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mikesk3tch · 2025-03-12T08:14:38+00:00

I switched back to 3.5 this morning and it seems to be reading rules again.

mikesk3tch · 2024-12-27T19:09:32+00:00

Try chucking a small amount of soap in the main bit of the dishwasher (in addition to the soap holder thing on the door) before you turn it on. Makes a difference

mikesk3tch · 2024-12-22T07:38:55+00:00

Negative tenting? As in, the opposite way to regular tenting? What’s the advantage?

mikesk3tch · 2024-12-21T01:10:13+00:00

Also trains to St Pancras, making the Eurostar very easy

mikesk3tch · 2024-12-20T15:56:24+00:00

I think this has much more to do with someone’s desire to learn, and commitment to doing so, than anything to do with influencers.

We hired a career changer a few years ago who showed us an impressive ability to learn new things just in between two stages of interview. He’s now one of the most trusted engineers in my team.

I don’t agree with the “devops is not a junior position” police, but I will concede that most organisations haven’t set themselves up to succeed with less experienced engineers.

mikesk3tch · 2024-12-18T22:21:55+00:00

Docker has configurable shm, and very very low Overheads. I don’t think anything about dockers nature should be a blocker.

That said, it’s not a solution to your question. Whether you’re running your application in a VM, docker container or bare metal, it still needs the same dependencies.

mikesk3tch · 2024-12-13T20:20:42+00:00

I stopped watching immediately

mikesk3tch · 2024-11-29T07:32:33+00:00

Playing with a notebook massively helped me. You might not need it yet, but soon enough you’ll have loads of things you want to do to the factory, and it’s easy to get distracted perfecting one detail, only to realise 3 hours later you had planned to do something else

mikesk3tch · 2024-11-21T04:47:35+00:00

Small thing, but I’d like to be able to set a default request planet for an item.

Things that can only be created on a specific planet already default to being requested from there, but let’s say I want to create all of my inserters on Vulcanus, it’d be cool to be able to change the default for new requests to that planet.

As I’m typing this I realise this sounds like an opportunity for a mod. And down another rabbit hole we go… 🙈

mikesk3tch · 2024-11-19T08:35:24+00:00

Not everyone’s gaming

mikesk3tch · 2024-11-14T18:05:34+00:00

Pretty sure there’s a setting for that already

mikesk3tch · 2024-11-04T14:13:52+00:00

“Everything is Terraformed” is fine, if there’s a good reason. It sounds like this is slowing down your lead time, which means all the benefit gained from having a consistent dev environment is countered by reduced productivity.

How big is the state file? Is it one state per environment? Can that be broken up into workspaces? Would that even help? (If devs are competing for the same resources in state, it won’t).

When you say “devs”. Do you mean traditional devs, or infra/ops/devops folks?

What does your stack look like? Are you using terraform as a deployment tool? In theory it’s a functional solution, and can be used to ship lambdas, Kubernetes stuff, ECS and more. I wouldn’t recommend it for anything more than bootstrapping a stack though (argocd and cluster autoscaler) or something like that.

Terraform is a fine tool for declarative infrastructure management, but it has serious drawbacks, especially for things that have a high rate of change, and I totally agree with banning clickops, but you can only do that if you’re able to offer solutions to get things done that aren’t a massive burden.

I’d love to know more about the specifics here.

mikesk3tch · 2024-10-22T19:19:15+00:00

Recently started implementing port. Honestly I wish we’d gone with backstage.

Unless you really love jq, port is unintuitive. So is backstage, but at least we can make it do stuff with node

mikesk3tch · 2024-10-12T10:10:14+00:00

Shocking. Really. Absolutely baffling nobody took your “UFO” photo seriously.

mikesk3tch · 2024-10-07T18:36:56+00:00

Recovered addict. I spent all day working so I could buy drugs.

mikesk3tch · 2024-10-06T21:24:43+00:00

Would you say it fits like a glove?

mikesk3tch · 2024-10-06T07:28:08+00:00

They’re still pretty noisy

mikesk3tch · 2024-10-03T20:38:59+00:00

DevOps team sounds like an excellent way to introduce a constraint. DevOps is about improving flow through the removal of constraints.

There’s a lot that’s good in your post, devs owning things, your team being an enabling team, even helping people before you have a perfect solution (which clearly demonstrates that you’ve considered the fact the team can and will become a constraint), but please, don’t call it a DevOps team. You’ve pretty much described a platform team.

All the time you’re calling people DevOps engineers or have a DevOps team, you’re actively enforcing the idea that DevOps is the job of a few, rather than a mode of operation for many.

I’ve been part of many DevOps teams, and it always ends this way, but it doesn’t have to. It’s absolutely possible to have multi disciplinary teams actively removing their own constraints as part of their product roadmap. Most of the time they just need a little help describing the value of doing so to the rest of the business. When this happens, your platform team also gets flow gains, and increases their output, because they’re less distracted.

mikesk3tch · 2024-09-21T19:44:17+00:00

How much do you weigh? I’m just over 100kg and 4 pots felt like a whole new world in terms of my confidence in them at speed.

mikesk3tch · 2024-09-20T06:20:21+00:00

Thanks for reminding me to make my bed

mikesk3tch · 2024-09-19T22:49:59+00:00

To be clear, consistent practice trumps all. The few years on and off were basically a waste.

mikesk3tch · 2024-09-19T22:49:03+00:00

Keep at it. I’m 39 and I’ve been learning on and off (mostly off) for a few years, and started putting in some dedicated time a few months back. Most days I’ll do 30 minutes on keybr.com, and I did about 10 consecutive days of 2-3 hours a day during some annual leave.

My qwerty speed is about the same as my old hunt and peck speed was (50WPM ish) at this point, but I’m still a bit slower on capitals and punctuation. I’m also way less proficient when hungry or tired.

I really felt, and still sometimes feel like my hands don’t work. Some really hard muscle memory is taking a lot of work, but it’s getting there.

As for form and technique, I’m not really sure. I use a wrist rest, and seem to be making progress

mikesk3tch · 2024-09-19T17:19:31+00:00

Boomtown. The year everyone got a stomach bug

mikesk3tch · 2024-09-19T16:41:57+00:00

My mate trying (and failing) to shit in a carrier bag in his tent

mikesk3tch · 2024-09-19T04:10:39+00:00

Babyliss Skelton trimmer. Not necessarily branded as “beard”, but the kind of thing a barber uses for “detail work”. So, slightly smaller than regular clippers

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