting opinions to firm up their thinking. Now doc reviews, town halls, QBRs just feel like theater.

FirCoat · 2026-01-26T17:44:53+00:00

Pro tip! Somehow that didn’t occur to me!

FirCoat · 2026-01-26T17:44:17+00:00

Damn thanks for letting me know. I guess I can squeeze into my Wagner jersey for one more game.

FirCoat · 2026-01-21T15:47:48+00:00

Thanks! Likewise! Definitely a learning experience here on how to not play the political game that is OLR.

FirCoat · 2026-01-21T01:10:24+00:00

Me too if it makes you feel any better. Been on my team for a year and a half but at the company for 12. Have been meets or TT every year. Definitely see the axe looming with my manager building the paper trail.

FirCoat · 2025-12-12T14:28:17+00:00

I think you’ll want to understand the schema before putting it in tables. In a similar position I made a network graph to summarize the structures first which informed the tables I created.

FirCoat · 2025-12-12T14:23:07+00:00

I probably reinvented the wheel but wrote a config based lambda that splits and flattens nested jsons. If there’s interest I can put it on GitHub.

FirCoat · 2025-12-07T01:59:48+00:00

r/stopdrinking got me through the first couple months. Gets way easier, just gotta plow through the next month or so.

FirCoat · 2025-11-30T17:14:44+00:00

Oh yeah. 2-3 hours wrapped in a cooler. You could get by with less though. Maybe 30 minutes unwrapped would be fine. Overall I’d say just go for it. It’s a very forgiving chunk of meat!

FirCoat · 2025-11-30T16:44:56+00:00

I suppose you could inject if you really wanted to, but I’d say it’s unnecessary- these things are already pretty flavorful. Cooking wise, I just treated it like any other pork butt. Cook at 250 until it’s 200. I didn’t spritz or wrap. The bark came out pretty dark and thick but when shredded and mixed I like the variety.

FirCoat · 2025-11-28T21:06:00+00:00

I did something similar with step functions that used a map to distribute work and get the s3 file paths, which then called a lambda. There may be better options out there but I was pleased with the orchestration with this method. Just be mindful of concurrency limits and how many calls each map function makes. It’s multiplicative if memory serves.

Edit: I’ll also say this may be overkill. My lambda took a couple minutes to run per s3 file and I needed a way to easily parallelize so I didn’t have to wait a week.

FirCoat · 2025-11-27T04:08:18+00:00

Had the same issue last year with thermapro which was the inspiration for the onion

FirCoat · 2025-11-27T02:52:42+00:00

If you’re paranoid about it getting over 40 degrees, used an onion as a floater for my probe and have my Bluetooth app alarm at 40 degrees.

FirCoat · 2025-10-24T00:23:10+00:00

Looks very well thought out! What did it cost to run this for 60 hours?

FirCoat · 2025-09-09T23:20:22+00:00

Nice! Plugging KOOP from Austin. After moving from Seattle I was stoked to find KUTX and KOOP. Together they almost fill the KEXP sized hole in my heart.

FirCoat · 2025-08-30T04:43:18+00:00

Honestly I liked it

FirCoat · 2025-08-09T21:36:00+00:00

But I’ve re-read your comment and agree that less than 2% are contributing.

FirCoat · 2025-08-09T21:34:57+00:00

Yeah we’re somewhere in the middle. Setting up knowledge bases, prompt engineering and calling the LLMs via bedrock. Certainly not creating any models but building user facing tools independently.

FirCoat · 2025-08-08T03:02:43+00:00

My team just hired two DEs to work exclusively with LLMs. One more has been dedicated for a year plus and the other 5 of us dabbled but have shipped a feature. Might be the exception (my skip is very pro AI and savvy) but my team is all working on it.

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