Don Petersen

@tumes Whenever my favorite baseball team travels to Cincinnati, the announcers always talk about going to get Skyline Chili. Enough times that I finally cooked myself a recipe for it I found online. It was fine. I did not follow official chili ladeling procedure, though.

@donjpetersen Or if you like entirely differently disgusting regional cuisine: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6pgNjb…

@tumes YouTube just suggested this video, which is right in my greasy wheelhouse. I'm sad to learn that the pandemic seemed to be the final nail in their Old Country coffin and they're all closed now: youtube.com/watch?v=net7t1…

@tumes So this is completely insane. If humanity is nearly wiped out, I hope this training video survives and future developing humans who rise from the ashes use Waffle House code to communicate.

@donjpetersen Oh and likewise, please enjoy this gem: youtube.com/watch?v=Jky5ZX…

@tumes @BookSpotlight Enjoy your scurvy! If you haven’t seen the AMC series based on the novels, it’s a pretty faithful adaptation and really well done.

@BookSpotlight Shit I'm reading The Terror...

It's me and Tress against the spore seas 🌊

@heimidal I bought a cheap SSD to throw in my old gaming PC so I can reunite myself with Linux after too long an absence. Really missed my setup.

Getting ready to reactivate my @todoist, @NotionHQ, and @Superhuman subscriptions. I can’t explain how much I’ve missed all of you.

Welp, today was my last at Shopify. Not looking forward to a job hunt, but there are worse things than severance and a fresh start. If you’re hiring a Staff Engineer with Go, Kubernetes, and Rails experience (and a desire to put my Rust book learnin’ to practical use), I’m here.

@davidnwelton I'm just hoping that for every day it snows or rains now, there will be an extra few days this summer where it won't be a smoky hellscape.

Uh, wow, it's uh, snowing. Again. 😩

@tumes This sent me down a rabbit hole (again), ending here (for now): youtube.com/watch?v=dB-mZL…

Absolutely incredible. youtu.be/B2JHChJpG_A

Listen up, Silicon Valley… “Hardcore Engineer”

I used to get most of my tech news from RSS feeds. I replaced that with this site. In some ways that transition was a downgrade, but the algorithm did surface people and tech that I otherwise would have never seen. I wonder what's next?

@Newegg I know you don't do backorders, but maybe you could make an exception for cases where you pretended like an order went through and then later say "Woops, just kidding" after the item is out of stock everywhere. What a joke.

@Hanzo55 Well well well if it's not The Duke of the Sky, Arthur Schmitt.

It's time @donjpetersen

@davidnwelton I've been considering this move, also, now that I'm in a bike friendlier part of town. These are not as expensive as I expected.

New bike day! Woohoo! So much fun to zip around on. I wasn't sure from the videos, but in a pinch, I do fit on the back, let alone my wife or one of the kids @RadPowerBikes

For my weekend of unemployment and being on zero on-call rotations, I’ve been trying all the cool features of my phone I never get to use, like “Do Not Disturb.” Or just turning the damn thing off at night, that’s a neat one.

I joined G5 just over 10 years ago, and today was my last day. I learned a ton. Very excited to start at @Shopify on Monday and learn some more!

@davidnwelton Irrigation canal access east of town drives me nuts. It would be such a great route off any roads. I can only think of one very short stretch where access is actually allowed, a few where it’s posted trespassing but totally ignored, and then mostly it’s scary signs.

If the canal trail were open, you could ride or run out there from town, no car needed

It's a pity this huge chunk of BLM land north of Bend only has a couple ways in that are pretty distant 😩

@colmmacc Yes, it happens about 20 minutes before you’re supposed to leave on vacation.

Is there a day of recognition for on-call engineers? Or even a patron saint?

@heimidal The drive is lovely this time of year. And by lovely I mean cold and possibly dangerous.

Second flight cancellation this week. I've been on hold with Delta for over five hours. I knew we should have just stayed home for the holidays.

@davidnwelton They’re in a trailer in the Hampton Inn parking lot. Everything is outside, they swab you under a pop up tent. They have 30 minute appointment blocks and so I don’t think they get swamped.

@donjpetersen Was it pretty good in terms of keeping people spaced apart? Last thing I want to do is spend time near people who may actually have it and want confirmation

What's the best way to get a rapid "I'd like to visit my parents and not accidentally bring an extra guest" COVID tests? (As opposed to "not feeling so hot...") #inBend these days?

It is the strangest thing that the Apache HTTP server listens for the WINCH signal to perform a graceful stop. WINCH, as in *WIN*dow *CH*ange. Run it in a terminal in the foreground, resize your window, and whoopsy, it stops. Still hilarious to me.