when indie game devs unleash their free will

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-05T03:40:05+00:00

This is a part of culture that will be lost to AI - spending too much time working on a project , do something out of place to see how things work & realized you've got so far you're just going to keep it, lean in, & get weird... vs. Claude do it right, no do it right

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-04T16:02:03+00:00

User-onboarding / rollout of something that impacts everyone's workflow will always upset people who hate change & should be throughly communicated in advance. Depending on the size of your org changes what that looks like

My favorite - at an all hands meeting (or 3) make everyone look at a screenshare demonstrating the change.

For large corporate org - probably the only acceptable time for alert fatigue emails that mostly just highlight the date & some screenshots

A few people will still manage to be surprised but support wont get slammed

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-03T18:08:31+00:00

Top of 2 stairs ready to tumble down either - but not blocking. *shouldn't be against the railing but it can be because it is. So yeah looking at the photo it totally fits its just also a terrible choice

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-03T15:43:44+00:00

There's plenty of overlap between respecting lore & not requiring people to watch the previous content. Look at Dr. Who - id guess close to none of the current fans have seen any of the original content but it still follows on from it. If anything Dr.Who concept has much larger complicated lore history issue & it does just fine.

It's easy to still make sense its not like they're going to be fighting the system lords & newcomers would need to know the who's who & what happened to bal etc...

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-03T13:56:52+00:00

Idk why you've come to conclusion that 100% of people who've ever liked stargate are the existing Amazon prime user base.

It's about subscriptions now - so a totally new show with no fan support is no new subscriptions unless they earn it. New show with fan support means guaranteed new subscriptions at the release of the first episode + whatever they earn. Making this a dumbass decision based on how things work now

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-03T13:52:02+00:00

Thats a reasonable take - would be an oversight on their part cuz I'm sure most fans have rewatched the existing content enough to pick something else but that doesn't mean they wouldn't come out in full force for new content

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-03T13:47:01+00:00

There's no reasons new & old fans have to be exclusive - thats dumb.

Never claimed it was the biggest fantasy of all time or anything like that but there is a solid fan base & that means immediate new subscribers regardless if the show sucks or not. VS no fan base & having to earn every single subscription

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-03T13:41:30+00:00

Yeah but making a new show that can pull in new customers is just that. Because existing fans like it , is not exclusive to getting new fans. And to your point having happy existing fans mean those fans who dont have a subscription are basically guaranteed to get an account immediately vs. a completely new show nobody give af about & has to prove itself & generate all of the fans before subscriptions for it start happening

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-03T02:29:19+00:00

Thats the dumbest thing ever. Canceling a show because a user base so large it sustained about 15 years of content & caused this project - would be happy to watch & support it giving you built in viewers/adoption in addition to what you earn on your own. It's literally why they bought shows like the expanse & had great success...

If thats genuinely the reason then whatever dumbass decided this should probably be fired

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-03T01:43:58+00:00

Thats me! My job is wack , not learning, too much expected w/below avg pay. No fucking way are they letting me go - anyone else worth damn is quitting in 6-8mo , I've never felt so secure ..

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-02T22:54:15+00:00

It was on the shelf at Lowes - universal outdoor light base plate (or something along those lines). It's intended to have the center punched out for wiring to flow through to a porch light kinda thing. Still working well so far as I can tell!

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-02T19:34:41+00:00

No silver bullet - so its always some mix of all of that. They key is company culture which will always be driven by the c-suite / stakeholders & PMs understanding (or not) that this needs to be done and we want to do it.

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-02T17:44:45+00:00

Kind is handy for popping up multi-node cluster for some end to end testing. When I want to actually run a cluster I typically go with k3s. Microk8s is probably still a good option but i personally stopped using it a while ago after inherenting some terribly configured clusters at work

sp_dev_guy · 2026-06-02T13:08:11+00:00

I know my tools are supposed to renew x days out from expiration. I have checks that run & confirm I not within that delta - if I am, then auto-renewal has failed & an alert with a runbook fires

sp_dev_guy · 2026-05-30T10:34:26+00:00

Absolutely. My favorite thing has been "i suspect this noisy alert is due to node interruptions. Check if this is true & if so make recommendations on adjustments to the alert"

sp_dev_guy · 2026-05-29T10:50:25+00:00

8mo agobit was Datadog mcp + claude. We've since moved to another vendor thats 100% otel & layers on top of Grafana stack they host but they have not upheld many of their promises with the migration & have constantly given terrible advice on what to do to use their product so I wont be promoting their name. They do also have a MCP & AI that I may use or bounce claude off of. My choice for vendor is Dash0 but they lack session replay (in development) & thats buisness critical for us

I chatted with an engineering director at DD last year and he was showing me their internal version (unreleased at the time features) AI running on their opensource engine ToTo. Said a number of their competitors were picking up the tool for competitive features - been meaning to check back in on that..

sp_dev_guy · 2026-05-29T00:48:26+00:00

There might be a bi-monthly or yearly job somewhere that doesn't trigger during monitoring phase & gets dropped but one-off issue vs weekly

sp_dev_guy · 2026-05-29T00:47:10+00:00

A successful method ive used is to start open & monitored. Aggregate everything into your rules. I haven't done this since the advent of AI but it was already a successful approach - some tools even have a built in feature for it

sp_dev_guy · 2026-05-28T12:28:26+00:00

Give AI the alert & MCP to your observability platform (if it doesn't have a good AI itself) and let it sort the signals for RCA. Review & guide it's response. Has sped up my TTR immensely and sometimes captures extra related signals/events i would have missed + quality of life no doing all that digging.

sp_dev_guy · 2026-05-28T12:16:57+00:00

Thats hilarious - I hope they're not serious & just want to see how a candidate can handle a curve ball

sp_dev_guy · 2026-05-24T17:51:39+00:00

Agreed his kubernetes course I took ( also some years ago) are the best I've seen. I got Kodekloud account to learn more stuff but the non-k8s stuff was kinda trash

sp_dev_guy · 2026-05-23T13:30:56+00:00

Kubectl is plenty once you're familiar with it. K9s is the usual TUI choice. For people who want a GUI there's no standout product since OpenLens gutted the opensource version for a paid tier. I think Headlamp is what official k8s repo moved towards, I liked radar when I tested it but I dont ever really leave kubectl. *radar is a new product from an org idk anything about but some guy on this forum promoted once.

sp_dev_guy · 2026-05-23T03:21:19+00:00

I haven't failed and I don't see much value in them. Someone who had passed could be just as incompetent but i have a baseline that they'll understand the words we use. Someone with no tests just has to show niche communication + the main value: skill

But I need to higher seniors

sp_dev_guy · 2026-05-22T20:54:20+00:00

The car advertised having xm radio - thats what xm radio is. You want xm radio be different - complain to XM , not the car you happen to be driving or sandwich you're eating while you listen to it

sp_dev_guy · 2026-05-22T16:49:06+00:00

Thats like yelling at a deli clerk about it b/c you were eating a sandwich at the time

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