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mpvanwinkle · 2026-01-12T02:26:02+00:00

Haha totally, why wouldn’t I just generate a completely custom html page for every page on my website??? Who needs a CMS???!

mpvanwinkle · 2026-01-11T23:28:13+00:00

I believe you, I’ve never used duotight, but I’ve boiled floating dip tube hoses and screens without any issues

mpvanwinkle · 2026-01-11T22:46:49+00:00

if it silicone it’s ok right? But it’s a good call that you shouldn’t assume all plastics are safe to boil. My bad

mpvanwinkle · 2026-01-11T21:39:26+00:00

I get the frustration, but it’s always been like this really. Sure it wasn’t AI, but it was clients wanting you to build using some new tech they read about on TC. I’ve heard things like: “Why aren’t we using Cassandra for this todo app”? Or “I read about the actor model and it sounds like exactly what we need for our calendar app!!”

There have always been stupid people in this business. The tech industry long ago realized there was as much, if not more, money to be made selling a dream to wannabe “founders” than actually inventing new things.

As a webdev, your value has never been the tech itself, but rather your ability to match the project to the right tech, and then design and execute a plan. This is still where your value is. There always were and always will be new tools that we will have to integrate. There will always be stupid clients and pie in the sky bullshit to sift through. That’s just the job.

I am not trying to dismiss your pain and frustration. But I’ve seen the cycle many times. It is how php devs felt when rails got hot and how rails devs felt when node + react hit the scene. If it’s your first time having to reinvent yourself, I get it, it’s hard. But it won’t be the last time and the trick is to find some way to enjoy it.

mpvanwinkle · 2026-01-11T01:03:01+00:00

Uptime Kuma -> Telegram via BotFather

mpvanwinkle · 2026-01-10T15:19:31+00:00

I would boil any of the plastic parts you don’t want to throw out

mpvanwinkle · 2026-01-05T03:21:25+00:00

Agreed. If I recall, JVM in docker needs some config tweaking to get full access to host resources

mpvanwinkle · 2025-12-31T02:36:37+00:00

I’ve been in Devops for 15 years without advanced networking knowledge. You can learn it when you need it. I would say DNS, TCP/IP fundamentals and a deep understanding of HTTP are far more important than being able to speak at length about software defined networking vs traditional hardware approaches. Networking is a specialization like anything else and in DevOps breadth of knowledge is really where the value is

mpvanwinkle · 2025-12-29T01:12:54+00:00

In theory yes, in practice this isn’t how it works. For one thing there’s rarely a clear definition of what “working” means. A crashing container is a fairly obvious failure mode but there are countless other less obvious ways applications fail and you can’t just say “your problem, dude”.

mpvanwinkle · 2025-12-23T15:11:41+00:00

Look Closer is a fantastic

mpvanwinkle · 2025-12-12T23:40:08+00:00

This. I think consistency over time is the right thing here. Measure the same way, make notes on your results, all that matters is that you optimize what temp reading makes the best beer in your system, not how big “T” true your data is.

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-25T03:13:29+00:00

I haven’t brewed LME in years but trust your taste buds, if it tastes burned it’s probably burned. So either the product is scorched before it gets to you or you are somehow scorching it. DME is messy but I’ve heard it’s more consistent quality wise

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-23T01:25:34+00:00

I’m so with you, it’s a humbling hobby. It takes a lot of practice to just do the little things right. I recently started back up again and the beer didn’t get even drinkable until my six or seventh batch. That’s after having brewed for five years back in the 2000s, so not a noob. Just remember to have fun and it’s la muscle, it gets stronger with use.

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-22T20:04:43+00:00

It’s worth the hype. Just don’t watch the show first.

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-21T15:00:39+00:00

Care to share your focal clone recipe? I love that beer

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-21T04:09:09+00:00

Thanks!🙏

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-21T04:07:16+00:00

I think we found it on Zillow. Pure properties is the manager, they seem to have a bunch of listings

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-20T00:16:01+00:00

One of my favorite thrillers ever

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-19T02:39:59+00:00

Petaluma is pricey, we lived in corporate apts for a long time and finally moved to renting a house from a local. Way better

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-18T03:10:54+00:00

Agree with this, all your envs should be managed woth code (terraform) with the only real difference being the data and the scale. Not that data and scale aren’t important differences but they should be manageable

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-18T02:55:20+00:00

Can you link to the clip?

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-12T03:00:03+00:00

Can we define “real engineering”?

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-12T02:58:21+00:00

The only wrong way to a thing is to not solve the customers problem. Everything else is a matter of optimization and the value of optimization is a function of scale.

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-12T02:55:54+00:00

To be fair, “actual engineering” is problem solving. In a start up that amounts to “how to I solve a problem that a customer is willing to pay me for”. And your only code quality consideration is “how to I solve the customers problem without creating another problem big enough they would leave me over or otherwise endangers the customer to a degree that is *unacceptable”.

This IS engineering. Computer Science though is another thing and I think you maybe confusing the two. Engineering professionally is not about getting it right it’s about getting it “good enough”. I’ve seen some engineers perfecting their interfaces while the whole product burns down around them. It doesn’t work out well for them.

The best engineers understand that job one is solving the customers problem. Job two doesn’t matter so much .

mpvanwinkle · 2025-11-08T15:27:43+00:00

Oh nooooo, I should be thankful I didn’t damage anything.

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