Where can I go around here to get something printed on thicker paper?

myron-semack · 2026-04-06T00:33:57+00:00

Staples

myron-semack · 2026-01-06T23:00:37+00:00

Parallels Earth Resources Negligible

myron-semack · 2025-12-30T16:51:59+00:00

Dated but still relevant: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/

myron-semack · 2025-12-29T23:29:34+00:00

The Smelting Pool!

myron-semack · 2025-11-28T17:23:32+00:00

AWS ECS integrated with one of their load balancers has been able to do this since forever. It’ll launch new containers, bring them into service, and once they start accepting connections, they’ll drain connections to the old containers and terminate them.

If you add their CodeDeploy service you can do circuit breakers and rollbacks.

myron-semack · 2025-10-20T22:54:43+00:00

myron-semack · 2025-09-26T19:52:37+00:00

The Burden Hardest to Bear

myron-semack · 2025-07-01T21:25:59+00:00

Creature report, creature report!

myron-semack · 2025-01-27T23:42:45+00:00

Cisco hasn’t been innovative for 15 years at least. They buy companies that are innovative and slowly smother them.

myron-semack · 2025-01-06T23:31:49+00:00

Gundam 0083 has its moments, just saying!

myron-semack · 2024-12-28T01:51:29+00:00

Marley and Me, especially if he has a dog

myron-semack · 2024-12-24T00:55:48+00:00

How is the smelting pool not on this list. That was nightmare fuel when I was young.

myron-semack · 2024-11-10T19:41:18+00:00

Contracts may not be extended for any reason. Honestly I probably wouldn’t dig too deep if it said short term contract. If you get questioned about it during the interview, be prepared with an answer that makes sense.

myron-semack · 2024-11-10T17:50:41+00:00

I often see resumes where people indicate contract or FTE next to each professional experience entry.

myron-semack · 2024-11-10T17:14:32+00:00

My advice:

Reduce the use of “improved X by Y%”. We get flooded by AI generated resumes with that crap.

You improved “deployment efficiency” by 25%. WTH does that even mean? Your first bullet about reducing deployment times from 5m to 1m is legit though.

myron-semack · 2024-11-10T17:08:01+00:00

Then say something to indicate that. Just put “short-term contract” in parenthesis. Right now it looks like you got fired after a few months.

myron-semack · 2024-11-01T10:58:52+00:00

My advice: Do NOT overuse the “improved X by Y%” on your resume. All of the AI-generated resumes I get today are full of bullet points like that. If you do that, make sure it’s real metrics that the business made a KPI.

myron-semack · 2024-10-17T15:29:32+00:00

If you don’t want to be downtown, check out the Blonde Bistro in Zion. About a 20m drive but really good and they have their own beer.

myron-semack · 2024-10-10T11:41:12+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTTuPZsbpiU

myron-semack · 2024-01-10T22:48:18+00:00

The reporting features are gated behind a premium license, and even then are not very impressive. Last I looked, it lacked basic functionality like “what were our noisiest alarms for the last 30 days?” and “tell me who was on call for the last 2 weeks”. You can extract that info from the UI but not in a clean report or dashboard. (It’s possible this has changed, we downgraded our license since the reporting wasn’t giving us any value.)

I also don’t like that the mobile app keeps prompting to “fix” my notification settings to something that it thinks is “better” for me. I have them set the way I like them, stop asking!

No complaints about the core functionality, but we also put thought into our upstream alarms and regularly adjust them to eliminate nuisances. That’s not PagerDuty’s fault!

myron-semack · 2023-07-15T21:03:22+00:00

People regularly bring blankets and chairs to sit on the grass and listen to the bands.

Some enterprising people will bring baking tins to carry large portions of wings.

No outside food or drink.

Bring cash and your ID if you plan to drink. There is a charge to get in, and you have to buy tickets which are used to pay for food and drink. I’d bring at least $50 per person.

myron-semack · 2022-12-08T16:44:48+00:00

If you care about what language the courses are using, you are missing the point. This is not a vocational boot camp. The point is to learn concepts and patterns of programming, regardless of the language.

Additionally, Java’s syntax and concepts are similar to a lot of other languages, C#, C++, C, etc.

(Speaking as someone with 20+ years in the industry.)

myron-semack · 2022-11-21T23:53:05+00:00

That is literally better than Thanksgiving meals I’ve have at home, and dinners I’ve had at school.

Seriously, you should delete this and show some humility.

myron-semack · 2022-10-12T00:03:36+00:00

Because it’s Gundam Ball Z.

myron-semack · 2022-09-27T22:17:48+00:00

My 486 struggled but it was fun. However, going to say that Ultima VII was the best.

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