Avocadia

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.