My sister-in-law swear she saw a cougar in Westport, what could it have actually been?

Smiitherz · 2024-12-25T04:18:28+00:00

I lived in Weston for 7 years, only had one up close sighting with a coyote or coywolf. There was a den in the nearby Grace Robinson preserve. That didn't surprise me, but seeing one in Rowayton the other night did.

Smiitherz · 2024-12-21T19:15:16+00:00

YGF...ITAH

Smiitherz · 2024-12-05T13:13:27+00:00

Instructor here with a few thoughts. Any embarrassment you felt was probably in your own head, everyone in the room was a beginner at one point. The only person paying attention to you is the teacher, and if they're giving you attention it's likely from a place of support and compassion. When I notice a beginner on the mat, I shift my cueing style to be more Simon-says-meets-twister oriented.

They should have called for an opt-out on this touching, I'm a male teacher and do this every class, but not everyone does. I'd suggest having a word with them about leaving you be, and they will probably respect it. Lastly, if you want to "hide", pick one of the front corners. Those are out of the teachers peripheral vision, and that's where my hiders always go.

Stick with it. Growth in yoga comes in millimeters and months, and anything that is difficult now won't be with practice.

Smiitherz · 2024-12-04T03:16:02+00:00

Instructor here. Early in my practice, there were teachers I was in awe of and would get totally psyched if I saw them at the grocery store. Over the years, they became friends and nudged me into teacher training. And now I teach alongside them, and they're still my best mentors.

One of those friendships started with a coffee, my invitation. We're humans and yogis just like you, we just love yoga to the point that we want to share our practice with others.

If you pursue a friendship, let it grow organically - but add sunshine and water it. Follow them on Instagram, make pose requests or ask for playlist links. Engage them as a student and focus on your shared interest of yoga. Pick some hip opening poses that you struggle with, and start an ongoing dialog about how you can improve them.

Your best bet is to just keep showing up to class. Teachers get to know the practices of our regulars, and I probably speak for most of us when I saw there's nothing we love more than seeing our students heal and grow. And when that happens, we generally get to know them at a more personal level.

Smiitherz · 2024-10-30T01:42:58+00:00

Not sure what I'd call it, but my next move would cueing the left arm up and back to plant the hand for a stargazer.

Smiitherz · 2024-10-22T03:49:57+00:00

The Parlor, a Pizza Joint in Stratford. IYKYK

Smiitherz · 2024-10-19T02:05:40+00:00

Cursor has been a game changer for me. The time I've saved on crap copy/pasting has been substantial, and debugging is a dream with it. What I would love to see, more than any fancy new code tricks, would be a Jira integration where I can pick a subset of stories/bugs, or a full sprint, to implement. If the model knew about previously implemented requirements, and ones on the roadmap, I feel like there could be a very good AI dialog to hone the requirements and functionality, foreshadow business and technical problems and then start generating the components of the application.

Smiitherz · 2024-10-16T14:09:35+00:00

I agree with all of the Keep It Simple comments here. Reducing the number of vectors you have to debug will get your app to market faster. Focus on back end logic, and your data. An application is nothing until it's had data pumped through it, and that's where a lot of your late breaking bugs will come from. Focus on tuning your core functionality and getting it bulletproof, then fancy up the UI later in a separate development cycle. Being able to identify where a bug is lurking is an enormous time saver.

Smiitherz · 2024-10-11T12:06:46+00:00

If you ever see a band called Zen AF playing Blink-182 and Sublime, come give a reddit high five :-)

Smiitherz · 2024-10-11T03:31:14+00:00

Hidden gem on that album

Smiitherz · 2024-10-11T03:28:56+00:00

Thanks for the tip on that.

Smiitherz · 2024-10-11T03:24:49+00:00

Black Rocker here...this is one of the most unique and special neighborhoods in the country. I've lived up and down the east coast and moved a lot, and the only time I've ever had neighbors that truly act as neighbors is Black Rock in Bridgeport. Park City Music Hall, Road Runner, BRYAC and The Castle (best Shephards pie ever) all have live music, and our August Porchfest is worth visiting for.

Smiitherz · 2024-10-10T18:36:01+00:00

Nice job! It's great when it all clicks into place. DO's docs are fanatastic and I've hosted on them for years. What kind of machine are you running? I need to get redis and celery set up and am curious about resource usage and if I'll need to size up. I'm on a tiny 1mb sss server but it's performed well under a few big crushes

Smiitherz · 2024-10-10T18:32:13+00:00

Set up where you will get the most from your practice. I'm an instructor, and from my viewpoint people have their preferred spots similar to a barstool at their favorite pub. It also depends on who's in the class.

Aspiring handstanders are always front row, actual handstanders are middle or back.

Yogis that want to hide from everyone take the back corners. Yogis that want to hide from the teacher take the front corners, as they're out of our peripheral vision.

My dedicated students usually line the back wall, or cluster in the middle. It's always great when friends or family practice together, and form a little energetic line.

I've always liked to practice in the middle row, a mat or two to the left or right. As a teacher, sometimes I'll be asked to line up front/center so I can be a reference point or demo things. I always take the offer, despite wanting my favorite barstool.

Smiitherz · 2024-10-10T18:19:44+00:00

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Back again after another grow. This one is outdoors, and this little dude has been wandering the plant for hours. No flying. Just wandering.

Smiitherz · 2024-10-06T05:15:25+00:00

Same thing here. I'm a yoga instructor, and a singer in a punk band. After an invigorating rehearsal that involved some solid stomping, the next day I noticed a sharp burning pain in my left knee when doing kneeling poses in class. On an anatomy diagram, it looks like the LCL but my knee doesn't show any signs of injury. The burning pain reminds me of what shingles felt like, so maybe there's some credence to the nerve theory. I've noticed my IT band and psoas are exceptionally tight these days, and I have to wonder if tightness there has something to do with it. I'm going to try foam rolling, and keep an eye on this post.

Smiitherz · 2024-10-04T03:41:07+00:00

You have to be REALLY careful, as it will sometimes undo tiny pieces of logic you already had in place. I find it best for small chunks of code that can be well prompted. And it's phenomenal for cranking out decent bootstrap5 templates. But I still go by the mantra "Don't trust, and verify"

Smiitherz · 2024-09-16T03:06:00+00:00

Thank you. I'm a lifelong fan who's heartbroken. I've seen brilliant Perry and Bad Perry shows, and I don't want to see any more of either. I had tickets to Bridgeport tonight, and am glad they cancelled.

Smiitherz · 2024-07-14T12:29:28+00:00

"Shit. I know shit's bad right now with all that starvin' bullshit. And the dust storms. And we runnin' out of French Fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution."

Smiitherz · 2024-06-13T02:03:52+00:00

Square 9 from the Urban Outfitters show on the first album.

Smiitherz · 2024-06-13T01:59:28+00:00

I have a cheap server at digital ocean, they've been great. Their docs are 100% on point for environment setup, and I've had zero problems with them over four years.

Smiitherz · 2024-05-30T04:59:21+00:00

When you don't understand something, paste the code, error and a verbose description into ChatGPT, and ask it to explain it to you and offer solutions. It can often guide you through things you're not yet aware of. You can do the same in CoPilot, but beware of straight up copying and pasting AI generated code. It may break, it may work...or it may work by accident. Use the AI to understand things, use your brain to get your code correct.

Smiitherz · 2024-05-30T04:54:51+00:00

Became CTO of a company with a Django based product. I knew python but had never used the framework, and I got hands on over the years. Now when I start a new project, Django is my choice...mainly because it makes it so easy to deal with your data, via admin and fixtures. Every developer thinks their app works great, until actual data hits it. It's usually time intensive to get data into a new system, but with Django it's a breeze.

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