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.

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…

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.…