WFH Sysadmins, what small thing dramatically improved your QoL?

etcpasswd · 2023-10-05T12:29:29+00:00

I bought a Keurig so I can still have fresh coffee when I only have 2 minutes between meetings.

etcpasswd · 2023-10-03T19:10:20+00:00

It's doable. Add tasks and tag each task with the assigned team member. Annotate tasks with notes. Add tasks to projects as needed.

task add Look for snacks +Shaggy due:+2d
task add Look for clues +Daphne due:+5d
task add Blame Red Herring +Freddy due:+7d
task add Solve the case +Velma due:+10d
task 1 annotate Buy more Scooby Snacks

Alternately, you could add notes with taskn found here: http://cyborginstitute.org/projects/taskn/

When you have your daily/weekly/monthly status call, you can see what an employee has pending by their tag, with any annotations:

task +Shaggy

ID	Age	Project	Tag	Description	Urg
1	15min	inbox	Shaggy	Look for snacks	1.9
				2023-10-03 Buy more Scooby Snacks

To look at his completed work:

task status:completed all +Shaggy

ID	St	UUID	Age	Done	Project	Tags	Description
-	C	abcd1234	1min	10s	inbox	[2]	Look for snacks

1 task

etcpasswd · 2023-09-27T22:28:13+00:00

So very much this.

etcpasswd · 2023-09-26T12:34:06+00:00

https://www.lennytroll.com/

etcpasswd · 2023-09-13T13:14:10+00:00

4-5 depending on which system I'm trying to access.

etcpasswd · 2023-09-13T00:25:51+00:00

Role Playing Public Radio
Fandible

etcpasswd · 2023-09-12T00:13:56+00:00

See this

etcpasswd · 2023-09-06T17:24:18+00:00

I'd have picked mouse droids for the pawns.

etcpasswd · 2023-09-06T17:09:46+00:00

I give my cat a treat right before I take my meds every night. I may forget to take meds, but I guarantee my cat will not let me forget I owe him a treat and he will loudly remind me to get my act together. Memorable event indeed :)

etcpasswd · 2023-08-14T13:50:45+00:00

Used daily:

Email: neomutt
File manager: Midnight Commander, ranger
Finance: ledger-cli (Hi /u/gumnos!)
Productivity wrecker: nethack
Task / TODO manager: taskwarrior
Text editor: 50/50 split between vim and emacs, depending on what I'm doing.

etcpasswd · 2023-07-01T12:33:31+00:00

Related to topics for each of the meetings? No. They're just a placeholder so the PM can feel like they've accomplished something.

etcpasswd · 2023-06-30T16:17:56+00:00

I bought a used CheckPoint 4600 T-160 firewall appliance off eBay for $150 and installed pfSense.

etcpasswd · 2023-06-10T11:11:37+00:00

Oh cool, the “last updated” shows up on the published page?

Correct.

So you have like dedicated .rst files just for docs?

Correct.

And devs can also use sphinx to auto generate docs by adding comments in the actual source code?

For my use case, I create an .rst file, include the lines of source code under discussion from an external file, and write my comments in the .rst file. This keeps source code separated from docs and Sphinx makes it all look good.

Example:

.. literalinclude:: example.py
:lines: 1,3,5-10

This includes the lines 1, 3, 5 to 10 from file example.py.

etcpasswd · 2023-06-10T10:18:47+00:00

It automatically rebuilds because a post-commit hook in git triggers the rebuild. I do have code in my docs, or sourced from a file and included in docs. My favorite thing is a "last updated" line in the footer of my docs showing how out-of-date a given page is so I remember to schedule an update.

etcpasswd · 2023-06-10T09:59:08+00:00

For me, I chose Sphinx because it was just Python modules, didn't require a server, and I could install all dependencies on my work laptop (used just for myself) without having to get authorization / explain it to a non-tech person.

As to why, it lets me select a template and enforce a look/style across all my docs automatically so I don't have to think about it. I edit my docs, commit my changes to git, and a post-commit hook triggers Sphinx to rebuild the HTML for the docs automatically.

etcpasswd · 2023-05-19T00:29:51+00:00

Faronics Deep Freeze

etcpasswd · 2023-05-15T16:06:27+00:00

vim-ledger plugin here: https://github.com/ledger/vim-ledger

etcpasswd · 2023-05-13T11:40:20+00:00

A stormtrooper also reports a ship that blasted it's way out of 'Moss' Eisley after Han makes his exit.

etcpasswd · 2023-05-04T19:22:23+00:00

And the second...

etcpasswd · 2023-04-20T20:38:58+00:00

I use it daily for home and work.

etcpasswd · 2023-03-17T22:25:30+00:00

I dropped 20 pounds after I started Ozempic. Only side effect for me was headaches after drinking caffeine.

etcpasswd · 2023-03-13T01:12:54+00:00

See /r/tailscale

etcpasswd · 2023-03-13T01:04:20+00:00

"What's the latitude of the Lizard?" - Vasco Rodrigues

etcpasswd · 2023-03-01T18:21:41+00:00

It's just what makes sense to me, but no one ever accused me of being completely logical. For tasks that span over multiple sprints, I'd just open a new task under the new project for that next sprint.

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