SysAdmin1138 @sysadmin1138@octodon.social

I now have a stove top smoker. Can't have an outside one without geo-engineering myself a flat spot in the yard.

We'll see how this works.

A shelf of Santas. https://octodon.social/media/_1-ecbvRCQ2ofiBNXKE

Small town Missouri for lunch. Don't mind us.

@luckyslife Welcome to the federation!

I'll take the politics of compassion over the politics of vengeance, thanks.

Tomorrow I drive longlongways to start the Christmas Rituals.

The US midwest is going into the freezer this weekend. Sub-zero temps (F) forecast. I'll be there.

I remember how to cold. I think.

Shutting down public services to make a political point makes for wide collateral damage. Damages among people who vote, and blame the party making the political point rather than the party that "made them do that." That nuance is lost _every time_ and the parties keep forgetting that.

Lena has been giving Kara those eyes since Lena showed up. She gives them to the guy and suddenly everyone is all, "Oooooo! You liiiiiike him!"

Ahem.

Got an honorable-mention on the company HackWeek voting! Maybe my software-mechanicness has upgraded to engineer?

Those feels when the big hairy. process you just finished writing actually WORKS.

Meaning you now HAVE to tackle the shark-tank full of razor-blades.

When #SandyHook happened, my work JUST got new alphanumeric pagers. They had a news-push on them. That's how we all learned about it.

This problem has been with us since the beginning of my career.

I don't wanna touch that class. It's full of sharks, superglue, and spikes.

It's HackWeek(*) at work, and for the first time I have a project. I'm going to take the main app and graft on a brand new queuing system that doesn't make me want to throw things and burn everything to the ground.

Have I mentioned I've never programmed in that language before?

My hope is that by proving that one of the *software mechanics* in DevOps can make a thing go, they can FIX THE DAMNED THING FOR REAL.

* Actually 3 days, but shh.

I cheer because if it had gone the other way I would be weeping, and I'm cheering that I don't have to cry.

I'm perfectly happy to cheer what happened in Alabama, even in the face of the exit-polls that show just how racist and bigoted the state still is.

Why? Because you cheer the incremental victories. These are the victories that gives the folks fighting the HARD fight the spirit they need to keep going for the long haul.

Yes, the political stars had to align just right for this to happen. But they aligned once, proving it can happen, and can happen in Alabama.

On digital doorknobs. Not the usual IoT article.

http://sysadmin1138.net/mt/blog/2017/12/digital-doorknobs.shtml

US Medical System:

People are API calls that carry one or more condition codes. Conditions are serviced according to an SLA with quotas.

(done now)

Which you actually want. Because if you can certify new devices easy, you can guarantee that griefers are going to find ways to lock you out of your own home through that channel.

And as with all physical devices attached to software, the actual hardware will need to be replaced more often than Ye Olde Bumpkey-proof Deadbolte. That leads to resentment.

It also means handing your keys over to the new owners when you sell is a very different thing than passing over a key-ring with 9 keys on it. Forget that handoff, and the new owners will have to rip everything out completely and buy new.