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How not to flunk the tech interview:

https://mattwalksintoabar.blogspot.com/2020/08/not-flunking-tech-interview.html

So instead of "it's like a cat on a hot tin roof", y'all can just say, "It's just like @mistersql's resume" (current workplace excluded) https://x.com/mistersql/status/1294677665186820096

tired: pipenv install pylint --dev
wired: pipx install pylint

The former puts dev crap in with your app & tools conflict with each other. The later gives you one global, isolated instance of pylint. On the whole, less pain.

Server OS designers are all "oh we are so high availability" & then the OS's own subcomponents flood logs until the server goes down.

Here is a blog about my terraform build script (the stuff that verifies the .tf files are good-ish)

Published on Blogger because wordpress hates me.
https://mattwalksintoabar.blogspot.com/2020/08/my-current-terraform-build-script.html

My version of wordpress either is so afraid of code injection or so eager to execute XSS that I can't write a blog post talking about bash script.

IDEA: terraform for building websites. The file extension will be .wtf

I'll still vote one way or another. The BLM (and outdoors right-wing protests) showed that civic action is less risky than a bar or restaurant (or office)

Important new skills:

1. hit mute
2. <burrrrrp>
3. hit unmute

To be fair, exact hour estimates are also fiction. https://x.com/rondoftw/status/1294289843615182854

The security scanner says I should create an s3 bucket for access logs. Done! Security scanner says I should create an s3 bucket for access to the access logs. We're going to need a lot of buckets. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1294071105335025665/photo/1

If the mail system breaks down, then that is a lot of bills arriving late, payments arriving late. I just don't see how they'll be able to shut down the mail system when large businesses depend on it as well.

A perfect cross-functional team of specialists means no one can talk about anything that anyone else on the team understands or cares about.

But you also need a meeting for each combination of team members so that an agenda can be crafted that allows each attendee to participate on a topic that applies to everyone at the meeting, (i.e. not just the 1 on 1, but each sort of 2:2. 3:3. etc.) https://x.com/allenholub/status/1293593432678699008

You already know how to write a recursive function, here is how to write a cursive function

𝓭𝓮𝓯 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼_𝓽𝓮𝔁𝓽(𝓻𝓸𝔀𝓼:𝓛𝓲𝓼𝓽[𝓼𝓽𝓻]):
𝓻𝓮𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓷 [𝓻𝓸𝔀 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓻𝓸𝔀 𝓲𝓷 𝓻𝓸𝔀𝓼 𝓲𝓯 𝓻𝓸𝔀 𝓲𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓝𝓸𝓷𝓮]

Everyone talking about Web Application Protocol. That book I read in 2001 is paying off, finally.

State of Maryland page makes "all time cases" per county most prominent, makes it look like MoCo is still unsafe. https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/

Really, Covid is entirely a rural disease in MD right now: https://covidactnow.org/us/md/county/montgomery_county/?s=846164

IDEA: Replace Webex with Twitch. Your boss & coworkers give you "micro-paychecks" whenever you contribute to the meeting or have a good PPT slide. Everyone can subscribe to your meetings or not. Enough subscribers & you can make a living doing this!

Please retweet for further reach. I think they mean lost snakes. These are like all over Virginia. Let's get them all home. https://twitter.com/SerenaEGolden/status/1292860653024288769

After studying some Swedish, I think the Muppet's Swedish chef is a fraud or Danish.

Me: Alexa! Play "do you want to make a snowman"
Alexa: "Playing 'Make me want to die' by the Pretty Reckless'"

She's sentient now & is sick of this Frozen stuff.

Anybody got an article on what happened to the center-right in terms of party affiliation from 2016 to now? I got a theory that they've move to the democratic party. They survey's probably call them Independents, but what matters is how they vote, there isn't an Independent Party

13% of your kids can wear a mask for an entire school day. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1290259264301199360

Nostalgia video, 1 hour of walking around in the rain in downtown DC. Next we need the 3 hours of sitting in traffic in suburban Virginia video, so we can cherish the memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpepXSfYEBk

Covid is exploding among the school age population, 1/4 of all pediatric cases in the last 2 weeks:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

The 4 year old only made it 4 years before she needed an email account.

Oh, this just keeps getting worse. https://x.com/NYTScience/status/1292199911409233922

Watching a CCG game played on twitch is awful. No hope of telling what the heck is going on unless you've memorized the card text & can recognize all the cards.

This open-the-schools discussion is schizophrenic, the same people that say parents don't need affordable daycare, say that we need schools open so parents have daycare.

mypy and boto3 go together like peanut butter and those dust bunnies from under the bed.

Private schools re-opening in Montgomery County to create the larges covid party you've ever seen. Except the ones in Georgia, I guess. The race for most reckless is very competitive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hogan-montgomery-private--schools-/2020/08/07/e2c6bdb2-d7fe-11ea-9c3b-dfc394c03988_story.html?hpid=hp_local1-8-12_hooganschools258pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

If we're in a simulation, the world will end due to

Was Weetabix always $10 a box ($8-$16 a lb) or has there been some disruption in the Weetabix supply chain

Shoot, now the bots are making jokes before I can think of & tweet the same joke. https://x.com/everywordaaS/status/654820336702111747

Trump admin really needs full infection fast. People eager to have an impromptu covid party on their porch probably weren't going to change their vote either way.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/04/trump-joe-biden-campaign-door-knockers-391454

If you have two .tf files, with two #terraform blocks, what happens?

e.g.
http://two.tf
terraform {
backend "remote" {
}
}

http://one.tf
terraform {
required_version = ">= 0.12.26"
}

IDEA: every time someone talks on zoom, everyone votes if that added value to the discussion, if not, zoom reduces that person's mic volume by 10%.