David Hagerty @dathagerty@mastodon.technology

You know that feeling you get when you look at an open-source project and realize you've been implementing a subset of its features over the past six months, but worse?

Don't tell my boss I'm having that right now looking at some of the more obscure features in Prometheus.

mood rn

Guys, what if Kubernetes isn't the solution to everything?

AWK, xargs and pipes are a wonderful combo.

Something that I hope is common knowledge, but is still delights me every time I remember it.

Pre-internet: MY buggy/insecure software

Post-internet: OUR buggy/insecure software

Today on "Hacker" News: don't buy consumer routers, they're not secure.

I mean, no shit. The internet is basically one big security vulnerability.

Everyone seems to be making a stink about Rust's async/await stuff.

I haven't formed an opinion yet, but probably will in the future.

I've just gotten an email from a recruiter to work at an "enterprise coloration [sic]" startup.

I don't know what that is, but it's really hard to not reply with a snarky reply about not having any experience with graphics programming.

Sometimes I sit back and think about younger me, my interests and hobbies and such.

And then I realize I could technically include installing Linux distros in my list of high-school hobbies. I used to install a different Linux every weekend. I had favorite distros, formed opinions on package managers...holy shit I needed to get out more.

Some people write software like it's a giant mathematical function or proof, some grand truth that they discovered.

Other people write software like prose, like they're writing the next "Ulysses" or "Crime and Punishment" - an artful and exciting and utterly novel creation.

And then there's me, sitting on a rock gently coaxing electrons to change chairs if they feel like it, as long as they live their best life.

No matter how much I heat my house, it always seems cold.

Maybe I shouldn't work next to a window.

I wonder if nootropics and caffeine are banned from science olympiads/math competitions/programming competitions/hackathons as PEDs.

Correction: people who haven't heard of it are ambivalent. But come on, it's Haskell. No one shuts up about it.

Someday I hope to create a programming language that generates as visceral a reaction from programmers as Haskell. No one is ambivalent to Haskell.

But at least you get stock options that vest after 20 years!

Recruiter: It's a dynamic work environment with a "figure it out" attitude, where you're constantly learning and doing new, cool things with the latest and greatest toys.

Reality: your coworkers are as organized as a herd of coked-up cats, there are no processes or standards at all, and you'll burn out in like two weeks.