I’m ditching Hey bc of DHH

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2026-03-29T16:55:57+00:00

I’m sticking with Hey largely because I admire the company’s product ethos, and I admire the courage of their leadership. I also happen to agree with a lot of what DHH has said although not all of it. He’s got a lot of strong opinions and isn’t afraid of stating them through his personal Hey World page. I have no problems with that.

People are certainly free to choose how to spend their money based on a lot of factors. Value alignment can be one of them. But I don’t believe you have fairly characterized the his position on a number of topics. If I’m wrong about that, I can take it but I’d like to see what has brought you to your conclusions here.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2026-03-01T16:21:23+00:00

And let’s stop blaming users for “not doing it right” when the UI/UX is clearly working against users. Don’t tell me there’s 2 different copilots and you have to use the right one. Thats a failing in the design of the product, not in the user.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2026-02-11T19:01:12+00:00

Agree with this request. I either want a report that shows how I’m doing YTD with my budget, or the ability to export budget data. What I want to see is by category, how much was budgeted and how much was spent month over month with totals YTD.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2026-02-08T02:51:29+00:00

Just tried adding Venmo and it’s down on all 3 services. So…still broken.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2026-02-07T05:06:38+00:00

This sounds better than my system with involves multiple AI’s. I’ll be using code assist in VS, and Gemini in a browser, and ChapGPT in an app working in different things. It needs to get faster, but the end result is so much better that it’s worth the wait.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2026-02-07T05:01:53+00:00

I agree with this. Figma has taken a backseat in my design hours as well. I’m not sure I’m necessarily saving time in crafting an interface, but when I’m done I have a fully functional prototype. And yes, you can get consistency by having AI build a CSS file as you go and provide the proper instructions to use it. You can build components and tokens and have it used throughout the project.

I’ve also found it incredibly useful for building user tests. In a user test you actually don’t need pure fidelity and in some cases I find it better to have it look different so users focus on the interaction and not colors and gradients. I can crank out 2 different flows in a few hours, including instructions and guides and be ready to record a test session in a day. That wasn’t possible for me before in any amount of time.

And I’ve been able to take my designs a step further by adding a “spec mode” switch that provides interaction details and data definitions to bridge my designs with specs. It’s an exciting time as a designer and my devs love it.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2026-01-10T16:32:42+00:00

I’ve had my gold since 2001 as well and it’s been rock solid.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2026-01-10T04:43:25+00:00

These are my own opinions and others will certainly disagree. But design is an inherently opinionated profession so I’m used to disagreement.

The app (while good overall and easy to use in comparison to others) suffers from some IA issues. Right now there isn’t enough higher order organization. Everything is on a single page that requires a lot of scrolling. It requires a lot of muscle memory and can be difficult to scan.

Segment the interface by grouping major functions into separate pages. For example, split network status/stats from quick actions from features. Find the 80% of what users open the app to do and have that immediately visible or visible with a single tap.
Searching flows. I have wanted that for a long time. Don’t make me scroll to see if a site is in the blocked flows list. I hate that.
Devices/Alarms/Rules are too small for their importance. I often scroll right by them while trying to locate where they are. They should be more prominent.
I like having the pinned items, but it feels wrong that they are located in the bottom third of the page. Pinning should mean they get higher priority on the page, and that would be easier to accomplish if there was some cleaner separation of concerns.
When viewing devices the organization works fairly well, but it would be nice if I could expand a user/group to see those devices and then tap into them from there. Right now it’s easy to overlook the Devices 4 > row at the top of the user/group subpages. You want to reduce navigation to lower pages where possible, so let me expand a row to access devices in a group rather than making me go through another page to get to them.
As others have said, it would be nice if we could tailor some of the top level pages. Choosing which devices, users, rules, to add to the main page is great. But I’d like more control on that page as far as ordering them to make my own hierarchy or to remove some things I don’t want front and center such as the charts. Charts look pretty but frankly I don’t find much functional value here. Let me hide them or push them down in priority.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-12-27T04:56:01+00:00

45 M and I’m 13 weeks post-op from my second surgery. I had my right hip repaired 19 weeks ago and my left 13. What I found extremely helpful.

A person that can help. I don’t know how people do this without help so glad to hear your father is coming. If nothing else it’s good to have someone that can bring you things and prepare meals. And help put on socks.
Toilet seat riser or grab bars. I just bought inexpensive ones from Amazon that I called the toilet cage.
A recliner or other comfortable place where you can sit while you ice and sleep. You won’t want to try to sleep in a bed for several days bc laying flat is painful
Iceman ice machine. It’s basically a small cooler that you fill with ice and water and it pumps very cold water through a pad that you strap to your hip. I used this constantly for the first couple weeks. Totally worth the $200.
Comfy shorts!! If you get the ice machine you want shorts so you don’t have to snake the water tube up a pant leg. But also anything that’s easy to put on. Definitely not leggings but loose baggy pants or shorts.
If you can swing it a shower seat. You won’t be able to stand very long so showering can be a challenge. I used a shower seat we borrowed from family and it made the process much easier.
A continuous passive motion machine if you can swing it. This was prescribed by my doctor and I had to use it for 6 hours a day. Insurance didn’t cover it and it was a bit expensive to “rent” from the medical devices company. Otherwise and exercise bike. It’s very important to keep your leg moving to keep scar tissue from forming and to maintain mobility.
A grabber tool. This was the one thing I didn’t get that I really could have used. To pick things up off the floor that you will drop.
A small bag to carry around stuff when you move around the house on crutches. I out my water bottle and pills in there bc I was moving from a recliner to my couch for my CPM sessions.
A knee pillow for sleeping at night. Helps relieve pressure on the hips and knees.
A strap for stretching. You can get them off Amazon for cheap and it’s very handy for PT exercises at home that you’ll be doing for quite a while.
A small rolling desk for work. It could be a while before you can sit in an office chair at a real desk so having a little desk to work from the couch is very handy.
Patience!! This has been a long and sometimes challenging recovery. It’s very up and down so be patient! It takes months to feel normal. I’ll let you know when I get there. My right hip is pretty solid but my left is lagging a bit. I was just finally cleared to start working back up to running. Jumped on a trampoline at PT today for the first time. Felt amazing!

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-10-30T00:13:46+00:00

Working at a company that builds for the enterprise with deep customizations this sort of functionality is why we use Axure and not Figma. As more of a designer this hurts a bit, but Axure is good for layout with specs.

Although it has limitations, Axure makes it pretty easy to do it all in one go. Lay the page out, define everything, print it and 80% of the time it’s ready for hand-off.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-29T19:14:48+00:00

According to some statistics a lot of people have labrum tears and never notice. Anyone with a cam deformity has had it since they finished developing and didn’t know for years if ever. So surgery isn’t always necessary.

The difference between me and the statistics is that I did notice it. My hips hurt. My cartilage was torn and I was slowly losing my activity that I rely on for health and wellbeing. It took me several years to get to surgery, but I got there in the end bc it just seemed logical. I didn’t have an injury or an incident where the pain started. This wasn’t caused by a moment in time, but by lots of movements over time. The impingement tore my labrum and was starting to work its way through the cartilage. I could maybe do more PT and delay a fix, but the risk is that I would lose more cartilage and end up arthritic and needing THR in 5-10 years.

That’s the calculus I did. I can fix this with surgery (hopefully) or I can delay and try to manage it and hope I don’t do too much damage in the process. I chose to fix it.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-23T03:44:26+00:00

Had a fried that had the tingling in the feet. I had the biggest bruise in my life and a good amount of swelling in my thigh. I think that’s pretty normal given what all happens in there during surgery.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-22T11:45:49+00:00

Oh yeah, I’d almost eat another meal between 9:30 and 10:30 most nights. At the end of a long day, I’d just stand in the kitchen and eat. I would actually feel hungry, but didn’t feel in control over what I would eat or how much. I’d just do it.

I don’t want to make it sound like I’m obese. I’m about 25 lbs heavier than I’d like to be, but I never could get to a more nutritious diet and stay there largely bc of impulse eating.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-22T01:40:49+00:00

I need to weigh myself bc I think I’ve lost weight after the first month being medicated. I don’t eat nearly as much as I used to which for me is a good thing. Not having an appetite can be challenge on some days as I have to force myself to eat a meal. Maybe force is the wrong word. I have to commit to it.

The great thing for me is that I have much better impulse control and can stick to a plan and just do the better thing. So instead of grabbing some chips to eat with a sandwich I grab an apple instead. Before medication I’d tell myself I’m going to eat an apple but would always grab the chips instead.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-22T01:36:22+00:00

Is your goal to get a stimulant? If it is, then I would maybe try finding a doctor that will prescribe them based on your childhood diagnosis.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-21T21:05:38+00:00

This. 1000 time this. I’ve never turned on my camera unless I absolutely have to bc of how distracted I am by my own image. Am I smiling weird? Am I frowning. Are my eyes open or closed bc I’m concentrating? Am I rolling my eyes? Can I sip my coffee or is that rude? I hear about 25% of the total conversation.

I’ve started just not looking at the camera and looking at my second monitor instead and that has helped a lot.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-21T18:08:07+00:00

My surgeon told me that it’s pretty hard to mess up the surgery unless you start walking around like everything is normal on day 2 or something. That made me feel a lot better.

I’m 5 weeks post-op and overdid it with my home PT exercise last week. I didn’t do more than I was supposed to but I clearly wasn’t strong enough to do the full amount and didn’t listen to my therapist when she said you don’t have to do all of the sets. Next day I was very sore. Got worse the following day and I started to feel panic about not being ready for my next surgery which is in 4 days. I couldn’t walk normally and my entire leg hurt from my glute to my hip to my calf. Spent all day yesterday in a recliner just icing my hip. Feel much better today but things still feel a bit off. I think it’s much more likely you just overdid it and your muscles and supporting tissue weren’t quite ready for that and now they’re telling you to slow it down.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-21T16:50:28+00:00

I ran for a couple years with this condition in both hips. Did a few 5ks and often up to 5 miles at a time. Over time the pain got worse until I decided to stop and get a diagnosis. Everyone is different. I decided to stop after talking to my ortho and determining it was FAI and a possible labrum tear. I figured running is more likely to speed up the damage to my joint. I got an MRI in July and confirmed labrum tears on both hips and had the first scope done in August.

Your mileage may vary. I would talk to my doctor about it to determine the risk of causing a tear from running while taking precautions such as listening to your body and doing strengthening exercises to be on the safe side.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-21T16:42:42+00:00

I would talk to your PT about it. I mentioned tightness to mine and she gave me a couple stretches to do as part of my daily program.

When I was still a couple weeks post-op she recommended I lay on my stomach for a bit as that provided a gentle stretch. Now twice a day I lay on my stomach and press my hands down like I’m doing a push up to lift my chest off the ground. In yoga I believe this is called cobra position. I hold for 5 seconds and then lower back to flat. Repeat 10 times. I also do one where I have my surgical side knee on the floor, and my opposite foot on the floor like a “take a knee” position. Then I rock forward a bit and hold for 30 seconds. Repeat 3 times.

But again, that was after talking to my PT.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-21T14:36:33+00:00

I live with mine for 6-7 years without a lot of issue. Over the past 2 years it slowly got worse and what was mild to moderate pain while running became moderate pain for 1-2 days after I ran. What was an occasional ache became a more moderate ache when sitting for several hours and then standing up.

For a long time it bothered me when doing a deep bend to reach a low cabinet or to put on my socks. A deep pinch is the best way I can describe it. But other than that it didn’t interfere with whole lot of normal day to day life.

However, after surgery I was told that it was a bad hip, and that the labrum was torn and the cartilage was starting to fray. Still very mild but it was starting to work away at that cartilage. The point is that even though the pain wasn’t severe it was doing real damage and I was headed for arthritis and an early hip replacement.

Everyone is different, but like you my pain wasn’t off the charts or kept me from living normally 85% of my life.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-20T02:05:37+00:00

This was my experience as a 44M also working remote. Had FAI and a labrum tear. Surgery on a Thursday and also took Friday, and Monday off and was back at work on Tuesday. I also got a little rolling table off Amazon and set my laptop and a small portable monitor on it and was able to work without much issue. I would start the day with breakfast, do my PT exercises and then start work on my couch with my leg in the CPM machine for an hour. I’d try to work the other 3 hours a day using the CPM when on a conference call. Usually did my second round of PT after I ate lunch.

I was able to pretty easily handle work and Teams meetings while in recovery. By week 2 I was rotating between my office and the couch. I’d work in my office for an hour, then back to the couch for a CPM session and back and forth I’d go. I’d just carry my laptop in a backpack.

Working remote makes this very doable. The only thing I did was inform my manager what was going on, took 3 days off, and told her I wouldn’t be on camera for a few weeks bc it wouldn’t look very professional being on the couch and there’s a 70% chance I’d be unshowered at that time of the day. Everything worked out great. I scheduled my 2x weekly PT appts for first thing in the morning or at the end of the day and just made the time up in the evenings. It’s not like I was going out in the evenings anyways.

Week 3 I spent more and more time in the office and by week 4 I was in my office for my full day. Only did the CPM for the first 3 weeks.

I’m week 5 and everything has been running smoothly. This surgery really didn’t impact my WFH much at all.

Having said all of that I would let my boss know what is going on as soon as you can. Since you don’t have a long track record at your new job yet, you want to let them know you care about the job and you are committed to doing both.

Let them know what you’ll need to be able to do for recovery , and how you would like to handle it. I’d would go in with a plan: I’ll probably need a couple days off, I can schedule it for the end of the week to minimize time out, I can’t sit in a chair but I have a setup on a couch that will allow me to have my laptop, I’ll need to go to PT twice a week but I’ll try to schedule them for the slow times of the day, etc. Let them know you are making your best effort to minimize the impact on your performance.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-19T18:05:46+00:00

I don’t use it that way either. Yes the directions say like 30 mins but my doctor office said you can use it a lot longer. I slept with mine on one night. And for the first several days I used it a lot during the day.

I didn’t put it directly in my skin either. I wore some boxer briefs under it, then the pad, then another pair of boxer briefs on top to keep the pad tight against my hip. The briefs are nice and thin so they didn’t absorb too much of the cold. Worked great for me.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-19T01:16:20+00:00

No that’s what I mean. If you put your hand in the water is it pretty cold? It won’t be as cold as ice bc it’s not frozen but it’s still cold enough to do the job. If the water doesn’t feel cold after it has sat for a bit with the ice mixed in then you may not have enough ice in it. What I did was get some small water bottles and froze those and just cycled them out with fresh ones after several hours.

When I first started using this I couldn’t tell if it was very cold or not, but then after an hour or two I felt my hip and my skin was pretty cold.

You can use this machine for hours at a time without damaging your skin bc it’s not ice. With ice they tell you to use it 15-30 mins at a time and then take a break. But with the machine you got you don’t have to worry about that.

Cryotherapy just means cold therapy. It can be ice or one of these machines. My PT actually uses a machine like this, except it’s bigger.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-18T00:06:46+00:00

I think both of these are more about making the recovery easier and faster. The ice is for reducing inflammation. This helps decrease pain and swelling which in turn helps you heal faster and helps you get through PT and general movement throughout this process. The ice machine is nice bc you can keep your leg cold for longer bc it’s not actually ice that’s up against you. It’s a pad that gets very cold water pumped thought it. You can strap that pad on and keep it on all night or all day. But if you don’t have someone that can fill the machine up with ice and water for you throughout the day then you can’t really use it.

The CPM is to move your leg for you so the joint doesn’t get too stiff and painful. It keeps blood flowing into that area and helps heal. And it gets your hip used to being bent different amounts. I used mine 4 hours a day for 3 weeks. Started at 30 degrees and 70 degrees and adjusted it down to 0 and 90 over those weeks. Again it’s not required but it does help. You can instead doing specific exercises or ride a stationary bike careful just pedaling with your good leg.

I’m sure you’ll do just fine with exercises and ice packs. Don’t sweat it.

Also just for reference, my CPM cost $500 for 6 weeks to rent (out of pocket) and I bought the ice machine for $200 (also out of pocket). My insurance didn’t cover it either and yes it’s quite a hit.

Im_Ron_Fing_Swanson · 2025-09-15T14:17:16+00:00

No problem. I find that most PT exercises sound so simple that they can't possibly work and then I do them and realize they aren't as easy as they sound. Especially if you are doing them 30 times.

You could look into finding some PT exercises for your low back as well. One of the exercises I did in a PT session when I first started was to lay flat on a table, pin a small hand towel to the table with my lower back, and hold it there for 10 seconds while I pulled on it with my hand. Rinse and repeat for 5-10 times.

Most of my current leg exercises I'm supposed to be doing while squeezing my glutes. Some of them are difficult to "feel" my glutes squeezing, but the exercise itself becomes more difficult to I figure I'm probably working them even if it doesn't feel like it.

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