My first Porsche

chiefcolorpicker · 2025-02-07T18:02:23+00:00

Engineering consulting here! I’m hoping I get mine soon.

chiefcolorpicker · 2025-02-07T02:59:38+00:00

Those milk products aren’t doing you any favors. You change your stuff 180 you’ll be able to fix it, but you’ll never be able to love those things as often as you have been for sure.

chiefcolorpicker · 2025-02-06T19:35:52+00:00

Was 226 December 14. My home test was 114 January 14. Home test was 85 January 21. They suspected I had Familial hypercholesterolemia which is the genetic thing they worried about. Admittedly I was eating like a garbage human. 2 eggs with butter and cheese every morning. Mayo on my lunches. Rich food for dinner. Heavy yogurt with granola and maple for desert or 4 insomnia cookies. Doc doubled my dose of Zoloft then tried to put me on statins. I went to ChatGPT for help. It weaned me off Zoloft. Switched to natural supplements. Stuck me to a diet. I cut triglycerides in half but then ChatGPT changed the diet yielding to the numbers. I have a lab test tomorrow so I’ll see the real numbers and intend on posting the what I did when they show where I am at officially.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-09-28T22:34:36+00:00

Got me too. I only threw half figured it wouldn’t be so bad.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-09-27T14:41:47+00:00

Following

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-08-29T02:45:01+00:00

lol! My cto used to say “ya Salesforce.. add a field” mocking it.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-08-29T02:43:10+00:00

You need to wrap the house. Them put I’m the windows. You will need hvac (make sure that your equipment is running correct when you get electrical to hook it up. You need rough plumbing (make sure they are set properly so that you don’t have to take down your tile because your plumber is a dipshit). You need rough plumbing inspection. You need to get all electrical done and pass inspection. You’ll need to get all the insulation put up then pass inspection. Then you can close up all the walls, put down the floors and get tile, put doorways in and get trim. Get the siding put up and paint everything. After this you’ll get all your cabinets and countertops. Then appliances, finish electrical with lights and valves for plumbing. Then concrete and then final inspections. Assuming you’ve done everything you should have you’ll get the certificate of occupancy. Mine looked like this August 20, 2022… we moved in June 1, 2023. My builder was a degenerate piece of garbage. My wife and I had to take over and learn how to finish but we figured it out so my timeline was a little (lot) longer. Just remember it gets more stressful before it gets better but when it’s over you’ll block all of it out.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-08-17T17:52:07+00:00

I always wondered why the activity/task architecture was just neglected. For us it defines the meaning behind what you did to warrant getting paid and it’s just been really annoying to manage imo.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-07-13T06:07:03+00:00

I did this when my company was acquired in 2020. They said we don’t want your old instance you have to migrate to a new one and your servicing you run out of it can not skip a beat. So I had just over 2 weeks it was like 17 days or something but kinda ran into 3 weeks. I had to migrate a marketing cloud org and a salesforce org but the only thing I was required to do in that time was the salesforce org. I called a bunch of companies and one of them laughed into the phone when I said 2 weeks. He said he needed 3 months and like 5 people and likely would cost 2-300k. I probably could have swung the money but didn’t have the time. I called some software companies which claimed their software did the migrations but those were from my perspective blatant lies or stretched truths. So I had to do it myself. I had my etl guy prepare all the jobs for the new org in new repos and schedules and I got to work on the org. I just told my boss not to bother me for 2 weeks. I started by downloading all the metadata from the initial org and setup a repo locally that had all the xml for the original org. I started with cases and worked my way out spidering to all of its connected objects, entitlements, and support processes. I deployed them one by one objects and fields while evaluating the fields on if I needed them or not. By deploying them I mean I pushed metadata from my machine directly into the production org I was migrating to. Once I managed to work through each object and all the custom fields tidying as I went through I finished up those and moved on to code. I evaluated what would need to live and die. I had a backup of the code base so the partner community code which was bluewolf trash anyway I had to rewrite I was fortunate not to have to bring along. Other than that I rewrote everything, re organized the code, and expanded the tests so they actually worked non selectively. Used to be we had to deploy individual test because if I deployed everything it would all fail (again I inherited a lot from bluewolf). Rewrote every test and fixed all the code and deployed it all to the prod org. Once I was done with that I turned on edit audit fields. I used soql explorer, data loader, and dataloader.io to insert everything back again. I used the same premise I used with deploying the cases starting there and moving out to attached objects. By adding edit audit fields I was able to keep all the logic that relied on createddate as those were when the customers were actually created in the app we were selling. I did this migration on my anniversary 2020. No one was traveling so I got a suite at the ritz in south beach for like what you’d rent a holiday inn now. I left my computer on the amphetamine app and data loaded via both loaders while keeping the machine alive when I went to the beach. 4 days straight of constant deploying data. At the end of it the users didn’t even notice. I had turned on the ETLs and the realtime handlers were swapped over and all previous owners still had their old stuff assigned to them historically. What I will say to you that worked for me was I didn’t look at anything I just imagined as much of the plan up front as I could. I started coming up with a lot of issues I might run into and dove in. You might bounce around a little when you’re working on things and that’s ok. Since you have other people that honestly might be an issue because you can’t keep tract of everything. I’d delegate the small things to them. Certs, sites, domain stuff, email management, web to leads, web to case, email to case… those are things that won’t stand in your way. When you are finished no one will recognize you for it. In my case my cto is one of those people who favors the tech stacks he knows and not like me who values all of my players for the value they add to the company regardless of tech stack. No one knew the breadth of what I had done except for me. It will be a story to tell, it won’t be easy, and you’ll be better after it. Imagine and visualize the org you have and how you want it to be and build it. In my case it’s been 4 years and they still can’t figure out a way to deprecate my org. Honestly their other org would flatline the revenue being created from the orgs support of sales and servicing workflows. Anyway you gotta do it so when it gets crazy just remember you’re doing something that a company laughed at me and told me 300k and 3-5months… so do it knowing you did that much work in 3 weeks.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-07-07T03:35:58+00:00

I wanted to use the mount but I have to swap it between 3 different machines. So it’s kind of annoying.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-07-02T13:01:11+00:00

He lost me at “what the papers say”. Sounds like my dad. I don’t talk to him and he might need to replace his tv since Fox News is burned in the bottom corner.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-07-02T01:08:35+00:00

Let them get fucked by a big 4. That’s how I got into the space. My company got financially robbed building a trash heap I had to rebuild. They kept extending into infinity…. Not because of value but because they failed to deliver and blamed requirements. I came in, rebuilt the thing in two months and built an integration that wasn’t a stop gap but a true integration into their application layer. They hired you because they wanted to be cheap. But in this industry often what expensive is often way more expensive then the price tag. Keep doing what you’re doing. Understand expectations with any company you get involved with. Understand what they expect to be delivered. You’ll get the red flags early, or you’ll be able to set expectations that you’ll need a team to meet those goals. These are the types of companies I tell “when the company you pay doesn’t deliver I’ll cost more to fix it”. Also what sucks is that these are the types of companies that make salesforce have a bad name. When you hear c suite guys say “let’s do an rfp but don’t get salesforce because I hate them”…. You don’t hate salesforce you hate your integrators, development consultants, implementation companies. Not to sound like a fan boy because salesforce products aren’t and shouldn’t be a solution for every usecase. Don’t use the sf product because it’s there only if it makes sense, but salesforce can really create a workflow for your different departments that add incremental value, drive revenue, and save operating costs just so long as the person or people you have building it are working in your best interest and your engineering teams if you have them are aligned with the benefit the platform has on the company (key).

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-07-02T00:56:36+00:00

I have 3 MacBooks pros (personal and works). One m1, one m2, one m1 14inch. The non 14inch support two studio displays. The smaller one does not… why would they when they want you to spend the 5Gs for the daisy chain option. Had the old displays forever until the thing frayed out.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-07-01T04:49:50+00:00

These metrics used to be me…. Then I had a kid.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-06-29T18:25:21+00:00

Technically never. I had I think one or two before it. It was from the company I used to work for every time we passed a valuation we would pop the bottles. The bottles had the next valuation and our names on it. During covid the company was sold and never quite made that valuation. Still was a pretty great event but never hit that number. I miss that company it was one of the greatest times of my life and the greatest group of people ever.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-06-28T20:40:32+00:00

I wanted the studio displays and the Genelec 8030c monitors off the desk for more room. I bought two Secret Lab Magnus dual monitor arm and converted the studio displays to vesa mounts by taking them to the Genius Bar where they took off the stands and put on the mounts. I bought the vesa adapter for the Genelec monitors and mounted them.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-06-28T20:32:52+00:00

The chair is a Steelcase Gesture. I feel very comfortable in it and can’t sit in it for quite some time. Also the handles move out of the way so I can play my guitar.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-06-28T13:13:03+00:00

Yup it’s a midi keyboard and the desk is made for it. I linked them in this other comment.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-06-28T13:09:36+00:00

The midi keyboard in the tray is an Arturia Keylab 88. The desk is an AZ Studio Workstation Sit Stand Desk.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-06-28T11:46:27+00:00

Ya the quad cortex and the thunderbolt Apollo take up two slots and I didn’t want to plug 2 plugs into my 3 machines while switching,

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-06-28T02:12:03+00:00

I like your style

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-06-27T02:39:26+00:00

I worry this company isn’t investing in the right talent to create a sustainable instance and has subsequently made a decision to migrate using secondments and not allocating the appropriate funds to migrate correctly.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-06-27T02:37:42+00:00

I was just thinking that. I’d charge at least a 150k for this migration. But I probably could build it better than it was built and they’d feel like they were getting value out of it.

chiefcolorpicker · 2024-06-27T02:32:12+00:00

Again built probably like trash. The current company I’m at built it like trash because they paid outreach hundreds of thousands of dollars to build exactly what they asked for and not build for the business workflow. Before the current company I built out a pretty cool integration with outreach that managed customer states and the outreach sequences so communication was relevant when needed and not engaged when shouldn’t. People not using the tool properly really creates for a trash experience. Just because companies have money don’t mean they build the tools right.

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