Started the day in Belfast owning 3 bikes.
Flew back to Manchester, drove to Swansea, drove home. Ended the day owning 4 bikes.
Today was a good day.
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Brought coffee beans and a grinder.
Grinder is broken and not sure if I can fix it.
E_NO_COFFEE
Staying in an airbnb in Manchester for a couple of nights.
The wifi is fantastically rock solid, I'm amazed.
@tommorris "working"
Reminded of the absurdity of the Rockstar Programmer. (Accidentally overhead someone in a coffee shop saying technical interview candidates should be binned without a significant social media presence. <puke>)
People love to say that a rockstar can do the work of 10 regular engineers. That's just nonsense. 9 women can't have one baby in a month, and 10 "rockstar" developers can't replace 100 regular ones.
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheMythOfTheRockstarProgrammer.aspx
Unless you're monitoring your systems, you don't know what's broken (or not).
Also you can never meaningfully monitor everything.
Ergo, your stuff is always broken somehow.
if the content of your timeline isn’t interesting, follow different people
It’s not until you step off the treadmill and look around for a while that you realise just how gruelling being on the go constantly has been.
@qyliss yeah. I don’t do well unemployed it seems.
Day 1 of new job, so far spent 30 minutes waiting for software updates.
Once more reminded of tooting instead of twatting or faceplanting.
Using the Joyent public cloud to automate my image builds (via Packer) is cheaper than running a triton headnode at home. For a few years probably.
Git git git git git http://caiustheory.com/git-git-git-git-git/
Currently located in the country of my instance's tld
Upgraded the CPU in my micro server successfully - http://caiustheory.com/upgrading-microserver-g8-cpu/
Malta airport has a public piano in the departure lounge.
Someone is playing nice things. This is good.
Cycled 65 miles, including 5700 ft of climbing.
Pub now kthxbai.
https://scotland.computer/media/cwMvQmSwBFWr_w9U8OI
65 mile hilly cycling sportive tomorrow.
Tapering by sailing last night, gardening with power tools today and enjoying the local beer festival tonight.
Cracked on day 2 and installed the dev beta of High Sierra. Oops.
me, reading an article: "oh god, turbothatcher is really considering blocking version control software like github and sourceforge, isn't she"
raccoon friend: "yeah apparently she wants to combat all kinds of online Subversion"