that feeling when the thing you thought you were debugging is actually fine and you've actually uncovered a much bigger, hairier issue. extra points if you systematically annihilated everything that used to work in the process

There is an entire HTTP status code for that prevalent situation when you've just asked a tea pot to make coffee. httpstatuses.com/418

Many European countries, for example, have higher labor productivity than the United States. Yet citizens there choose to work fewer hours and take longer vacations, decreasing their output... foreignpolicy.com/gt-essay/the-e…

Programmers get paid to be frustrated and wrong about technology for a decent percentage of their lives so that other people can live in blissful ignorance.

Когда знакомишься с кодом на новой работе

Incomplete and inaccurate documentation got me like "can we really _know_ things, can I trust anyone, what is truth?"

it me

Technical interviews should be based on a real-world working environment. Not "use this whiteboard to solve a complex problem from memory". The questions should ask about concepts and how you would go about solving that complex problem.

fake it till you make it is about overcoming impostor syndrome... but when taken literally, may be backfire! you'll always feel like a fake! an impostor forever. may I suggest own it while you hone it

Twitter is fun because you get to be like, “Ducks are good” and someone in your mentions will go, “Um, I’m sorry but my brother is married to a duck scientist and this is a harmful view” and then someone else pops up going, “Your silence about horses is extremely telling”

Been fangirling this project for awhile after some brief conversation but amazing conversation with the founder. I'm donating, maybe you can too!?

slow clap

Sherlock Holmes speaks to my soul "I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is... goodreads.com/quotes/764168-…

uhhh did a bunch of major DNS servers just go down?

I love the irony of how Google Cloud monitoring uptime checks (which are currently broken) are not a monitored service on status.cloud.google.com

Current status: hanging out at #KubeConNA. Thanks Replicated for the hat.

Hamilton irl 🤩 My British coworker tells me it's not _entirely_ historically accurate but he might be biased

I really like how retro the look and feel of the Mac M2 Pro is. It takes me back to my MacBook Pro of 2012. That one was a tank and worked well for many years. 🥂

I've got a new handle and a new tiny blog. I don't promise that it'll be good or consistent. So far it's a pseudo-public diary focusing on my dual identities of mom & engineer. If you want to subscribe tinyletter.com/deploy_mom.

I'm seriously thinking about the first co-working space in my hometown. Am I crazy?