ONE OF THE most annoying things I see in code lately is mocks that don't need to be mock objects. Just seeing today, cleaning up "mock out the #Micrometer registry" for SimpleRegistry objects. Even on http clients - use a real server for mock RESPONSES - helps identify framework issues!

For any "XP" programmers remembering paired programming. A lot of times, that's ALSO what AI feels. Sitting watching while a junior programmer works through various things. Only I can yell at AI - I'd not yell at a junior dev! NORMALLY a junior dev ALSO learns from their mistakes.

I don't have a lot of impact on my local legislature/government - one of the few blue in a massive red area but i CAN take action. I've installed a large solar system. My next vehicles will be electric. I've increased donations to Arbor Day & PBS & others. What are others doing?

*@#$^% The amount of times I had to tell AI this am "Look spring boot 4 defines jackson versions, DO NOT do it", and AI responds "spring boot 4 doesn't define jackson versions for 3 let me do this for you". 5 models are better, but still struggle at times. STILL DO NOT trust blindly!

joe.dev/posts/new-20... Love this from @h.olysh.it - this is the conversation about ai I’m having now with upper level engineers. Not the technical impacts but what are the cultural impacts. Who benefits is a big question in that.

The new 20% time, minus the time

Attention is replacing hours. But is it 120% time all over again?

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I interact with many orgs "We're vmware. We migrated to Proxmox /nutanix/etc. k8s on hardware in datacenters! EKS/GKE! AWS EC2 only k8s is bad! ECS FTW! etc!" It's PEOPLE that drive this BUT not sure how much it really matters. AS LONG AS your CUSTOMERS are happy - i'm partial to on prem though!

Seriously about to drop #rook-ceph in my lab k8s cluster. Performance has been HORRIBLE(4x microk8s nodes on proxmox). NFS on truenas is performing REALLY well (also a VM). OR iSCSI with #democratic-csi or something else? COULD do #ceph via #proxmox & ceph-csi as an option. Thoughts?

At times I swear working with AI is like chasing my kids around. "Don't do that, do this!" "STOP, don't do that!" "No this is what I REALLY meant, let me explain in depth". "Did you really just do that?" "Apparently i didn't explain this right" 😮‍💨 Helps but can be very trying at times.

Gotta say... fable model is a lot like having an intelligent coworker, where sonnet/opus is more like a tool you use. Much more interesting and intelligent and solid responses. BUT gotta be careful of how much time you take of that coworker and isn't always right. I'm impressed though.

Burger King app SUCKS. I order through app. App crashes/stops responding half way to store. I restart app. Cart is still there, not seeing a purchase, hit purchase, and... now I have TWO charges on my card. I get only one order. BK says "we'll offer a coupon we can't refund". UGH.

The ONE good thing about AI for security purposes? FAR less "You're SPF records are wrong! DMARC! " kinds of reports. And by being scanned with decent AI, we're actually improving the whole ecosystem and finding what might have been zero day exploiters in the past.

Critical #Spinnaker Vulns Allow RCE And Production Compromise zeropath.com/blog/spinnak... - so patch please! This was... nasty!

www.elenaverna.com/p/confession.... Just... THIS. On so many levels.

Confessions of a Millennial in Tech

A lot of mixed feelings and unanswered questions.

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I switched a number of years back from Eclipse/STS to IntelliJ. i'm curious though... is STS/Eclipse still used? Popular? I'm tempted to try it again just because. I LIKE to try different tools on a regular basis. Competition is GOOD!

"Coding has been drudgery, historically" - reading how AI solves this "problem". Coding is NOT drudgery for me and the devs I know. WE LIKE coding. People are missing that AI is taking away what was fun for a lot of people - like using AI to do a puzzle/game. Yes I use AI but I still MISS coding.

Oy. build issues last few days on #spinnaker. NPM publishing broke (moved to trusted publishing). THEN Testcontainers broke - GHA runner upgrades. THEN spotless plugin issue just... lot of weird quirks ALL at once on builds made for a LONG few days fixing builds. BUT new releases are out!

IMHO: Observability platforms are rarely something you should build. The commercial vendors like @honeycomb.io or newrelic are worth EVERY penny (Grafana is ok but go cloud & try honeycomb first). "do-it-yourself" is for CORE business PRODUCTS! Then apply this to CD/CI/SSO/Git/etc.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

"IF you're not cheating [in war], you ain't trying". I've heard variations of this theme. In programming: If you aren't using AI, you aren't trying. You still got to WATCH it's results (claude just tried to write a test by text code to add the checks ugh). BUT still can save a LOT of time

SO I've ported most of my stuff to OpenTofu at this point. I'm curious though... what about packer? Packer in particular is STILL THE DEFACTO solution for AMI/machine image building. I've not seen an equivalent fork near to the quality of Tofu for this...?

Leonard Nimoy was more than a colleague—he was a friend, an ally, and my political soulmate. Leonard played a half-human, half-Vulcan officer—a being caught between two worlds. Yet in his own life, he was perhaps the most profoundly human person I have ever known.

www.tickcounter.com/countdown/61... this.. is moving way way too slow...

Days until Trump is out of office

Countdown timer showing how much time left until Saturday, January 20, 2029 12:00:00 PM in timezone New York, America (UTC-05:00)

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Will never ever buy: Movie, Song, etc. off of ANY online store. BUY the dvd & convert for home. Go with GOG for games. This is the way (THANK YOU Handbrake/others). Works on Kodi, Plex, kids tablets. NO nightmare of licensing/access issues. I'm considering moving away from streaming too lately.

can we make it 3 more years? :( How much of the world will be broken even more than it does today? TRADITIONAL Republican GOALS - smaller government, balanced budget, etc. SOME good ideals but not always VIABLE but understandable. Reality is so different and the party has lost it's path.

Was a potential juror for Jury duty. The defendant was a person of color. Defense attorney question - does law enforcement target those of color more than not? VERY FEW said "yes" to this (I was one). I don't know if few thought yes or no one wanted to speak up. I find that concerning...

Seriously @developers.google.com what were you thinking on 403 vs. 429 for "too many requests" on API rate limits? I've been trying to understand the intent here? developers.google.com/workspace/gm... (working on github.com/spinnaker/sp... tied to this PR moving away from batching)

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Translating promql grafana queries into otel clickhouse queries... Claude generated some interesting results. Helps with the basic query stuff, but as always gotta tweak it. Still somewhat of a timesaver from writing it ALL by scratch (though many were ALREADY copy/paste). Still required work

ALSO huge thanks @cloudflare.social for DNS & Domain management. Makes running a lab SO MUCH easier/cleaner WITHOUT breaking the bank!

OK lab is all on clickhouse (I still do SOME Prometheus just to be able to run random queries). Got logs (which... dear lord are painful IMHO in Grafana right now), metrics, traces, next... EVENTS (aka wide cardinality data). Even added ILO health checks w/ alerts!

When did "Hoax" change to "I lied my arse off and you shouldn't know about it"?