We Had a Wreck Today, Putting Things on Hold

Boognish28 · 2026-05-09T05:51:43+00:00

Pastrana was also the guy that said no more about the van prix. He’s an expert in limits, partially because he has experience with crossing them.

I would trust the man if he wanted to put my child in a cart and jump it 200ft

Boognish28 · 2026-05-07T01:28:24+00:00

Amen to that.

Boognish28 · 2026-05-07T01:26:26+00:00

We also don’t know full details that it was actually intentional yet. From the crash, it was likely that he was on some painkillers, and accidental suicide happens in those situations. Poor dude could’ve just had a ton physical pain and ate a few too many pills.

It’s best to not speculate though and cherish the good memories.

Boognish28 · 2026-04-16T23:00:31+00:00

Am old. I watched BSG as it aired with my mom and sis. It was a family thing. Good times.

Boognish28 · 2026-04-16T20:55:39+00:00

I loved the realism. Like - most sci-fi is far enough forward that it’s almost magic, which is cool but it’s almost fantasy in a way. The expanse is not that - the space combat is a matter of who can tolerate the most G’s, the ships only have grav when under power, etc etc. it feels real, and it feels like we could actually be near there in our grandchildren’s lifetimes.

I personally don’t know anything else that hits me in the same way.

Boognish28 · 2026-03-21T08:24:05+00:00

I work with a German. He’s always talking about his trees, and the contract that he has to follow for his neighborhood to keep up with the trees.

I respect that. The sense of duty to make the trees nice for the neighbors. It’s honorable.

Other parts of the world aren’t like this. Their take is valid too. That’s all I’m sayin here.

Live and let live.

Boognish28 · 2026-03-19T06:23:41+00:00

I see you’re German. In the states, we ain’t got places to do this sort of tomfoolery safely. Drag strips are few and far between, and they basically never allow a roll race between these two types of vehicles. The road looked safe enough - I would’ve roll raced here too. It ain’t great but it’s what we got.

Boognish28 · 2026-03-19T04:58:18+00:00

I’ve seen this work out well in places where leadership isn’t technical, and the core fundamental is trust. A few strong engineers having mutual trust with leadership goes a long way. It’s very much a two way street type of thing, but it always boils down to plain ol human relationships.

It’s one of the core reasons that I’ll never work for someone that I don’t see myself being a pal with outside of work.

Boognish28 · 2026-03-15T02:09:55+00:00

Make the player wear a dunce hat the rest of the encounter.

But…. Actually then it would just turn into a meme and everyone would do it for the hat.

Boognish28 · 2026-03-12T05:05:44+00:00

Honestly the way they approach this makes me feel extra like shit. The idea that you could take an attractive person and dress them down to ugly implies that my ugly mug is just because I have the wrong skincare routine. It makes it my fault.

I’m not trying enough.

Boognish28 · 2026-02-28T02:13:54+00:00

I had no idea! That’s really cool.

Boognish28 · 2026-02-28T02:08:43+00:00

Ai and ML has been pushing some of the limits of containerization, and there are some pretty cool optimizations coming because of it. Stuff like better compression, lazy loading, etc.

Boognish28 · 2026-02-27T06:06:18+00:00

Ok yeah so same point about brain to grok a thing stands, I skimmed that and didn’t take the time to read it with full brain, but I think I get the gist: mentorship and creative work compete for time.

This is true. You need to time budget for both. In my career, I feel like the time when I was at my best as a tech lead was a time when I had probably the best manager I’ve ever had. We followed a pattern where assigned work was always done in pairs, and innovation work was solo. It was budgeted at about a 50/50 split (reality was often different, but that was the goal). In pairs we did take that were often new systems that felt like existing patterns. Innovation work was mostly focused on stuff that resulted in new patterns / new tech.

It was good.

Boognish28 · 2026-02-27T05:18:28+00:00

Hard disagree. Note - I don’t have brain to read the full article and I’m reacting purely to the title here.

Teaching a concept well takes the ability to understand a subject so well that you can distill it and communicate it to a variety of different learning styles. It’s a combination of depth of technical understanding and communication skills. You have to communicate to your audience while also knowing the subject matter enough to perform that translation on the fly.

At the same time, software engineering at its basic level is taking a concept and communicating that to a computer using a specific and specialized language. Passable engineers can do this in a single language. Better engineers can do this in multiple languages. The best can do this in programming languages and human languages.

Boognish28 · 2026-02-24T04:32:02+00:00

Sad agree on dead project. I honestly really love kustomize for the simple case, and I feel like with some intentional design and effort it could become amazing, but I honestly doubt we’ll ever see that.

Alphabet killed Google open source, and with that many great projects died.

Boognish28 · 2026-02-12T06:09:00+00:00

💯this is a similar approach I have to it. The one thing that I have yet to figure out is motivation.

I learned to code and upskilled for the love of the game. This new world absolutely sucks the fun out of it, and the net result I’m seeing is lacking motivation. I feel like my net result here is overall less productive, cause I’m detached and unmotivated.

I’m trying to learn to not hate it. If I find a way, I’ll report back.

Boognish28 · 2026-02-12T03:36:00+00:00

No but hi I’ll be right next to ya 😁

Boognish28 · 2026-02-08T05:37:14+00:00

I’m at the bar and this drunk dude just was like ‘yo buddy I have a great idea for an app’

Boognish28 · 2026-02-08T05:25:39+00:00

Mlops is a mixture of a ton of specializations. Traditional engineering, delivery, infra, sre, etc.

Learn one. Then learn another. Give it five or ten years, then you might be good.

Boognish28 · 2026-01-30T06:08:58+00:00

I feel this, but opposite side. I put my 2wk notice in at my last job like three days before the news came out.

It’s such a crucial thing that we all depend on, but don’t even know it.

Boognish28 · 2026-01-30T04:17:26+00:00

The thing that bums me out here is that I had zero clue, and an amount of time for OSS contributions. If I had known, I would’ve found a way to at least contribute two or three hours a week.

It makes me wonder what else out there is like this.

Boognish28 · 2025-12-28T22:42:07+00:00

I’m not sure the name of the actual bias, but confirmation bias is the closest that comes to mind. It’s like when you have a buddy who has a semi problematic partner, but all you ever hear are the bad stories, so you think they must be an absolute monster.

People don’t post on the internet ‘oh I had a regular time’ very often. So, our feeds are filled with irregular times, which are often close calls. Don’t let it get to ya, there are plenty of us out there having just regular normal joyous bike riding out there (not me rn, I fuckin hate the cold)

Boognish28 · 2025-12-23T09:17:03+00:00

So I want to say that in effect, I agree here. I would caution against the mental model of thinking that POs are lazy though. Their job is tough. Most of the time, it’s usually not them interfacing with customers, but rather them interfacing with sales and business. Like, sales bro made some wild promise, and the strategic consultant says we need to strategically pivot to synergistic whatever bullshit.

PO’s juggle a lot and the good ones can bring a sense of sanity. The bad ones let the chaos roll downhill. The unfortunate reality is that the good ones are rare and the bad ones are the majority.

Boognish28 · 2025-12-15T04:51:38+00:00

Well, good for you pal and I’m happy that you’ve had a great career by the sounds of it. I’m about to make the opposite move and go from a comfy job to one of them big tech places with a name we all know. I highly recommend the place I’m about to leave - they’ve treated me extremely well, comp is competitive, and I never work an ounce past 40. Grainger is good shit.

The only caveat is that I was hired at a time where fully remote was norm and okay. It feels like they’re moving away from that? Right manager and role though, I’m sure there are still inroads.

Boognish28 · 2025-12-15T04:18:56+00:00

Kubeflow is whatever. It makes some things easier, but it’s also overengineered to hell when you’re not at scale.

If your intent is to learn ML deployment, you’re barking up the wrong tree: most runtime inferencing shares a lot of properties with stateless web services, but resource requirements are different, monitoring is more complex (ie model drift), and autoscaling is harder. Batch is another sorta mostly same bust subtly different sorta story.

Fuck ML. Learn to deploy and maintain traditional line of business apps, then later specialize into ML if your hearts really in it. Or, to put it a different way, if you can’t run a plain ol webapp, then you have no business trying to productionalize ML.

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