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👋 network engineer building an off-grid home and reconnecting with nature
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paper bags keep failing me more often than not. hate them for most applications. good fuel for campfire starting, though.
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keep the rubber side down and the thing between the lines
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tina couldn’t sleep. she talked nonstop starting at 5:30 while i was half asleep still. usually i do that to her. sucks to be at the receiving end of one’s own bad habits. til.
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we built an anti deer fence from scrap materials we found on our property. fun exercise in resourcefulness initially born out of the idea that it will be a temporary fix. we all know how long temporary fixes will remain in production 🤪 https://youtu.be/IrQbklcYPm0
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sitting at a lake near our rented cabin, reading through the sunrise. vacation!
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visiting phoenix, az. love the desert. saw so much life hidden between the bushes, cactuses, and wondrous trees. next up: an old mine and lakes.
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surprise find during unwrapping a difficult tax issue; apparently the uk gov (hmrc) had sent me a payable order a year ago which i never got. now trying to recover that. not much money, but also not nothing. also, til: payable orders 🤷
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def need to chill more
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this might be the first ai generated log: alien came to earth. he said, "i'm looking for a friend." a dog barked. alien said, "that's close enough." (generated using google‘s bard llm)
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this work week was mixed. at least i got some technical debt cleanup moving forward. what a drag! heading back into nature tomorrow. on that note, here’s my latest video in which i learn basic plumbing skills and make extra trips to the hardware store for measuring wrong: https://youtu.be/z60LK2nbVrc
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current book: „the revenge of analog“ by david sax. can recommend. i love my tech job and i love technology, but for sure it can only be a stepping stone to happiness, not the only source of it. nature and tangible things and haptic creativity are similarly important to the true human experience.
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no finish line in the rat race
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this weekend’s local mood: bank run.
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our friend kordian visited and helped us clear the road from fallen trees (storm damage). got some nice cam shots out of that day. but also totaled an entire chain saw chain and had to accept that not everyone likes to wear as much ppe as i do. enjoy! https://youtu.be/koqBVnwog10
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the universe is testing me again and again this week. so many fuckups, i hardly can repair them in time for the next one to appear. i underestimated how tough it is to survive an economic downturn. on the plus side, started strength training again to mitigate the stress. it works wonders! love it!
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you know that the attention machine is going full circle when someone uses a random generative ai extension for excel sheets, admits knowing nothing about the topic at hand and not being able to verify the results, then posts a catching video full of generated, unverified bs on tiktok where a (lemme check) self-proclaimed founder and vc and what not finds it, steals it, and uploads the content to linked in of all places for click farming. how is this not a hype cycle?
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took my solar panel, battery, and a coffee machine up to the mountains for a coffee break during storm damage cleanup work. to my surprise, the 120w rated panel delivered 114w peak. that is close to spec. expected much less. enjoy the video and the beautiful view (of nature, not me, lol): https://youtu.be/r_zeQVXpJVc
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my new project at work includes wading through tons of legacy config and code and clean it up. i actually like it. it’s a challenge and a mess, but super critical for our products. my wife and me moved to a new apartment which is smaller but quieter and sleep quality improved. still a lot of stress in our life but at least we are making progress.
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nothing has been going to plan lately and it stresses me out. so much on the line. stupid past me, so bad at predicting the future. meh.
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saw a fighter jet take off up close. impressive.
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my morning commute often has me biking through a small forest-like stretch of trees where i regularly pass a woman greeting me with a wholehearted “good morning!” while she does her daily run. a mile or so further down, i pass by next to an airfield where the silicon valley billionaires commute in on monday mornings and out thursday afternoons via private jets passing right over my helmet. within that short distance my experience goes from down to earth regular folks to the most lavish lifestyle present on this amazing peninsula. love the spectrum! what a life!
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bought a second phone and removed all my work apps from my first phone. now it should be easier to „switch off“ on the weekends. let’s see.
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recently i got some unexpected insights into a large corporation’s digital strategy and the execution thereof. it was a highly complex system of legacy and new services from a multitude of vendors. almost impossible to securely orchestrate let alone run to high reliability standards. some business are facing tough times modernizing their business and spending in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars on service evolution is totally normal for them. it was a different world for me to see.
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i saw air force one and the u.s. president shortly before he assessed the santa cruz storm damage and flooding. and then tina and i assessed our own storm damage on our property and started with the cleanup work. 15 minutes of video at https://youtu.be/fkIAMQKfuSA
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times are tough right now. a friend asked chatgpt to generate stoicism wisdom and shared it with me. lol. that made me laugh a little. counting the days to saturday when i will spend time in nature again. for recovery from stress.
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tough week.
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despite all the rain we recently got, or maybe because of it, we leveled our shipping container by placing it on used railroad ties. now the water can flow freely around it, less rust should build up, and it doesn’t feel like the sinking titanic when inside (it was that off!). my friend dima helped me pull this all off. he’s an example in strength and endurance. worked all day while soaking wet. https://youtu.be/IOkT0naqakw
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i’m part of the “sunset team” that is shutting down my employer’s cloud gaming product which my site reliability engineering team(s) supported. today we released an easter egg before we shut down for good next week. the community has been very supportive and i could not have wished for better users. a chapter ends and it hurts a little. products can be technically great and still fail in the market. an exercise in acceptance for me personally. gg.
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an app disappeared from my phone’s home screen. i noticed b/c the layout changed. for two days i have been wondering which app it could have been that vanished. i still don’t know. i guess i (a) have to many apps installed in the first place and (b) that app was not really important enough to be on the prime real estate that the home screen is.
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a old and very good friend from school reached out after many years of mutual radio silence. it was good to reconnect. we quickly figured out that we have walked different paths yet arrived at similar places, just a ocean and a continent apart. some connections are so deep they can be revived within minutes despite spanning decades and vast distance. who would you like to see again that you haven’t in a while?