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@mroach "oh look a page from 1999 it must be full of table layouts and a blast from the past in the code"
nope, full CSS layout, jquery, this is a modern website they built to look old on purpose. amazing
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@mroach@ublog.mroach.com I will be interested to get some feedback on this thing I'm building, I think you will like it, at least from the easter eggs it'll have. The app is for tracking things I collect (right now video games, board games, vintage computing hardware) and as a DS9 fan you'll probably appreciate the name: Assay Office
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@mroach@ublog.mroach.com yeah, I actually kind of love it for building things. I've already been using it extensively for quick little scripts to bash up a report or migration I need to do at work. Now I'm breaking off a web app + eventually iOS app as a side project
On the other hand everything I get from my boss or another exec, or a rep at a vendor or anyone else is the output they got from Copilot when they dumped in a one-liner related to what we're working on together, and I hate hate HATE that usage
I have been, and to this day remain, a huge LLM skeptic. I don't think it's coming for all the jobs. I think people will outsource decision-making to it and it will make really dumb choices more often than not, and it certainly isn't going to cure cancer or FTL transport
But the nature of my work means I need to try it out and learn about it and even be able to implement and manage it. I've started a side project vibe coding a little app and on the coding/app dev side of things it is scary good
Microsoft Quality
(this is in the Azure admin portal)
The Artemis II mission has been in space like 3 hours and the toilet is already clogged
I'm sure this will go well
Colloidal Silver futures in shambles
I try to keep work separate from my internet life, but I'm hiring and want to put the word out far and wide. If you're in Atlanta (this is a primarily on-site role w/a lot of flexibility day to day) and have strong Azure, Github, and cloud security chops I'm hiring a Sr Devops Engineer
This is for the internal tech team for a real estate management company, not SaaS or public product facing. If this sounds at all interesting please @ me
On this note cable TV is not dead. Disney Jr. basically runs Bluey 24/7 so linear TV as an HA/DR strategy is working out
Disney+ is being flakey this morning and I wonder if the SRE team at Disney realizes their importance to society. Probably up there with nuclear weapon security teams in criticality
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@mroach@ublog.mroach.com that's not even a use case I considered! My main motivation is the fact that on more than one occasion I've bought the same SNES game because I was at a swap meet and couldn't remember if I had it or not
a key choice I've made from the get go is to have flexible types of trackable items, so any user can define an item type, with the attributes they want, and make a collection out of it
it's going to be both really awesome and probably terrible too. I can't wait to get something out
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@mroach@ublog.mroach.com the sharing feature is something I'll definitely have. I'm building it to be multi-user from the get go. I haven't generated a line of code but I spent 4 or 5 hours last night riffing with Claude on specs. I'm hoping that if I over index on planning, it will reduce the amount of garbage it generates when we start building actual running code