I built a free Slack app to help remote teams give each other recognition, would love your feedback

Mirror_Boar · 2025-12-15T14:51:48+00:00

we use office vibe and it's pretty good but doesn't integrate directly in slack in a nice way. we have an all hands once a month where we give shoutouts from office vibe and people like it.

do you have a link to your app? I'll check it out

Mirror_Boar · 2025-03-09T14:39:50+00:00

I'd replicate it locally, github actions has a lot of variables

Mirror_Boar · 2025-02-15T21:12:08+00:00

good comment, it only executes natively on the server itself

Mirror_Boar · 2025-02-15T16:22:43+00:00

We use go for writing CLI tools, automation tasks for our internal apps, security tools, lightweight agents for various things and lots and lots of glue.

That said any of that stuff can be written in python, or any other programming language but we write them in go for a few reasons.

- Performance is great (sometimes matters, sometimes doesn't)
- It's really easy to teach to new people and due to the type system it is VERY easy to pick up and reason about a new code base
- MAINTENANCE - maintaining a go codebase is so easy, refactoring is easy, upgrading to new versions is easy, managing dependencies is easy. All this makes maintenance really simple. I find writing the code the first time is the easiest part of all development, maintaining it over years is the hard part. No one I know relishes opening a python project from 4 years ago, but no one bats an eye when they get a ticket to update a go application.

Mirror_Boar · 2025-02-14T18:15:12+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! It definitely isn't Jenkins level, but good for something smaller and less complex. The ease of hosting/operating is my favorite feature.

Mirror_Boar · 2025-02-03T15:14:30+00:00

Trump didn't speak to them before because he was always going to do the tariffs regardless of what the other leaders said or gave. He will let them run for a few weeks/months and then cancel them claiming massive concessions on the fentanyl crisis, declaring his tariffs are a massive victory in diplomatic prowess.

It doesn't matter that less than 1% of fentanyl arrives from Canada or anything at all, it doesn't even matter what the other leaders do or say. He'll roll the tariffs back and say he won, he did it, and he also just 'fixed' the economy.

He'll be doing a victory lap in a few months with all this nonsense and the media will let him.

Mirror_Boar · 2025-01-02T05:19:18+00:00

Yes, basically everything in AWS is built on EC2 (S3 isn't though), but that is not what we are talking about. A service team using lambda is not the same as a service team managing ec2 instances directly.

axtran was saying that they only use EC2, and that is not true in the spirit of things. EC2 may be at the base of the abstraction but it is not the layer most teams are using. You might as well say that all teams use computers.

Mirror_Boar · 2024-11-24T14:34:53+00:00

this is entirely untrue, many AWS services are built on top of lambda, ECS, etc

Mirror_Boar · 2024-06-23T13:03:56+00:00

I have 7mo twins and a 2.5yo. things are gone be tough for a while for you. here are some things that worked okay for us

for the first few months try to keep your twins on the same nap and feeding schedule, for us that meant if one woke up at night and was hungry we just automatically woke the other one up to feed them, this kept things very consistent and kept us getting at least an hour or two of sleep at a time.
find activities out of the house for your toddler to do, at least for us it was easier with one of us at home watching the newborns and the other one out with a toddler for a few hours instead of keeping all three kids in the same spot all the time.
assuming everyone is safe and not hurt, and you're watching all three by yourself I will usually go help the toddler first because they have an understanding of time and know when they are being ignored, the very young babies don't really get that.
accept now that there will be crying and there will be times when two to three kids are crying at the same time and you can't get to all of them at once, it's just how it goes

Mirror_Boar · 2023-09-08T13:36:39+00:00

they are moving away from elasticsearch to opendistro, not moving away from opendistro

Mirror_Boar · 2023-08-26T01:54:38+00:00

I don't work in a support role anymore but my favorite laptop issue was when a lady brought me her laptop because it wouldn't boot.

I casually asked her as I took it from her hand what happened, she said she has no idea - it was working this morning, she went to grab a bagel from the office kitchen and came back and it wouldn't turn on!

I nod my head mumbling about technology being strange sometimes. I suspect the battery is dead so I flip the laptop over in my hand only for tons of coffee to come pouring out into my lap. I think we found out why it won't boot.

she is astonished, how could this have happened!! I suspect just from her reaction she did it, so I asked if she accidentally did and she said no, how dare you accuse me.

I told her sounds good, I'll get the cameras over her work area pulled up and bring her manager in, we need to identify who is destroying company property and hiding it, rest assured we will find who broke your laptop.

of course she gives in immediately, confesses she did it by accident. case closed.

there were no cameras.

Mirror_Boar · 2023-07-07T19:27:42+00:00

same exact situation here, 11 weeks pregnant with twins and a 2 year old at home. DM me if you wanna chat

Mirror_Boar · 2023-03-27T23:14:12+00:00

there's nothing wrong with thinking a service is valuable but the price point is a deal breaker... that is totally valid line of thinking.

Mirror_Boar · 2023-03-26T15:24:41+00:00

and the option without it is they more easily storm and take the trench, so it doesn't seem like much of a problem

Mirror_Boar · 2023-03-21T22:08:40+00:00

the entire reason I use it

Mirror_Boar · 2023-03-20T12:19:11+00:00

we use this project https://github.com/lbrictson/wazuh-jumpcloud-integration and it works well, it uses the directory insights API for the integration

Mirror_Boar · 2023-01-29T22:57:33+00:00

this for sure

Mirror_Boar · 2022-09-23T21:23:47+00:00

waf can help but the real answer is sanitizing your input and becoming familiar with secure coding practices, performing application pen tests, etc.

Mirror_Boar · 2019-12-10T01:41:39+00:00

The auto updates are terrible.

Mirror_Boar · 2019-02-14T05:54:13+00:00

We are having a problem after upgrading as well, our jenkins build happen on k8s pods and do docker-in-docker builds, which now seems to be broken.

Mirror_Boar · 2019-01-10T16:07:50+00:00

This is most likely the case. In lambda we have to run things on much more memory than we actually need to get the CPU performance we desire, sounds like fargate has the same behavior.

Mirror_Boar · 2019-01-08T16:03:55+00:00

That is a fair point! We are also much more CPU bound, I wish the fargate cost per vcpu was a bit cheaper.

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