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That's Death Valley Dinesh!! I just re-heard that episode on "Best of Car Talk"

I would push back against DSLs. It means year another language to learn and that is a barrier to adoption.

Vault. Save to Vault and make it so that team members can sync to/from Vault.

I am developing a Pythonic alternative to ArgoCD and FluxCD that uses no CRDs or in-cluster controllers for continuous delivery of applications to Kubernetes clusters

I still have one. A few years old but still works, rock-solid and what I love best is the form-factor: unobtrusive, in fact, totally hidden from view.

OMG! No! Having dealt with Go templates in the context of writing Helm charts, I would say this is not a a great idea. Please, invent a better templating language for Go, and then …

In a world where most READMEs and the like are in Markdown format I like to use Asciidoc and I like to keep the two in sync using pandoc

There is no protecting against pre conceived notions. If a Typescript programmer, for example, expects Python to behave like Typescript then that is on them. Typescript has types. …

They have been saying recession is 6 months away for two years now.

I contracted for Wayfair - I left around September 2022 - and this has impacted some fine engineers with whom I had worked

I find it remarkable that Mercedes-Benz is near the bottom of the list.

I ought to warn anyone considering this: milk weed spreads like a weed. If you plant one, don’t be surprised if you get a half dozen of them in your garden by next year

Yes it does

Pandoc supports asciidoc. I have used it to convert from .adoc to.md

I made a volcano out of plaster of Paris. The cool bit was that for the eruption I used potassium permanganate in the volcano’s cone and poured glycerin on it to ignite the volcano…

In the past, I have found community - and many lifelong friendships - in a ballroom & latin dance community. Currently, I find community in hiking groups.

He is featured prominently in at least two of Michael Pollan’s books. HowTto Change Your Mind; and This Is Your Mind On Plants.

Drinking, much like smoking, starts in the teenage years, not as an act of rebellion but as an aspirational goal of adulthood. It's something adolescents will frequently see as a m…

FWIW I made a career switch in my late 20s. It involved going to grad school to be able to switch to a new career. It ended badly for me though because I graduated as the Great Rec…