Thomas Stringer

We did it! Go Celtics

The Reality of Adding Nines to Your SLOs trstringer.com/slo-adding-nin…

I wanted automatic session save/reopen in Neovim, and a few Lua lines and shell function later and I got it! trstringer.com/neovim-auto-re…

It's never a fun day when you can't boot up your machine because of a bug in initramfs, but it gave me the opportunity to document how to recovery the disk and fix the issue! trstringer.com/linux-recovery… #linux #debian

@johncodes Debian sid

Hilariously, my Windows partition seems to be totally bricked and I can't get into the automatic repair. I was thinking of ditching windows anyways and going full in on Linux gaming: What should I do?

@MartinDotNet But why pay then when you can pay $0/dev/month?

@tr_stringer That's not the argument people are making... there are tonnes other, sensible, arguments... Saying a startup won't choose a platform/language/ecosystem where they'll need to pay $49/month/dev for an IDE when they hit 6 devs... that's not valid Individual preference is moot here

Are people honestly saying that a startup, hiring 6 devs and paying them, is worried about paying $49/month/dev for an IDE? Like, that feels like a failed startup to me? They're likely paying >$50k each, plus probably getting them an M3 ($2k). But $49 is a blocker? Seriously?

I wrote my first Neovim plugin! It allows me to connect to a postgres database and run queries: trstringer.com/postgresql-neo… Lua is a lot of fun and a great experience to use with extending nvim! #vim #neovim #postgres #postgresql

@johncodes Yeah! This is an important game. I hate to say a must-win but...

@tr_stringer First half lookin solid!

I BELIEVE THE NUGGETS WILL SUCCEED 🧺 🏀

@fatih Great piece and beautifully played

Heinrich Lichner “At Home” Op.134 No.6

@johncodes @saucedopen @bdougieYO I got to say, as a pizza lover @saucedopen has the best logo ever

Behind the scenes @saucedopen with @bdougieYO 👀👀👀 love that OpenSauced orange 🍊

@kellabyte @MartinDotNet is a good person to help with this, I think!

It looks like MSFT Aspire supports OpenTelemetry? I’m a little confused since Aspire looks like an in-memory Grafana/Jaeger like tool for development that runs in-process with your process but where do you export the prod traces? Also how do you connect this to Azure Functions?

@anze3db I never loved the additional indentation of python context managers. For me the Go way is nicer to look at!

I am enjoying writing Golang, but I do miss some Python features 😅 Go's `defer` is cool, but Python's context managers are way more versatile because they can be placed *anywhere*. I have learned that you can abuse Go's anon funcs to get a poor man's context manager:

@VicVijayakumar I am a classical pianist and started when I was 6 years old. Daily practice, weekly lessons, competitions, the whole thing. While it isn't my career, at this point in my life playing classical piano is a major escape and big time enjoyment

The other day my 9yo's violin teacher told me that her students who practiced for 30-60 minutes every day made considerably more / faster progress than the students who just showed up once a week for their scheduled lesson. If you stick with it even when it's difficult, even when it seems like you're not getting any better, you cross over a sisyphian hump and the road ahead is clear. She had recently met one student years after they graduated out (one of the easygoing didn't-really-practice types) who still loved the instrument and who still played for fun and for the love of it. This student wouldn't be winning any competitions against the serious players, but they still had a healthy relationship with music and with the instrument. I don't have a cohesive moral here to tie all this together. Take from this story whatever allegory you want.

@johncodes Totally agreed. For anything I want to persist I put it on my blog

writing is forever. social media is temporary, fleeting, thoughtless, forgotten. “Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting laid … In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.“ - Stephen King

@johncodes I’m not sure I could ever go back to the no-Lua land alternative

@johncodes So true. I was able to get a quick plugin I was wanting up and running in a couple of hours. No Lua or neovim API experience and it wasn't bad at all. I definitely need to clean it up and iterate a bit but it's already usable

I had been a Vim user for a *very* long time. I'm about 2 months into a switch to Neovim and it's a world of difference on so many levels. Particularly, I just started writing my first plugin. It's such a great experience using Lua. I never had an interest in Vimscript

Kubernetes node marked NotReady? But... why? I blogged about what goes into node readiness checks trstringer.com/kubernetes-nod… #kubernetes