tobyhede’s statuslog

This is fine "The disruption of UniSuper services was caused by a combination of rare issues at Google Cloud that resulted in an inadvertent misconfiguration during the provisioning of UniSuper’s Private Cloud, which triggered a previously unknown software bug that impacted UniSuper’s systems."

Star Trek Discovery is such a hot mess even by Star Trek standards. Just the worst.

Update from Unisuper "The progressive restoration of member services will begin Thursday, 9 May 2024." And it does appear to be GCP problem.

The current state of AI is the computer channeling the all of the worst people you have ever worked with. Confidently incorrect, loved by executives, and promoted to the top.

There is an amazing VSCode plugin for draw.io, which means you can have editable diagrams in a repository. Is very good.

UniSuper has been out since Thursday - "a service disruption which originated with one of UniSuper’s third-party cloud service providers, Google Cloud."

Think I got the thing I have been chasing all day actually working.

I think I mostly don't understand GraphQL. Breaks so many of the nice affordances of HTTP.

Today I am an Elixir dev. I am so hipster.

Why PostgreSQL Is the Bedrock for the Future of Data

Using the Queensland Police as a reference for nefarious auditing data access.

End to end demo of new product was seamless this morning. Such a great feeling.

Having one arm is really annoying

Copilot is so bad at Rust I keep forgetting it can do other things more not bad. Turned Rust structs into markdown tables for docs just by yelling at it. Amazing.

OH Let me check with Ontology Man

Just sent a slack message that looked like code, and I don't think I hate it

Informational. No urgent response required. One line description ... If ... Else ...

RTO is to work what mainframes are to computers. It is perfectly valid to have big boxes that connect the work in one place. But it has consequences, is expensive, and everyone worked out a better way to do it.

Startup idea: uber but for nuclear deterrence. Nation states can subscribe for access to our stockpile of nuclear weapons. If attacked, Nuber will retaliate on the states' behalf.

I really love my job.

3,745 pieces of Lego later and I have finished

"This refactoring is so easy" he says as the rust analyzer is all green. Actually the rust analyzer has silently crashed and everything is terrible.

This is massive The Future of MySQL is PostgreSQL: Today, at Postgres Conference 2024, we introduced a PostgreSQL extension we are developing, which enables MySQL applications to run on PostgreSQL without any code changes by supporting the MySQL wire protocol, SQL syntax, and procedural language. (edited)

Fresh in our Memories

It was Star Trek. It's always Star Trek.

ParamountPlus is so astonishingly bad. Basic stuff doesn't work at all. Like PLAYING THE NEXT EPISODE or REMEMBERING WHAT YOU LAST WATCHED.

I've been a developer for 25 years. Fucking hell.

The Lego D&D set is such a love letter to both Lego and D&D. So many tiny details. Hidden treasure, secret doors, actual traps, lurking monsters, all of it. Even the monsters are the ludicrous classics. Owl Bear, Beholder, GELATINOUS CUBE.

I don't really write at all anymore. Trying to write documentation is very laborious.

Was described as "Tech Constanza" and not sure how I feel

Back to the gym 9 days after surgery. I will be all leg in after 3 months of not having an arm.

Have a Godot "hello world" working via a Rust extension. Might be best of all worlds for what I want to do.

It is wild that Lego D&D was not a thing sooner. Would be so cool to have modular dungeons, all the classic monsters, character minifigs. It creates itself.

Star Trek — Lower Decks is so very great and so very recursively self-referential.

Forever stuck at the "picking a tool" phase of game development. Been playing with Bevy but it is just too raw and changes too fast. Nothing in the ecosystem can keep up.

I don't know who needs to hear it but It Takes People To Lead People.

Writing documentation is hard. Reminds me of university assignments. Spend hours "writing" ... 94 words.

Got to use the word shibboleth

Did about 20m of work. Time for a nap.

All I've done today is have two naps and I am still tired.

My whole day is ruined. I had two episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds saved for my convalesce. ... and the first one turned out to be a Space Musical because aliens (?)

Not meant to use my arm at all and it is so very boring.

Instead of gatekeeping AI behind the walls of monopolistic zero-sum rent seeking, we could have a Universal Basic Intelligence accessible to all. Capital can still specialise to do what Capital does.

All of my problems with Generative AI are actually problems with Capitalism .

And of course, the actual content of the "Star Trek Universe (tm)" is a mixed bag, and in many exciting and innovative ways just not very good.

Finally, Star Trek leaves us with the hope that we are not alone.

And even in the "real world" the way the franchise itself has evolved reinforces that hope. These values are shared. We will be products of our time, but we will change with the time, and always progressing.

Star Trek represents a future of humanity at it's best. A hope that we can muddle our way through.

Without any irony I think the closest thing I have to religion is Star Trek.

Colleague has had actual flu, and felt so like death, came online to make PSA reminding us all to get the flu vax and promptly went back to bed.

We have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology (Edward O. Wilson)

We do prioritisation totally backward. Prioritisation should be primarily focused on what we are NOT going to do.

AWS Summit keynote keeps calling using the word "MAGIC" to describe various tech, but they have not mentioned YAML once.

Atlassian have 5100 microservices in AWS. Sounds amazing.

There is no AI in Team

History according to AWS - there was an Industrial Revolution and then nothing happens until 1947 and Digital Transformation was invented.

At the Sydney AWS Summit. The first thing I saw in the hall was a big "AI Ops" banner so I hate it already.

CIDevOps is the worst of all the Ops.

Going to the gym with one arm. Three months of nothing but legxercise.

My hot take is that the xz vulnerability was not sponsored by a state actor, but by a Big Tech vendor. If Open Source is poisoned, vendors can step in to the vaccum at high, high prices.

16m and 46s of building ... invalid reference format

Really not the biggest fan of the devopsing. All of the frustration of computers, with none of the fun of programming.

Programming, Motherfucker

AI Companies: their products aren't anywhere near good enough to do your job, but their salesmen are absolutely good enough to convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI model that totally fails to do your job.

Bodies are such a scam. As soon as I can upload my 🧠 into something I am out of here. Preferably uploading into hardware 🤖 not the ☁️.

No weights is making me ver sad.

I think copilot is less efficient than just googling Rust questions

Officially a partial bicep tendon tear. I guess I am a real lifter now.

If you in AU and want a complete set of the Series 2 Marvel Lego Minifigs at basically cost price, hit me up.

Working with actually intelligent humans is hard, imagine how difficult it will be when all your coworkers are AI. Hallucinating wild ideas, solving the wrong problems, inventing totally new problems. A+

Suzerain is very good. The West Wing meets Choose Your Own Adventure. Every decision is a genuinely complex set of tradeoffs, constrained by the grinding reality of budget, personality, and ideology. On sale on Steam and Switch.

Yesterday I nagged everyone about keeping READMEs up to date, so today I have spent ages trying to deal with something featured in the README I didn't read.

Insurance complaints line gives me two options - both of which lead to a recorded message and end the call

Just seen in the wild: I’m still learning Rust, and using ChatGPT to convert a Python project to Rust. I’m comparing processing times to Python and the Rust is about 60% slower

Pro-tip: we absolutely do not live in an exceptional time. Humans have always been this dysfunctional.

Working on a CRUD app as a change of pace from the other levels of the Rust mines.

Today in regional life, a 3 week wait for an ultrasound.

I made the mistake of buying Google Nest and never buying another Google product.

Totes f*cked up my arm. Woot.

The squats hurt three days later. I think this is winning?

End to end internal demo of new product this morning ... just worked. I feel very anxious

They've now decided something is actually wrong with the NBN. The "something" appears to be that the people who were laying down new cable also "cut" the cable. Technician says this is not ideal.

Everything is terrible. As a service.

Internet is still totally offline. Good news is that according to both NBN and Internode nothing is wrong.

Think I will need to find somewhere to work tomorrow.

The NBN was upgraded. It turns out this means "dig a big ditch across the front lawn" and "make the internet not work"

We should get all the people who want to have a war to have a war together. Israel and Russia could have a great time and leave everyone else alone.

I had to have some nurofen at 1am. May have overdone it on the squats.

Stupid squats

I don't know why all the Rust libraries insist on binary format when querying PostgreSQL. The actual pg docs say "the text format is usually the more portable choice"

The bug I thought I fixed is not fixed at all

Despite my arguments, we did not go with the name LogExcretion to match LogIngestion on the other side.

You had me at "queer insurrectionary science fiction climate change religion"

Rain has sabotaged the Sunday plan

Every time there is a steam sale I think about buying the new Dune RTS but I can't commit because of my maximum nostalgia for the original Dune II.

OH God damn boxes

Y U NO WORK

Pi day only exists if your calendar is broken

My brain won't turn on

OH: You and fucking Napoleon

Feel like death. Time to take some nurofen and go to the gym.

Explosions in the Sky are playing Vivid!

Which empire did Roman men think about every day?

TIL about the planet Vulcan )

Rust is rather magical. Types make everything easier. Changes ripple seamlessly through the code.

I might have fixed the build.

Don't login to Linked In on International Women's Day

Very definitely the vibe of "Bangkok Cockfight"

Which part of “stupid white bastard” is the slur?

Our car apparently needs $17,000 of parts. The car is not a Ferrari or Bugatti.

Special shout-out to Atuin for making ctrl + y the copy command.

Everything is broken. I hate computers.

Really wish there was a better way to filter topics. Everything is political, but everyone's politics is different.

Slightly ambivalent about Dune II and not totally sure why.

One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the robots will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new robot overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted internet personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground data caves.

How can it be squats again?

I would pay £35 to go to Piss Weak Wonka World

The trouble with having friends you only know by nickname is that years later there is no way of finding them. I wonder what ever happened to Stinky, Naza, and DuckPlucker?

Amazon Web Sisyphus

We're misaligned on how we are misaligned

Turns out you need a much bigger disk if you want to be a real Rust developer

Mogwai last night was so very LOUD. Played some of the classics and it was pretty great.

In Sydney and it is way too humid for my genteel highland sensibilities.

Every nested if is a programming failure.

Accidentally listened to 47 minutes of this.

Such a gorgeous day. Maybe I should even go outside.

I want to make a "butlerian jihad" t-shirt but can't think of a cool slogan

I did not get enough sleep and is very broked.

My dream job is exploring the galaxy as a crew member of the Enterprise.

Fucking squats

We are so hipster compliant. Rust with added Elixir+Phoenix.

Software Architecture is hard. Whatever you decide, it will be very slightly wrong almost immediately.

Selling a ticket to Mogwai in Sydney next Tuesday

The real question in artificial intelligence is "How will the AI know that we exist?"

If you think code is a hot spaghetti mess, wait until you hear about reality

Sharing is a scam invented by Big Parent so they could buy less of things.

The remake of Red Dawn where the US welcomes the Russians is not as exciting as the original.

The future is working in a purple space themed wizard robe (oodie) from the comfort of your own home.

Too many squats didn't cheer me up at all.

My brain won't start

Shroved as, bro

Russian Circles was just about the best thing ever last night.

Had coffee with some old friends I haven't seen in 10 years. Was Ok

Is the best part of a coworking space all the people or is it the loud music I hate?

Melbourne is ok

My new catchphrase is "lateral thinking with withered technology"

Going to be in Melbourne this week for the first time since pandemic. Not sure I've even been on a plane since 2019.

Cut my own hair. Totally fine.

Russian Circles support was tremendously bad in the way only very incredible musicians can be bad. Imagine the most jazzy jazz that ever discorded but make it more metal.

V excited to Russian Circles tonight.

Kim Gordon still being Kim Gordon I hope I can still rock it when I am 70

Databases are falling apart Imagine being able to compose a database system from lower-level components, deciding on the constraints and tradeoffs that work for your use case.

Discovered a new type of Law & Order. Organised Crime! It is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the other Law & Orders!

Copilot can definitely write bash. So that is good I guess.

Don't make me mute Taylor Swift.

Naming isn't the hardest problem in software. The hardest problem is renaming. Because you started with a project codename that now makes zero sense but it has leaked over everything.

I don't care if the headset cost $5,000, VR is still not happening.

I profiled the thing and have a flamegraph. No idea what it means.

My uplifting and too real metaphor for a feature I keep deferring is "An asteroid that could at any moment be detected on a collision course for Earth but we'll deal with it then"

If there is ever a remake of Back to the Future it will have to feature Cybertruck as the new DeLorean

Pro tip. Before you are interviewed by News Ltd on how hard it is to make ends meet, check your salary against the median.

I am not entirely against dueling to settle political differences

Similarly, chemical weapons are very bad unless the chemical explodes and shreds the humans into pieces of meat.

It is weird that assassination of specific individuals is very bad but a war that kills people indiscriminately is occasionally necessary for peace.

Need to setup the stuff to setup the stuff good. But now the setup setup is not setup good.

I love Chappell Roan

Apparently I use the word grok. If you grok, you grok.

Nothing like running into an error and knowing the fix. Not because you've seen it before, but because you grok.

My new hobby is feeling average

I just can't get over Arthur Whitney's C code ... it is the language of an alien species much smarter than the baseline terran.

Accidentally started making a VST plugin.

Have the ennui and or sick real bad. Just in time for the weekend.

a tiny k interpreter for educational purposes by arthur whitney

Some of the most deranged code I've ever seen. Amazing.

OH: Documentation IS the product

I wonder what AWS' internal tooling is like, given the developer experience of everything public is terrible

I am trying to make the logs super useful and friendly for our product. Do you have any prior art that you think nails doing logs good and doing other things good too?

I love boxing and I cannot do it anymore. Stupid body.

I have had enough for today. Pouring rain and ERR_TOO_MANY_CHILDREN.

Thought the tests were green, but I was just testing the wrong thing

OH (from CEO): This is a target date, not a deadline

Someone signed my new work email up for Alation and I suspect I am being trolled by someone at old work

I am going to have to mute 50 states to avoid whatever a primary is, arent I?

My favourite part of Rust is that monads are fundamental but no one really talks about it or comes up with hopelessly convoluted anologies to blog about.

Reminded that I once gave a talk entitled "Microservices - Argle bargle, or fooforaw?"

My daughter is obsessed with Gudetama

It is weird that cars seem to either go forever or totally fall apart after 10 years. My car could be worth about $10,000 ... if I spend about $6,000 on repairs.

Didn't go to the gym for ages, went back and just glanced at the squat rack and now everything hurts.

Product is running green against customer tests. Oh em gee.

Release build takes 2m33s. Feels grindingly slow when you are waiting, but still faster than building an EAR file in the olden days.

Not to self - reading cursor position in a loop is bad

It's impossible to mute all of the Bad Place in an election year. I am never going to cope if we get Four More years of the worst possible timeline.

If "Presidential Immunity" is absolute, I look forward to Biden going full Sulla.

Accidentally made my hair look like Prince Valiant.

I know that it is uncool, but I would rather have more Business Analysts than more Product Managers.

Things I hate #104729

pub port: u16,
pub prometheus_exporter_port: i16,

New coffee machine went from "Same Day Dispatch" to "Delivery on Jan 16" as soon as it was actually ordered and paid for.

Borrowed a Bialetti stove top:as a last resort because I've spent about $1000 on coffee in the 5 days since machine died.

The best thing that happened to me in 2023 is losing my job. ymmv.

Games Workshop are releasing a new Warhammer Fantasy. Starter set is $400. For one side. Astonishing.

Every now and then I have the thought of doing more study and then I see $60,000 for a Masters degree and I am cured.

What is everyone doing that they want to implement a double linked list from scratch as the foundational requirement for adopting Rust?

If you are an software person in Australia, you should check out GoodTeams

I am still laughing at powerslap

After 17 years of faithful service my coffee machine is no work

Keep accidentally creating PRs on upstream instead of our fork because github assumes that is what you want to do. YOLOing PRs into someone else's codebase is such a professional vibe.

I don't mean to brag, but I spelt "axolotl" correctly

Hi ho hi ho, back to work I go (again)

Disappointed to wake up in 2024 and still be the same person.

This totally blew my mind. Everything about the way we do concurrency is broked

I don't seem to have an hobbies anymore. I just want to code all the time. Weird.

I was hoping that Wonkapoleon was going to be the new Barbenheimer, but it just won't go viral.

The Options will continue until Results are Ok

Result<Option<Vec<Option<String>>>

You should commit before you push or you will be very confused about why your published branch is empty and does nothing.

Spent the whole day making sure nothing works at all. Winning.

Most of Rust is just calling clone() until everything works.

Oh. Might be a bug in tokio/rust/something/something.

higher-ranked lifetime error I don't think my Rust is of high enough rank to work out what is going on.

Hi ho hi ho, back to work I go

Why not play a game of "Soviet Republic"

Hello xmas