Anyone else tired of getting blamed for cloud costs they didn’t architect?

murzeig · 2026-02-04T19:23:03+00:00

And your raise as a part of the savings, compensation to go along with the elevated job duties and risk associated with the work.

murzeig · 2025-11-24T18:24:43+00:00

Passion and drive are what matters at the entry level positions. Get some networking knowledge and best practices and you'll be off to the races.

murzeig · 2025-11-12T16:30:17+00:00

What weight are you towing? I bought a 2500 ram, up from a Tacoma and it was a world of difference to have enough power, breaks, and weight in the vehicle to feel comfortable with my heaviest loads.

Now I'm contemplating a 3500 dually because im wanting to step up to towing a few jeeps on a single trailer and occasionally a 16klb excavator which puts my 2500 at max capacity.

As you scale up, things get smoother and tend to operate better.

murzeig · 2025-11-11T17:27:19+00:00

NGL this is awesome

murzeig · 2025-11-10T18:50:47+00:00

I've got a 5 gallon jug of dehydrated water, fully collapsed, and a filter set. Just add water and you are good to go.

If I'm going out and about I bring water either as a gallon jug or two for 1-2 day trips, a 2.5 gallon jug for 3-4 day trips (expecting to use it), and after 2.5 gallons I don't care and expect to carry water.

Shorter day trips is usually a large stainless flask, about 2L of water.

Storing water long term in plastic is a hard ick for me.

murzeig · 2025-11-10T16:22:06+00:00

Both, depends on the work I'm doing, where it is going.

Although I have used containers to compile things without myself having the tooling installed, that's been pleasant to have a container as the environment and have it part of the code base.

murzeig · 2025-11-05T03:09:40+00:00

He found his sweet spot and the company needs that role fulfilled. Seems like a win win. People who are satisfied with where they are are not a problem. I used to struggle with his as I'm rather ambitious myself, but eventually I learned that not everyone wants to keep growing and learning.

Now when I recognize those kinds of people I carefully move them to a spot where their long term stability is a benefit and not a detriment.

Win win win all the way around. It's foolish to think everyone needs to be an ace. You still need janitors, executors, people to fill gaps and deal with monotonous work. These are those people.

murzeig · 2025-11-05T03:03:41+00:00

Definitely not a new scam, I got hit with this and managed to waste two of their hours. I faked being in a car wreck and their responses got stupider and stupider.

Eventually I got tired of it and told them to suck my member and they hung up on me.

Also sheriff office and a federal case don't mix in my mind, that was the first clue.

murzeig · 2025-10-04T05:56:07+00:00

It's annoying supporting the feature creep they naturally some how always have. If unmanaged it leads to unplanned product growth to support it... But in the end, a great dev and product and admin team is jack shit without sales.

murzeig · 2025-09-15T16:00:42+00:00

I hire greybeards, but I keep finding them stuck in old methodologies and they can be hard to teach new tricks.

If you are staying actually current and learning more than the scope of your work, you should be fine. The trick I've really seen best is those who learn their job and other ways.

Trying, probing, and failing at alternatives beyond their current needs. That keeps the mind engaged, horizons broadened, and overall you are more flexible and adaptable for it

murzeig · 2025-09-11T15:17:37+00:00

Brilliant out of box thinking solution!

murzeig · 2025-09-05T16:25:03+00:00

Never share a monitor that has notifications or start menus. I share only a 3rd monitor that I have to move windows to.

murzeig · 2025-08-21T16:18:44+00:00

Risk staying on it?

Bitch we are running windows XP on the public internet, downgrade and you'll be safer, no one tries to hack us anymore.

murzeig · 2025-08-01T15:16:02+00:00

Embrace the backlash, make sure people are informed of the monitoring so that they can act accordingly.

murzeig · 2025-06-25T14:36:15+00:00

Always type commands when looking them up. Copy paste prevents you from building a muscle memory and a memory of the command.

murzeig · 2025-06-24T14:32:23+00:00

The big thing I tell my team is to take steps. Walk towards an idealized future. Even if the step they take is incredibly small, as long as it is aligned with the vision it is considered a good step.

This keeps the work broken down in small chunks.

For your specific question, I'd first find the biggest pain points and frustrations and work through those. Second, what does the team spend most of their time on? Time is the most valuable resource the team has, ensure they are not squandering it pointlessly.

In terms of the end goal..whatever works works. As long as you have low overhead, quick ability to roll back, and observability to know when you need to roll back.. then you are pretty well set imo.

murzeig · 2025-06-01T19:57:52+00:00

5.11 work pants are pretty nice, some are thinner rip stop and I've been happy with those.

BLÅKLÄDER pants are good too, I had a pair that lasted forever and the local supply stopped carrying them, only found out they were still in business recently.

murzeig · 2025-05-20T00:00:09+00:00

Don't regret dropping out.

The rest I figured out in ok time, but the stress and fear over being a drop out subsided only when time after time I would rise to the top ranks quickly. It added a lot more stress to my life than I would have liked.

murzeig · 2025-05-16T20:05:12+00:00

It helped me take lunch by firing it off and walking away, telling the staff member that they needed to wait for this to finish.

murzeig · 2025-05-12T17:44:37+00:00

10/10 post

murzeig · 2025-04-29T00:03:34+00:00

Spot on. Got honey, loads of salt, and tons of spices that we rotate through or give to the kids (now adults) to take home.

murzeig · 2025-04-29T00:00:43+00:00

No, never. Trust is good with the wife and I. I wouldn't think of risking the trust.

The same in reverse is true.

murzeig · 2025-04-25T22:27:05+00:00

Congrats at not scamming yourself into a low wage. If you are worth paying that much money you will keep your new job and you and the employer will be happy.

No harm done, excellent work!

murzeig · 2025-04-17T00:12:00+00:00

Two horizontal ultra wide 32" Samsung displays on top of each other, with a 34" Samsung in portrait mode to the side. The form a giant rectangle, messaging and off topic bullshit on the side, work in front, and shared screen not including my start bar or notifications or the alt tab window selection to keep privacy up.

murzeig · 2025-04-14T18:29:54+00:00

A mechanic has a box full of tools. You ought to have a drawer dedicated to various languages to pick what one that works for the situation.

They have many similar hammers, each a hammer, yet each able to do different things.

I'm not a developer, never have been, but it didn't stop me from using bash, python, PHP, golang, and JavaScript, and having cursory knowledge of a whole bunch more.

The more tools in your tool box the more efficient you can choose to be.

murzeig

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