matty stratton

@matty.wtf

I have friends everywhere Chicagoland area Dogs > people he/they Contact info: https://links.mattstratton.com/ #DevRel #DevOps #Weightlifting

Families deserve fairness from even the most powerful corporations. During a nationwide affordability crisis, Illinoisans have demanded answers, transparency, and relief to help them make ends meet. We are responding in Illinois.

Wearing a pair of jeans today I haven’t been able to wear in over a year, and even had to cinch my belt one more notch when I put them on !

This is a very important pro tip for when you're lifting weights. Make sure that your playlist does not include any songs that include counting.

All the good practices we developed and learned 15 years ago to protect systems from human mistakes tend to be the same ideas we need in order to protect systems from robot mistakes

Your shell config has two audiences now: you, and whatever coding agent is running commands through it. They do not want the same defaults. Tour of my actual .zshrc, centered on the AGENT_MODE block that detects which one it's dealing with (plus other fun things!). dev.to/mattstratton...

What's Actually in My .zshrc (and Why)

A guided tour through the parts of my shell config that are actually worth explaining, from a shell that now has two audiences to a Keychain-backed secrets setup.

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the galaxy-brain path of sensor data on postgres: add indexes, tune autovacuum, hand-roll partitioning... then realize the storage engine was the fix. june 30 i'm co-hosting a workshop where we build a real IoT pipeline. leave with a working instance. 12pm ET: tsdb.co/sensor-matty

Four-panel Expanding Brain meme ranking database fixes from basic to enlightened as the brain grows brighter: "Add more indexes," then "Tune autovacuum," then "Hand-roll partitioning," and finally, at peak galaxy-brain, "Hypertables on TimescaleDB."

Chicago pals who are into punk music … come check out Speed Babes at the Empty Bottle on July 21 - @stefinitely.cool and I will be there! www.ticketweb.com/event/speed-... It’s my buddy’s band and it’s their first time headlining the empty bottle so we’re looking for a good turnout

Tickets for Speed Babes / Anxiety Patrol / Shredded Sun

Find tickets for Speed Babes showing at the Empty Bottle - Chicago, US Tuesday Jul 21, 8:00PM Tickets starting at $16.17

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“I love the smell of hydrogen peroxide in the morning. You know, one time we had a pool peroxided for 12 hours. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' cell of algae. The smell - you know that peroxide smell - the whole hill smelled like...victory. Someday this reflecting pool is gonna be blue.”

A still from the film Apocalypse Now showing a shirtless U.S. Army officer wearing a black cavalry hat and dog tags crouching between two armed soldiers on a smoke-filled battlefield. Fires burn in the background near a river, with additional troops visible in the distance.
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Washington threw a bunch of algae in the reflecting pool, blew a whole fucking platoon to pieces, bad shit”