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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I don’t have first hand knowledge. I’ve heard the printed manuals are not great but that their online versions are good.

    I’ve generally preferred buying the manufacturer’s manual even though they’re relatively expensive. Honda’s manuals and their Common Service manual in particular were excellent. KTM’s is just okay, disappointing after coming from Honda’s and BMW’s manuals, at least it gets the wiring diagram and torque specs right.

    I’ve had mixed experience with Haynes and Clymer. They’re better than nothing but the photos are not so good, they rarely cover differences between years, and make a lot of assumptions.






  • I hear you. Taking the course again isn’t a bad idea, skills you don’t practice don’t get ingrained and those that are get rusty.

    As far as confidence, I’ll let you in on a secret… I feel a little anxious before almost every ride and I’ve been riding since the 1980’s. I have a routine of safety checking the bike and my gear before each ride that settles me, it doesn’t take long. More than once I’ve cut short a solo ride or bailed out on a group because I wasn’t focused or feeling it (rule #1, ride your own ride). I wouldn’t worry about it.















  • CTO coming in hot, an employee poaching lawsuit, pet dev team working in a “bunker” separate from corporate, and that no matter how well-documented and designed “Chesterton’s fence” applies to back-ends so it’s unlikely to be a smooth cut-over. These are all bad signs.

    What’s good is that you have some number of months, maybe a year, maybe more, to find your next role.



  • This was a while ago so it’s possible their quality control has improved over the years, but I had two Matias TactilePro keyboards fail: the first developed keybounce/chatter after a few months, the replacement developed it after a few weeks then had keys fail. They gave me some mild run around the second time and I just wrote it off rather than deal with them.

    I have a number of other keyboards, including Unicomp, and only Matias and a Filco Majestouch gave me problems and the Filco went several years of daily use before needing a key switch to be replaced.


  • As someone who has played thousands of games of Shattered with >600 games just on my most recent phone (108 of those ascended) and has ascended with all the sub-classes… git gu… no, no, no, ask questions. Some of the mechanics are kind of subtle and exploiting them can take thought. I personally find the Huntress/Warden the easiest (because the spirit bow has unlimited ammo letting you sell off thrown weapons and the free seeds and dew drops can keep you alive).





  • I’ve been in the weird space of on-prem “cloud” infrastructure (mostly kubernetes) for the last seven years but I’ve been doing infra, middleware, and devops for more than twenty years and have my own way of working that’s nearly GUI-free.

    Tools I use every single day:

    Less often but very useful:

    • socat a swiss army knife for sockets.
    • ansible
    • terraform

    Languages, because I write my own tools:

    • Go, a lot of it and I still don’t like it.
    • Python, and I tolerate it (Perl is still better for getting things done but lost mind share).
    • Rust, and I like it.
    • Elixir, and I love it.
    • Guile and Janet when nobody’s looking and I don’t have to share (though the Nix folks don’t mind me…).