Michael Sheldon @shatteredgears@mastodon.technology

Assisting another division in the company is no different than any other tech support.

"Thanks for helping out with all these files. We just have one more for you to process, plus these two others."

🤦‍♂️

That would be three files then?
I feel like I'm dealing with Baldrick in a Blackadder episode.

Tired: Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Wired: Have you tried setting it on fire?

So, Microsoft's Azure outage was caused by a failure of a third-party's DNS (CenturyLink), which resulted in the automated deletion of customer data....

WTF?

This isn't a failure of a system, this is complete, total failure of any common sense. Also a complete failure to do any real design work at all.

Remember folks, you can't spell "fragile" without "agile"

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/01/dns-outage-turns-tables-on-azure-database-users/

Trying out Whalebird on my chromebook.
First impressions:
Pro
The "slack-like" interface is more efficient than the many columns of Subway Tooter for multiple accounts.
Multiple themes.
Con
The New Toot window does not follow theme, and is not resizable.
It's slow. Like really, really, annoyingly slow. I'm guessing it's an electron thing. I've never had an app lag so badly on this device.

I would really love to try out Mastalab. It has a lot of features I like, including some not available in Subway Tooter.
Problem is, I almost exlusively use tablets and a chromebook, and Mastalab does not support either, can't even install it.
What is it about Android app devs that they intentionally exclude tablets and other larger screen devices?

I'm in unit test hell.

I very strongly believe in the value of automated unit tests and functional tests.

But I do so very much HATE writing them. 🤬

How you know you're having too much fun:
$ git status
...
# Untracked files:
# (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# core.13563
# core.20678

When you've got a couple more hours to work, but you're so wonky from lack of sleep that actually doing any work would be a horrific mistake.

That feeling when you boot up your computer in the morning, and it just flashes a message and shuts down again.
Seems there was a bit of an oversight with grub (shim) updates and compatibility with machines having an older uefi system.
Not an auspicious way to start a Monday.

I did get it booted, just a pain to get it fixed.

My chromebook just updated to Chrome OS 70. (beta channel)

I *hate* it.
Like, die in a fire hate it.

No more individual notifications in the status bar, just a circle with the number of outstanding notifications. So, now I can't tell at a glance *what* is trying to notify me, and thus, can't tell how important it is. And the persistent notifications for things like outside temperature are now completely useless.

69 made me so happy with Linux app support, now this dumpster fire.

When someone submits a feature request or "bug fix", and the first thing they do is list all of their credentials...

You know it's going to be:
a. Impractical
b. A complete violation of all existing protocols
c. Batshit Nuts
d. All of the above

Note that the credentials almost ALWAYS include MS certs.