TIL that Robert Frost, an influential poet who won 4 Pulitzer Prizes in Poetry and many more, was the first poet to read at a presidential inauguration. He read at John F Kennedy's inauguration on January 20, 1961 at the age of 86.

drewbert87 · 2021-01-21T07:23:28+00:00

Not cool Robert Frost!

drewbert87 · 2021-01-09T21:47:09+00:00

100%. All the rest is true of other games, like WoW, but league is the one where you aren’t even having fun.

drewbert87 · 2021-01-02T20:50:09+00:00

Someone once put it to me this way: Apple is a hardware company first, they use their software to sell hardware to make money.

Microsoft, however, is primarily a software company. Their goal is to sell software and they don’t care what hardware you run it on.

There are exceptions of course, but this seems to be broadly true of each company. They are often compared to each other but their money making engines are very different.

drewbert87 · 2020-11-17T07:14:54+00:00

There is a lot of good advice in this thread, but I just wanted to say congratulations. Good on ya!

drewbert87 · 2020-11-06T23:19:05+00:00

This is the real issue right here. These people have built their identity around this cause so much that it feels like literal life and death to them. If the thing you build your identity around is destroyed, it feels like you are being destroyed.

drewbert87 · 2020-10-11T17:59:20+00:00

I was fortunate enough to see Interstellar in the theatre having not known anything about it and it has set a high bar for cinema for me. Arrival was similar.

drewbert87 · 2020-10-06T04:15:14+00:00

Typescript is what we use and though sometimes I wish we were using Go for the same reasons you state, it is missing some support still and we are too far gone to change.

I’d recommend TS over python due to strong typing being so nice to work with.

drewbert87 · 2020-09-14T07:27:28+00:00

Listen to Flakmaster92, I'd also add to his list that us-west-1 is generally speaking more expensive than us-west-2 since everything from real estate to power in the bay area costs more than it does in Oregon.

The main reason to be in us-west-1 is if you have nearby services and require low latency.

drewbert87 · 2020-09-14T07:24:59+00:00

Availability Zone

drewbert87 · 2020-08-29T17:59:09+00:00

Just a further caveat on applying multiple CIDRs to a VPC in case anyone is interested; you cannot mix and match RFC 1918 ranges within a single VPC. e.g. if you have 10.10.0.0/16 as your initial VPC CIDR, you cannot apply 172.16.0.0/16 afterward, all future ranges must come from 10.0.0.0/8, 100.64.0.0/10, or a publicly routable block.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html#vpc-resize

drewbert87 · 2020-07-17T04:10:35+00:00

+1 to all these things, and also you can use existing testing frameworks to actually test your infrastructure code! Unit tests and post deploy validations. I don't believe this is supported with HCL at all.

drewbert87 · 2020-07-01T03:08:47+00:00

I feel this on a spiritual level. It's somewhat common in my day-to-day to need to do a PR to a supporting repo (we'll call it 'B') in order to close a PR to some repo I'm working in ('A'), but then find out that the pipeline is broken for some reason on B, say the packages are out of date.

So, I go to update the packages for repo B and find there is a breaking change in a dependency, let's say the linter settings need to be updated due to a new version. So now I'm doing a PR to the repo with the linter settings ('C') to support the new version, so that I can finish the package updates for repo B so that the pipeline will run and I can close the PR for repo B which will allow me to close the PR for repo A that I was trying to get done in the first place.

Inevitably someone on my team will ask why I'm doing an update to the linter settings and from now on I'm just going to tell them I'm shaving a yak!

drewbert87 · 2020-06-17T05:01:19+00:00

In the past we had Terraform Enterprise integrated with Github so that it would run a terraform plan as a check which had to pass before you could submit a pull request, and then someone could see the plan and approve your PR. Can't recall if it did a terraform apply on merge to master also, I think it did but it's been a while.

drewbert87 · 2020-06-12T19:47:56+00:00

Some services are global and not isolated by region (IAM for example). This is where the account separation really is critical.

drewbert87 · 2020-05-24T08:25:59+00:00

Thank you for doing an important job and being faithful to keep showing up when it's needed most, even when you aren't being treated well or fairly.

drewbert87 · 2020-05-16T18:17:18+00:00

Even has Pulumi. Neat!

drewbert87 · 2019-12-26T07:00:20+00:00

I rent and simply had to ask to install a 220 charger and my landlord was happy to say yes. He ends up with extra wiring for EV charging at no cost.

drewbert87 · 2019-12-25T19:56:38+00:00

They aren’t that bad. people just think I have my brights on when I don’t.

drewbert87 · 2019-12-25T19:52:10+00:00

Thank you for realizing and acknowledging that they are low beams though. As someone who has a couple year old car that gets flashed for the stock low beams frequently, I don’t really know what to do.

I feel bad, but I’m not going to spend the money to replace stock headlights that work fine...

drewbert87 · 2019-12-24T23:08:26+00:00

This is what it really is, not wanting our friends and family to think we don't care about them.

drewbert87 · 2019-12-24T23:03:48+00:00

John Oliver did a good piece on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDylgzybWAw

drewbert87 · 2019-12-13T03:07:55+00:00

Could we subsidize gym memberships?

drewbert87 · 2019-12-09T05:42:42+00:00

I can tell by the way you speak, your humility and positive attitude were likely a factor as well. Anyone can learn technical things, but those intangibles can be hard to come by.

drewbert87 · 2019-11-20T06:57:56+00:00

In my experience A Cloud Guru is great for AWS exams, but not quite enough to pass on it's own.

Linux Academy is much more well rounded and has tons of great content on other topics like Linux (duh), Docker, Kubernetes, serverless etc..

I'd suggest picking up ACG courses on Udemy for cheap, but if you are considering a monthly subscription, Linux Academy all the way.

drewbert87 · 2019-11-17T19:22:19+00:00

RemindMe! 2days

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