potatohead00

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by potatohead00 2y ago
I really liked Yvonne's reframing of tech debt as house work: https://mastodon.social/@yvonnezlam/112474946704366947 no metaphor is perfect, but I think figuring out who is impacted and how by decisions to rush or
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by potatohead00 2y ago
> Besides. Let’s not take the fun out of everything. there's nuance in everything. But this line is what gets me about this article. Let's not prioritize the "fun" of devs for unnecessary toil of ops/SRE.
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by potatohead00 3y ago
where will this good field data come from? using what context? a low risk alert for one org might be seen as something else in another.
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by potatohead00 3y ago
... and leave ops/ devops / are team to pick up the pieces (or put the pieces together) because now your too busy to iterate because your shipping another new thing?
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by potatohead00 4y ago
this reminds me of the 'leading change' performance metric some mil leaders were (are?) evaluated on. the incentive is to be seen making changes, but there isn't anything about following up to ensure the change accomplished a
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by potatohead00 4y ago
People need empathy for the customer. One possible way to do that is mix up roles but like many other commenters have pointed out, that may not always be the best use of their time. At a minimum, the devs should have regular updates, even a
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by potatohead00 7y ago
Like this? https://digital.canada.ca/
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by potatohead00 7y ago
Came here just to make sure this got mentioned!
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by potatohead00 8y ago
This is my current go to solution. It does require the collaborators to also have it installed
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by potatohead00 11y ago
A much more interesting discussion of this topic http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html
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by potatohead00 14y ago
Even more proof that Douglas Adams saw this all coming "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bi
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by potatohead00 14y ago
No, Gmail didn't do that - but people still avoided social interaction in those kinds of situations by reading magazines/newspapers/books or playing gameboy, etc.
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by potatohead00 14y ago
Found out about pv ~year ago when working with large log files. Very useful. I also like it for testing how quickly a script can consume data.
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by potatohead00 15y ago
I'm more in agreement with angersock on the topic of the draft. I would love to live in an enlightened world where we can all talk out our issues, without ever resorting to violence. I do believe that people, on an individual level, can be
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by potatohead00 15y ago
Based on this data, geeks are most likely vikings.
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by potatohead00 15y ago
Interesting outlook on things... I've always thought (and argued when possible) that the key to any software/computer issue is smart people - not 'rockstars' and these developers who think they're the center of the universe, but a team of c