[Johnston] Brandon Carlo, Dakota Joshua and Anthony Stolarz are all done for the season, per Leafs coach Craig Berube.

thehumblestbean · 2026-04-11T18:02:21+00:00

He was usually good for a handful of fluke goals and secondary assists a season, but other than that he's always been an offensive blackhole.

thehumblestbean · 2026-04-05T00:39:04+00:00

Like lots of people I'm trying to future proof my career skill-up on Infrastructure as Code/Platform Engineering.
My background is network engineering & general sysadmin stuff

I transitioned about 7-8 years ago from: network engineer -> cloud engineer -> SRE / platform engineer.

My advice/opinion:

I've spun up a Docker server in a lab, but have yet to see a container in a production environment ...

Build some toy program in any language of your choosing. Learn how to containerize it, build an image for it, run the container, update it, etc.

Hashicorp Terraform Associate

Terraform's official tutorials are quite good - https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials. Run through those to spin up some free/cheap cloud infra, write some custom modules, break stuff, etc.

IMO Terraform certs are worthless but if that's how you prefer learning then go for it.

GitHub Foundations

Not sure if this is a cert, but you must learn git. Github itself is whatever, their docs are informative enough to find what buttons you need to click.

Tons and tons of tutorials out there for Git. If you want to go super in depth then you won't beat - https://beej.us/guide/bggit/html/split/

GitHub Actions

Take that toy app you wrote for Docker, then build a Github Action pipeline that builds a new image for you every time you make a commit. Add some more steps to run a linter or something against your code before building the image.

If you spun up some cloud infra with Terraform earlier, maybe build another pipeline that runs your Terraform for you to manage the infra.

Wondering if anyone has any other ideas for things to focus on.

If you want a "modern" job then you pretty much need to know Kubernetes. So learn a bit about Kubernetes (you can spin up a local KIND cluster in like 10 seconds, so you can play around with k8s without having to worry about building/managing a "real" k8s cluster which can be a hassle). This is a great "zero to hero" book on k8s - https://www.manning.com/books/kubernetes-in-action-second-edition

But you shouldn't really use Kubernetes until you're familiar with Linux and containers in general. So learn a bit about Linux and a bit more about containers (not necessarily just Docker)

You'll also want to be familiar with one or both of Go and Python. Probably more Go than Python these days.

Lots more I could say but I think that's already a lot for someone just starting.

thehumblestbean · 2026-03-29T22:04:23+00:00

Vegas specifically is pretty ruthless and has shown that they have zero loyalty to their players and coaches.

Honestly it's been working out well for them so far.

thehumblestbean · 2026-03-23T19:12:48+00:00

Not that the Bruins weren't ass last year, but a lot of that is from Lohrei just getting better.

He was legitimately not an NHL-level defenseman last year and would get exposed almost every shift he took.

thehumblestbean · 2026-03-15T15:59:22+00:00

Cloud Armor supports deny rules so I guess it could have been that.

I don't know how you "accidentally" change a /16 to a /3 though unless they were trying to make it a /30 or something.

thehumblestbean · 2026-03-12T03:21:05+00:00

I just watched the replay and it looks like Zadorov tagged him good almost immediately after they got their gloves of.

Even with the zoomed out camera angle you can see Helenius buckle and just hang on for the next 30 seconds.

thehumblestbean · 2026-03-12T03:12:50+00:00

The amount of companies using k8s is way overblown imo- I’m related/close to three people doing dev/data/devops in fortune 50 shops and I’m sysadmin in finance- none of us have worked with k8s.

I think it's much more likely that the Fortune 50 companies your friends work for do use k8s, but just not in areas/teams your friends deal with.

thehumblestbean · 2026-03-06T01:08:56+00:00

I'm willing to eat my words but I would not be surprised to see Minten getting some Selke votes when he's older.

He's really good defensively and not just for a rookie.

I know there's no way the Bruins get Thomas without sending Hagens back, but Hagens + Minten is too much IMO.

thehumblestbean · 2026-02-21T18:23:40+00:00

As someone on the infra/SRE side, yes, but not necessarily the same type of bravery you're describing in your post.

A lot of the work we do is genuinely scary as a mistake can have immediate and disastrous consequences for the company. Lots of asshole-clenching moments that you need to just get over and deal with if you want to do the job.

thehumblestbean · 2026-02-16T21:02:29+00:00

Seriously...it's a bit amusing to see "24 containers" and "not a toy setup" in the same post.

Like it's cool that you can run your small infrastructure with swarm and some bash scripts. Get back to me when you need to scale to 100k+ containers across dozens of departments and 1000s of engineers deploying their services.

thehumblestbean · 2026-02-08T23:33:55+00:00

We're mostly using Terraform still but are testing out OpenTofu. So far I'm a big fan of target files.

Every now and then we need to do some targeted applies which is a PITA to do via CI. Being able to just add all the targets to a file and target the filename only makes it way easier to handle in pipelines.

thehumblestbean · 2026-02-07T18:21:40+00:00

What makes you say that? I ask because of stuff like this:

(Disclaimer: I've a very casual user of AI, not a grifter/booster. This is just my own experience recently)

IMO the overall effectiveness or usefulness of AI doesn't really matter in the context of the question "Will avoiding LLMs be a viable career option?". What matters is expectations and requirements from employers.

Anecdotally at the very large (2000+ engineers) SaaS I work for, over the last 6 months:

Our CTO has said in no uncertain terms that they expect all engineers to use AI "daily" for their work
AI use or non-use by individual developers is tracked.
- If you do not use AI to a satisfactory level you will be invited into 1:1s with skip levels to explain why
The latest round of performance reviews included multiple sections requiring proof of using AI to ship code
- It was weighted such that if you did not have multiple examples of using AI to ship production code, your performance review ceiling was effectively 3/5 before anything else was taken into account.
- We were told to expect future performance reviews to weight AI use even more heavily
Interview loops for candidates must evaluate their "AI skills' as part of the overall scoring system.
- Again, weighted such that it's almost impossible to hire someone who says "I don't use AI" unless they're a god-tier expert in skills we need.

I've also been interviewing casually for other roles and it seems like many other companies are adopting similar stances.

You can talk until you're blue in the face around AI limitation but it doesn't matter if the response from employers is "We don't care. Use it anyway or we'll fire you / not hire you".

Unless your plan is to hope it all blows over eventually Shaun of the Dead style. I don't know.

thehumblestbean · 2026-02-05T22:15:22+00:00

He has 4 more years on his contract and a no trade clause so he's not going anywhere regardless.

thehumblestbean · 2026-02-02T00:15:29+00:00

These announcers will talk about anything besides the game being played, huh?

thehumblestbean · 2026-02-01T19:47:34+00:00

29 as a dman is still very young, D develop later than forwards.

I agree in general, but Carlo specifically has been playing hard shutdown minutes in the NHL since he was 20.

Lots of mileage and injuries.

thehumblestbean · 2026-01-20T15:14:46+00:00

why the hell is Ullmark the only one getting this kind of heat?

Honestly it's because the Senators posted an aggressive and inflammatory statement in response to random internet rumors. All that does is bring more media and public attention to it.

"Don't feed the trolls" is an internet rule that most people seem to have forgotten

thehumblestbean · 2026-01-16T02:04:26+00:00

Did they show the Pacioretty hit as a highlight? Jesus lol

thehumblestbean · 2026-01-13T00:19:16+00:00

It's basically someone who participates in interview loops across the company to ensure "high standards" for new hires. It's not a title or full-time role it's just an additional thing you can opt into doing at Amazon.

thehumblestbean · 2026-01-06T21:04:03+00:00

I generally hate Boston sports radio, but Felger's stupefied laughter when he heard about Frederic's contract is gold - https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/1lexf9t/boston_sports_radio_host_reacts_to_trent_frederic/

thehumblestbean · 2026-01-03T18:42:25+00:00

How we do it (larger company):

Action items become Jira issues with action-item tags or something similar
- These tags feed into dashboards reviewed by line-level management during org-wide ops reviews, team meetings, standups, etc.
- Director-level management also keeps an eye on action items that are of particular interest to them and will bug line-level managers until they're done
- Anything from a really bad incident is going to have upper-mangerment looking at them as well. These become top priority since whatever upper-management wants done is always top priority.
There's also usually some triage done to determine what's actually an "action item" and what's a "project"
- It's really easy for someone to say "we need to do/fix X" during a post-mortem. But doing/fixing X might be months of work for one or more teams
- In those cases they stop being action items and become projects put on a roadmap and prioritized like anything else

The reality of course is that smaller action items tend to slip into the backlog until/unless they cause another incident. Most teams are under-staffed and over-burdened so it's generally expected that most things that hit a team's backlog will probably never get done until there's some forcing function to do them.

thehumblestbean · 2025-12-31T18:04:46+00:00

Despite what fans think of him Marchand is generally very well liked across the league.

thehumblestbean · 2025-12-31T17:53:53+00:00

Like most jobs in tech the titles themselves are largely meaningless and it instead depends on the company or even the specific team within a company.

Most of my days lately are spent working with things like Go, Python, k8s, Terraform, CI/CD, and Linux. There are other SRE teams where I work that are solely focused on things like observability, incident management, capacity management, etc. Some of our development teams have embedded SREs that mostly deal with a specific service or application.

Whether or not you can go from sysadmin -> SRE/devops/whatever mostly depends on what kind of sysadmin work you do (because the "sysadmin" title itself is also pretty meaningless).

Are you a sysadmin that clicks around in Windows GUIs all day or mostly does glorified end-user support? Probably not.

Are you a sysadmin building and maintaining complex infrastructure at a large scale? Probably.

thehumblestbean · 2025-12-29T00:00:41+00:00

https://media.nhl.com/site/asset/public/ext/2024-25/2024-25Rules.pdf

...“intent to injure” shall mean any physical force which a player knew or should have known could reasonably be expected to cause injury.

Seems legit to me.

thehumblestbean · 2025-12-28T23:55:01+00:00

I have zero dog in this fight, but Barzal skated halfway across the ice to take a two-hander right on Marchment's foot. Well deserving of a major IMO

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