Rayray @obcilion@mastodon.technology
Adventurer, general-purpose nerd. Ex-gamedev, currently backender at Shortcut.
Host: "Want something to drink?"
Me: "Yea I'll have some cidr please"
Host: "10.0.0.0/16"
Found this in our codebase today. Apparently, nobody here does shit.
Oh man. Coffee used to make me smart and awake. Now it just makes me twitchy and stupid. Ugh.
May i request the facest of palms
Do you know anyone who might know someone in Surat Thani or Phuket who might possibly want to buy a 110cc kawasaki?
It's a fun bike, but too small to drive the remaining 1000km to Kuala Lumpur
can't stop thinking about what if a werewolf were put on the moon
Startup concept: Scalable, containerized, microservice-based string concatenation as-a-service.
Heading to Amsterdam for the #goto conference next week. Anyone up for a beer?
can't believe they called it "the iliad" and not "troy story"
Just realized that the majority of framework-related code fuckups I have is due to me not thoroughly reading the docs. I wonder how widespread that is.
I find it really amazing that we live in an age where 'AI Trainer' is an actual job title.
Played Project Zomboid yesterday. Found an empty notebook, a pencil and an eraser ingame. Used it to keep inventory.
Strangely satisfying.
Recently discovered Terraform. Turns the mind-numbingly boring task of configuring AWS into something a bit more fun. And automated, which is good.
Me: hey siri
Siri: *audible sigh*
AWS documentation be like "Follow this guide we linked to, then go to the next page"
crypt of the necrocurrency
I wish instagram had a share-to-mastodon button
Oh man. It's quite staggering how much more work is needed to deploy to AWS EC2 compared to Heroku.
Pick a problem in your community. Something big, long-lasting and difficult to solve. It might be diversity, it might be lack of education in any of the important areas of life, it may be availability of tools, it may be documentation.
Devote some of your free time to work on making that problem slightly less bad.
Congratulations! You have just been nominated the person responsible for that problem. From now on, the only reason why the problem exists is that you are not doing enough.
I've started listening to the "You are not so smart" podcast on my one-hour commute. Really good podcast about how humans are really good at fooling themselves
