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As our single sign-on is permanently either broken or going to break tomorrow, I'm implementing jingle sign-on instead. Users will shake a bell with a unique timbre per user at the microphone to play shave and a haircut in order to obtain a persistent token. It won't work at all, but it'll be more fun than the current system. #sso

When the corporate supercomputer gives me directions, it'll frequently tell me to turn "in one thousand feet" but feet combined with that magnitude is not something I can estimate well. I need subjective directions like "hang a reggie in a wee bitty bit", "hook a U post haste", or "not this'n, but just after this'n, take a louie". #navigation

I want to take the plunge on opencompute network gear, but Ubiquiti's management software is just so darn simple and attractive looking. #enterprise #networking

Trying bitwarden for a week as a lastpass replacement because I'm tired of the LastPass Firefox extension being broken on mobile. It's kinda okay overall, but it actually works on FF Mobile, so I'm probably going to migrate permanently despite the loss of a few nice things like customizable keyboard shortcuts, autologin as a site option, and the "Collect all input fields" option for sites that use nonstandard or extra inputs. C'est la vie. It is enough.

No Coach Larranaga, no UVA, no VA Tech, no reason to watch the men's tournament. I suppose UMBC is local, but not that local.

@gemlog Just experiment. I'm not really worried about costs since I have a pretty big on-prem environment I can use, I just want to try porting some small .net and j2ee apps to stateless functions in either js or Go and see how well they work or don't across different providers and learn about how to implement different privilege levels in that style of application.

@gemlog Maybe? Heroku sounds like it, but also as if Amazon stole their idea and ran with it. I'm still just learning about lambda and the idea of billing per microsecond of execution seems great but also like it should be relatively easy to implement with parts that are already written by other people (like the kubeless and fission.io projects that I was reading up on during lunch). I will go learn more about heroku now and see if my initial impression is close. Thanks!

Does anybody know of any hosting companies with serverless platforms like AWS Lambda that aren't Amazon, Google, Microsoft, or IBM? #serverless

Today's requirement was once again "make the community version of this giant software package have a specific feature of the Enterprise version." I did it and did it well, but I also pointed out repeatedly that licenses would cost much less than they're paying me and it would get them a bunch of other desirable features. C'est la vie. My words are like drops of water in the ocean of their minds.

Writing loosely typed methods in strongly typed languages makes me unreasonably happy. It reminds me of directly mapping binary 3d model files into in-memory structs back when I didn't know much about security and was just starting to program.

@starbreaker @arlowrey It was a darn good trailer though. Two minutes well spent.

@numberwang 5813

@sciss The prime minister's press conference showing the reward laid out on a table while insisting that he is unconnected to the suspects is exceedingly weird.

I had a dream this morning that was just a burrito rotating slowly in front of a white background for several minutes like there was nothing else in the universe but this burrito and my disembodied consciousness. What the hell, brain?

Bananas should be peeled starting opposite the stem end.
Aunt and ant are pronounced differently.
The dead fish smell that sometimes accompanies low tide is utterly enchanting.
Avocados aren't really delicious until you mash them into guacamole.

Game Idea: Tetris crossed with the Tower of Hanoi. You try to move the discs to another peg, but one of those squiggly pieces starts falling every time you press a key. There is no win state.