Tessa Racht 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 @nergdron@witches.town

@b oh! I haven't heard of the company before, but it's been a long time since I did any work on education software (although I did a ~4y stint on some stuff in the early 2000s!). this looks lovely though, is it better to go through you or through the form on the site, or?

@Maenad @guerrillarain I also got this amazing collection of short stories for xmas. it's all trans authors and sci fi stores, it's called "Fitzpatrick and Plett's - Meanwhile, Elsewhere", by Topside Press. I'm only about halfway through, but every single story has hit me in my heart in one way or another. it's a truly special collection.

@Maenad it's not hard sci fi, it's superhero stories, but I'd highly recommend Dreadnought and Sovreign by April Daniels. it was a good story, made me feel a lot of feelings.

and while she's cis, there's also our very own @guerrillarain, who writes extremely gay sci fi and fantasy serials. she's so talented, and you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not reading her work.

do you remember?
when you were young, and you wanted to set the world on fire?
do you remember?
when you were young, and you wanted to set the world on fire?

@me
heh thanks. I'm listening to a lot of Against Me! these days. 😊

@r4v5 I have no idea what SOC work is? probably worth mentioning I'm a Canadian. 😉

@r4v5 yeah, haven't heard great things about working at rackspace. i'll take a look at fastly though, that could be good.

@r4v5 @amphetamine honestly I agree. but at least it is just ruby, even though ruby is pretty yuck a lot of the time. and so you can generally coorce it into doing what you want. the amount of time I've wasted on puppet DSL bugs is insane, tbh.

salt is really the only one I even like, even though I have experience with them all. it's not perfect. but at least it doesn't make me curse its name on a daily basis. 😉

@saper @amphetamine here's what I love about salt:

- it's just python and yaml. templating happens automatically on any yaml file, and it can be done with any templating language you like (jinja2 by default) with no restrictions, unlike Puppet or Ansible. plus, no terrible DSL issues like puppet.
- cloud deploy things are a first class citizen with salt-cloud, and it understands the distinction between setting up a cloud env and setting up an instance in that cloud env.
- can run in server mode, local mode, or ssh mode, getting the best of all worlds from other solutions.
- the builtin libs are great, and are far less buggy Ansible.

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@amphetamine hahaha fuck it's so accurate.

OH! and I know container stuff really well, docker based stacks, including Kube. wanna do more kube as part of my job instead of just personal projects, would jump at a chance to do an implementation and rollout project.

@amphetamine but it's definitely the major target for that DSL shitpost I made last week 😝

@amphetamine hahaha I spent 6 years writing puppet code. believe me, I agree. but it's still super heavily deployed, and I do know how to write decent code with the current-ish releases.

@amphetamine yeah. I'd say that the descending order of popularity that I've seen is:

- ansible
- puppet
- chef
- salt

which is sort of the opposite order it should be really, based on tool quality. 😅

@amphetamine I fuckin' love Salt. it does so much right that everything else gets so wrong. it's especially egregious when compared to Ansible (what we use and Current Job) because Ansible gets so many things wrong that Salt gets right.

after today, I'm pretty keen to get a new job. if you work for a company that's cool with remote workers, and think you could use someone who has the following senior level skills, please let me know:

- large scale systems architecture design, including scaling for ridiculous CCUs.
- salt, puppet, ansible, teraform.
- aws, google cloud.
- mysql, postgresql, hive, presto. dev and admin.
- big data pipeline design, ETL, storage, performance analysis and tuning.
- dev in Python, Go, Bash, and others.

@amphetamine yeah. it really is. capitalism sucks. cishet white men suck. i'm so tired of being so easily exploited by systems of oppression.

was applying for a senior position at my current job, one that i have tons of really solid experience with and that i'd be a perfect fit for.

the team lead said they needed to backfill me on my current team, but that she wouldn't hire anyone else for the position.

the VP of Eng tells me something similar. only what I don't realize is that he's subtly breaking that promise.

because today at our weekly Eng meeting, they announce that team is the new engineering top priority, and they're stealing a bunch of people from other groups, and I'm not in that list.

feeling so unappreciated and undervalued and i don't wanna be here anymore. 😭

Kolorblind is my daughter now and I'll protect her. ❤

https://pockethealing.tumblr.com/post/169670535678/kolorblind-an-awesome-bastion-streameryoutuber

@punsandpotions
I laugh about it, dream about that casual touch
Sex, fire, sick and tired of acting all tough
I'm hooked on all these feelings
I know exactly what I'm feelin'