#random (2020-11)

Non-work banter and water cooler conversation

A place for non-work-related flimflam, faffing, hodge-podge or jibber-jabber you’d prefer to keep out of more focused work-related channels.

Archive: https://archive.sweetops.com/random/

2020-11-01

2020-11-02

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zadkiel
GitHub: Where the world builds software

GitHub is where over 50 million developers shape the future of software, together. Contribute to the open source community, manage your Git repositories, review code like a pro, track bugs and feat…

Zach avatar

Seems fixed already, cert in my browser is valid till 2022

GitHub: Where the world builds software

GitHub is where over 50 million developers shape the future of software, together. Contribute to the open source community, manage your Git repositories, review code like a pro, track bugs and feat…

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roth.andy

Finally pulled the trigger and bought a Timeular tracker

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roth.andy

I’m already liking the API integration into Toggl since I use that a lot too

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Matt Gowie

Interesting. I could see being into this… Let me know how you like it after a couple weeks.

Igor avatar

I used it for a month and then I stopped

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roth.andy

I’m required to fill out a pretty detailed timesheet every day, and I already track my time in Toggl, so it should definitely be a value add for me

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roth.andy

I’m loving it so far. The physical tracker thingy arrived in the mail 2 days ago. It is very accurate. I’ve never once had it do something I didn’t intend it to do

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roth.andy

And the integration with Toggl (which I use heavily) works flawlessly

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Matt Gowie

Sweet… I may have to pick one up. I use toggl as well for tracking hours for clients and I could definitely be better at it.

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Matt Gowie

Thanks for the info / follow up!

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roth.andy

Update on the Timeular tracker:

I’ve been using it for several weeks now. I absolutely love it. It makes tracking my time every day virtually effortless. Sometimes I forget to flip the tracker when I switch contexts, but it is very easy to go into the app and adjust. I have it connected to my laptop via bluetooth, and they provide a desktop app for seamless connectivity. It automatically goes to sleep when I put it in its little cradle and wakes up when I pick it up the next morning.

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Matt Gowie

@roth.andy I bought one a week or two after you — I’m digging it as well so thank you for the recommendation!

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roth.andy

I’ve also noticed it helps me avoid getting distracted. I see the tracker sitting on my desk and which side is facing up and that helps me stay focused on tasks that are important for that particular project while filtering out other stuff. I try to avoid flipping the tracker more than once every 15 minutes or so.

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roth.andy

But if I’m blasting through my email inbox it is very easy to flip it every couple of minutes since email is usually all over the place

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roth.andy

And I’m happy that that all gets tracked accurately. Before it was just a wild guess after spending 1+ hour on email to break out that time accurately

2020-11-03

David avatar
David
03:19:19 PM

Seeing this on a github pull request, I believe it’s the deploy status of Netlify for the branch. What is this type of status called, and is there an API to create similar “statuses” for other apps?

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ah, Github Deployments

2020-11-05

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Yonatan Koren

Happy birthday @Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)!

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Thanks @Yonatan Koren!

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1 Billion in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Roadattachment image

Speculation kicked off after someone moved the huge sum on Tuesday, and now we know who it was: the U.S. government.

2020-11-06

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
He Knew About the Cloud, Then Showed Her the Stars

A mutual friend helped to match Krishna Kant with Anne Kim by saying she needed help understanding cloud infrastructure.

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2020-11-09

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jack fenton

hey sweetops! i remember at devopsdays i was handed a GCP -> AWS cheatsheet / phrase book that compared the services, does anyone remember this? can’t find it via google.

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jack fenton

it was handed to me by the GCP stall

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jack fenton

that looks about right! did you google it?

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Vlad Ionescu (he/him)

Yup I also had it in my history as I was asked to consider helping on a AWS-to-GCP migration… sometime at the beginning of this year

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jack fenton

i thought i was the best googler in the world!

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Vlad Ionescu (he/him)

I wouldn’t worry about it

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jack fenton

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jack fenton

thanks

2020-11-18

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Laurynas

Hi Everyone, I would be very grateful If you’d spend 10 minutes of your time to answer this survey//managementism.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9uXPZCLvOPWM1xP> It’s very quick and it’s about people opinion about cloud computing for businesses.  This would help me immensely as I’m struggling to get enough participants 

2020-11-19

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Joe Niland

Upptime is the open-source uptime monitor and status page, powered entirely by GitHub Actions and Issues.

https://github.com/upptime/upptime

upptime/upptime

Uptime monitor and status page powered by GitHub - upptime/upptime

2020-11-20

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Joe Niland
wernight/docker-funbox

Docker container with fun terminal commands and ASCII art. - wernight/docker-funbox

2020-11-25

2020-11-27

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
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2020-11-28

2020-11-29

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Matt Gowie

https://tailscale.com/ — just became a fan boy of this product within 30 minutes of installing it. Very cool product if you’re looking to avoid VPNs / expose internal network resources to your team.

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Tailscale creates a virtual network, based on WireGuard, to connect your devices and services directly, no proxies needed.

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Second, the devs are fun to follow on twitter also

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Tailscale creates a virtual network, based on WireGuard, to connect your devices and services directly, no proxies needed.

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Matt Gowie

@loren Mind sharing links to who you follow? I’d like to follow along on that front. Seems like they have a number of things on the todo list that I’m interested in.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Looks neat - excited to try it out

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Maybe you can give a demo on office hours

loren avatar

Sorry, missed the notification earlier, here are the accounts I’m following…

https://twitter.com/Tailscale (of course)

https://twitter.com/dave_universetf

https://twitter.com/davidcrawshaw

https://twitter.com/bradfitz

Tailscale (@Tailscale) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Tailscale (@Tailscale). Simple, secure networks for teams of any scale. Built on WireGuard. LGA SEA SFO SYD YUL YYJ YYZ

Dave Anderson (@dave_universetf) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Dave Anderson (@dave_universetf). Tinkerer, distributed systems, general nerd. High salt content. Fixing all networks once and for all @Tailscale, with WireGuard and magic. He/Him

David Crawshaw (@davidcrawshaw) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from David Crawshaw (@davidcrawshaw). non-euclidean networks @Tailscale. Manhattan, NY

bradfitz (@bradfitz) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from bradfitz (@bradfitz). I do computers. Married to @radkat. Two sons. Pro diaper changer. Xoogler. @golang team 2010~2020. Made LiveJournal. Currently @Tailscale making WireGuard easy. Seattle, WA

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Matt Gowie

Thanks man!

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Matt Gowie

@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) I’m going to try it out with a client and see how it goes. Once I have a real setup in place I’d be happy to though.

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apenwarr (@apenwarr) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from apenwarr (@apenwarr). Simple, secure networks with @Tailscale and WireGuard. Canada. Sometimes.

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