riansanderson
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Comment · 5 months ago
roads
Comment · 1 year ago
tangentially related- does anyone have a good recommendation on an external CD drive that works well with macOS and has a good form factor and build quality?
I have an ancient thinkpad that I use a couple of times a year _just for reading cds_ and and have considered retiring it. But all the CD drives I see on amazon look like disposable crap.
Comment · 1 year ago
Using the fabulous `llm` utility like this
``` pipx install llm pipx install strip-tags
curl -sf https://www.nytimes.com/ \ | strip-tags .story-wrapper \ | llm --system 'summary bullet points' ```
Read much much more goodness from the developer Simon Willison
Comment · 2 years ago
Connections with other human beings are irreplaceable.
Go for it. Focus on the people. Lead by example and people will be inspired by your joy of the subject.
I find this tactic works especially well kids.
Comment · 2 years ago
Love the idea here and want to see the code and prompts, but the GitHub link is borken
Comment · 3 years ago
There are books that can help with this action -> thought -> emotion spiral.
I found great help by reading the (IMHO poorly titled) Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
Comment · 3 years ago
Sonic, my local ISP in Northern California https://www.sonic.com/
Tech support people are knowledgeable, pleasant, available, and solve any problems I’ve had. Such a contrast to cable companies or wireless providers
Comment · 3 years ago
At its root, I don’t think this question is really about the logistics of taking a sabbatical.
Something I didn’t fully recognize when I was burnt out: burnout is a personal emotional issue. At that time I (mistakenly) considered emotions a bug and not a feature.
So whatever direction you decide to go on the sabbatical, I highly recommend endeavoring to discover some emotional support and growth.
Online talk therapy has helped me greatly, but mostly the book I wish I had back then is “The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living”
https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Trap-Struggling-Start-Livin...
Comment · 3 years ago
I've been doing DevOps for a while now and have been struggling to put my finger on why at scale it turns out to be so...complex/underestimated/hard. This blog distills it down to an essence that rings true to me:
>To successfully get an application into production, you need to be an expert in the application itself, the deployment target and the deployment methodology.
I disagree that all that expertise only needs to reside in one person, but you've got to have a well functioning team otherwise. And the more facility each team member has with each of those domains the better your odds of success.
It's a matter of when not if some issue is going to show up in production that is going to require more than a proverbial reboot. If the team lacks, or its dysfunction negates, expertise in any one of these areas then the service is living on borrowed time.
Comment · 3 years ago
One of my favorite gifts for kids in the 6-12 year old range is the [Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes](https://a.co/d/2dscUDL)
It’s a great kick start for kids to inspire their inner maker. It has just ten designs, well laid out with good instructions.
Comment · 4 years ago
I had a similar feeling about emails at my previous job. Turning off notifications didn’t really help, because when I’d see 15, or 50 emails piled up I felt this dreadful stew of emotions that I didn’t want to acknowledge and had no tools to handle. Leaving that job only partially helped me, it took weekly therapy sessions and introspection to figure out what was going on and to learn strategies to not get in the same predicament again.
Working at a FAANG you have benefit coverage to see a therapist. I highly recommend taking advantage of this to talk to a professional about the anxiety around Slack messages you are feeling.
If you don’t connect with the first therapist you find, try another. Your emotions are trying to tell you something, find someone who can help you figure out what the message is.