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My Homelab Setup 2 years ago

Love my Ubiquity setup. Nice post OP showing people at of the possible. Have fun learning the setup!

Datacenters are expensive to run, for many reasons. That is the appeal of the Cloud right there, before we even start talking about the people aspect.

You realize phones can dnd everyone but the people you want to disturb you in the middle of the night now right?

Herman Miller Embody, worth every penny. Call wholesalers or office furniture suppliers in your town to see if you can get them at a discount.

This was after years of doing the normal 'buy $200 chair from local place every couple years' routine. I've had this chair now for probably 12 years with no issues at all, no wear either and I sit in it for 8-16 hrs a day too.

AWS icon quiz 8 years ago

17/20 But I'm in AWS all day every day. I also question a one or two that I missed :)

People suggesting that they follow Adobe's lead. That's all well and good, until you release like 1000 products a year. You tend to run out of two letter combos for your icons.

Atom 1.28 8 years ago

I am talking about VSCode, but you make a good callout about the two products because many people may not realize the differences. I agree that VSCode and Atom are similar, but you are right, and I feel like many people, end up using plugins to the point that push VSCode to IDE levels.

Atom 1.28 8 years ago

I love Atom and use it as my default text editor. There are all these people talking about IDE wars in the comments. I feel like Atom is an enhanced text editor at best. But the comparisons to VSCode and then eventually IntelliJ...not even the same ballpark.

Python Environment 8 years ago

Homebrew installing Python and installing virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper makes life easy.

All of these methods people are listing that requiring me to do more than manage one file (requirements.txt) is sort of missing the point.

I get that a lot of Node developers are coming to Python to do things, and that's great. But the environments don't need the exact same tools. pipenv seems to fix a problem I never encounter with pip/virtualenv during daily development work.

This is nice, but having the ability to get prompted for all the authorized roles for a user in an account is nice, as is done by the aws-login node app.

Use the Console to spot check things. But beyond that, the majority of your work in AWS should be scripted using the various APIs. At that point, using federated access or a proper IAM strategy makes that fairly painless.

GitHub was down 9 years ago

Self hosted bitbucket and the like really. Or AWS CodeCommit. We are currently using both of those in our build pipelines.

DevOps role is different because it assumes full product ownership. Typical system administrators are focused on just the infrastructure portions. In a DevOps role you are more focused on the things running on that infra, as well as the infra. It's a more encompassing role than the traditional 'sysadmin' role.