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What do y'all think...techie on the job market? https://x.com/the_engi_nerd/status/1300506426784329729
Same, but my house. https://twitter.com/Akido37/status/1300430343460323328
Don't spend that money people. If congress is mixed, there is no reason to believe any theory about what sort of bill will be passed to undo this mess. https://x.com/GovExec/status/1300414426797932544
USPS- last week I got 2 mail items- an electric bill & a mortgage bill that arrived 8 months late. I've never seen that before.
I planted 4lbs of seed potato. Dug up about 80% of the plot & it looks like I harvest ~2 lbs.
I've never heard LaCroix called monitoring before, must be regional dialect. https://x.com/USDS/status/1298255110892670976
resource "nasa_planet" "mars" {
oxygen = 20.95
temperature = 58.62
temperature_scale = "F"
}
`terraform plan -out=plan.txt`
`terraform apply plant.txt`
shoot, billions of dollars wasted now because of a stray t.
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I bought some extra stamps anyhow. They're like savings bonds, but more directed to a service I support. https://x.com/BigHern/status/1297395178244681729
I just added a bibliographic reference in my notes in a document I know I will never publish.
So they run on quadruple Z batteries. https://x.com/DerRiccardo/status/1297087448942628870
Or vote early, avoid the crowds. Or vote absentee & use one of those direct ballot drop boxes. https://x.com/thecircusb0y/status/1297342193695428608
Shoot. Twitter keeps scrolling & I replied to the tweet that used to be THERE. Sigh.
2nd best covid visualization graph after the gas-gas-gas one https://x.com/davenewworld_2/status/1296781771326005255
Spell checking code, markdown, code comments, (excluding publicly visible UI)
Here you go, linter for your .txt files
lint_txt.sh
-----
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t'
: ${1?"Usage: ./lint_txt.sh some_file.txt"}
for file_name in "$@"
do
echo "$file_name is fine"
done
true
I run some yaml validator/linter/formaters. Virtually nothing interesting found.
I try to run a schema based validator. I got 5 yaml files in my project, none with schemas I can find.
---
yaml:
- "which is usually deeply
indented is
hard enough to write,
and is a squashed wreck"
if: >
you try to squeeze
everything into 80
characters
because: >-
now everything is wrapped
in line continuation syntax
worse yet, yaml is just a wrapper around bash which has its own line break syntax.
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security training: "your supervisors and organization are infallible, always let them make all your security decisions"
me: <remembering all the official org policies I've seen that were objectively wrong>
The goal should be to avoid security breaches, not to manage blame.
Can 8256 tech leads & product owners all be wrong?
"Out of over 86,000 blockchain projects that had been launched, 92% had been abandoned by the end of 2017, according to consultancy firm Deloitte" https://twitter.com/kpyke/status/1296811034230038528
ha, my arithmetic sure can be wrong. 82,560
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tired: computer based training (flash+clipart)
wired: zoom training
If CBT was a person it would be the person I'd be trying to avoid at all costs.
Terraform (syntactically) is a turducken of json and a programming language.
Guy who doesn't want to do interview coding/whiteboarding questions. Orgs that don't check if devs can write code might be a bunch of clowns, so he should be careful what he wishes for. If one is time-restricted, show some portfolio/sample code in lieu.
https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/162952/how-can-i-filter-out-software-engineering-jobs-where-ill-be-asked-to-write-algo
Is there really no source code formatter for Dockerfile?
#docker
status: wondering if I can script `disconnect from vpn && docker pull && reconnect to vpn`
Ah, the real problem is the docker pull command is trash and you have to reboot your machine. Poor vpn, takes blame for everything
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What is this phenomenon? People working from home realizing they can fix things that they were never in a position to fix before. https://x.com/mathowie/status/1296187071258746881
The fire wrote the sign. https://x.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1296274928191377408
This is a smartass UX.
$ time ./docker.sh run imiell/bad-dockerfile
Vulnerable image
That's it, that is the entire output. I could implement that in one line of python instead of a docker image that takes 6 minutes to download.
Ah, this is a docker image full of vulnerabilities for scanners to find. Still a smartass UX.
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No one wants sentences to infect each other. https://twitter.com/MuseHill/status/1296100874155102209
When Icelanders cuss, they use the Helvítisca font.
I found a linter I don't like. 'wemake-python-styleguide' enforces too many rules that are flags on things that aren't even bugs, but are language features. Flagging all numeric constants as "magic numbers" doesn't help me. More stupid rules, but this box is small.
I say this as someone who works pylint gripes & quibbles all day everyday, not as someone who rejects linting fundamentally.
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Speaking of funding the government by individuals buying stamps, this is how Fish & Wildlife supports buying up wetlands for ducks.
https://store.usps.com/store/product/stamp-collectors/black-bellied-whistling-ducks-2020-2021-souvenir-sheet-S_336304
Go buy stamps and help fund the post office until Congress can fund it next January.
If you are going to use stamps anyhow in the next 10-20 years, the cost to you is about nothing.
https://store.usps.com/
If buildings were run like enterprise applications, only the CEO would have all the keys to the building and the Janitor would have no keys because he's not a supervisor of anyone.
PSA: Are you a developer or server administrator with bosses? Your bosses don't want the passwords, the ssh keys, you don't want sudo, you don't want admin rights. They want to be able to tell you to do something & you say sure.
PSA: Are you a CIO or non-code writing, non-server admin manager? You don't want the passwords, the ssh keys, you don't want sudo, you don't want admin rights. You want to be able to tell the person who has those to do something & they say sure.
Okay, I requested my absentee MD ballot.
Get yours here:
https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/OnlineVoterRegistration/InstructionsStep1
We were so wildly optimistic. https://x.com/leochenmd/status/1295168451221299205
>pipenv_installs ran in 607.29s
🎵Goodby pipenv
Though I never installed from lockfile at all
My patience burned out long before
Your installer ever did🎵
There is still time to vote by drop-box https://x.com/777Vote/status/1294648611050070016