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For general mental-health/lack-of-spoons reasons, I'm going to largely step away from social media through the end of 2023 - and...

For general mental-health/lack-of-spoons reasons, I'm going to largely step away from social media through the end of 2023 - and possibly beyond. I don't have a bazillion followers or anything - but I do have a few, and it just feels polite to let ppl know.

ok, *this* is how one should write an after-action report of major production failure response. Well...

ok, *this* is how one should write an after-action report of major production failure response. Well done!

https://thomasp.vivaldi.net/2023/07/28/what-happened-to-vivaldi-social/

Too often in tech these days we say "move fast and break things" and by Things we mean "the people who Use Our...

Too often in tech these days we say "move fast and break things" and by Things we mean "the people who Use Our Stuff".

This is Worng.

MF/BT **should** mean "broke the nightly CI". "My tests are glaring red". "My PR reviewers are diffidently pointing out that 'this approach is, um, totally...borked?"

It *should* mean you're ok with looking like an idiot to your peers, so you can get More Eyes to help produce **better* results for those Users out there.

Don't break your End-Users.

I have been in this industry Too Damn Long.

I have been in this industry Too Damn Long.

Always fun spending a day wondering why nobody responded to a toot, only to find out *the next morning* that you never pushed...

Always fun spending a day wondering why nobody responded to a toot, only to find out *the next morning* that you never pushed "Publish". I'm an idiot.

I love doing technical presentations for a technical audience - but man, I am always *wiped* when I'm done. I need me a lie-down...

I love doing technical presentations for a technical audience - but man, I am always *wiped* when I'm done. I need me a lie-down...

Fixing a deadlock would feel so much better if the voice in the back of my head would stop putting "" around the word...

Fixing a deadlock would feel so much better if the voice in the back of my head would stop putting "" around the word "fixing"...

And the answer is, "No karma for YOU! Here, have one never-happen case, one 'we shouldn't be running those tests, but even so,...

And the answer is, "No karma for YOU! Here, have one never-happen case, one 'we shouldn't be running those tests, but even so, we've definitely installed them, so why the...heck can't the test-run find them at import-time?', and one 'why is github-log-search not finding the string I just copied and pasted into the search bar **FROM THE GORRAM LOGS**?!?'"

Star Trek often broke computers by handing them unsolvable logic problems. I suppose it's only fair for them to do it back to us...

My Fedora38 update went perfectly. Either I'm now ready for the work-week - or that outcome used up all my developer's karma and...

My Fedora38 update went perfectly. Either I'm now ready for the work-week - or that outcome used up all my developer's karma and tomorrow is going to be A Disaster. Wish me luck! :)

(I'm sure a bajillion ppl have already seen this, but it was new to me, so y'all get to see it again :) )

(I'm sure a bajillion ppl have already seen this, but it was new to me, so y'all get to see it again :) )

OK, this https://itsfoss.com/tux-trivia/ is some cool trivia about the creation of Tux

OK, this https://itsfoss.com/tux-trivia/ is some cool trivia about the creation of Tux

On the one hand, I am Really Old, and didn't get laid off. On the other, Younger People who *define* who my company is, *did* get laid...

On the one hand, I am Really Old, and didn't get laid off. On the other, Younger People who *define* who my company is, *did* get laid off.

I hurt right now. Other folk, hurt WAY worse. Do I have any right to be lucky?!?

I need to drink moar...

@maxgot Double here - but mostly because running black on a large project with many contributors helps keep the code sane, and black...

@maxgot Double here - but mostly because running black on a large project with many contributors helps keep the code sane, and black **insists** on double-quotes-only.

I *should* be a "double all the way" kind of guy, since I spent my pre-Python time doing Java - but python still looks...more pythony, to me, using single quotes.

Brains are weird.

New server, new #introduction. Except I'm not sure how to hashtag "I just like making Things (software, teams, people) Work...

New server, new #introduction. Except I'm not sure how to hashtag "I just like making Things (software, teams, people) Work Better."

The first paying gig I had for software involved porting a FORTRAN-IV program to FORTRAN-77 on a PDP-11/40. There were Mastodons then too, but mostly we rode them to work.

I've done...a bunch of Stuff since.

A list of stuff I'm doing now:

#python
#postgresql
#django
#pulp

Things in the software "learn **soon**!" pile:

#golang
#rustlang
#k8s