Vic 🌮

14 Sept 2025

it costs way too much to run LLMs locally

5 June 2025

Y'ALL ARE MISSING OUT ON ALL THE DRAMA

16 May 2025

Life would have compounded so hard if I had been as good at things in my 20s and 30s as I am in my 40s. I was good at my job, sure, but I’m an incredible generalist now man what the hell. I used to be like “just planted a tree need a nap”. Literally incomprehensible to me now.

16 May 2025

Do you know how much fucking free time you have in your 20s before you have a family & kids? And you waste them on naps and Netflix, when you should go out and plant 5 trees every single day. There is nothing that represents lost time like a tree that’s 2 yrs old instead of 20.

15 May 2025

Mixed together some dough during my lunch break. It should be a nice surprise for my wife when she comes home. An afternoon delight.

toddler breakfast

Another simple thing I’d not thought of- Friend was doing a “2024 miles in 2024” challenge. Told her I simply don’t have time most days to run 6 miles at a time. She said “that’s why I break it up into 2 to 3 shorter runs”.

15 May 2025

I was on a call with another principal engineer and I said "okay we both have that other call now" and they said "you don't have to go to every meeting you're invited to" and I admit I had seriously not considered just ignoring invites. But honestly no other way to scale.

2 May 2025

My 10 year old yelled at me yesterday. I was angry and hurt, and wanted to ensure she didn't do it again. Unlike our parents' generation, I don't hit my kids, so I had to resort to making unkindness highly inconvenient.

2 May 2025

I told her to write me a 1-page apology note, read it aloud, and repeat until I was satisfied. She succeeded in one try, but next time I'm going to impose restrictions on font, size, spacing, and margins.

29 Apr 2025

in the 9-5 world right now, admitting you used ai to do your job is like when people first started using dating apps

24 Apr 2025

didn't think this day would come so soon but i've canceled claude and am going back to chatgpt to be clear this is about the chat ui. i already use claude-3.x-sonnet via my ide (and people are saying to give gemini 2.5 a shot).

24 Apr 2025

claude: - doesn't do image gen - has been laggy multiple times this week that I gave up and restarted the request - doesn't have voice chat i've found myself reaching for grok and chatgpt more and more so... ❌

24 Apr 2025

Of all the things I’ve tried to improve the quality & amount of sleep I get, the one that works best is just going to sleep earlier It’s just hard when there’s so much to do!

23 Apr 2025

china can remain irrational longer than america can remain solvent

23 Apr 2025

Invited a teammate to review a 1-page architecture plan with me at 9am, so here I am still writing it

23 Apr 2025

It is 00:52. I am done. I have switched to pageless mode.

Watched a video where this guy (Mario Tomic) talked about a "strategic calorie buffer". He eats a smaller breakfast + lunch, and saves up 50% of the calorie budget for dinner because it's easier to make up a deficit than going "oh crap I have 150 cals left". I like it.

In my case I eat breakfast and lunch by myself, and dinner with the family. It's easier to perfectly weigh my breakfast/lunch/snacks because they're simpler foods, than dinner which is usually far more complex recipes like honey garlic chicken or meatloaf.

An analogy here probably is to be more mindful of your spending budget during the week when you're solo, because you go out with friends on weekends and have slightly less control over restaurant bills.

I wish Bluesky supported long form content so I don’t have to artificially break up posts into threads. I think that has ultimately been a good decision on Twitter (though I think it’s only a thing for paid users).

my current disastrous experience with vibe-coding is that it's been really good for creating crud apps and singular pages that contain all necessary context but i've given up on building complex artifacts.

you enter a death loop of: claude: here you go! you: it doesn't work claude: you're right, i've fixed it you: no you didn't over and over

so for anything complicated, i try VCing once, and then give up and go old school and use my brain obviously this is a lot harder to do if im rocking a baby or running around making dinner or whatever

21 Apr 2025

Opening up the mysql console after a weekend with mongodb

14 Apr 2025

“do you know how much you owe this year honey?” — my accountant I thought it might be bad but when she called me honey I knew I was fucked.

9 Apr 2025

Last week I picked up some grab n go sandwiches at an airport store and the cashier said “please note that we are paid $2.13 per hour plus tips as you consider the next question” before turning the ipad toward me. So brazen that I was caught off-guard & made him repeat himself.

8 Apr 2025

last night my 10yo came over to me with the nintendo ds & she had beat my time at rainbow road then she ran around screaming “THE BEST PART WAS THE LOOK ON HIS FACE” i’m going to take the day off while you’re at school you little shit

8 Apr 2025

unfortunately I spent my time last night before bed playing Call of Duty instead of beating her at Mario Kart.

7 Apr 2025

gas is so cheap in puerto rico now THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!

7 Apr 2025

you guys i'm an engineer who went to school outside the US, i know what the fuck a liter is

22 Mar 2025

I want to do a "a day in the life" video but it looks like so much freaking work setting up and moving around a tripod over and over.

22 Mar 2025

> honey will you please not touch the tripod? daddy's emptying the dishwasher. > please stop screaming out the my little pony theme song when i'm recording myself vibe coding a b2c saas.

20 Mar 2025

It’s my wife’s birthday. I asked what she wants and she said our beautiful marriage already overwhelms her in all the ways she could possibly think of. So as a treat, I’m giving her a new washing machine. Very disappointed that Best Buy is refusing to gift wrap it.

20 Mar 2025

Everyone is always talking about how you’re dumb for wasting money on Doordash, or how Doordash is crucial if you’re disabled. But today I was driving around town and my 7yo wanted boba and I just didn’t care to try to find parking so I got it chauffeured to my front door.

20 Mar 2025

2020: waste your life driving to the boba store, find parking, pay for parking, get kids out of the car, walk to store, order boba, wait for boba, walk to car arguing with kids they have to wait for boba, load up, drive home. 2025: push buttons, come home to find boba at door.

16 Mar 2025

my wife does this thing now and then where she'll say "i need a timeout. they're your kids now," and then disappear for 30 mins to an hour to read a book.

16 Mar 2025

today i took the kids to a "fairy market" to play and do crafts, and then we walked to lunch next to an urban farm. told my wife she could go with us, or even just join us for lunch if she wanted. she stayed home and did laundry and read a book, then went solo to home depot 😂

Just ran a 10K race that I registered for...last night 😅

And there were finish line cheerleaders! The post race nutrition is chick-fil-a fried chicken biscuits and bananas. I’m not standing in line for that, I brought my own banana.

Some stats: Distance: 6.23 miles Time: 1:04:01 Avg pace: 10:16/mi Times: 1 mile: 8:41 5K: 29:41 10K: 1:03:47 (my 5th best) Running playlist: Taylor Swift Eras tour set list

Just ran a 10K race that I registered for...last night 😅

Expectedly, this race (in honor of a little girl who died of brain cancer) starts with a prayer, not the national anthem. (not criticism)

Unexpected perk of running with a mustache is that it’s a dew catcher so you have emergency hydration.

Just ran a 10K race that I registered for...last night 😅

better to go before the race than during:

Half the cheer squad are chick-fil-a cows