I’ve just spent about 90 minutes looking at the HTML5 and CSS3 specs for the first time. Brain asplode! My stories of web development headaches/heartaches from ten to fifteen years ago have to sound like the infirm rantings of an age-ravaged mind to anyone who has picked this stuff up in the last few years.
‘Techxploitation’ or ‘Texploitation’? One is more obvious. The other is more clever.
Spaces inside of spaces
How do you run out of disk space without running out of disk space? You run out of inodes What did you learn today?
Muntzed
It’s a perfect storm of sorts. We can’t build anything because the NAS is out of space. Deleting directories on the NAS generates snapshots. Snapshots are stored on the NAS. The more directories that get deleted, the more snapshots are created. So the builds continue to fail. #FML
Voyeurism
Watching Vagrant/Chef stand up a Windows box out of thin air is exciting. At least it is the first time around.
Corollaries
If you learn something every day and knowledge is power then your power grows every day. And, yet, I feel ever more powerless.
On a scale of one to ten
How passive aggressive would it be if I sent the owners of broken builds birthday cards on the anniversaries* of those builds being broken? * Say…One Week, One Month, One Quarter, Half a Year, and then on each year? As weird as it might sound, one build in particular is less than two months away…
Unplugging
Facebook is the most depressing thing in my world. Time to unplug it.
Forecast: It’s raining pages
Three hardback and a paperback book from AbeBooks for just over $20. As much as I love my cheap-o Kindle, I think used books from Abe’s are going to render it obsolete.
How Docker Is a Dick
You know Docker, that darling of the digerati? The application that is revolutionizing the DevOps world? That god damned motherfucking piece of ill behaved software that is as smug and patronizing as most everyone I’ve ever come in contact with who preaches the Gospel of Docker? My anger, it is getting ahead of me. Sorry.…