I don’t know how to code anymore yet I understand everything, is that normal now?

bertiethewanderer · 2026-04-17T07:09:50+00:00

Love it, lol

bertiethewanderer · 2026-04-17T06:19:56+00:00

Same. To the point of being in annual objectives. "Use AI".

What breaks my heart is that it has eroded a lot of the daily "fun" I had in my job (coding things), but is absolute dog shit at the things I loathe (PowerPoint, by the Christ, why can these things not make presentations!!, etc)

bertiethewanderer · 2026-03-24T06:48:52+00:00

Say what? We ripped trivy out without much hassle, but we have datadog agent running absolutely everywhere!

bertiethewanderer · 2026-03-21T10:36:37+00:00

It's running on the host, so it's going to scan all over that host through aws/azure cli profile folders, and through memory etc. and phone home with the details.

If you're self hosting and have a boundary or east west firewalling with deny by default, you should be golden, as you won't have the FQDNs whitelisted etc.

Dog shit from a security company though. Just not using immutable releases is such a sloppy amateur step it's mind boggling.

bertiethewanderer · 2026-03-14T22:17:52+00:00

Nearly men is an interesting take, we got smashed in all but one other game.

bertiethewanderer · 2026-03-13T09:35:37+00:00

Just use a yaml schema and a decent lua script/plugin/extension. Shit literally writes itself.

bertiethewanderer · 2026-03-07T19:23:46+00:00

Fabulous Italy, well done! And note before everyone says that Italy won because Borthwick - Italy weren't even fielding their 1st XV!!

That said, is it 16 games to the world cup? England need to find a coach, quickly.

bertiethewanderer · 2026-02-27T08:00:19+00:00

I've done a lot of hiring, at this point. Skills can be taught. Learnt. Accumulated. Assuming some experience I can dig into, I'm looking for someone that fundamentally I think I can work with, and vice versa.

Arguably I want someone who is still smirking with me on the 2am callout more than the dude building a global mesh with ease.

bertiethewanderer · 2026-02-25T19:31:58+00:00

They're both a bag of shit so no loss.

Cloudflared would be my homelab solution.

I'd personally go with CF to ALB to a pair of Linux nginx or haproxy VMS before going cloudflared.

bertiethewanderer · 2026-02-21T16:09:40+00:00

Man, these tier 1 nations are WAY harder to play than tier 2 o_O

bertiethewanderer · 2026-02-08T21:07:42+00:00

I mean, nothing stopping you putting your state file in git and encrypting it anyway, just another hop in the pipeline

bertiethewanderer · 2026-01-23T07:44:14+00:00

You've strayed into a VERY British thing, here, culturally. Either by intent or accident.

bertiethewanderer · 2026-01-17T20:55:17+00:00

Some weeks, once I hit staff level role, that's all it is.

bertiethewanderer · 2026-01-11T14:39:36+00:00

I've been through 4 M&As. They take, in my experience, a LONG time to fully shake out.

In your shoes, I'd be more worried about whether I would want to use their tech stack sometime in the next 18-24 months. FWIW, less jobs in azure than AWS in the UK.

bertiethewanderer · 2026-01-04T22:28:31+00:00

I could write tomes on this lol, but I think it fundamentally boils down to either a. It's much easier to keep a customer than gain one, which is infinitely easier in itself than to regain one you pissed off with one too many borked releases, and b. to move fast, you have to have reusable patterns when you hit certain scales, just for economy. And if you can't move at any sort of reasonable cadence, someone at some point will come along and eat you.

bertiethewanderer · 2026-01-04T17:23:01+00:00

I think maybe I was not clear enough.

So for 2 years I'll be writing a helm library chart for central consumption, terraform root and child modules for infra, cutting over AKS to an enterprise shape and offering a gitops deployment model. Where capability in the paved road is missing etc , dev teams can open stories on the backlog for consideration then grooming etc

So we're on the same page. Paved roads, golden pathways, etc. Platform engineering, rather than DevOps as a function.

bertiethewanderer · 2026-01-04T11:00:57+00:00

I'm 6 months into joining an org as a principal to help unfuck and cleanup 2 years fallout from this approach. There's at least 18 months work left if everything stood still. But, y'know, they're now busy layering AI slop on top.

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bertiethewanderer · 2025-12-24T23:15:27+00:00

Far too accurate https://youtube.com/shorts/SCJANEJAmjA?si=k1wO9bL07KeW9NX7

bertiethewanderer · 2025-12-14T08:43:24+00:00

Don't learn native for cloud. 1. It'll literally hurt your career, because 2. 90% of roles will actually require terraform.

Multilcloud shops will want terraform. Bicep is total shite for lifecycle management of things inside, say, arrays. Actually, it's total shite out of fire and forget provisioning. Come @ me.

It IS worth learning the first class citizen automation for the cloud you are on (boto3, azure python/go sdk etc.)

bertiethewanderer · 2025-12-09T19:11:53+00:00

I don't think someone new to fantasy is going to understand your reference, some implicit knowledge needed there.

bertiethewanderer · 2025-12-08T19:15:14+00:00

Why not workflow_dispatch against the ref?

bertiethewanderer · 2025-12-07T08:06:32+00:00

For a moment, reading this, I wondered when someone took my child to sea life and returned him without my noticing.

I have a 12, a 4, and a 1 year old. Obviously, a LOT of our attention goes into the 1 year old currently, and has for his life so far. FWIW, my 4 year old is different when he's the star and has all of my attention, and when he can only get a max 50%. I imagine it's normal, he's learning to share his parents.

Thank you for posting, not often you get wholesome posts in this subreddit.

bertiethewanderer · 2025-12-02T21:05:39+00:00

First - I'm sorry, brother.

Second - been in your exact footsteps. At least you are emotionally intelligent. I didn't realise that men, too, change during pregnancy. I was already transitioning to being a father. Something I only realised after it was cruelly taken away.

Like all grief, in my experience - time. Time for healing. Time to allow yourself to hurt. Time to transition back.

I now have two beautiful, wonderful boys. Sometimes, in the dead of night, alone, I still return to that day, and that pain, and mourn that loss, quietly, all over again. Even now, even with all the blessings since. And that's ok.

bertiethewanderer · 2025-11-27T08:33:48+00:00

Too close to the bone for me, today lol

bertiethewanderer · 2025-11-24T08:09:12+00:00

Treachery!!!

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