Scott Banwart @sbanwart@fosstodon.org

I took Pulumi out for a spin and wrote up a first impressions review on my blog.

https://scottbanwart.com/blog/2020/05/til-pulumi-first-impressions/

#pulumi #infrastructureascode

Me: I'm having a hard time keeping up with all these podcasts, I should pare down this list
Also Me: This looks interesting... *adds new podcast to the list*

In hindsight, it was probably a mistake to create a Keybase account. At least it wasn't all that hard to delete my account. #keybase

Sigh. Stumbled over a podcast that looks interesting, but it's hosted on SoundCloud so it doesn't work with my podcatcher.

There is no way I'll be able to stick to the #100DaysToOffload, but I did write my first blog post of 2020.

https://scottbanwart.com/blog/2020/04/til-terraform-feature-flags/

So, Fedora is far and away my favorite Linux distribution but it seems to be a lousy base for building containers.

Waiting to see how many tone-deaf tech companies run a joke on their website tomorrow, April 1. Bonus points if the joke is COVID-19 related.

I think this will be my last round of Folding@Home contributions. While I have CPU cycles to spare, the GPU workloads make my primary computer unusable and that seems to be all that's available. The other computers I'm running are just wasting electricity siting idle.

Well that's frustrating. Amazon is delaying shipping an order in favor of shipping more essential items to others, and they won't let me cancel. I'm all for making food, medicine, and other important items a priority, but don't hold my order hostage.

Seems like there are only GPU workloads available from Folding@Home. Too bad the client won't recognize this old Quadro without the (long unsupported) proprietary Nvidia drivers.

Rueing the day I decided to implement Elastic search to store log data.

Scrum is the Scrappy Doo of agile.

I favor proprietary software over open core. At least they're honest about their intentions.

Further evidence that getting rid of my GitLab account was the right move.

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/03/12/free-period-for-cicd-external-repositories/

Being reminded that package/dependency management is a rolling dumpster fire regardless of what operating system you use.

If you would have told me five years ago I would be sitting here reading management books, I wouldn't have believed it. 🤷‍♂️

Every time I browse the federated timeline, I end up blocking a handful of domains.