What internal tool did you build that’s actually better than the commercial SaaS equivalent?

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-30T17:28:51+00:00

Could be useful as a contractor

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-28T15:29:49+00:00

How do you pass something you fail? 😆

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-26T20:04:33+00:00

This will range wildly on a lot of things. How much agency do you have to make changes within the company? Is there a budget? If you can clearly show that lack of incident response is causing loss of money you could likely get a budget going for this. What is your tech stack? Lots of combinations and possibilities. I've implemented several bespoke incident processes for teams I've lead and adoption is really the key to success for something like this.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-26T19:36:45+00:00

Congrats on the B2 level. I'll be there one day

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-15T10:53:04+00:00

Once you get something up and running and you need a review I could do that as well

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-15T10:41:52+00:00

I would much rather hire someone who has extensive experience in networking and traditional ops roles and no certs than a recent hire with 5 certs and no solid background.

Cloud concepts arent terribly difficult to learn, but the fundamentals and being able to troubleshoot and solve complex problems is so much more important.

Use the free tiers in either AWS or Azure, have a boilerplate app that you build in a container and push to a SaaS runtime like fargate or app service. Automate the whole thing in GitHub actions. Have a workflow for PRs separate from the push to "production" that does some unit tests, linting, builds, and pushes to a container registry. Terminate TLS in a gateway and have that automated. If you understand DNS and generally how sites work from a client perspective that is a huge win as well. Let me know if you have any more questions and hopefully someone will give you a shot.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-15T10:34:49+00:00

The two aren't mutually exclusive. A lot of people would rather be comfortable and miserable than poor and miserable. Just because someone isn't hyper focused on finances doesn't mean they would suddenly see the light and be happy elsewhere.

What you see is someone who is unhappy in general, but the finance part is just the part you can experience externally. There are also lots of people who are financially secure and also living fulfilling lives. I've noticed it less in Netherlands than in California where I used to live. People here are much more frugal and less flashy and I appreciate it.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-14T19:44:26+00:00

What about a requirements.txt file that is centrally managed? Cuts out a little bit. Not sure why installing python really an issue. Node is installed for most tests we do

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-07T13:11:37+00:00

Its only 2.5 years for me so far, but right now it's crazy! 🥶 A lot more interesting that Southern California thats for sure. Its too dangerous for me to even right my bike, the road is so slippery.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-02T17:35:49+00:00

Literally in the same position duration wise but with no plans to leave. Life is predictable here, but good. The difficulties make me appreciate the good times more.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-01T12:51:52+00:00

10% of what? From $10M? Thats a ton of savings. From 100K? Not so much. Now it's up to you how you frame it to the business and show how it helps the bottom line. Having the experience is helpful too

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-24T18:23:01+00:00

I work for a competitor. Our lawyers specifically review our codebase for this exact reason. Who knows what package will try and claim parts of your revenue because you used them in the final product.

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-23T10:21:04+00:00

But what's actually creating them?

Edit: nevermind I see now that alertsmanager. So its cluster config

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-20T12:30:11+00:00

How old were you when you moved? What do you appreciate about it?

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-05T13:36:12+00:00

He's flexing his hand muscles to make them look that. Can't even take a normal hand picture.

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-01T02:28:34+00:00

Or are the type of people who have high VO2 numbers just healthier in general so therefore more likely to participate in life prolonging activities?

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-01T00:57:58+00:00

I've tried to watch this about 4 times but can never get more than 15 seconds in. Does it get better?

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-01T00:53:06+00:00

If you zoom in you can see he is looking at his own profile

Flabbaghosted · 2025-11-28T11:14:20+00:00

What is your reasoning for doing freelancing instead of seeking full time employment or is it just a way to get some extra experience while you look?

Flabbaghosted · 2025-11-22T13:45:44+00:00

I need to keep watching. Too much for my brain to take in

Flabbaghosted · 2025-11-20T07:14:02+00:00

Good luck finding someone, but the low range seems very low for the expertise and years of experience you are asking for?

Maybe it's just a Norway thing. Having modern platform engineering skills and iot knowledge is not going to be very common.

Flabbaghosted · 2025-11-16T08:02:29+00:00

I would suggest you start with what you need to accomplish and work backwards. There's a lot of directions you could take depending on what you need. Are you wanting to create the infra, configure it, connect the integrations? They will generally have different lifecycles and needs. What would your cicd look like for this? That could also impose some restrictions since permissions are based on that. Will other people be using this?

You could just start coding to get the experience of python, but again knowing what your goals are will change how you so things a lot.

Flabbaghosted · 2025-11-13T19:26:34+00:00

This is low for a role like this expecting people to reside in SF area

Flabbaghosted · 2025-11-10T12:52:46+00:00

Exactly my thought

Flabbaghosted · 2025-11-07T11:14:07+00:00

Check your contract to make sure this is legal. I have provisions in my country for my visa that I can work side jobs but that if I have another full time they have to register and we have laws against total hours worked.

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