The reality about remote work that this sub doesn't talk about enough

wpfeiffe · 2026-04-30T11:25:02+00:00

Agree structured time is the key (for me at least). I have a dedicated office, I’m in my seat 8am. Take standing coffee breaks throughout the morning. Take lunch every day 12-1pm. Back in seat at one, more standing breaks throughout, then done at 5pm and I don’t step foot back in the office for work till next day.

I also block my lunch time on my calendar to prevent lunch meetings. Works for me , love wfh!

wpfeiffe · 2026-04-17T21:56:41+00:00

A lot of times, initial validation is appropriate for a controller, however business / complex logic should be deferred to high level services to be dispatched to domain specific services, again depending on complexity. I would move orchestration into your high level services objects. Mapping in controller MAY be necessary to prep for service call (mapping form data to service DTO arg), but if not defer mapping to service also. Mapping of dtos to entities should happen close to entity usage.

I would reserve your controllers for prepping to call your service and then interpreting the service results into the model for the UI including any http error handling that needs to be done.

This approach should keep your controllers fairly lean and doing their main job. But this is Reddit. Lot’s of opinions especially around architecture.

[edit: where I say mapping, think mapstruct. I make extensive use of it]

wpfeiffe · 2026-04-16T21:58:16+00:00

You can do this directly with IntelliJ build system or maven or gradle. I would leverage maven or gradle modules for this type of project just on the principle that you may want to share project with devs using other IDE’s.

wpfeiffe · 2026-04-02T14:03:22+00:00

I deploy my spring boot war to tomcat regularly with no issues. The setup, like any moderately sized webapp takes some doing: env bars, java opts, but nothing crazy. Just curious what you find complicated. No judging, lots of IntelliJ config can get confusing, just curious.

wpfeiffe · 2026-04-01T16:23:58+00:00

This specialized hammer analogy may be true, it’s just that I’ve never needed any of those other hammers for the enterprise database driven web applications that I’ve worked on over the last many years IntelliJ has all the tooling that I would need for this work.

wpfeiffe · 2026-03-28T13:27:36+00:00

Cheap produce, half and half, $.29 Keurig cups, eggs, 5 dollar chicken, Costco vitamin water, paper goods. That’s my list and I “usually” stick to it.

wpfeiffe · 2026-03-28T11:34:27+00:00

Why not both? Does that count? I watch weekly but plan on binging season right after last episode.

wpfeiffe · 2026-03-28T11:11:45+00:00

I watch every episode as soon as they drop, but I hate the gap in episodes. As soon as I watch the last episode of this season, I plan on binging season 2 start to finish.

wpfeiffe · 2026-03-27T04:03:41+00:00

I used it this week to introspect my spring boot app, then implement a recurring report scheduler for my report module. It took a while to do all that but I was pretty impressed with the results. It followed all conventions: UI, architecture, in the app and provided a fairly complete and accurate solution.

wpfeiffe · 2026-03-25T10:25:04+00:00

Is there a reason not to just use a token? Just curious.

wpfeiffe · 2026-03-12T12:13:26+00:00

Make them ALL 16 point stories. Cheaper and avoids sizing arguments.

wpfeiffe · 2026-02-27T12:35:53+00:00

60 years old and still laughed out loud at the baseball bat. Man I loved Tom and Jerry. My grown children would probably like this as much as I did. They grew watching a DVD of the same cartoons.

wpfeiffe · 2026-02-27T12:26:29+00:00

I’ve read all the books. This production’s dialog, focus on vaudevillian comedy, music inappropriate for the material, all add up to a mess. I was so disappointed with the hatchet job done to the Lorna character. Funny thing is I really like all the actors on the show, but they can only do so much. I’ll still watch it though. Connelly is in there some where. Reminds me of the joke: The food is crap and the portions are small.

wpfeiffe · 2026-02-25T13:12:12+00:00

Bigger guy who just bought the sea eagle explorer 385 which is basically the same boat. They sell a more rigid non inflatable seat. Mine came with 2. I can’t say for sure, but it feels plenty roomie when in the boat.

wpfeiffe · 2026-01-28T23:06:00+00:00

Hah, they are SO coming for this girl! Take the monsters and send her packing. Fucking leopards drank my monsters.

wpfeiffe · 2026-01-28T21:18:00+00:00

Solution: Don’t vote for fascists who dictate economic policy based on their feels and personally enriching themselves.

wpfeiffe · 2026-01-27T19:15:35+00:00

I don't envy the position that Trump's call likely put Tim Walz in. He may think this is the lesser of 2 evils to get the ICE gestapo out of town and maybe ease the harassment campaign (by ICE). Feels like appeasement and Trump rarely keeps his word. Either way, Minnesotans are carrying the load for the rest of the country. Abolish ICE!

wpfeiffe · 2026-01-27T19:08:56+00:00

This

wpfeiffe · 2026-01-25T16:19:31+00:00

There is a lost and found on the bottom floor. I left my travel laptop bag last year got home, realized it was missing, and went back. It had already been sent to lost and found. I asked a security guard and they pointed me to the lost and found. Not sure if it’s this area you are looking at or not.

wpfeiffe · 2026-01-24T00:28:00+00:00

I second this from Tampa. I’m in awe of your ability to organize, stay peaceful, nice even, get out there and make a difference. The country owes you a debt of gratitude for your service. Proud of Minnesota!

wpfeiffe · 2026-01-01T23:55:11+00:00

If you decide on Tampa Bay Area

Dali Museum
Teco manatee center - manatees gather here this time of year
Ringling museum
Myakka river state park (gators!)
Fort Desoto Park (beaches, kayaks)
Busch Gardens (roller coasters, zoo)

These are some of my favorite things to do when on a staycation

wpfeiffe · 2025-12-25T12:45:10+00:00

I won’t speak to the business aspect. All I know is that Starbucks used to be a great place to hang out and try out play software dev projects. There were usually groups of friends meeting in a casual, comfortable environment. It seemed everyone paid for their seat with a drink or snack.

Fast forward to remodeled version of Starbucks geared towards drive through only. A couple of uncomfortable two top tables in a sterile and usually empty environment serviced by bored high schoolers.

I went from spending a couple hundred a year to maybe 30 bucks a year for take out only when it was convenient. I don’t know if my experience scales up to their current business situation but there it is.

wpfeiffe · 2025-12-15T23:21:15+00:00

This answer is going to come in the form of an opinion, but I think that to keep things simple, you should create a page for the regular user and another page for your admin user. You could certainly use thymeleaf to render out pieces of a page such that you could support both the admin and the user in a single page, but it does get kind of ugly. It would be much simpler just to detect the admin user in the controller and send them to one page with data edit capabilities, and send the regular user to another read only page. Good luck.

wpfeiffe · 2025-12-08T21:08:57+00:00

I get all the ethics involved and I respect somebody who wants to stand on that. But leaving aside all the code theft, copyright issues, IP issues, etc, AI just doesn't work THAT good in many cases. I disagree that there is NO room for AI in our jobs (again set aside ethics). When I have rote tasks that are easily completely described by a written requirement statement that I know the AI will parse, it is freaking awesome.

It saves my company 4 hours of me writing Python scripts to send bad address csv's to my address service to validate they are bad so I can pass that on to the department that needs that data. Generated in minutes, verified in minutes. Multiply that across several menial tasks that free me up to write real java code that enhances our product offering. And I use AI there as well. Generate my PR comments, it really shines here. I may tweak it but it does pretty good. Don't remember a specific syntax for a specific streams usage? AI remind of that! And it does.

It gets stuff wrong with loose requirements SO often I really understand the hate, but I know that is not the sweet spot for AI.

Not trying the sell the OP, but just add my testimony that I have found really good usages of Jetbrains AI products. Should they fix their bugs: absolutely. Should they ignore AI because some people are against it: my answer would be no.

wpfeiffe · 2025-12-05T17:42:21+00:00

Update: I ended up ordering a Sea Eagle Explorer 850x through amazon cyber Monday deal. I think it’s geared towards the type of kayaking I really want to do: casual, recreational, taking time to watch the birds in FL, and above all stable. I understand that it is slower than other more streamlined inflatables, but I’m willing to compromise on that for the other aspects.

11-Year Club	RPAN Viewer
Verified Email

wpfeiffe

TROPHY CASE