So note to self - next time I think "I'll write this script real quick so it can run overnight": no. Go to bed, Rob.
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My dumb brain when I should be cleaning up for guests, but all I can think about is "hang that chalkboard" or "add service workers to that dumb page that will live for a few months"
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Therapist: May I suggest you take a break?
Me: Great! OK! So. I want to be optimally relaxed. I want to maximize how refreshed I feel in the shortest amount of time possible. What's the best tactic for this? How do I reach peak rest? Can I min/max my leisure?
Therapist: Oh no.
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This comes one week too late
My pal's name is Frew
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about Skip32
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My laptop kept waking up while the lid was closed, and I wrote up a little blurb for how I fixed that:
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It's a good time of year for reflection, so I wrote up a post about decisions and habits: blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/decision
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The, "This website wants to send you notifications," API is far, far worse than the <blink> tag ever was.
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It's Hacktoberfest again, but you don't know where to find interesting repositories?
✨Find projects that participate in Hacktoberfest within your starred repositories with the hacktoberfest-hunt cli.
github.com/stefanbuck/hac
#hacktoberfest2021 #Hacktoberfest #github
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Did someone tell you something new today? You were one of the lucky 10,000! 🎉 Check out the original comic xkcd.com/1053/
And listen to our latest episode, 59: Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Theory of Mind, to find out how this relates to linguistics!
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Excited to get this shipped!
Our very special episode of The podcast all about #Vim with an *amazing* ensemble of voices:
! ! ! !
changelog.fm/450
A few of my favorite moments from the pod 🧵
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Interviewer: Are you good at staying calm in stressful situations?
Me: I’m not good at staying calm in relaxing situations.
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🚀 We are a go to ship in 3.. 2.. 1 🚀
Today we launch our new podcast with all about getting your best ideas into the world and seeing what happens.
We talk about code, ops, infrastructure, and the people that make it happen. Ship It!
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I always see a ton of "how to be productive" videos and books. But never see any, "how to be unproductive and be comfortable with that for a bit" content. I feel like people need this more than the former.
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I bet you didn't know you could use PagerDuty as "find my phone" service.
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Ah, the first day of Hacktoberfest, when the CEO of DO submits the first PR to github.com/Homebrew/homeb and proclaims "O'pusht is!"
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I wrote about some PromQL tricks I've discovered for discovering metrics on a Prometheus instance:
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I was part of a convergence of changes that ended up causing us to lose 30% of important logs. The full investigation involved application, log pipeline, and Kubernetes integration. Read how it happened:
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Titles for the book about 2020, I’ll go first:
“Ope, You’re Muted...: A Novel”
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I wrote about some ideas on what to do if you find yourself with recurring five-minute pockets of time:
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Do you feel like you're always behind? Or do you struggle to get your planned work done because of constant interruptions? I can totally relate! Here's how keeping a work journal helped me to feel better about my work. I hope it helps you too!
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I'm not sure if you all know but...
Sheboygan, WI is the "The Malibu of the Midwest” 🏄♂️
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Being able to efficiently query millions of time series in isn't free, you need memory: robustperception.io/why-does-prome
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I finally got around to my post about how I saved myself some time by thinking about what I *really* needed, and how I used Prometheus' textfile collector to get there:
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If you update #ArchLinux and can't login anymore, boot into bash, edit /etc/pam.d/system-login and remove all lines mentioning pam_tally.
Details: bugs.archlinux.org/task/67641
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I know I'm biased now bc I'm working on the sequel but I fee like Subnautica doesn't get enough recognition for doing a lot of the things we praise Breath of the Wild for doing. Diegetic quests, lack of map waypoints, soft-gating vertical progress via a meter that runs down, etc.
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Today I learnt:
For the Sci-Fi Horror film 'Event Horizon' Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform remove the Union Flag from the corner & for it to be replacedwith the Aboriginal flag, the way he thought it should look in 2047.
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This episode of from 2017 about the intonation of African American English and the use of linguistics in social justice is amazing. 's research sounds absolutely fascinating. Why did it take me so long to find this show?
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