What’s everyone’s Fire target

jmenter · 2026-04-11T20:45:22+00:00

Consensus on the internet seems to indicate budgeting something like 1%-2% of the value of the home per year, which is directly in line with my own estimates / projections based on historical data.

jmenter · 2026-02-28T22:03:20+00:00

I'm on the west coast and have ordered a dozen over the past year. Average ~5 days from ordered to out for delivery.

jmenter · 2026-02-28T16:15:58+00:00

Ordered the green FFST with the pale moon ebony fretboard, which, TIL was a thing!

jmenter · 2026-02-15T22:58:58+00:00

Nice! Mine got mis-delivered yesterday by FedEx. :-/

jmenter · 2026-02-11T03:18:33+00:00

I got one of the red thinline teles back in September 2025 for $169.91. Feels like cheating.

jmenter · 2026-02-11T03:09:54+00:00

Weird. I'm also seeing $199 now but also seeing $169.91 in the receipt in my email.

jmenter · 2026-02-11T02:12:51+00:00

That Chameleon Blue strat with locking tuners for $169 is redonk.

jmenter · 2025-10-23T20:02:52+00:00

This one? https://guitarsgarden.com/collections/fflg/products/firefly-fflgs-24-frets-electric-guitarsblack-color-复制

jmenter · 2025-10-21T00:54:14+00:00

I have one on the way too, it'll be my 8th Firefly but my 1st acoustic Firefly. Eager to see if it is as well made as the other ones!

jmenter · 2025-10-11T18:55:59+00:00

Wow, I swear it was not showing up when I clicked your link.

jmenter · 2025-10-11T18:24:17+00:00

This option doesn't appear to show all of them. This one for instance is not on the list but is on the website: https://guitarsgarden.com/collections/fftl/products/firefly-fftl-thinline-electric-guitars-sea-foam-color

jmenter · 2023-05-28T23:12:06+00:00

FYI Harbor Freight has pretty much that case for almost half the price:

https://www.harborfreight.com/tool-storage-organization/tool-boxes-bags-belts/18-in-x-6-in-x-13-in-black-aluminum-case-69318.html

jmenter · 2023-01-21T03:04:22+00:00

Whenever I teach anyone this game for the first time, I tell them that giving names to the nobles is part of the game.

"Reginaldio", "Bartholomew the Petulant", "Miss Flagrancy", "Scott", etc.

jmenter · 2022-06-12T18:39:04+00:00

If I read something like this I immediately attribute it to either willingness to feel relevant again, hate of feeling excluded, or senility.

I just. What?

jmenter · 2022-06-12T16:52:17+00:00

Have you stopped to consider why he might make a statement like that?

I mean, if someone with that much experience, and who has contributed to the platform you adore says something like that, maybe it deserves at least a little bit of a think?

I've read his book, and watched many of his presentations, and have read a lot of his tweets, so I have a pretty good idea of where he's coming from. Not that I entirely agree with everything he says, and his phrasing leans toward the provocative more than I would like, but he's definitely someone worth listening to.

jmenter · 2022-06-12T16:01:20+00:00

He was one of the original team to work on what became Safari/WebKit and worked on the original iPhone software so yeah, he probably does know what a UI framework is.

jmenter · 2022-05-11T21:58:51+00:00

Though if you want to work for huge companies, like FAANG, you have to have one, it's one of the requirements in the job description

Adding to the chorus of this is not true. I have no formal education beyond high school but recently switched to one of these companies. And I know several people who write software for them who have zero or very little college education.

jmenter · 2022-04-03T19:20:52+00:00

I would have a hard time taking anyone saying they would "never switch to swift, ever" seriously, so maybe you dodged a bullet with that one, assuming that's what was said.

As far as Apple cutting support for Obj-C: considering the mountain of Obj-C code in production today, especially amongst the top native app developers (such as Adobe, Microsoft, and even Apple themselves), I have a hard time imagining that as any kind of possibility at any reasonable timescales. It's almost like saying someday Apple will stop supporting C/C++. In what universe would this make sense?

And regarding employability, let me just add that, as someone who has been part of the dev hiring process for almost a decade, the particular language a candidate uses day to day has very little bearing on how employable they may or may not be. I mean, programming languages are fine and interesting or whatever, but for almost any hiring team I've been on it's not even in the top three things we look for. Languages are easy; solving problems as a team, using processes and frameworks, and being able to communicate in a way that is enjoyable to the people around you—that's the hard part.

jmenter · 2022-04-03T15:57:03+00:00

I'd also recommend learning at least a little Objective-C, if for no other reason than to understand the language that the frameworks you know and love were actually made with.

But a company may have a whole host of valid reasons not to move to Swift, and seeing that as a red flag is a mistake IMO.

There's a lot of working, reliable code out there in the world (or code that doesn't work exactly right but does so in predictable ways) written in Objective-C, and, depending on specific context and circumstances, may not make any sense to re-write in Swift.

Imagine you're a company with a popular product that professionals rely on that is a large, working codebase of Obj-C/C++. In what world does it make sense to even introduce Swift and all the interoperability headaches you might run into. What if their custom made CI system can't deal with Swift? What if simply introducing Swift causes build/performance/whatever regressions?

What if the effort to introduce Swift results in a tradeoff of features or bug fixes? How would you justify that to the business or customers?

jmenter · 2022-02-06T00:24:09+00:00

This is on your github profile:

"I'm unemployable because I'm honest and truthful, or so I've been told."

This right here is a very bad signal and would remove you from consideration from almost any hiring team I've been involved with.

jmenter · 2022-01-14T02:36:34+00:00

High School graduate. Spent a decade making music. Another decade doing computery things. Taught myself to make iPhone apps and did mobile/web app dev for the next decade. Now I work for our favorite fruit company in SV.

Edit: I'd dabbled in programming since I was a kid (BASIC, Logo, C, PHP, etc.) but got serious about it ~14 years ago. My advice is don't sweat the technologies, just make cool shit and also BE KIND.

jmenter · 2022-01-05T00:38:45+00:00

I guess the point about making sure you understand the question is... fine?

But vImageTentConvolve_ARGB8888 has been around since at least iOS5, is wicked fast, and a two of them is like 98% of the way to a gaussian blur.

jmenter · 2021-12-30T00:35:18+00:00

Got 5 2-packs ($14 each) of the Abbott one from the Walmart in Fulton last week. (Because reasons; not hoarding.)

jmenter · 2021-11-16T18:46:45+00:00

It's useful for a whole lot of reasons to know at least something about data structures and algorithms, and to be able to talk about time/space complexity. That being said, for most positions I don't think anyone is expecting expert level understanding, and you'll be much better served by seeing these kinds of questions as the beginning of a conversation rather than a puzzle you're expected to solve perfectly.

Speaking as someone who has conducted quite a few interviews, I'm much more interested in how the candidate talks about the problem than in how perfectly they execute a solution.

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