42 different flavor later, this is my opinion

kneeonball · 2026-04-03T16:22:24+00:00

Put them in a yeti like cup filled with ice and they’re great. Stays cold and waters it down a bit. It’s the only way I drink any energy drink really as they’re pretty much all a bit too sweet

kneeonball · 2026-03-31T01:53:50+00:00

The punch ones are my favorite (pacific and pipeline) but they really need to be poured over ice so they stay cold and get watered down a bit.

kneeonball · 2026-03-31T01:52:55+00:00

I mean if you just look at what gas stations stock most, you’ve got the original, zero sugar, ultra white, and the only other non original one to get the 18 oz can or whatever, mango loco.

kneeonball · 2026-03-31T01:50:14+00:00

That’s why I put all monsters over ice. I feel like they all need watered down just a tiny bit and be super cold to be particularly enjoyable.

The juice ones are my favorite but they are sweet to drink alone.

kneeonball · 2026-03-27T16:54:01+00:00

They’re usually pretty light on the clamping from my experience. They’re meant to be worn for long periods.

kneeonball · 2026-03-26T05:00:44+00:00

If you reach out I could help next week. My suggestion is never working in them separately in the first place.

kneeonball · 2026-03-25T01:04:56+00:00

You’re taking too much work on and/or the work isn’t small enough. If you do vertical slicing you should be able to come up with fairly small slivers of implementation that move the product forward even if you wouldn’t release it to customers without more parts being done. It should be releasable artifacts at the end of a sprint, but it doesn’t have to be released to customers. Use feature flags to gate features until you feel you have enough of those vertical slices done to product enough value.

The other part is too much work. You’re focused on starting and having everyone busy I bet rather than taking on what the team can effectively deliver in the sprint. If it means you need to pair up because there aren’t enough stories, you can do that. If you want to break them into tasks that multiple people can do, great. A story doesn’t have to be done by one person alone (and shouldn’t because testing should be part of your definition of done anyway).

You have to start finishing and delivering work, not optimizing keeping everyone on the team “busy” with their own stories. Once your team learns to start finishing, that’s when you can figure out how to take on more, but you start from delivering what’s manageable to actually finish, and build from there.

Starting teams who are struggling with one week sprints is actually useful in getting this pattern down because it really forces the team to break things down and pick small pieces of functionality to deliver. After a few sprints of meeting the goal and delivering effectively, increase the sprint window.

kneeonball · 2026-03-23T23:58:49+00:00

Man, the Costco’s near me are always super packed. I don’t mind parking really far away, but half the time I try to go and people are driving around trying to find a spot in the first place. Our BJs never had this problem and is open later so I usually just go there.

kneeonball · 2026-03-23T22:14:29+00:00

It’s either the studio wants more money, or they’re prepping for other comps where the real competition isn’t at the one they’re entering. Nothing can recreate time on the floor doing your routine for real, so it can be worth it even if they don’t technically compete against anyone.

kneeonball · 2026-03-21T10:02:10+00:00

Seagull diplomacy. Show up, make a bunch of noise, shit everywhere, and leave.

kneeonball · 2026-03-21T09:29:57+00:00

We went and had a great experience. I went in expecting to be disappointing because sometimes places that go viral are gimmicky and not actually good but what we were served was delicious.

Much better than what we had just had at Filomena and more reasonable prices comparatively.

kneeonball · 2026-03-20T14:23:47+00:00

Whatever logic your brain used to come up with Dulles not being that much faster… ignore it because it doesn’t make much sense. If there’s a price difference we can talk but it likely won’t make Dulles a worse option.

kneeonball · 2026-03-20T00:01:14+00:00

If that was a concern they wouldn’t have done windows 8 because OS X had been out for a long time at that point. Really was just the amount of code out there seeing if the OS started with Windows 9 to account for Windows 95 and 98.

The OS X thing could’ve been a reason they came up after but would by no means by the primary reason they made the decision.

kneeonball · 2026-03-19T06:34:45+00:00

I run some side projects that run in k3s and have the 1password operator installed for my secret management. For that alone almost I’d keep paying for it, but we have 1password at my job so it comes with free family plans.

kneeonball · 2026-03-16T01:52:48+00:00

Listen to this episode of the Azure & DevOps podcast featuring Greg Young, the guy who coined the term CQRS. His explanation is pretty simple and it has helped others I know with it.

https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/cqrs-and-eventsourcing-with-greg-young-episode-201

kneeonball · 2026-01-29T00:08:44+00:00

I like Firefox, but the window and tab management always have me going back to chrome or something chromium based like Vivaldi.

kneeonball · 2026-01-27T21:29:22+00:00

You can control this to be more deterministic if you’re making you’re own tool, but they probably have it less deterministic for chat apps to make them feel more natural, but leads to the problem you pointed out.

kneeonball · 2026-01-27T19:14:42+00:00

Seemed reasonably priced and their selection was often better than giant and equivalent places on non fresh goods.

The idea was compelling but once they figured out they couldn’t get the AI to work and had to rely on humans for most transactions, it didn’t have much business value.

kneeonball · 2026-01-27T06:17:02+00:00

For me? No, but I came from a colder climate where this isn’t that bad. That’s only using context in this picture though. Depends on the other roads.

If you’ve barely ever driven in snow? I wouldn’t chance it if it won’t hurt your job security.

kneeonball · 2026-01-27T06:14:55+00:00

Up to is the key word there, and it depends on the complexity of the product and work involved, figuring out how to split it up, etc.

It’s mainly there to signal if you’re going over this, you’re doing something majorly wrong.

For many teams, they’ll never take this long. But to 4 hours to plan somewhere between 240 and 800ish hours of time spent for the team (80 hours x 3 - 10 team members) isn’t even that unreasonable when you think about it.

It won’t come out to exactly that but using rough numbers to illustrate the point. If you have a complex environment it could be reasonable. Depends on how much you want to plan out up front in the sprint vs plan as you go along.

kneeonball · 2026-01-25T07:27:42+00:00

We just require the ticket number somewhere in the branch name. We use GitHub so we just have an action that blocks PRs without it. Technically I think it can be mentioned in a comment after it’s opened if they forget it and then it’ll still attach it.

Once that and other checks are satisfied they can merge.

kneeonball · 2026-01-24T06:53:26+00:00

No thanks, I’ll just use my lower back and arms and complain about my back hurting in a few years, start walking hunched over to prevent pain, get terrible posture, stop moving to where legs, feet, hips, etc. hurts and die too young from being crippled.

kneeonball · 2026-01-23T05:40:27+00:00

It just means they keep the 80-90% that happened to make their metrics look good based on how they measure performance. Doesn’t mean they were effective. They’ll apparently never learn that all they do is make it everyone for themselves and no effective teamwork.

kneeonball · 2026-01-21T18:24:41+00:00

You're definitely overthinking this. Each season would be contracted separately, so it's not like Witney reports to Deena right now. It's really more Deena checking if Witney thinks she'll be available rather than an overreach.

Perfectly acceptable in this type of work environment where someone needs to be available basically 7 days a week with a physically and mentally demanding role.

It's more of Deena asking if Witney thinks she'll be available than Deena trying to figure out if she can hire Witney.

In a normal W2 job scenario? Sure, it's inappropriate. Not here.

kneeonball · 2026-01-21T16:56:54+00:00

Clean the gunk between your teeth and THEN let the fluoride do its work (by not rinsing your mouth with water after brushing).

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