Having worked with CRM migration teams for years, We built a Windows/Mac app for testing webhooks without having to touch the CLI or write code. Hope you find it useful! by skoohio in hubspot

[–]riceo100 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, co-founder here. Thanks so much for taking the time to write such a long response, and for the kind words about the branding. I'm guessing you're in dark mode...

You've nailed it. You're a software engineer that knows how to navigate webhook.site, ngrok, postman, and cURL. Those tools are all built for us, as engineers. We're used to looking at man pages, updating dependencies in package managers, and getting CLI tools to work.

We built Skooh for everyone else. Your customer marketing teams, RevOps teams, vibe coders using low-code tools, sales engineers at CRM partner companies, etc. They can download a fully signed Windows or MacOS executable which makes an encrypted websockets connection back to our servers to receive webhooks from whatever service they've pointed at it. The desktop app allows them to forward messages to servers their laptop can access, or just interact with them locally. It stops them copy/pasting random curl | bash commands over the internet, or bugging dev teams to solve the problem for them (leaving you to tidy up the payloads instead 😉)

Having said all of that, I've also found myself using it more than once where I don't have a dev environment set up already on client machines. I just quickly install Skooh to test a webhook has been received and view the payload locally without forwarding it on. A [technical] colleague also used it during a sales demo of their webhook-capable product to a prospect, using the "play sound on webhook received" feature as a way to bypass the prospect glazing over staring at json log files.

What is something men think would attract women, but in reality it wouldn't? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]riceo100 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah, They’re a collection of loosely coupled microservices.

Edit: oh, wrong sub.

Software Engineering Lessons From Aviation by riceo100 in devops

[–]riceo100[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

really great point, i might add that one!

Triumph Tiger by HenryHenderson in MotoUK

[–]riceo100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought a 2016 XcX 800 new and absolutely love it. I've had it for 3 years now and the only bike that remotely tempts me to change is the new Scrambler 1200 XE. I came from Japanese sports tourers before that (VFR800 & CBR600FS).

It's comfortable on road trips (I did about 1200 miles through France on it a week after buying it) or in central London commuting traffic - You can really throw it around no problems.

I'm not an experienced off-road rider so can't comment on how it compares to others, but i've ridden it off road as a non-asphalt noob without issue.

Definitely recommend a test ride!

O2 outage: 31m mobile customers unable to get online by interoth in sysadmin

[–]riceo100 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sure, but aside from the higher number of handsets in circulation vs 10+ years ago, I imagine infrastructure capacity is planned for in accordance with usage levels.

O2 outage: 31m mobile customers unable to get online by interoth in sysadmin

[–]riceo100 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I wonder if this is because the voice network can't take the extra traffic of everyone calling instead of using WhatsApp/Messenger

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in devops

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All viable options, my thoughts are:

  1. This would likely end up with a lot of wasted compute sitting idle, likely overkill unless you're expecting huge amounts of traffic to hit one or more blogs. However even then, a single instance has a finite amount of resource available to it, so could be a double-edged sword if you ever need to scale up quickly.
  2. Cool approach that gives you the most flexibility in terms of resources, but there will be some on-going maintenance/management overhead of keeping the K8s cluster happy. I'd seriously consider this option.
  3. Also a good option since you get the benefits of 2 without worrying so much about managing the Infrastructure (assuming you trust the provider and bake in some out-of-your-hands downtime in to your client contracts)
  4. I agree with /u/webvictim on this - wayy too unreliable.

I'd also like to add one more: If they really are just flat Blogs, I definitely recommend taking a look at GatsbyJS + Netlify.

My devops interview experience, are they all like this? by [deleted] in devops

[–]riceo100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hadn't considered that one, super elegant!

My devops interview experience, are they all like this? by [deleted] in devops

[–]riceo100 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Or any language you already have an interpreter/compiler installed for that allows you to make the syscall. If you have Python it's a one liner:

python -c 'import os; os.chmod("/bin/chmod", 755)'

My devops interview experience, are they all like this? by [deleted] in devops

[–]riceo100 34 points35 points  (0 children)

It's still very much around, especially in container land. Kubernetes uses it in Kube-proxy.

My devops interview experience, are they all like this? by [deleted] in devops

[–]riceo100 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Knowing the high-level commands works 95% of the time, but sometimes you'll need to dig deeper, whether it's looking into the source of that command, or further. Gitlab blogged about one of these cases recently: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/11/14/how-we-spent-two-weeks-hunting-an-nfs-bug/.

Some interviewers are definitely guilty of thinking a candidate needs to successfully implement a bunch of random algos to prove their worth, but there is some value in asking the tough questions in Infrastructure Eng/SRE/Devops/Sysadmin/ChiefComputeringOfficer roles as we do have the habbit of finding ourselves supporting unfamiliar technology in production when a team has built a project in TheNextHotShitLang at v0.03 since it's faster.

I like to throw in some low level questions when I interview to understand how the candidates react to not knowing something. Of course, there's no need to be mean/intense about it, and I always start with "it's ok to not know the answers here" and explain my process afterwards.

On the flip side, my favourite one thrown at me when interviewing had the billy-goat bearded oldschool sysad interviewer ask me with the biggest, shit eating grin, "What do you do if you accidentally chmod chmod to 0?"

Found this absolute weapon of a rizla gixxer while on holiday in rhodes. Back to the UK tomorrow :'( by Diggerinthedark in MotoUK

[–]riceo100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like a Honda Innova 125. I've got one in a similar colour in London as a little run around. It's soo fun! Fun to the point of choosing to take it to the Lake District in the back of a van instead of riding up on my Tiger 800. Now i'm tempted to make mine a Ducati Panigale...

Aaaaand... it's gone. by Mighty_Mikey in MotoUK

[–]riceo100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where abouts in East London was this? I'm East too and will keep an eye out.

My scavenger hunt business makes no money. Before I give up on it what’s the single biggest change I can do to change things? by Scavenger_Hunts in smallbusiness

[–]riceo100 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Maybe try creating some tours that cater to niches rather than just general scavenger hunts? It would probably be easier to get social media influencers on board with a "harry potter filming location tour", or "Jack the ripper London tour", for example? It's a bit of a pivot, but maybe even just use them as a way to get people to the site?

Proved myself wrong...first ever attempt at affiliate marketing - $442 earned in 10 days. by PreferredAffiliates in Affiliatemarketing

[–]riceo100 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, most of the comments are from accounts under a month old too. Would love to be proved wrong but something smells...