Confessions of a Millennial in Tech A lot of mixed feelings and unanswered questions.

www.elenaverna.com/p/confession.... Just... THIS. On so many levels.

I switched a number of years back from Eclipse/STS to IntelliJ. i'm curious though... is STS/Eclipse still used? Popular? I'm tempted to try it again just because. I LIKE to try different tools on a regular basis. Competition is GOOD!

"Coding has been drudgery, historically" - reading how AI solves this "problem". Coding is NOT drudgery for me and the devs I know. WE LIKE coding. People are missing that AI is taking away what was fun for a lot of people - like using AI to do a puzzle/game. Yes I use AI but I still MISS coding.

Oy. build issues last few days on #spinnaker. NPM publishing broke (moved to trusted publishing). THEN Testcontainers broke - GHA runner upgrades. THEN spotless plugin issue just... lot of weird quirks ALL at once on builds made for a LONG few days fixing builds. BUT new releases are out!

Question is...did you get a pizza oven?

I'm pulling bluey SO bad on this :)

IMHO: Observability platforms are rarely something you should build. The commercial vendors like @honeycomb.io or newrelic are worth EVERY penny (Grafana is ok but go cloud & try honeycomb first). "do-it-yourself" is for CORE business PRODUCTS! Then apply this to CD/CI/SSO/Git/etc.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

"IF you're not cheating [in war], you ain't trying". I've heard variations of this theme. In programming: If you aren't using AI, you aren't trying. You still got to WATCH it's results (claude just tried to write a test by text code to add the checks ugh). BUT still can save a LOT of time

SO I've ported most of my stuff to OpenTofu at this point. I'm curious though... what about packer? Packer in particular is STILL THE DEFACTO solution for AMI/machine image building. I've not seen an equivalent fork near to the quality of Tofu for this...?

Leonard Nimoy was more than a colleague—he was a friend, an ally, and my political soulmate. Leonard played a half-human, half-Vulcan officer—a being caught between two worlds. Yet in his own life, he was perhaps the most profoundly human person I have ever known.

Days until Trump is out of office Countdown timer showing how much time left until Saturday, January 20, 2029 12:00:00 PM in timezone New York, America (UTC-05:00)

www.tickcounter.com/countdown/61... this.. is moving way way too slow...

Will never ever buy: Movie, Song, etc. off of ANY online store. BUY the dvd & convert for home. Go with GOG for games. This is the way (THANK YOU Handbrake/others). Works on Kodi, Plex, kids tablets. NO nightmare of licensing/access issues. I'm considering moving away from streaming too lately.

can we make it 3 more years? :( How much of the world will be broken even more than it does today? TRADITIONAL Republican GOALS - smaller government, balanced budget, etc. SOME good ideals but not always VIABLE but understandable. Reality is so different and the party has lost it's path.

Was a potential juror for Jury duty. The defendant was a person of color. Defense attorney question - does law enforcement target those of color more than not? VERY FEW said "yes" to this (I was one). I don't know if few thought yes or no one wanted to speak up. I find that concerning...

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Seriously @developers.google.com what were you thinking on 403 vs. 429 for "too many requests" on API rate limits? I've been trying to understand the intent here? developers.google.com/workspace/gm... (working on github.com/spinnaker/sp... tied to this PR moving away from batching)

Middle of using openrewrite to do some major upgrades now. Though... this is some legacy 2-3 stuff. I plan on bumping my lab & test systems to 4 soon! I hit some ORM issues in 3.1 that have been a blocker on a few apps (not dug into yet on why) I want to test in 4 see if they're resolved.

I've started a VERY simple deployment & okta setup via github.com/jasonmcintos... but there's... quirks, e.g. the auth flow creating randomized port per config :(

Translating promql grafana queries into otel clickhouse queries... Claude generated some interesting results. Helps with the basic query stuff, but as always gotta tweak it. Still somewhat of a timesaver from writing it ALL by scratch (though many were ALREADY copy/paste). Still required work

ALSO huge thanks @cloudflare.social for DNS & Domain management. Makes running a lab SO MUCH easier/cleaner WITHOUT breaking the bank!

OK lab is all on clickhouse (I still do SOME Prometheus just to be able to run random queries). Got logs (which... dear lord are painful IMHO in Grafana right now), metrics, traces, next... EVENTS (aka wide cardinality data). Even added ILO health checks w/ alerts!

I've been fiddling trying to get it running on Truenas or on k8s - but i didn't want all the things (aka Keycloak, was trying Okta but kinda broke atm with external IDPs). Need to try integrated auth next. BUT ... it's tempting - how are you running it? What do you like most?

You'd figure, but... sadly I'd bet there are those who'd go all in. There's insanity everywhere :( and he came from somewhere...

What's scary... is somehow.. these reproduce... which means SOMEONE tolerates this kinda stupidity. And breeds more of levels of it.

When did "Hoax" change to "I lied my arse off and you shouldn't know about it"?

I've already shoved 125 MILLION rows into my @opentelemetry.io github.com/jasonmcintos... (using a simple clickhouse server)... :) In 16 hours... I'm probably doing a bit much in my lab... given I THINK I just crashed my k8s nodes...

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Moving from prometheus to clickhouse on my lab. Can't easily capture "this change event" in obs1.0 NEED DATA, not "metrics". But... grafana: I can do it but it sucks UI, config wise, searching, etc. without a LOT of work. Go with @honeycomb.io or NewRelic or some other vendor for prod.

KINDA like my email backlog - I'm getting to "ok if you're not on iMessage/text or slack I'm ignoring it". Course I've been getting spam on messages, so maybe it's a platform lasts until the spam overloads it and new platform time!

Just a few new #spinnaker enhancements in play... an API to finally allow killing "zombie" pipelines! Number of tickets had to answer "can you go kill this" oy!