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> For me it's that writing code is really enjoyable, and delegating it ... This. On my fun side project, I don't accept pull requests because writing the code is the fun part. Only…

My work has IPv6, and my home has IPv6. If I need to connect to my home Fedora machine from work, a simple "ssh fed.nono.io" works just fine — I don't need to activate my Wireguard…

Thumbs up on Concourse CI: I like seeing all my builds at once on any easy-to-read dashboard. That’s why we switched from GitHub actions: the dashboard.

> ascetic tech monks where we did this for the love of the work and not purely for status or money And this is not limited to 2010s! My father worked as a software engineer in Pola…

> not a single person has ever said to me "I'm doing this for the love of it". I'm doing this for the love of it. Maybe "love" is too strong a word, but I certainly "like" what I'm…

Measuring oneself as an engineer by the title of the salary band you're in is a disservice. I remember at Bell Labs they had one title: MTS (Member of Technical Staff). You were an…

Sometimes I log into the root account to see the billing information. I created an "administrator" account, but apparently it can't see the billing information, including the very-…

> [IPv6] only exists in datacenters My experience is different: Comcast has been doling out IPv6 addresses for at least a decade, at least in San Francisco. My T-Mobile phone gets …

A year ago I changed my CONTRIBUTING document to say that I don't accept pull-requests on my very modest open source project (a special purpose DNS server) I like coding, but am no…

I typically get a takedown notice a couple times a week, usually from my registrar (Namecheap) or from Netcraft, about 100 so far. I keep a public (transparent) list of takedowns, …

> I have personally been bitten once (about 10 years ago) by btrfs just failing horribly on a single desktop drive. Me, too. The drive was unrecoverable. I had to reinstall from sc…

Agreed. It takes more than a few developers to support older operating systems. At my old job we supported only two versions of our software product, Tanzu Operations Manager versi…

> you can make a one-time donation of $5 to a charity of your choice ... The Alcoholics Anonymous San Francisco website had to implement CAPTCHAs on their website because scammers …

I don't think a modern firewall can MiTM HTTPS TLS without triggering a "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" (Firefox) or "Your connection is not private" (Chrome). Edit: typo

Good point! I've also played almost a year's worth of World of Warcraft — it happened organically!

Thought-provoking piece, but I think it ignores one key item: we naturally gravitate to doing what we love. We don't need to write them down. I never wrote down, "build a dual-stac…

Fedora 45?! Dang, I only upgraded to Fedora 40 but days ago.

> As though students from different generations didn't do exactly the same thing about the Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam Wars. I remember protesting at Penn in '85 ('86?) to …

My brother's college roommate became an actor instead of a lawyer. Now fifty-seven, he confided, "I think I made the wrong decision."

I consume about 67 mL of olive oil per day; I buy 6 liters of olive oil every 90 days. I'm type II diabetic, diet-controlled, which means I have to get my calories mostly from fats…

> unix being a thrown out the car window by AT&T at speed I beg to differ; when I was at AT&T in the late eighties we tried to enter the computer business, on the PC side with Oliv…

> rules as written/rules as followed As a bicyclist in San Francisco, if I follow the rules as written, I cause traffic. Cars expect me to blow through four-way stop-sign intersect…

> suggest a downward spiral involving substances first. Anecdotally, as a person in San Francisco who's been in recovery 23 years, all the people I know who were once homeless beca…

I couldn't make changes to my USPS (United States Postal Service) account for years because it kept flagging my last name, "Cunnie", as an obscenity.

> Regarding migrating to new issue tracking systems, "not maintaining history" is absolutely a critical fail at that org Sometimes it's not a critical fail; sometimes it's a permis…