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Alton Brown: Son of Ether
Tokyo Gastronomy: Hermetics
Julia Child: Chorister
Street Food: Akashic Record
Binging with Babish: Cult of Ecstasy
Great British Bake-Off: Verbena
Vegan Black Metal Chef: Euthanatos
18th Century Cooking: Dreamspeakers
George Kamitani: Virtual Adept
Epic Meal Time: Nephandi
Swedish Chef: Marauders

@adeptomega
@mmsword​
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@ElectricKeet​

@pzmyers@octodon.social Not a salad or sandwich.

(( And also, please forgive me that moment of indelicacy. I may be angry, but other people don't deserve to be dogpiled. They're under enough stress. Even Operations, for all that they're not helping here, are actually busy. They're just more focused on getting new customers onboarded than they are on solving existing customer pain, because that's how leadership has incentivized them to work in the NOC. ))

And the most frustrating part of it all is that addressing the root issue will require deep domain knowledge that nobody at the company seems particularly eager to share because everyone says "oh, don't learn how the existing software works; it's being actively deprecated as we speak!" Except that the new systems are already behind schedule and the pain we're experiencing is happening to the customers right now.

Instead, I have spent the last four days doing Operations' job for them, because for the last three _weeks_ one of our biggest customers has been in a state of intermittent outage and nobody in Operations has actually been engaged enough to do their role. The customers' stuff is grossly misconfigured, the data we're serving the customer is badly sourced coming in the door, the software is DoSing them with unprocessable requests, and my job has become documenting the maelstrom.

I've been "promoted" to tech lead for the Site Reliability team, which means my job is supposed to be building automation tools and doing end-to-end system analysis. I've designed and have begun an automated-application-restart tool to wire into our monitoring so we can detect when we need to boop our software and do so without having to engage Operations.

I wanted this position. I was really excited to take this position. I've got really awesome designs and architecture planned.

Behold the garden in which I grow the fucks I use at work.

Behold the barrel of salt I keep nearby, in case I catch sight of greenery in this plot.

@irisjaycomics Very German. Very austere and intimidating. It does not want you to smoke from it on your terms, but if you come to meet the hookah on its own inscrutable level, it promises you release from the prison of flesh. A hookah designed for Werner Herzog.

@irisjaycomics @itsnero The whole point of using a hookah is to efficiently get a roomful of people high, or at the very least that's the purpose to which Amphora has put the hookahs at Beta. =>.>=

Any hookah which requires me to read the operating instructions _while_ using it is not a hookah which is serving its purpose very well.

There are scenes in almost every book I've written that I hated to craft. Giri's last act as an admin. Baron Deterikh's temper. Walker's arrival. Scenes that you know need to be in the book, but that you just really don't want to have to put there.

I know one of the ones in Ties now.
#writing

@smallesttiger @krtbuni

@smallesttiger I'm here, or on Telegram. I've still got the Slack account, and there's always email. Whatever's convenient. =n.n=

@adeptomega Great Work I hope to get there one day. =n.n=

@smallesttiger I'm really sorry to hear you had to go through that with him. I've had my own really rough dealing with family. If you want to talk about it, I'm here to listen, but you've got my sympathies and understanding regardless. *offers hugs*

The person you are when you're at work is your moneysona.

And yes, I do make the rules. At least, I make my rules. You can make your own rules, if you want. You're allowed.

@asonix@asonix.dog My moneysona is. I'm an author.

@Gargron @Stephen_Stone The thing is, most of us are already mad at those institutions over this and other offenses. Some of us are looking for an institution to push back against the Puritanism, and companies like Patreon, Smashwords, et cetera, keep looking like they'll be the one to fight back on our behalf, only to roll over.

Smash capitalism.