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A lunch.

• cooking
• food

Apple like to think they are pretty good, but with their smart assistants they are so far behind. Why, Siri is still telling me, years down the line, that she can’t find anything in the web for the sound of chicken frying in the pan or the sound of my mixer kneading dough. Get your shit together, Apple.

One of my teams just came through a tough period of getting a piece of work through an initial round of testing so it can be merged and hidden behind a feature flag. It was hard in them and I’m proud of them for solving the problems.

Some of them worked long hours and weekends and we have to deal with that. Spoke to some of them today and told my newest team member that I will never expect her to be responsive at all hours. That if I need her to work long hours I’ll actually specifically ask for it and set boundaries and work out time in lieu.

She told me it’s the first time a manager has ever said that to her.

What is wrong with people?

I might be “become expert with pro-tools” level of obsessed with the idea of Rebel Girl, but with a string quartet.

I’m beginning to think auto correct has achieved some low form of sentience and has recognised my (regrettably ongoing) issues with your/you’re and there/their/they’re and is changing them even when I get it right.

We’re moving offices into a WeWork and my pass has a slogan “Do why you love” and I really appreciate this suggestion to go home and have a nap and maybe start drinking some G&Ts while reading a book.

I bet I'm not the only person to ever fat finger and type crontab -r.

Seems like a bad design to use those two keys for what I imagine are the most-used and least-used commands.

I had a problem, so I tried to solve it by downgrading to ElasticSearch 7.x, and now I have no problems.

I don't have to touch ElasticSearch very often, but every time I do these days it really does feel like they were sitting around and thought "We've got a really useful product that people find useful. But Amazon are making some money off it. So let's light ourselves on fire."

"What do you want, David?"

"ummm....a planet destroying asteroid strike?"

"...ok."

"It was a very open ended question."

"From McDonalds"

• nihilism

"Have you got a spare USB key I can use?"

"Yeah, I think so. Here's one, it's only got......all the source code for Legion Interactive SMS gateway? How the hell did I get this, I never worked for them?"

End stage palliative care is just cruelty. The people who insist that patients and families suffer are monstrous.

The question in standup yesterday was “What’s your favourite tree?” And I said Treebeard. No one got it.

And then one of the team said they thought I would say something like binary search tree and I’m still mad that I didn’t think of that.

The speakers on Data topics tonight convinced me of something, the importance of keeping my metadata private. Or perhaps the folly of allowing data scientists to access it. I should stop Boosting and Liking on the fediverse, even, and keep it on my own site.

So glad @web_goddess found my good side at #sydtechleaders

Scene - Earlier today

me: Ok, fuck this, I'm going to fix the OpenTelemetry stuff. I'm sick of all the traces being lost. I'll just switch the config to what Honeycomb tells me to do.

me: Ok, that's done, just need to update the .env files. Huh, look at that, the honeycomb settings were all mistyped. um...🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Lol, the gall of the usual suspects who fought tooth and nail against any measure to control house prices now pissing and moaning at mortgage stress because median house prices are basically a million dollars.

• auspol

I was told quite confidently last week that my team of three react engineers and five PHP engineers should be able to turn a tech debt riddled 10 year old code base into a Canva clone.

By the end of July.

Narcissism is a hell of a drug.

Been an awful twenty four hours. I think I’ve come to the end of my tolerance for putting my anxiety and stress in the hands of a narcissist focussed only on his vanity project. And it’s perfect timing to change employers when there are so many layoffs occurring in tech, right?

Anyway, going to settle down with a relaxing podcast about (checks) the Life and Crimes of Nicolae Ceaușescu. Oh goody.

I flew from Los Angeles to Sydney, taking off at about 22:45 on Friday evening PST. So did I have a Saturday? At what time would I have crossed the international date line?