@ludicity and a few minutes later in the podcast you guys basically talk about exactly that, how to figure out who within the org is showing up with insane ideas vs the ignored sane/competent person.

Your podcasts are just too competent, if I wait until the end there's nothing to comment on! 🙃

Still crazy tho if people don't think SQL can handle a whole GIGABYTE OF DATA.

Listening to @ludicity podcast on #CrisisEngineering, just got to the part where the guests say something along the lines of "we can spend days reading or having meetings we have to take Novel Action" and I can't help but think there's some poor schlub(s) who have either already tried That Thing or been trying to do That Thing or already know That Thing will make it worse. New people unfamiliar with a system trying New Things seems like it could go pretty wrong.

What they're talking about sounds cool! But I can't help but think there's some Lower Decks type story happening off screen at these times as well.

Thanks to @ludicity I learned about Efron Licht (is he on mastodon somewhere?), just finished reading https://eblog.fly.dev/swtalmud.html

I felt like I was just nodding along the whole time. The focus on fundamentals, removing unnecessary bits, keeping things as simple as possible.. but no simpler! Recognizing that humans are part of the system. As creators that have to have judgement about how to build the system. And as eventual users of the system.

His 'starting systems programming' series looks like a fun way to get familiar with go.

Beginning my @ludicity story arc with my own ranty blog: https://deliverator.mataroa.blog/blog/new-blog-who-dis/

#blogging

You guys know that when you join a public wifi network and the captive portal doesn't show up, you can go to http://neverssl.com to force it, right? Because I feel like I have to do that like every other day

I was inspired to write about the Edmund Fitzgerald on the semicentennial of its wreck. It rambles a bit but I guess the main thesis is that folk music is cool and good https://phils-web-site.net/web-log/the-legend-lives-on/

Also, ffs. "tech-broroboros" was right there.

Library trip, got a copy of @annaleen 's Autonomous. Got a few pages in and it seemed really familiar...finally figured out I had bought it on kobo awhile ago, just never took it off my 'want to read' list lol.

Oh well, time for a re-read!

@annaleen your new book "Stories are weapons" looks really interesting. The description reminds me a bit about another book called "The Power of Story" (https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-power-of-story-1.6564278 and an excerpt from it: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-what-story-of-colonialism-do-you-want-to-believe-in/)

Thought you might find that interesting if you hadn't come across it already!

@ludicity reading https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/the-failed-commodification-of-technical-work/ made me recall a previous employers use and celebration of pentaho data integration. It seemed to be sold as a way to commodify data analysis. You could take "non coders" and have them use this GUI app to basically code badly. Because in order to accomplish anything even remotely useful the user would need to understand looping and conditionals and basically... how to program.

And this resulted in absolute monstrosities of non version controlled (or even controllable!) ... things.

Hello world! Been lurking a few days, time for an #introduction I guess.

Been in infosec for almost 14 years now (wow time flies!). Went the military way - studied computer engineering, then ended up in a infosec type junior leadership position straight out of uni.

Worked with some great people and had some awesome opportunities. Worked in forensics and building up training programs. But it was here where I largely realized I didn't want to play the promotion/leadership game. I like doing technical work more than people management work.

I worked in mil/government for a few more years, did some SIEM engineering work and then packet and malware analysis.

Now in the private sector but in a largely infra/operations role, working on automating all the things. Lots of work with #ansible, #python, #postgresql.

I think this toot is probably more text then I ever wrote on the birdsite over many years.