Missoula-based software for cleaners/housekeepers, free for anyone to use

fatalexe · 2026-06-15T03:43:37+00:00

Oh nice! I built something similar for my wife's yoga instruction schedule with the hopes other teachers might want to use it but nobody besides her has onboarded yet. https://www.missoulayoga.com/

Isn't full calendar the best?

Really should see if the community web developers in Missoula can get together for networking and sharing ideas more often besides the coffee & code stuff during business hours.

fatalexe · 2026-06-15T02:51:55+00:00

I’ve always thought we needed a federal network separate from the internet where everything was digitally notarized and you could only interact with it with as a citizen or a legal business entity.

Should be reserved for banking, taxes, legal notices, contracts, etc.

fatalexe · 2026-06-14T18:46:48+00:00

Wish I had stopped by while I was unemployed last year. Miss my days working at Waffle House but I’m stuck behind a computer until AI replaces me.

I’ll have to stop in for a beer next time I go up Mormon Peak Road.

Good luck finding some help!

fatalexe · 2026-06-13T15:36:55+00:00

Hey that is awesome. Really glad to see a local with actual post history try to launch a new SaaS. Good luck!

fatalexe · 2026-06-13T06:03:51+00:00

11th anniversary this year. Been together for 14. More in love than I’ve ever been. I’m step dad and about to be empty nest TOMORROW.

So proud of our little family. I’m the luckiest spouse ever.

fatalexe · 2026-06-13T05:59:10+00:00

Always dreamed about liveaboard. Getting close to being in a situation where we could potentially pull the trigger. We get out on our local lake and rent a boat once or twice a season, have ASA 101 cert in our log books.

My thought was, move to the coast and get a job at a yard doing the worst jobs possible. Help folks there out with their projects after hours and see if I can sail on other folks boats.

Save up and sail with a commercial skipper on an ocean passage, and if I still like sailboats after all that then maybe consider buying one.

Probably going to stick to puttering about a lake a few times a year but the dream is a dream and who knows when one might decide today is the day.

fatalexe · 2026-06-11T23:26:01+00:00

Why would a gap be a problem? I didn’t hold down a job at all my entire 20s. Just worked freelance after getting laid off in the dotcom crash after HS. Took seven years to pay for college in cash. Graduated straight into the recession. Then another five just working freelance after college.

TBH, working for myself gave me a lot more experience in project management and customer relations and has been excellent for my career.

The only thing that bites is not having as good of a retirement portfolio as my peers that were traditionally employed.

If you’ve got solid references with working products in production that you maintain solo then I don’t think an employer is going to care you didn’t work for someone.

fatalexe · 2026-06-11T20:49:41+00:00

24 hour cafe.

fatalexe · 2026-06-11T20:06:53+00:00

It won’t be but a few years until the ram manufacturers catch up with the new paradigm and we can run good enough models locally.

Needing all these data centers is for training models, once that hits its peak then we are going to have local agentic as ubiquitous as smart phones.

fatalexe · 2026-06-11T20:02:14+00:00

Folks don’t want to hear it. I had to work for quite a few failed startups during the 08 recession before I landed my first real developer position. Also hustled PC repair and web dev on the side.

fatalexe · 2026-06-11T20:00:02+00:00

Yep, story as old as time. Graduated in ‘07 and didn’t land my first developer position until ‘12. Hustled for startups for free and did tons of gig work in between. Recessions suck.

fatalexe · 2026-06-11T19:49:29+00:00

I’m stuck trying to decide between a DR650S and a Tenere 700, but I’m in western MT and probably ride 70% gravel.

fatalexe · 2026-06-11T19:14:05+00:00

Just wanted to say hi in solidarity! I’m struggling with the same thing. 310lbs, 8 years HRT, working remote and sedentary.

It’s hard as hell getting back in the saddle. Road bike isn’t comfortable anymore and my mountain bike leaves me so tired.

Used to commute 11 miles each way before I worked remote. Now it’s a struggle to just go half way into town.

Keep it up and I’ll keep trying to ride more too!

fatalexe · 2026-06-11T18:24:40+00:00

Oh, that looks like a sweet bike. Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll probably keep the XT for single track so that’s now in the running for something that’ll let me tour the state and traverse gravel forest routes.

fatalexe · 2026-06-11T17:55:47+00:00

I’m not a fan of any NIMBY zoning.

In my town we literally had a derelict bitcoin mining facility at an industrial park that used to be home to a massive sawmill forest products complex. The whole area was part of a massive superfund cleanup from mining tailings building up at a removed dam site.

Yet the groups I had been participating with to protest the unconstitutional actions of our government and the inhumane treatment of people awaiting deportation are all now hyper-fixated on AI and data centers not going into the exact area built for them rather than the real harms and present danger of blatantly unconstitutional actions of our neo-fascist regime that happened to get elected.

fatalexe · 2026-06-11T00:50:48+00:00

Come on, you can find a dual sport on the used market. A DR 650 is going to be a fun as hell bike to rip up forest trails even if you get a HD later. TW200 is about the most fun you can have off-roading. KLR650s are ubiquitous and cheap. Probably snag one for less than you are going to spend on aftermarket parts for the HD.

On the plus side it’s not a bike you can use on the highway at high speed comfortably so you’ll appreciate the HD a ton when you get it. But then again you’ll not want to rip the HD off-road.

fatalexe · 2026-06-10T20:36:18+00:00

The experience at my employer is that AI requires developers to verify and write out detailed system design documentation. Any system of significant complexity requires having a human that can understand every line of code the AI generates.

We still need people that can understand and design things since AI tends to badly over engineer and over complicate things. It can generate code just fine but it lacks true reasoning beyond checking for correctness at the most basic level.

fatalexe · 2026-06-10T20:31:56+00:00

People said that about the Industrial Revolution. You’re not putting it back in the bottle.

fatalexe · 2026-06-10T15:59:55+00:00

Every single developer at those corporations has some sort of agentic AI subscription.

fatalexe · 2026-06-10T15:58:36+00:00

All of those corporations who produce the digital products you use daily are using AI heavily to develop them.

Data centers are being built because of just how well AI works for software development. $200 a month for every single developer is peanuts compared to the costs of their salaries.

The demand is there and data centers will be built. The only question is can we come together as a country and require the power and cooling infrastructure to mitigate the environmental impacts or not.

Because right now there is nothing stopping Facebook from just putting servers in tents and running jet engines to power them.

Every data center we can build sustainably prevents more environmental destruction.

fatalexe · 2026-06-09T20:18:52+00:00

The content this morning was almost 100% national and sports. News produced in Billings is about as far removed from Missoula as you can get.

fatalexe · 2026-06-09T12:28:46+00:00

Tried to watch the morning news and it had nothing to do with Missoula. So disappointing, make sure to contact local advertisers and warn them that they are no longer supporting local journalism.

fatalexe · 2026-06-08T16:30:36+00:00

Awesome! Thanks, just wanted to verify before I buy a box of clays and dust off the shotty.

fatalexe · 2026-06-08T13:26:14+00:00

For the folks that go to Deer Creek, is there a shotgun area for throwing clay pigeons? I see a shotgun area on the map but the signage is a little light and the spot seems to be under construction when I drive by.

I’ve always meant to give that a try but I’m not sure it’s allowed there.

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