José Anés

Becoming successful is not luck. It’s math. If your probability of success is 1/100 and you try 100 times, you have a 100% chance of success.

Before AI coding tools people wrote bad code slowly. Now people write bad code at 40x speed and it takes them the same amount of time to fix it because there is 40x more of it.

Tesla FSD goes out of its way not to hit animals. 350M animals hit each year by human drivers. Still considered normal. Tesla FSD? Stopping for deer, dogs, birds, squirrels. Perspective matters. @Tesla

@deseretistan k1joa

If you have a ham radio license, I would love for you to follow me and I will follow back. My ham interests are APRS (writing my own software) and 2m simplex. I'm Extra class and have been licensed since 2007.

Cut Datadog bill from $9k to $2.1k without losing visibility. - Dropped metrics with zero dashboards or alerts - Sampled traces at 20% instead of 100% - Moved logs to S3 archive after 3 days Observability cost is a dial. Most teams never turn it.

A client's monitoring tool sent 1,200 alerts in a week. Engineers started ignoring all of them. The tool wasn't the problem. Alert quality was. A monitoring system that cries wolf is worse than no monitoring. It trains your team to look away.

on-call teaches you two things: how your systems actually work and which teammate will ghost a page at 2am

Capitalists view purchasing as a form of voting. Socialists view voting as a form of purchasing.

"We'll add monitoring after launch" is the deployment equivalent of "we'll add seatbelts to the car after we figure out if people like driving it."

Nobody wants to admit that half of what gets labeled "technical debt" is just bad decisions that were obvious at the time and approved in a meeting anyway.

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@WilliamShatner Yes

I may open a few invites next week. Should I put you down for a donation? 🤔🤷🏼

Prometheus was supposed to monitor your infrastructure. Now your infrastructure exists primarily to keep Prometheus running.

"No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence." ~ George Washington to James Madison 1789

Every child is homeschooled. The question is: for how many hours?

Most people around you are now at the age where they are giving up on themselves and their dreams. Don't forget how contagious mediocrity is... Don't catch it.

Your willingness to work on things no one understands, agrees with or even thinks is low status will be the reason you win.

Credit scores are a trap to keep you in debt. The wealthy buy assets that don’t require a credit score.

If your parents fully understand what you do for a living, you're probably playing it too safe.

RIP Scott Adams. Adams went on to a second chapter in politics, he will be forever missed. My favorite Dilbert exchange: “I’m afraid my son may lose his job to a robot.” “Ma’am, I’ve met your son. He could be replaced by a hammer.” Moral: learn to build the robot—or be good with a hammer.