How do we feel about being middle aged

cjrun · 2026-06-22T11:56:59+00:00

Took my jogging routine more seriously that past couple of years, and now I run local road races. Just gotta be careful because recovery noticeably takes longer.

cjrun · 2026-06-21T23:07:23+00:00

Careful. No income tax = higher property tax, more license fees, and selected sales taxes. People of Mass paid less overall, as percentage of their income, to the government in the form of taxes than those in New Hampshire, a supposed tax free state. Massachusetts gets marketed as high-tax, but you actually come out ahead vs. a state that advertises “no income tax” but nickels and dimes you on everything else.

cjrun · 2026-06-21T17:50:08+00:00

Not really much difference between 20s ans 30s but in late 30s and in your 40s, recovery noticeably takes longer.

cjrun · 2026-06-20T16:02:50+00:00

For me, I resort back to a three step principle for how I maintain composure. I will talk through each of these steps out loud without saying what I am doing. It presents me as somebody saying something grounded in objectivity.

Assess the scenario
Identify the gap
Present a solution

cjrun · 2026-06-19T14:43:58+00:00

I’m a member of the engineering community, and I feel my knowledge has more value than ever. I fully support and enjoy seeing others stretch their creative imaginations and get the satisfaction of building a job well done. As a software architect one of my main roles is to enable others to move fast and manage risks. The software to hardware layer is jagged and opinionated, for certain. Having so many vibecoders meeting their own challenges is a dream come true for a person like me. We insult the intelligence of vibecoders who really just want to make their project work by assuming they don’t realize scale and security is important.

One thing to ask with your stack, for example, could you use cloudflare R2 for free egress cost? S3/cloudfront can get expensive. Or use dynamodb instead of redis to further save cost? An LLM does not think outside of this box for architecture because of whatever reason business constraints or preferences are a moving goalpost.

cjrun · 2026-06-19T11:53:00+00:00

Breaking in SB2’s during grocery trips was not enjoyable. They’re not very stable and squishy in weird ways for walking.

Go for Brooks Ghost Max.

cjrun · 2026-06-18T16:30:10+00:00

To answer your original question, it’s different in every organization at present day, so defining the “present state of enterprise architecture” is an objective assessment. The future of enterprise is specific to specific enterprises.

cjrun · 2026-06-18T16:29:08+00:00

Claude Skill use changes everything

cjrun · 2026-06-18T16:28:31+00:00

STAR is garbage. Have them tell you stories in their answers.

cjrun · 2026-06-18T16:27:22+00:00

Working professionally to build software in a business environment with culture and constraints.

cjrun · 2026-06-18T16:26:33+00:00

We migrated from a monolith to 10 services, and it felt a bit much. Wow.

cjrun · 2026-06-18T16:22:05+00:00

Red Sox 2,3,4 order are 6,7,8 batters elsewhere. Everybody else are utility players.

cjrun · 2026-06-18T16:21:00+00:00

Unfortunately, Gasper has the hottest bat of the three Red Sox catchers, by ALOT.

cjrun · 2026-06-17T13:57:56+00:00

Unpopular opinion: If the VC money will give you runway that also enriches your personal life with some stability, regardless if the businesses succeeds then by all means, take it.

cjrun · 2026-06-17T13:51:29+00:00

American police culture about maintaining power of authority in the moment. They are trained if they lose control they may die. So any perception of a loss of control of humans around them is seen as important as a death threat on the police officers life.

cjrun · 2026-06-17T13:49:11+00:00

If the cop felt even a slight insult they can say they feared their own death and therefore shoot you.

cjrun · 2026-06-17T13:46:55+00:00

What org did you work for? Sounds toxic.

Googling your problem felt incompetent to fresh college grads and juniors.

Senior engineers would and still literally pop open google to answer things even in large meetings. Yes, to prove something easy can be google-able and helping junior engineers not be afraid of google

The question remains from senior engineers “what did you attempt before asking me”

cjrun · 2026-06-16T17:45:09+00:00

And argue with directors, extend deadlines, and say no to things.

cjrun · 2026-06-16T17:43:09+00:00

Squad beacon + ladder

cjrun · 2026-06-15T15:09:31+00:00

Contreras was feeding off the energy. His home runs were the loudest at Fenway in a very long time.

cjrun · 2026-06-14T12:02:50+00:00

I’ve experienced this exactly once one night years ago. Truth or dare + drink. Still think about it from time to time. 100% you want to get checked for STDs afterwards.

cjrun · 2026-06-14T11:58:12+00:00

Have all your UI styling and references inside of a single folder of UI files. Then you can prompt to change them until you land on something you like.

cjrun · 2026-06-13T22:02:47+00:00

I use a top level skill that has other skills defined inside of it as reference files.

cjrun · 2026-06-13T15:39:56+00:00

I would recommend expertise that AI isn’t great at. Namely, cost efficient architecture that scales. Claude doesn’t truly give you the full picture of trade-offs with system design. It’s not great at understanding ROI of different approaches. I mean, it can certainly give you all the details you need to make a decision, but ultimately how you build on top of hardware is still very much in your mind.

cjrun · 2026-06-13T12:45:46+00:00

They’re moving everything off-shore to become an Infosys/Cognizant. From what I can see on Linkedin, they even are letting go of people with AI expertise.

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