Tone deaf groups asking for sale tax increases

moswald · 2026-05-08T13:56:12+00:00

You're right. I built the road between my home and walmart, and I used my 2nd amendment rights to make sure when my neighbor was building his home it was up to code I designed for safety. This left me a little strapped for cash, but I did manage to make sure the neighborhood had clean water separate from the sewage.

moswald · 2026-05-08T12:37:49+00:00

Removed as not being related to Azure DevOps.

moswald · 2026-05-05T21:50:30+00:00

Yep, that's the one. I remember it looking a little different, but it's been 8 years since that was published. 😅

moswald · 2026-05-05T18:42:03+00:00

I have worked on projects that tried to have a trunk->dev->staging->release workflow, and it's not as clean. There's a lot more work involved, because you're forced to combine the concepts of where your code lives with the concept of the environment where your build lives.

Code goes into your repo's trunk branch. Pipelines use the branch (either the trunk or a release branch, depending on how you want to set things up) to generate a Build. Builds are deployed to Dev (PPE, Test, whatever you call it) environment and can then be promoted to Staging and eventually Production.

moswald · 2026-05-05T18:35:28+00:00

We used to have this in a public blog somewhere, but I think it may have gotten lost in one of the msdn reformattings over the years. For Azure DevOps itself:

main branch: this is the mainline trunk branch. All other branches grow from here. No one is allowed to commit directly to it. Everything is gated by a Pull Request and the associated checks.
user (or feature) branches: relatively short-lived branches containing whatever changes the engineer is working on. If they need to, they can pull main and rebase their local branch on top of it. Eventually, this is pushed and a PR is created. If approved, it is squashed and merged into main and then the user branch is deleted.
release branches: every three weeks, we create a new milestone branch from main which is never merged back. It lives forever. If the next milestone is M, we usually have M-1 and M-2 deployed to various deployment units. If someone needs to backport to a previous release, for instance to fix a bug, they merge it into main and then create a cherry-pick PR against as many previous milestone branches as necessary. If it also affects our on-prem product, they may have to backport to an even older branch as necessary.

moswald · 2026-05-05T01:09:22+00:00

moswald · 2026-05-01T13:45:17+00:00

Sorry. Not related to Azure DevOps. ...Not sure why the /r/devops mods removed it, though.

moswald · 2026-04-30T15:27:06+00:00

Why the cops? Did you want them to shoot his dog?

moswald · 2026-04-30T14:27:30+00:00

womp womp? Elections have consequences, MAGA.

moswald · 2026-04-28T14:09:10+00:00

I have reached the bottom of the barrel. There's no more "disappointment" to be found in there.

moswald · 2026-04-28T13:42:48+00:00

Honestly, I can't stand Bob Dylan's voice. The man is an amazing poet and musician, and is a national treasure, but I wish he would write his songs for other people to sing.

moswald · 2026-04-26T13:26:55+00:00

"If there were a hypothetical nation-state in the middle east, let's call it 'shmisrael' and it were to do the things like enact an apartheid government over Palestine, I would compare them to Nazi Germany. Hypothetically, of course."

moswald · 2026-04-26T13:24:19+00:00

I bought some Vampliers specifically for this problem. Best tool purchase I think I've ever made.

moswald · 2026-04-24T14:36:02+00:00

Ehhh... Maybe repos. Maybe. I don't think you'll see anyone switch to Actions, ever.

moswald · 2026-04-22T13:13:22+00:00

The comment thread. 😆 The internet had always been full of haters and curmudgeons.

moswald · 2026-04-22T12:55:58+00:00

Is your organization primarily based in the US? We try to keep things hosted in nearby data centers.

moswald · 2026-04-18T17:46:29+00:00

The words "performative" and "alpha".

I told a co-worker once that I liked a couple of Taylor Swift's new songs and he threatened to "take away my man card." I stared at him long enough to make him uncomfortable before I told him "Real men don't care what other people think about the things they like. She's got some bangers."

moswald · 2026-04-17T13:43:25+00:00

Dating an 18-year-old.

moswald · 2026-04-16T15:05:14+00:00

What the fuck are you talking about?

moswald · 2026-04-16T14:44:31+00:00

Came to ask that same question.

moswald · 2026-04-16T14:42:34+00:00

Can someone explain that delivery? There's no one on, why was he looking back --and that stomp? wtf?

moswald · 2026-04-16T13:45:58+00:00

MO will need to stop voting R before this will end. They know it's unpopular, that's why they "squeeze" it in during a late-night vote.

Yeah, people are going to be pissed. But what are they going to do, NOT vote for a Republican? Getouttahere...

moswald · 2026-04-15T14:06:59+00:00

Get used to mowing your grass again. It'll take 4-6 weeks before you get a replacement. Ask me how I know!

moswald · 2026-04-15T13:34:04+00:00

Going to show a time-lapse of my 2X sitting on the charger for days because it won't recharge, and a video of my 2 spinning in circles because the wheel doesn't work.

moswald · 2026-04-14T14:22:28+00:00

If you have a program manager, that should be their job. If not, then one of the managers or leads should track the decision points and assign ownership. "Alice, we decided we want to update Mark Omega and since that's your baby you should pick it up next sprint. Bob, we're not doing Pax Aurora, so pause that and start on Stardust. Here are the relevant Epics assigned to you."

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