Mike Carlson

@michaelc.dev

SRE at Blizzard Ent.

All software makes me angry now Slack: constantly has ways of telling me I have new reactions, replies, threads, etc... in multiple locations. I hate this. Its too much. Okta: I auth against Okta about 20 times a day. It's all for the same realm. This is where can honest to god say I miss Kerberos

Playing with netgraph for the first time on my primary interface is always a wise idea. I'm glad my home server has ipmi and I didn't have to get up at all.

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Why is no one talking about Look Outside?! It has to be the best turn-based survival horror game out there. I think it is one of the only games that really gets Lovecraftian horror. The music and atmosphere 10/10, and I just KNOW its a good idea to push my bedroom plant closer to the window

I hastily ran up to @samlakewrites.bsky.social at the game awards and could not be happier. It's hard to express in a few seconds how impactful someones work has been to you. From Max Payne to Control and Alan Wake. Jesus even the Final Reality benchmark I used to run after each windows reinstall

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Normally I either ignore my doorbell or politely but firmly say "I don't mean to waste your time the answer is no" Tonight while I was in the garage, some kids were selling homemade bracelets. Guess who is a proud owner or two bracelets!

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Something happened on my home server (which has 128GB RAM) Honestly it was probably the minecraft server I have running in a jail and not in k8s with some quotas Thank goodness I have IPMI, I was able to see the death knell in my browser; out of swap space

grafana chart showing memory usage, and running out

A local food cart has an AI generated banner. I immediately thought something was off and started looking closer. The fingers on the pretzel killed me

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I've worked for Blizzard for over three years now and I finally got to visit the main campus. I also awkwardly ran into @jesawyer.bsky.social and the poor guy had no idea I have a parasocial relationship with him and we've been best friends for months now. Thanks for being kind Josh!

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Every time I open LinkedIn I regret it Let me vent because I saw another psychopathic post You don't need to wake up at 4am to hit the gym and be successful. While my success is truly mid class, I hit the gym at 6pm daily and don't fucking wake up at 4am. You're not a failure for being a night owl