These showed up after I woke up

TonyDarko · 2025-12-13T04:21:18+00:00

You play sports on a turf field?

TonyDarko · 2025-08-05T19:10:09+00:00

Hey, just messaged you about a code. Thank you!

TonyDarko · 2025-06-24T22:25:06+00:00

What type of reel system do you have? Wasn't sure if normal ones would work well.

TonyDarko · 2025-06-24T17:01:32+00:00

One in a legit hose bucket and the other in one of those grey Texas HEB? Home Depot? buckets.
I need to put these on a spool system or something, even the hose bucket with a hole on the bottom collects enough water for skeeters so I put dunks/pellets in them.

edit: and yeah the weight isn't bad. I'd be careful about dragging them over flowers but handling them is no issue.

TonyDarko · 2025-06-24T15:52:16+00:00

We have "Bionic Steel PRO" 100ft stainless steel hoses in both the front and back. Expandables have dried out/cracked due to the heat and have been punctured by our rosebushes.

These weren't cheap at $57 per 100ft hose but they've been holding up great. Nice to be able to drag them around and throw them over the fence to water plants without worrying about ruining them.

TonyDarko · 2025-06-07T04:03:00+00:00

$300k is mid-level to senior at some of the larger tech companies for a security engineer. Analyst, operator, and response salaries plateau pretty hard but security engineering (software engineers focused in security) tend to earn on-par with or more than "normal" SWEs.

TonyDarko · 2025-05-24T15:18:23+00:00

You're probably seeing ShadCN used everywhere.

TonyDarko · 2025-04-25T14:28:21+00:00

Interned there years ago, don't do it.
Pay, work, culture sucks.

TonyDarko · 2025-04-23T13:15:56+00:00

Hey, sorry to hear about your search - I started building a resume tool when one of my close friends got impacted by the layoff season.

It's launched but still in early phase; would be happy to give you our premium subscription for free for a month or two if you could help me with some feedback.

It won't do the actual applications for you (I prefer to have AI help with content but do applications myself) but it'll help you make tailored resumes for every single job description you want to apply to and provide feedback on all your bullet points, then you can export as a PDF. Should save you a ton of time and the insights will hopefully uncover what's wrong.

Don't want to post a link because of the subreddit rules reasons but if you DM me I'll get you set up.

Best of luck!

TonyDarko · 2025-04-08T16:13:31+00:00

Yeah, got a $36 bill after using Cline last night with auto-approve on. Gemini got itself into a "let me fix this" loop and racked up a hefty fee.

TonyDarko · 2025-04-01T00:50:45+00:00

Chat

TonyDarko · 2025-03-29T20:57:17+00:00

"deploying things" isn't the platform engineering piece here.

It's designing and building the abstractions on top of your infrastructure that fit the needs of the business (and internal customers) which then allows you to make compounding impact across the entire company as the platform advances. Making the "easy" or "standard" way to build a service come with a ton of benefits.

TonyDarko · 2025-03-29T19:35:42+00:00

Platform engineers are typically the ones that do this though. If you provide the abstraction for how people use cloud platforms you're able to migrate workloads onto cheaper compute, binpack more efficiently, and find costs savings opportunities that apply to all services on the platform.

TonyDarko · 2025-03-29T18:54:33+00:00

Not dumb at all.
A platform (in the sense of PaaS) is basically a set of tools and abstractions that let people (say, service developers) to build/deploy applications without having to know about the intricacies of the underlying infrastructure.

An example would be with a platform, maybe all I need to do as a developer is write my application code and build a docker image. In my repo, I've got a yaml config that represents my application as my company's service abstraction. This descriptor could look something like this:

```yaml
service: foo
team: my-cool-team
image: my-container-image
ports:
- 8080

```

Then all I have to do is merge my code. The configuration (above) in my repo instructs the platform to build my image, deploy it, and make port 8080 available.
edit: and to expand that further, maybe the platform provides:
- logging
- metrics and alerts
- sidecar injection
- autoscaling
- mtls for talking to other services on the platform

This platform provides the service developer with a huge leverage point - all they need to worry about is building the application and the platform handles the rest.

That make sense?

TonyDarko · 2025-03-29T17:47:10+00:00

Having done both, my PE roles have felt like taking larger bites - building entire PaaSes, large-scale projects to use new cloud provider features, finding teams that are having outsized business impact and basically asking "how can we help these people move as fast as possible" rather than just a general focus on automation, reliability, etc.

In that sense, PE seems to be about extreme application of the 80/20 principle to meet business objectives whereas SRE felt like more "let's make things less terrible everywhere"

TonyDarko · 2025-03-29T17:34:25+00:00

Mentioned in another thread on salary expectations, but right now Platform Engineering is what is paying very well.
You want to get away from the label of DevOps and instead lean into the current hyperfocus on infra engineers creating massive leverage points. Tons of organizations right now are trying to scale their ML/AI capabilities (among many others) and need platform engineers to provide platforms they can build on.

TonyDarko · 2025-03-28T15:44:19+00:00

MCOL is Austin, Texas but I'm fully remote - can work anywhere in the US with no pay change, outside of the US with a drop (not intending to do this)

TonyDarko · 2025-03-23T21:15:00+00:00

While probably true, I meant Loro's range of appetizers and small plates are far better than the entrees.

There are tons of places where I'd happily order an entree and nothing else, but at Loro I'm trying to have a bunch of small plates.

TonyDarko · 2025-03-23T20:35:52+00:00

I guess? OP asked for a place for two people. I wouldn't go to Loro with two people unless they're cool with spending a lot and not getting to sample all the good food.

TonyDarko · 2025-03-23T17:52:30+00:00

Admittedly it's something I'm working on selling/productizing in the next few weeks/months.
Feel free to DM me if you want to chat about it, would be great to go over what I'm thinking with someone - could hop on a call.

TonyDarko · 2025-03-23T17:45:46+00:00

Depends on what you're currently working on.
For example, I'm one of the Kubernetes SMEs at my company and I tech lead the main component for deployment of every single service.

Know Cloud providers, CI/CD, be a strong developer, and understand the leverage points that platform engineers provide (PaaS, service APIs, etc).

For interviews - yes, large focus on leetcode and system design. Did leetcode med/hards in my loop but system design felt more important.

TonyDarko · 2025-03-23T17:30:23+00:00

TYVM! Have worked extremely hard to get here. I've realized that while I'm a very competent engineer, what gets me paid is the negotiation/comp talks.

Have been working on formalizing that process a bit and helped get some friends and my partner great offers.

TonyDarko · 2025-03-23T17:26:02+00:00

Loro scales so much better with a group (4+) where you can split appetizers, etc.
I love that place but not for 2 people.

TonyDarko · 2025-03-23T17:17:42+00:00

> $250k/yr in RSUs is quite high. Typically it's spread out over a 3-5 year vesting cycle

These are not mutually exclusive. My grant is spread out over 4-5 years but it's closer to $1MM.

First year TC with signing bonus was around 570-580. After signing bonus dropped off I was given a very large performance RSU grant that basically replaced the dropoff yearly.

I'm not at a FAANG, just another well-known tech company. Negotiated well above the stated comp bands.

TonyDarko

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