Using pangolin to serve a bunch of services from my homelab. It’s great.

Rip to a beautiful baby. She was obviously loved

Ive been to the Hemingway house 20 or so times now (every year I visit) and it’s great. Now i just go to sit there and pet cats. I don’t even care about Hemingway.

I’d adopt this freak show in a second and give him the best home

Oh definitely, we go down in mid November for my dad’s birthday. Spend a week down there while it’s cool (70s-80s).

I would never do that in the summer… and at this point I’m not sure I even want to go to Florida period. Gotta play it by ear this year.

He is! I make sure I go to the Hemingway house at least once per trip down to key west (so every year). At this point I just hangout and pet the cats for an hour or so, I don’t bother with the tour 😂

I legit thought that was my (late) cat.

Yours is in way better shape though, my kitty had some autoimmune issues that caused her to get raggedy :(

Free him

No such thing.

GET HIM

Fair point, I agree. Gets even more fun when I do mtls to MySQL, blech

Haha Jesus, if it’s not even satisfying to fix that’s a real shame :(

Oh yeah, you can be damn sure I’ll never make that mistake again.

One time I was trying to figure out why the MySQL command wasn’t connecting.

mysql -h127.0.0.1 -p6033

Eventually ended up having four different people help me in a huddle. After two hours we figured it out… it turns out the argument is -P for port.

I wasted several thousand dollars of company time with a casing issue 🥴

Nah it was a pretty immature company at the time, just told not to do shit like that anymore.

Once we ipo’d and put on big boy pants, that would have been at least a reprimand.

It’s pretty great if you land the right job. Amazon or meta? Fuck all that. But via my network I found a nice startup (after being at two big fintech companies) that pays me crazy San Francisco bucks while I live in Ohio.

And yeah, I’m very privileged and I’m well aware of it. Especially for a college drop out who majored in English….

Since I’m so privileged I make sure I do what I can to help others though, lots of donations to orgs and I do some volunteering to hand out food to the needy on weekend. It’s to help with the cognitive dissonance and the feeling like “I don’t deserve this”

It sure feels like it felt in feb 2020 right before covid really kicked up. I’m also hoping that it won’t end up another pandemic though, because if it does we are so thoroughly fucked

Your opinion is fact: feeding an obligate carnivore vegan food is actual animal abuse.

Also please dont feed them (or anything or anyone else) raw food right now, kibble is safest until this bird flu shit is done with.

I get paid well! And at the point I’d left the job we’d gotten everything stable so that the incidents dropped off and weren’t as impactful.

Tech is weird compared to other industries, in that actual mistakes that cause outages aren’t really punished… unless it’s something egregious or you didn’t follow rules like “don’t cowboy stuff in prod, use peer reviewed plans”. It’s generally “blameless” in the postmortems, you take what you learned from it and add to the procedures to make sure that exact issue doesn’t happen again.

In fintech and at scale, you aren’t far off!

I eventually got the damn thing removed at least.