Terminal window with the Rivian CLI showing the over-the-air update status of a car
Worked a little bit on my Rivian CLI / MCP yesterday in anticipation of the next update 2026.07. Added 21 new fields in the `stats`, some diagrams, better visualizations. github.com/patrickhenei...
Does anyone have recommendations for portable standing “desks”? Looking for something minimal and compact that works on the road.
Hey #Boulder drivers, it's time to take those annoying studded tires off your cars.
Thank you!
That’s awesome! How do you plan your destinations and routes? I found a lot of blogs, but nothing to put things together on a map. Put my ideas into roadbook.us and am looking for some early feedback from more experienced road travelers.
@mtnneer.bsky.social I'm looking for some seasoned road trip / vanlife folks to give me feedback on a few ideas. Interested?
There's a pretty big sale going on at the optician at #Boulder Medical Center, Broadway, if anyone is looking for glasses / eyewear. Most frames are sold for $25, some are 60% off.
Map with place markers in South Dakota, showing the addition stops Andy recommended
Added (together with Devils Tower)! Have re-order a bit, but looks like it could work. Btw. if you want, you can sign up with bsky and add recommendations right in the map (and let me know if it worked). I'm still working out some bugs on roadbook, but quite happy with the planning so far :)
Yep I remember saying how wild it is that OSS gets no support despite being the backbone of all our critical software. It’s the perfect type of thing for governments to fund programs around.
Someone brought deviled eggs to an Easter party. So thoughtful 😂😈
I think this usually takes a few weeks till it really starts to hurt, especially with credit cards deferring the pain till the end of the month.
i love my curvy affordances
Thanks! Very much looking forward to this trip. But also very anxious with all the planning and being out for so long.
That’s awesome, thanks!
That’s what I thought, thanks! Just have to decide which group to go with then.
Thanks! I think I have the right stops for that on the map, but have to make sure it all connects properly. Seen this separately and it looks amazing 🤩
I’ll keep that in mind! Have to finalize the trip in the coming week and figure out what I need to book in advance (if not too late already). After Texas things should slow down and we’ll take it easy.
Haven’t been, but looking forward to it! We need to get to Big Bend and through Texas quickly though (heat), so I’m wondering if we save White Sands and Carlsbad for a dedicated trip.
Thanks! We drive electric, so that doesn’t matter much to us 😂 we’ll probably stay 20-25 days in hotels over 3 months, so maybe a Marriott or Hilton card wouldn’t be too bad to collect free nights.
Is it worth getting an American Express or specific hotel credit card for a road trip through the US?
Alright, so I'm planning this road trip over the summer. Anything I should add? Anything to drop? Still fine tuning for better/shorter travel times between stops and 🤞I can still book campsites everywhere! roadbook.us/s/cb85186b-b...
Based on the conversation I had a different thought: if the engineer uses LLM to write the code, they should be responsible to do a thorough review - with the mindset that someone else wrote the code. Then at least it's not the burden of others to review & if things break, they're fully responsible.
That makes sense, thanks!
Agree on frontend wizards! I think software engineering isn't about the code though, and wonder if I should focus on the intent/value in PRs instead. Appreciate the good points and openness!
True. I was wondering today if we should just review the plan, as the execution is most of the time >80% good. Issues you can spot in the plan already.
I’m not too much into UI, guess that’s were it comes from. CSS alone scares me 😂
True. Personally I think web-ui is just so complex with the amount of runtimes/browsers/consumers around, it's bound to not work everywhere. So much harder than working in isolated environments with fixed input and output parameters.
Thanks, didn't think of that. Little different in web-UIs where bugs are somewhat accepted these days (everything is beta), but could be critical in backend / data pipelines.
Most code I wrote in my life was refactored within 3 years because something new (="better") came out. Nobody cares about the extra hours I spent in optimizing those "perfect lines", except my family, I didn't spend time instead. I guess it really depends in what field you work in.
That's a good point! If there's exponential increase to the product value, is the amount of time you spend looking at/reading/write code really that important?