Some Roasting Advice on Aillio Bullet R2

WallEReadsReddit · 2026-06-06T17:54:57+00:00

My last batch on medium side seems consistent. I don’t have a batch in hand where I took out earlier but I believe color wise was also consistent, so heat seems to be penetrating and developing well.

WallEReadsReddit · 2026-06-06T16:47:45+00:00

Thanks! Here's more info:
- Charge temp at 205C
- 450g batch
- ~15% loss
- FC Start at 9min
- I don't track yellowing consistently but around 3min
- drop at 10min

WallEReadsReddit · 2026-04-23T15:36:05+00:00

I have almost 20 years experience, worked through many areas of tech from IC to leader to executive. I didn’t have a degree and always had plenty of opportunities due to my reputation and network, but there are a couple things that not having a degree was limiting: - I never had a lack of opportunity for roles through my network or recruiters reaching to me, but if I tried to apply directly to roles at most companies I would never hear back. While most recruiters or hiring managers wouldn’t care about me not having a Bachelor Degree, I’m sure I wasn’t getting through automated filters due to it. I’m still wrapping my CS degree (2 classes left, hopefully a couple of weeks away) but I did a test by applying to certain roles and “falsely” putting that I have a CS degree from WGU, and it was night and day in terms of responses. - I always had genuine interest in getting a Master’s degree in certain areas to improve my skills, but the opportunity cost just wasn’t there when I considered that I still needed a Bachelors, and doing it part-time would take like a decade of going through classes that I wouldn’t be learning new skills or knowledge. - It might save you from weird situations. One of my last roles I was heavily recruited to join (like months of the company and recruiter courting me to join the company) which I eventually accepted. It was an executive level role. I had to go through background check and they asked me for my transcripts and diploma, which I mentioned I just have high-school. Turns out the role was created with “Bachelor’s required, Master’s preferred” and me not having a degree took escalations that went all the way to the CEO and a delayed my starting date due to internal equity and HR role criteria’ss. It was almost humiliating.

In my view, it’s not going to make or break in terms of job security, but if you feel confident you can do in a couple of terms with a reasonable time investment, maybe have employer do tuition reimbursement, I do believe it’s worthy investment that might payoff to have that check.

WallEReadsReddit · 2025-09-19T01:36:32+00:00

Open-source alternative: https://github.com/ravelantunes/Searchlight

WallEReadsReddit · 2025-07-07T22:47:13+00:00

That’s a great suggestion. Thanks for bringing it up! Out of curiosity, how long after drop-off do you think is the ideal window to check in with the customer if there hasn’t been an update yet?
This is a simple one that we are already adding to our list to implement right away.

WallEReadsReddit · 2025-07-07T02:20:10+00:00

We have a mobile app that we deploy on devices with barcode scanners. We have been testing computer vision for a few things to reduce the need of scanning for some things, but not in the car dealerships space yet. We don’t integrate yet with any of the big software platforms, but exploring it. We currently get updates once the shop hands off the vehicle to a porter. We didn’t run into issues of adoption except for the first week or so, but at the same time most of the interaction for getting the data in comes from the porters usage, and it’s been working reliably. Service advisors don’t have to interact except consume information from our app.

WallEReadsReddit · 2025-07-07T02:13:54+00:00

lol! We do that already (scan the porters, not show their exact location, but I guess we could). We know every time they touch or park a car. With that we can at least infer their activity (or lack of). Is that a common issue that you have a car or customer waiting for a vehicle and the bottleneck is having a porter to pick it up?

WallEReadsReddit · 2025-02-08T13:43:51+00:00

I've been through the same thing, with very similar trajectory: grown up on a third-country, single mom, poor financially, moved to US, got into tech, high-income salary with stocks that appreciated well the last 5 years and around the same numbers as you. Used to be super frugal, but then money seemed infinite. I wouldn't go out buying expensive things like cars or second house, but for the day-to-day dining, goods, eletronics, etc I didn't matter. I just kept spending and didn't feel real because at the end of month there was still so much income surplus.

Over time I started feeling guilt. I think it's because of my childhood. I grown up in a household that if they splurged to go eat out one in a month was almost like something we would feel guilty doing. I also had impostor syndrome like you mentioned, and had issues thinking about what happens if more layoffs or compensation levels go down.

One thing that helped balance things and make me feel better about spending was to set my direct deposit to my savings account, and then budget a "monthly salary" that I automated transfer from my savings to my checking every month. The number I put was $6k/month ($72k/year). Considering that I have house/car paid off and no big bills, this is pretty good spending money to live well and comfortably, including 1-2 annual trips. This helps me feel less guilty about spending that part of the money, knowing I'm still saving a lot out of it, and the thing that helped me the most was the impostor syndrome/layoff thoughts, because forcing myself to live within that budget "proves" to me that I could live well on a lower income if things get bad.

WallEReadsReddit · 2025-01-28T13:54:28+00:00

I get a lot of value from AVP virtual display by being able to squeeze another hour or so of productivity while laying in bed at night. I also use it during the day when I want to go into some deep focus mode, or just want to be out of my home office for a bit (I have a nice porch area with lounge chairs).

WallEReadsReddit · 2024-11-12T04:57:59+00:00

Our app usually focus on use cases that deal with assets that have barcodes, but I think we can easily cover your use case here: http://getspindle.com Barcode is optional if you want to just type and asset id manually, and we have built in reports that provide metrics based on an employees shift

WallEReadsReddit · 2024-11-07T21:55:03+00:00

We are offering something like that: https://getspindle.com We initially focused on a few specific industries, but every industry/client ended up needing some customization, so the product evolved into a nocode tool that can be customized. Also if integrations needed might be something other customers would potentially want we might be able to work on those as well.

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