Spend 30 mins at the Fisher and Paykel website looking for a replacement part. Chat bot gives up after I confirm the original manual does NOT in fact list replacement part numbers. Tries to send me to a human... can't. Tells me to call. Every 2 mins I'm told to use the website.

Elderly Man Deletes My Computer, Calls Linda

Alt: Elderly Man Deletes My Computer, Calls out to a person called Linda

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Occasionally I let a junior developer bite off more than they can chew. Usually I notice and gently suggest that the work gets broken down some more. People need the opportunity to fail.

I've watched a little bit of Alone Australia season 4. Did they select for contestants that have mental health problems? Are they editing it to highlight that this is a fucked situation that breaks people willing to do weird shit for $250k? gruesome TV, won't watch anymore

I really wish www.teamretro.com/plans/ had an ad-hoc option. We only run retros every 3 ish months and paying monthly... However if they charged $USD 30 for single ad-hoc retro I'd be all over that

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Finally won a campaign of Terra Invicta! (Resistance) Now I can delete the fucking thing and check myself into rehab. Damn game is a 'just one more turn' fiend. 400.7 hours total and the last attempt at least 100 of that. Recommended? No. The rest of your life is more important.

[Conspiracy theory] Chrome is deliberately being borked so that clicking on a website in search results is slow and painful even with Ad-blockers on. So that you just read the AI snippet

"Adds complexity for what might be an infrequent problem (or the shape changes next time).  Business decision ballpark 1 week, carry the complexity forever" Context: customer has hardware installed wrong. Plant shutdown to fix so awkward and costly, wants us to solve!

Another day and ANOTHER customer sending timeseries data whose tz info is wrong. This is for regulator compliance monitoring of power plants. Bread and butter stuff `2026-07-06T01:00:00.000000+1000` That unequivocally indicates GMT+10... I'm still being straight faced told that it is GMT+9:30 🤦

Whoa I haven't needed to boot from a recovery USB for years! But now I have a need. Only to find booting from a USB on my Dell is... Not straight forward and may not in fact be possible.

I'm really not looking forward to when AWS ups the price of RAM on their systems. I'm currently being charged $USD 0.00532 per GB per hour. That hasn't changed for a long while...

I cannot believe that the 2nd edition of "Designing Data- Intensive" got rid of the maps!

Me to slack help-desk: Being able to disable or remap keyboard shortcuts would help immensely. Slack help-desk: .... .... .... Here are some whacky new background themes and out of office emoji's

I get customers to upload CSV files to an AWS S3 bucket. Electrical timeseries data, no transformation on the files required! Most customers are fine they get there eventually. One company though... they just sent an email saying the process is maxing out 8vCPUs and 32 GB of RAM.

Oh Really Hmph

Alt: Oh Really Hmph by Samuel l Jackson as the avenger guy. This was definitely my face after reading a customer email

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Weird things pop up in Facebook market place. Take this kei car. The woman has been photoshopped (or AI'd) in. But the katana gear changer, that, that I want to exist

Being the on-call person gives you a perspective. Dev who refuses on-call: "lets run this critical service during the middle of the night" Me: "Yeah nah, run it during business hours or close to it"

We had an email outage at work because "premium dns" was not set to automatic renewal in crazy domains and they consider txt records as "premium". I don't manage the DNS records because if they hand me the keys I'm porting to AWS... apparently spending an afternoon on that isn't worth my time!

I'm so old I remember when Github was reliable for weeks at a time!

I manage several developers day-to-day. Agentic software development feels a lot like managing a team of really confused juniors asking a lot of questions. That also periodically suffer from memory loss. Has anyone found a way to make this fun? or does it just require a certain mental condition

Car registration has gone up 15% year on year. No justification in the renewal notice! Totally sustainable.

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I work with grid scale electric generators. Server equipment is possible to source. Dell quotes January 2027, Lenovo says 4+weeks (narrator "it is nothing like 4 weeks") Custom is just as bad.

Fuck it, I'm buying "Designing data-intensive applications volume 2" by Martin Kleppmann. The first edition was amazing. I'll ignore the soylent version of system development for a few more weeks.

Getting good at something requires excitement, passion. Mustering focus and maintaining dedication without that is a lost cause. To maintain my career I will need to use AI, I accept that. I also accept that I have no passion for agentic software development. I must resolve this

Did they though? (I definitely believe it's possible but my cynicism is really off the chart these days)

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Iran had 'specific' plan to kill Trump, US media report citing Israeli intel

ID software has been a powerhouse for most of my life. That said when they were acquired by Microsoft they stopped being ID. I get why people are angry. Nostalgia is a big thing.

Gold standard path to stressing me out. 1. Ask me how to integrate and retrieve data from a business that will not talk to us 2. When I say, I do not know. They won't talk to us. 3. Tell me it is a solved problem because of '....' 4. Ask me how to integrate with said business Repeat, repeat...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope caught exoplanet HD 80606 b getting roasted! As this extreme "hot Jupiter" plunges close to its host star on a highly elliptical orbit, Webb observed its temperature skyrocket by a staggering 1,100°F. 🔥🪐 #JWST #SpaceNews 1/4

Thinking about the shape of the rocket in question... I definitely chuckled at the headline Source: The Guardian share.google/l029ugIuncXG...

Blue Origin rocket, owned by Jeff Bezos, explodes during test in Florida

No personnel were harmed in the incident, the company said on social media, calling the explosion an ‘anomaly’

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Hallucigenia — the Cambrian fever dream of evolution — in a 2020 sculpture by artist Martin Walde. Wait, is that the top? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halluci...

Github has added 'Agents' to the navigation links. Unfortunately it has moved 'Actions' further to the right and my muscle memory has clicked on it instead of actions several times today and now I'm annoyed.... #itsthelittlestuff