Memes
Had to troubleshoot an issue where images weren’t being updated properly when changed. You can probably guess what the underlying cause was.

Nothing like ending the week with a somewhat involved Friday release to production.
![Meme of the ending screen of Metroid 1, which is a pixelated character stands on a textured surface against a starry night sky, accompanied by a congratulatory and cautionary message in bold, yellow text. Message is as follows: Great!! You fulfiled [sic] your mission. It will revive peace in Slack. But, it may be invaded by the other releases. Pray for a true peace in Slack!](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/25293/2025/friday-release-meme.png)
It’s DNS. It’s always DNS. It always will be DNS.

An online tool for generating images of message screens from retro 90’s games. Quite a selection of classic game message screens. Now, my egotistical side will think it beneath me to use this for posting lame memes here. To that part of me I say…

Via: Robb Knight
Amusing that find myself in a position where I have to log into one password manager to get the password to log into another password manager to get a password.

On the subject of names of social media sites:

Learnt a valuable lesson today, which I will share with you via another King DerpCats most wondrous meme gen’rat’r.

Smack bang in the middle of the automation smiling curve for my current task. 😩

Removing personal identifying information from logs is a laudable goal, but it does make troubleshooting issues in prod rather difficult.

I made a different version of this image earlier today. Glad I found the discipline to do what needed to be done, giving me the opportunity to change it to this:

Hot take: bagpipes actually sound pretty good.

Surprising how much of working with TLS certificates is just dealing with PEM files.

So, this is how my morning went.

Apologies to my reviewers for all the notification emails they’re receiving during this battle with the CI/CD build.
Been asked to do a routine task today. This is the fifth time I’ve started it, the fifth time I said to myself “hmm, I should probably automate this,” and the fifth time I just did it manually. Now wondering if that was time well spent.

And that makes it the third time this week that I encountered a bug involving DynamoDB that was avoidable with a unit test that actually used a proper database.

(To be fair, this time is was my fault: I haven’t got around to writing the unit test yet).
I’ll bring the lighter fluid. #burn-all-computers-to-the-ground

(sorry, it’s been one of those days 😼).