Avocadia

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.

<two hours of careful package updating (why are they all prerelease packages‽?)

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