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whereistanya

@whereistanya@hachyderm.io

Albuquerque/Tipperary/Brooklyn

Senior principal engineer at Squarespace: platform engineering, reliability, tech strategy, talking to each other like adults. Author of The Staff Engineer's Path. Aspirational farmer/biodiversity nerd. Really likes being on trains. Probably trying to photograph a bird right now.

Also at https://pixelfed.social/tanyaisbirding

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whereistanya, to random
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If a car alarm is still going off after 30 minutes you should be allowed steal the car.

whereistanya, to random
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"Content" has become the thing you scroll past while looking for actual information. I'm over it.

whereistanya, to random
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Sometimes I want to just volunteer an hour to an organization and fix their input validation ๐Ÿ˜ญ

kevinteljeur, to random
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Service announcement: We'll be switching to the Winter duvet this afternoon, so there will be some disruption until the changeover is complete. You should have your data backed up. Please notify us if your service continues to be disrupted after we start back up.

whereistanya,
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@kevinteljeur Good luck!

whereistanya, to random
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Yesterday I nearly bought a thermometer but realised just in time that it comes with an app. Oh hell no. I would like a much much stupider thermometer, please.

Hashtag not all software people or whatever, but I think it's funny that software people often hate software the most.

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I'm fascinated by the phenomenon where someone is pushing to add a formal process for something because they don't want to talk to the one person who's doing the thing wrong. Signing the whole industry up for a conflict management course.

whereistanya, to random
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A roadrunner just walked through my garden. It looked over and it was like "hey" and I was like "hey" and it went back to its walk and I went back to my meeting. Also a Cooper's hawk keeps sitting up on the trees behind the wall and screaming at things. And there are huge blue dragonflies and huge yellow butterflies and tiny green-brown lizards.

is delivering so far. I like it here.

hazelweakly, to random
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Sunday night I wore a cute dress and watercolor makeup to match and I was super happy about how it turned out

whereistanya,
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@hazelweakly Amazing! ๐Ÿ˜ You have excellent "mysterious and enigmatic stranger at the masque ball" vibes.

whereistanya, to random
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Some kind of Darmock and Jalad at Tanagra thing where you respond to messages with just the chatgpt prompt you would have used to write the response ๐Ÿค”

whereistanya,
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Like imagine you get an email inviting you to a party and you reply with

"a friendly response declining the invitation but being clear that you like the person and are just busy, not avoiding them"

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rubs forehead

You know when you look at things? And things are broken? And then you have to fix them because you looked at them?

whereistanya,
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@cdonnellySRE Yesss I hate it so much.

whereistanya, to random
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If you sent me a mail and I didn't reply to it it's because my email backlog is currently so long that I'm considering faking my own death to escape it.

whereistanya,
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@hazelweakly It's weird to me how much easier it is to do DMs/Slack/whatever than email. Something about email raises the stakes and makes the task expensive in brain cycles.

Like, I was introducing two people last week and they agreed to be introduced via Whatsapp instead of email, and it's bizarre how much that reduced the cost of the "introduce two nice people to each other" operation. It was easy and pleasant instead of being a chore. What's that about?

whereistanya, to random
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In other news, J bought a label maker and it's going predictably.

whereistanya, to random
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Describing someone in a peer review as "a safe pair of hands", which made me realise people here might not have seen this great article from @emauton

https://emauton.org/2022/12/24/a-safe-pair-of-hands/

whereistanya, to random
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Sorting my chrome tabs into groups as I try to get a handle on the day. The saddest group is called "misc other documents I would like to have already read."

whereistanya, to random
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House-moving update:

Our nice espresso machine (codename: the Breville Jonk Jonk) is still in Brooklyn, and we're not getting movers for another few weeks. So today we bought an electric moka pot and we finally have the ability to make coffee. Hallelujah!

Also the IKEA delivery arrived an hour ago so soon I can stop taking meetings sitting on the floor of my empty office.

It's a very exciting day over here, that's what I'm saying.

whereistanya, to random
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I forgot to say: the Staff Engineer's Path audiobook has been re-recorded and is once again available from wherever you like to buy audiobooks.

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781663730343-the-staff-engineer-s-path

I personally recommend https://libro.fm because you can support your local bookshop with the purchase. But it's available from the various megacorps too.

whereistanya, to Albuquerque
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Also, honestly still processing the fact that these little dinosaurs just roam around like they're no big deal. Meep meep.

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I'm ready for a search engine that only indexes pages that were written by humans.

whereistanya, to random
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Somehow we have two unrelated plumbing situations at the same time. Why even are houses?

whereistanya,
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My analysis of the bathtub-related plumbing situation:

  • we're not solving this without breaking the silicon/whatever sticks bathtubs to walls, and pulling the bathtub out from the wall
  • we're also going to need to replace the side panel of the bathtub
  • even then and even with my epic new pipe wrench, I'm not sure I'm going to be able to open these rusty fixtures
  • the underside of a bathtub is fucking disgusting
whereistanya,
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My analysis of the cistern-related plumbing situation:

  • I need to go into the attic, which is full of bats, and I don't really want to
whereistanya,
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(I'm not scared of bats, but I feel like trying to debug a pressure tank blockage in bad light while bats fly around your head is not an optimal bat situation.)

whereistanya,
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I was a sysadmin in olden times. This situation is not that different I guess.

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