davestephens

Credit Suisse | Platform & Cloud Engineer | Full-Time | HYBRID ONSITE / REMOTE | https://www.credit-suisse.com/

We're hiring for our Platform Engineering team in the US (New York) and Poland (Wroclaw). We're a diverse set of technologists working together to reduce the friction of building, testing, deploying and operating infrastructure and software at scale. We've recently completed a large-scale migration to a popular cloud vendor, and are now on a journey of rebuilding our platform from the ground up to take advantage of what it has to offer.

We're a reasonably autonomous team (rare for financials!) and are looking for a good communicator with an eye for detail, and obviously someone with good tech skills. We're not fussy about people that have previously worked in financials, but someone that's up-to-date with their knowledge of the DevOps and cloud ecosphere is a must.

New York: https://tas-creditsuisse.taleo.net/careersection/external_jo...

Poland: https://creditsuisse.taleo.net/careersection/external/jobdet...

Yeah. Screw those guys trying to make a living!

There are Facebook groups that offer reviews in exchange for reviews. You will see very new recipes, that have had zero chance to rank and be cooked, with comments like:

"Ooh I can't wait to make this!"

Or:

"I LOVE making chicken like this!"

...and a five star review.

It must be hard work to push that "jump to recipe" button that features on pretty much every food blog on the planet.

For anyone thinking they want to start a BBS, or just noodle with some software for nostalgia's sake - this is written in node.js and a lot of fun: https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs

I can lend you my tamagotchi? ;-)

Would love to see that write-up!

Hey, thanks for the shout :-)

A close friend has a very similar thing recently, except it was/should have been a new Ryzen 3700x, not a warehouse deal.

If you've bought one you'll know it comes in a box with a big cooler on top, and the proc is at the bottom in a bit of plastic packing.

He got the big cooler but no Ryzen. Contacted Amazon, got another Ryzen and cooler sent out.

I think this is incredibly common...

Few things to do:

- specify a LAN IP for your ingress controller so it doesn't change.

- Use ddwrt/dnsmasq to point *.k8s.myhomenetwork.local to said IP

Once that's configured, you just configure the ingress hostname on services as you would "normally".

I don't need one, but I want one. Knowing my dad he still has all of the software from our Amstrad 1640 stashed in the garage!

You have to sit at home and watch Netflix in SD, whilst there are people out there literally putting their lives at risk to save others?

Poor you!

Maybe you've never worked with someone that sucked at shell scripting, or packaging.

Ansible is awesome for enabling people to do reasonably complicated things in a consistent manner, at scale, without having to write all of the boilerplate code to be able to do so.

This is forgetting the fact that Ansible is reasonably opinionated, which is great for lowering the barrier to entry and helping devs/admins to be productive quickly.

When I just need to Get Shit Done, Ansible is awesome.

No need for an Ansible vs. Docker argument when you can combine them both!

I run a similar project called Ansible-NAS - https://github.com/davestephens/ansible-nas - which originally came about because I fell out of love with FreeNAS, and felt I could do a better job with Ubuntu, Ansible, and a bunch of Docker images.

Sovereign is awesome, I've been watching it for a while, but I'm not keen on everything being installed directly onto the system which is what I tried to solve with Ansible-NAS.

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Using 1% milk means you need twice as much for a decent cup of tea. It's a false economy.

Pasta and computers are always a bad mix...

The usual fluff about migrating away to Gitlab?

Very amusing, but definitely missing a trick on the Blue/KNOB combo.

Yep, it took me a little while to realise and appreciate it, but you're right. Now my son is a little older he wants to do things with me too, and that would be horrible to miss because I'm stuck in front of a computer instead.

I don't know where you work but as others have said - if you have a commute that's also valuable time you can use. I used to burn all of it on Netflix, but have recently started reading about stuff I want to learn/get better at.

Great question, and a situation I've been through/still going through myself. I have a 2.5 year old son, and another due at the end of this year. We're not fortunate enough to have parents nearby, so all care is 100% on us or nursery.

When they're really young it is tough to have time for anything, especially when there's no nap regime instilled into them. I was in such a daze from learning so many new things about being a parent, that projects/hacking/downtime in general seem to take a back seat for a while.

In writing (and rewriting) this reply I've realised that in the past few years things have changed a lot for me, and when I can squeeze in "my" time has changed too. I don't think there's any right or wrong answer of "when", but my number one piece of advice would be to not be selfish. You'll kick yourself later if you miss time with your children because you wanted to learn a programming language, or that you're so tired from killing yourself with long hours or sleep deprivation that you're rubbish to be around.

Communicate with your partner too - agree when they're ok with you taking your time, and vice versa - insist that they time their own time too.

I have no idea what'll happen for me when number two comes along...but I'm looking forward to it :-)

Re 2 - Blackberry Messenger used an eight character alphanumeric ID, and was enormously popular in the UK (not sure about other countries however) - until Blackberries died a death at the hands of Apple and Android...

Funny to see the pointless HN snarkiness never dies.

Wonder if they had cross-core security vulnerabilities?

It's not?

I wouldn't say I've gone that far to other end of the spectrum and still make time for seeing friends on a weekly basis - I guess I'm just more comfortable in myself than I was when I was younger therefore FOMO is not a thing I care about any more. The well-being of my family and the home we live in, is :-)

Also, not actually having the time to see friends as much as I used to makes a big difference!

This is awesome!

I run a similar project called Ansible-NAS, which was borne out of FreeNAS being a pain in the ass to manage and upgrade. https://github.com/DaveStephens/ansible-nas

Can I ask how old you are? I wonder how this affects different age generations.

I'm 37, left social media a few years back when my son was born - the thinking being that the time I spent on there would be better spent with him and my wife! I don't feel excluded by my friendship groups or like I'm missing out on anything.

This is awesome, been meaning to have a poke around go for a while - perfect Sunday afternoon noodle. Thank you!

Out of interest why do you "need" a repo/branch replicating production? I ask out of curiousity rather than criticism.

We also have the same at my place of work, but for convenience when requiring to patch production - ie just branch master rather than scramble to find the commit hash last released. It's not a requirement, but it definitely makes life easier.

Likewise, I think it was used by a few different pieces of software. Mystic BBS still has it as its default logoff art today...