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Dave W
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big queer infra overlord. 
devops, infosec, politics, shitposts.
collaboration not competition.

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dave 1 year ago
Good lord it’s easy to forget how good Montalban’s Khan was.
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dave 1 year ago
I'm working on a post which explains everything, but if you're already boned up on ray cats let's all rock out to this one
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dave 1 year ago
Tech continues to kick my ass. I used Traefik for ingress for years, then they dicked about and made the OSS offering unsustainable. So I switched to Gloo. Which worked fine. Now I find that using Gloo as just an ingress has become awful. And Traefik has gone back to what it was before. Madness.
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dave 1 year ago
I am constantly blown away by how groundbreaking TOS was. In the era of Jim Crow, Dr. Richard Daystrom was a Black man with an understanding of computers, far beyond even Spock. He was unquestionably capable and demanding of respect. And his name followed computing in Trek forever after.
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dave 1 year ago
I mean it would be a disservice to call this one a banger, but it is an incredible track. Play loud, with plenty of bass.
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dave 1 year ago
Please stop using Flutter. I know the idea of “write once, run anywhere” is tempting. But it really doesn’t do native properly. It works fine until it doesn’t. Just pick a platform. If that means I can’t use your app, I’ll live with that.
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dave 1 year ago
`python -c "from __future__ import braces"` We can but dream.
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dave 1 year ago
PSA: if you're building a new infrastructure-as-code codebase or looking to build one for yourself, I cannot recommend [Pulumi](https://pulumi.com) enough. Feature parity with Terraform - they generate many providers directly from Terraform, and some directly from the upstream provider's API docs.
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dave 1 year ago
Fun times with IaC. And this is only *part* of the tree... image
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dave 1 year ago
As pictures of you your mum would have around go… image
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dave 1 year ago
FAO anyone who needs to hear it for their Ruby tinkering: `irb ` ❌ `pry` ✅
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dave 1 year ago
Fun with AI. Wanted it to filter a YAML file for me. Prompt "filter dnsimple_zones.yml for system_record: false". First tried feeding it to Warp. That.. didn't work. As in, for some reason it decided to turn the YAML into a Bind zone file. Cursor understood the assignment. But a zone file? Blimey.
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dave 1 year ago
I will defend found footage to the death. In no other genre can have have a great idea, and make a whole film around that idea without any budget to speak of. Sure, it benefits from cash - what doesn't - but you CAN make a great film for 50p and some string. That has massive value in itself.
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dave 1 year ago
Further to my last about Tom Baker: the man is such a wonderful lunatic image
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dave 1 year ago
And then there’s this. image
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dave 1 year ago
You know, even five years ago, being able to do this and expect it to be able to extract the text, be accurate, and be correct, was unthinkable. Never mind interpreting the meaning of the image. image
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dave 1 year ago
TIL that Tom Baker was literally hired off a building site. image
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dave 1 year ago
I cannot tell you how badass [Sunsama](https://www.sunsama.com) is. I am allergic to daily planning and GTD. This thing is incredible. Especially if you’re syncing in work from Notion and GitHub and schedules out to Google Calendar like me, but operates perfectly well all on its own. Excellent.