Cold, gray skies over Vicksburg today. Fascinating opportunity to talk to my kid about American history and how hard it is to rebuild after things get broken.
Stuart R Ainsworth
@codegumbo.bsky.social
Husband, dad, papaw. Mostly fumbling through. Don’t let nobody steal your joy. #sqlfamily #SRE #DevOps
First Thanksgiving meal. Shirt of the day! Let the festivities begin!
Story time (for no particular reason). My wife’s grandma used to send her Christmas cards with $50 in them. After we’d been married about 5 years, she started doubling it to $100. She didn’t put my name on the card, but I guess she figured I was sticking around.
Man, I am digging the mute list ability here. I’m able to follow conversations selectively, because people are complex. Y’all sometimes talk about things I don’t care about, and it’s nice to be able to get away from it while still be able to check up on you.
Just got to tell a new developer on my team that “you will always remember the first time you break production”. Today was his day. Me? I loaded a virus on a database server.
Hey, vendors are starting to show up over here now. This could turn into something. @datadoghq.bsky.social is here!
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The older I get , the more I realize: Change in technology is always easier to embrace than changes in process.
Just listened to a hackathon awards presentation at my company, and it struck me: as an EM, I need to make time on the road map to make these projects happen. Engineers put their passion into these projects. I need to figure out how to pave the road to make them happen.
So, since I’m not really in the Microsoft space anymore, I just found out #MSIgnite is in Chicago this week. Wondering who’s flying out of Atl tomorrow at 330? I gotta go the office for a day :)
So I don’t blog much anymore, but I hate to throw away years of content. I’m also cheap and I don’t want to keep renewing Wordpress on a host. What are my options? Go.
End of year stuff is always hard. Busy times and it’s hard to take time to breathe. I usually escape via music, but as I get older I’m struggling to find new artists I like. I dig Americana and British new pop lately. Anything else I should be checking out?
Life is short. Go to the concerts. Avett Moon last weekend. Pink tonight.
Haven’t been on social media for a long time. Been seeing a lot of buzz about Bluesky again on LinkedIn so thought I would give it another go. I’ve missed y’all.
Me: Looking forward to a weekend of disconnecting from work. Also me: let me just read these software reviews to make a major decision for my company 6 months from now. At least I consumed an adult beverage before doing such reviews.
When in Chicago, you do Chicago things. Not trying to start a war or nuthin’. It was convenient to the hotel. People here have strong feelings about the pizza.
Listening to Charity Majors talk this morning. Good stuff here.
Hope all you USA peeps enjoy the long weekend. Unplug. Get some fresh air
So I really like PagerDuty, but has anyone had experience with OpsGenie as well? Their pricing looks a little better, but how does it functionally compare? #DevOps #SRE
I read recently that the number one thing you could do to move your career forward is to “drive down the cost of change.” That sticks with me. Finding ways to put that into practice is tough.
Anybody else look at their calendars and wonder when you’re supposed to actually, you know, do work?
Few things in life are as challenging as finding take-out in a Southern suburb on a Sunday night.
Marcus King opening up for Chris Stapleton. Good night for music in Georgia.
Having dinner with sqlgator. I haven’t been on long enough for invite codes. Anybody got any to toss his way? #sqlfamily
I’ve always doodled (poorly) my ideas as a way as of thinking things out. I’m no artist, but cave drawings help me. Microsoft Whiteboard on an iPad with a stylus is a satisfying way to communicate remotely with my team. Even if my drawings suck. #SRE
Doesn’t feel like a social media platform without a picture of my dog. #lifewithconway
