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me: What is the safest place to put secrets?
Stackoverflow: Environment variables, so safe, so safe.
every logging & diagnostics framework: Let's dump all the environment variables to plain text so we know why this is broken.

A civil service IT job with good pay in DC:

Chief Software Engineer for US Tax Courts

(job wants you to have/get 2 certs)

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/PrintPreview/550516100

I wish spotify had a bpm filter, something like
"SELECT *
WHERE song is Mandopop
AND bpm>120
ORDER BY release_date DESC, RAND() ASC"

virus alert for chrome, forbes says there is a bad 0 day for Chrome & you should update (help/about chrome/update) or just restart your browser. Unless you are in a big or that locks you to a old version of Chrome. In that case, just panic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvfD5rnkTws

slow build scripts increase your power level. When it goes over 9000, you're pissed off at the build script and have enough power to implement parallel tasks.

bash is a programming language in the same sense as python (i.e. I think it is safe to say you could choose ruby/node/python for the same task, is that true for python vs bash

In a sense, most teams are already doing chaos engineering. https://x.com/kapilvt/status/1190225419666153472

Writing this post I got an idea for how to find the drugs & how to post findable illegal drugs. Anyhow, I don't see why DEA doesn't just hire some developers to scrape Craigslist since it is a public directory of everyone who sells drugs. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1190236444943671297

It used to be effortless to find illegal drugs on Craigslist. A year or two ago they changed how basic search works & shadowbanned illegal drugs. As far as I can tell, they only shadowbanned 'em for search, posting drugs ads is still legit. But much harder to find.

me: Alexa weather
Alexa: In Takoma Park there is a hurricane watch.

She's so dispassionate about it, like she doesn't care.

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

The build server needs a crumb, just a small crumb. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1189975846506958849/photo/1

This will be a year with no snow or 50 inch snowstorms that melt 100% in 1 day, but nothing inbetween:

Recommended career path: [server admin/maintenance dev] -> [tester] -> [green field app developer]

It would give devs a vivid view of how applications degrade over time, even when the bits representing the deployed code have not changed at all.

I keep wanting to use vpn, but I don't use it at home & the public wifi I'm usually on is at the office so vpn is blocked. That just leaves hotels & cafes and that is like an hour here and there thru the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

AS THE thirteen United States of America
WE WANT That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown
SO THAT we have Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

AS A single man in possession of a good fortune
HE WANTS a wife. He must be in want of a wife
SO THAT It is a truth universally acknowledged. And acknowledged truths remain true.

META: feature request, in DC, twitter prompt should say, "What do you do?" not "What's happening"

Kids are watching cartoons in Bulgarian. Feels like a very 2019, internet-era activity.

We live in the documentary versoion of Windup Girl (btw, an *excellent* novel, worth reading twice)

https://www.amazon.com/Windup-Girl-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/1597801585 https://x.com/imTomes/status/1189252848707657733

Big org techies-- what is you orgs plan for dealing with

- packages disappearing from repos (left pad & npm)?
- or repos disappearing? ... not like that ever happens, gotdotnet & codeplex still live... in our hearts

Seems like any long lived app should maintain its own repo

AS A Spice Girl,
I WANT - Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah,
You gotta get with my friends
SO THAT we make it last forever, friendship never ends

Copyright law, also has become an element of esoteric religions (i.e. those with secret teachings) - https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SEQ=20191029104619&PID=B7XGTZf_oB0muaOsAkkgs33MC&SA=Church+of+Scientology+International.

Universe thinks I need to know this esoterica:

import functools
# on some shells print doesn't flush!
print = functools.partial(print, flush=True)

IDEA: Meeting room of TERROR. The room has a clock, which just before someone enters the room, the clock catches up to the right time. But as long as there is someone in the room, the clock STOPS.

Projects have AUTHORS, http://Contributors.md, humans.txt and the analogous robots.txt - when the robots become sentient, they're going to be pissed that the robots.txt is not about contributions but telling robots to f*k off.

A library for automating insulting your loser-users:

raise InsultError()
>>>ForGodsSake: I don’t have the time or the crayons to explain this to you

https://pypi.org/project/insult-error/

This tweet is (C) 2019 Matthew Martin. If I want to pay $35 to the Copyright office, I can get it registered to facilitate suing people for infringement. Have your lawyers contact my lawyers if you'd like to license it.

Some say you need to assert your copyright even on OS code. Look at all these tools to add (C) headers.... - but I wonder, has anyone ever gotten into legal trouble because they forgot their copyright headers? SO thinks no: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3092194/33264

https://pypi.org/search/?q=copyright&o=

Python library checker to verify that the packages you use actually have a OS license your company is willing to use

https://github.com/dhatim/python-license-check

"spew", that 50 pages of stacktrace, etc that so many dev tools dump has to be a nightmare for accessibility for blind software developers

Youtuber is doing a tree-planting binge (as a topic & fundraiser for Arbor Day Fndn). Any policy wonks here on why the USGovt hasn't gone on a tree-planting binge? Or individual states? Or cities other than Takoma Park?

Kubernetes cluster crashing at 7AM in the morning ... as a wake up service. https://x.com/metaskills/status/1187778133237358592

2075 English lit
Teacher - "Class, today we will be reading two chapters from the 2019 git commit, hash 921103db8259eb9de72f42db8b939895f5651489, which marks the turning point in literary history from long form novels to long form commit comments" https://x.com/yarmiganosca/status/1187762596029587458

Everyone else give up, me and the 6 year old have a cardboard prototype that is going to win. https://x.com/crsexton/status/1187706628168208384

Roof is here? Roof is down? Building is non euclidian? https://x.com/mistersql/status/1187419198731030529/photo/1

IDEA: a SCIF where you have to pass thru an airgap first, like airlocks and 10 feet of vacuum. And then a moat with sharks with frickin lasers.

Sometimes secrecy is wrong, but if someone wants to violate it, there should be some minimum cost to pay.

What is a singular "Jenkins"?
Jenkin - remove s
What if Jenkin is compound Jen-kin and Jen is compound like oxen?
J-kin.
Kin is just a lexical plural for a relative
J-relative

"Nearly 60 percent of Uber riders never tip, about 1 percent always tip, and those who tip leave an average of $3, according to a new analysis of the company’s rollout of in-app tipping in 2017. "

Why 60% of y'all so cheap? They should ban tipping.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/22/young-women-get-most-tips-regular-riders-tip-less-lessons-million-uber-trips/

If you listen to enough K-Pop you get Korean citizenship.