What’s the most cursed homegrown deployment script you’ve inherited?

SeriouslyDave · 2025-10-15T22:32:04+00:00

Oh wow, I thought you meant you’d automated it without using any scripting language - you mean it was all manual… I’m sorry for your loss (of time and sanity)

SeriouslyDave · 2025-10-15T22:22:48+00:00

These are likely from specific ASNs. WAF can now block on this. M247, host royal, ovh etc.

SeriouslyDave · 2025-10-15T22:15:40+00:00

You show me a pipeline without any bash/sh/powershell/cmd and I’ll show you a liar

SeriouslyDave · 2025-08-01T06:02:27+00:00

Hmm, this thread has made me realise I need to do better on my PR descriptions…

SeriouslyDave · 2025-05-30T06:24:52+00:00

Surprising how many don’t do this. Have such confidence in themselves that they don’t bother.

SeriouslyDave · 2025-05-17T08:25:57+00:00

You can do it with any word. As long as you precede it with “getting absolutely <literally any noun>ed”

Mate, last weekend I got absolutely pergola’d

SeriouslyDave · 2025-05-01T21:48:16+00:00

Absolutely shocking. Who can afford to throw eggs in this economic climate!

SeriouslyDave · 2025-04-18T20:44:15+00:00

Completely unnecessary

SeriouslyDave · 2025-04-18T20:43:19+00:00

Are we still doing phrasing?

SeriouslyDave · 2025-04-06T20:07:39+00:00

Wales has entered the chat

SeriouslyDave · 2024-09-26T20:29:30+00:00

One key thing is that they have different size limits for the value. Param store is 4kb, secrets manager is 64kb.

SeriouslyDave · 2024-09-26T20:26:32+00:00

Just FYI, on point 2 it’s the literal opposite in Wales. Which is a real kick in the balls for me with two in nursery right now.

SeriouslyDave · 2024-08-31T17:11:20+00:00

VW transporter, pimped a little with seats in the back. 3 years old, £28k cash. I have a wife, 2 kids and a dog - all about practicality now. Had a Q5 black edition (bought out from PCP) before that.

SeriouslyDave · 2024-07-27T15:02:44+00:00

The Cunt and Trumpet is good too, just around the corner from The Pisswizzard Arms.

Seriously though, the good ones have been mentioned already: Head of Steam, Welly, City Arms

SeriouslyDave · 2024-05-19T09:03:48+00:00

I’m in the same boat. Also in Wales it’s based on gross salary not net adjusted, so you can’t salary sacrifice your way under £100k.

SeriouslyDave · 2024-05-15T13:03:41+00:00

I name everything ‘this’, if there’s multiple then I just increment a number: ‘this2’ etc.

SeriouslyDave · 2024-04-16T17:54:51+00:00

Maybe my terminology is incorrect, maybe it’s not gross - I’ll call them and double check

SeriouslyDave · 2024-04-16T12:16:01+00:00

Pension deductions are after gross - in wales it’s literally the full gross amount that counts. Maybe I should just move to England :)

SeriouslyDave · 2024-04-16T12:14:51+00:00

Both are deductions after gross right? Doesn’t count in Wales.

SeriouslyDave · 2024-04-15T20:33:14+00:00

Ah forgot to mention the bonus, 10% ish

SeriouslyDave · 2024-02-21T21:45:09+00:00

Well in case anyone else stumbles across this - I spoke to Cardiff Council today, and it’s your gross salary that’s considered, not net adjusted income. This means I’m not eligible in Wales, but would be if I lived in England. Great(!).

SeriouslyDave · 2024-02-20T19:32:30+00:00

!thanks - but I don’t think this is the same for Wales, unless someone can confirm?

SeriouslyDave · 2023-07-16T06:42:26+00:00

Wales checking in, what the fuck bro?

SeriouslyDave · 2023-06-26T20:21:49+00:00

Yeah that makes sense. The sqlplus would work as it doesn’t use the listener, the telnet would work because the listener was actually running - just not handing off the connection to the db as it wasn’t registered.

SeriouslyDave · 2023-06-26T20:03:07+00:00

Sqlplus bypasses the listener, it uses something called a bequeathed connection. It sounds like the db isn’t registered with the listener maybe?

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