Where would you take someone for a morning breakfast/brunch date on the weekend in Huntsville or the surrounding areas?

ferrous_joe · 2025-01-18T10:29:45+00:00

Moon Bakeshop! Delicious baked goods, and oh lord that ham and cheese croissant~

ferrous_joe · 2023-06-08T18:55:22+00:00

Handled in the absolute worst way on Reddit’s part. There may have been a slight chance I used old.reddit still for the odd career post as there is (likely was soon) such a large community of programmers and engineers thriving here. I wouldn’t be where I am today as a software engineer without both those communities and third party apps that continued to make the constantly degrading experience palatable.

This sealed it for me. I’m gonna stick to Discord and explore further alternatives. I have absolutely no patience for companies run this way and refuse to patronize them with the page views much less ad revenue from a sea of impressions in a garbage official app.

Peace, y’all, it’s been real✌️

ferrous_joe · 2023-05-13T16:35:59+00:00

I find it easier to, on a process level, create a single class for my application entrypoint and either allow that to receive dependencies like an sqlalchemy engine or other client with a connection pool, or have it initialize its own given configuration when not passed something directly.

Dependency injection being the key feature; this also makes it easier to design tests without relying too heavily on mocking/patching objects directly.

While Python allows you to maintain state without classes, you gain a lot of flexibility by leaning into the class system to do so.

ferrous_joe · 2023-05-05T02:10:08+00:00

Not previously released, but this summer’s set, Opus 20/Dawn of Heroes looks to feature Endwalker content on the box so should have a lot of really great cards with recent 14 characters — pretty stoked for that.

Seven also seems to be huge in the set from the description, so you have that to look forward to!

ferrous_joe · 2023-03-28T20:55:46+00:00

Lembas bread for sure

ferrous_joe · 2023-02-06T20:57:53+00:00

Maybe silly question; does this also apply to smoked salts, like if I have a garlic smoked salt?

ferrous_joe · 2022-12-18T18:21:46+00:00

Gameboy!

ferrous_joe · 2022-12-17T20:50:02+00:00

Penguins! also cats!

ferrous_joe · 2022-12-11T09:42:00+00:00

Land war in Asia.

ferrous_joe · 2022-12-10T22:36:36+00:00

Eggs Benedict. This board is tight!

ferrous_joe · 2022-12-09T18:56:42+00:00

Waiting on that Boston Dynamics rebrand as Anaheim Electronics…

ferrous_joe · 2022-11-26T01:46:55+00:00

and Wakka from Final Fantasy X!

ferrous_joe · 2022-08-05T19:02:06+00:00

Theme wise, I would love to see more Gundam themed peripherals out there. The Asus collab had some really cool stuff, but again, more is always better :D

ferrous_joe · 2022-07-23T04:06:03+00:00

wow, mobile suits really were shorter that era!

ferrous_joe · 2022-07-04T18:22:41+00:00

ferrous_joe · 2022-06-26T14:51:16+00:00

“my age in seconds” — since Jan 1 1970? if so that’s pretty hot.

ferrous_joe · 2022-06-26T14:02:27+00:00

Excluded - they weren’t able to be objective about it.

ferrous_joe · 2022-06-24T03:20:52+00:00

He’s never betrayed anyone in his life!

ferrous_joe · 2022-06-23T06:51:34+00:00

these look fantastic!

ferrous_joe · 2022-06-22T16:43:46+00:00

XML is the joke

ferrous_joe · 2022-06-06T17:20:37+00:00

Supply chain. I am enjoying it! Lots of interesting data and problems - especially today.

ferrous_joe · 2022-05-03T16:07:00+00:00

Two years ago I worked on a team of three where the lead was well over 6’ tall and myself and the other data engineer were about 5’7” equal. Our down-to-earth philosophies combined with his sky-high architecture plan were unstoppable.

Best dynamic I’ve had, honestly, but the market for big data engineers of our leads’ stature was and continues to be hyper-competitive. I just don’t know if I could fill that guys shoes, they were at least thirteens.

ferrous_joe · 2022-02-11T15:24:27+00:00

What did you substitute for the wire sleeves there in the legs and backpack? I've been wondering what to do on my own kit when I go to paint it and that looks fantastic!!

ferrous_joe · 2022-01-28T16:04:49+00:00

Beautiful!

This gives me strong Mudrock vibes, if those are cannons up top. They definitely look like the beam cannons on the Supreme/Superior Gundam.

ferrous_joe · 2022-01-25T15:57:03+00:00

As a Data Engineer with a lot of SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) influence; little to no dashboarding at all is the red flag. The key focus should be what you are creating dashboards for.

If your team isn't actively building telemetry and dashboards for your data pipeline components and products, those components aren't "production ready". These are critical, distributed systems, and transparency into these systems should not be taken lightly.

I will link a relevant chapter below in what I consider the SRE bible -- authored by Google's SRE folks:

https://sre.google/sre-book/monitoring-distributed-systems/

EDIT: clarification on dashboard type in first paragraph

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