Bryan McLellan

@SteveDanna Or, it could be a checkbox? Maybe some days you might be looking for a little adventure.

I would pay $$$ for a navigation system that knew to avoid B roads where you will be playing chicken with tractors.

@rakyll I attribute "do more with less" as the primary cause of my burnout.

Burnout that comes from not having enough progress has always been more destructive to me than any other type of burnout.

@david_nix 15 years ago I stopped an interview for a Google SRE position when they asked me to write code on paper over the phone. I'm not sure the industry was ever better.

A driving force to leave 9-5 is I'll never have to endure a tech interview again. The industry has gone mad. They don't care about your experience. I've built distributed systems that process many billions of data points a day at near 100% uptime. Doesn't matter. We need you to live code the game of Connect Four. (I'm not kidding. That was a real interview I had last summer.) But now I don't care if the industry changes or not. I don't want to win the game, I want to leave it.

@MacGoogly My assumption is most people's opinions would be likely to be based on their own socioeconomic status and beliefs. Economies are complicated.

As a thought experiment and for my own understanding, if we got rid of stock buybacks what would happen? Positive or negative effect on the economy? My assumption is that it would stabilize the market.

"The GPT will do it" is my new excuse for everything.

@editingemily That's genuinely interesting behavior. To get attention from criticizing or mocking you, either here or among their peers on another forum? I can think of other possibilities, but that I'd rule out because "hate" is a high bar. Like trying to avoid an echo chamber.

I genuinely don’t understand why people who appear to hate me still follow me.

@United if you measure how terrible a gate arrangement is by the number of employees it takes to manage it, the trainwreck that is C71 at @EWRairport easily wins. Funny that the decades old shuttle bus bandaid could be made so much worse.

@adamhjk @jbeda But they told me people couldn't be bothered to learn Ruby!! I wish we had Chef YAML earlier so we would have had time for anecdotes of people realizing they were programming and switching to Ruby as intended.

@jbeda I mean, you’re right - but folks are 100 programming in yaml at this point. :)

I have really come around to seeing the virtues of JavaScript (and TypeScript!). But seriously - I cannot believe that we had a shot at making Ruby the language of infrastructure, and y'all went back to YAML, Python, and shenanigans.

@petecheslock Wrong answers only? Ku-bectl, e.g. coo-becktel.

In just 24 hours I've learned there are THREE ways you could pronounce kubectl Help me expand the list of tech words/commands/products that have unsure pronunciations. For example - how would you pronounce "chmod" or "/etc"

it pisses me off for a few reasons, not the least of which is that from a systems perspective the economics here are fascinating but everyone taking low quality dunks is missing the opportunity to learn more about how money works

The hotel clerk at @bestwestern explained my key card was demagnetized, so I had to keep it away from phones, key fobs, and any other cards with magnetic strips. They smiled and suggested I hold it in my hand above my head all week.

@cliffhazell To assuage customers that you're not going to nimbly pivot from software development to plumbing supply distribution.

I don't understand companies wanting to be more Agile, while having a yearly planning cycle that can't be changed. What then, do you want agility for exactly??

My other job. wabi.tv/2023/02/02/cre…

@TracketPacer Jealous.

someone just called me the karen of network engineering i’m dying 😂

@mattstratton Somehow the brevity of this one is better.

Before coffee: how do I make a PDF double-sided?

@Dixie3Flatline I bet @betterdotcom outsources their next layoff announcement in this way.

Which mission statement is best?

@karadetwiller Because 45% of firefighter line of duty deaths are from heart attack.

Tell me a reason you exercise that has nothing to do with losing weight or otherwise changing the way your body looks

I used @NVIDIAGFN this weekend on a 2in1 and it's amazing. I want streaming LAN parties now because of the convenience of everyone being able to bring a laptop.