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Leon Mika

Software Developer and occasional writer of music. Based in Melbourne, Australia.

Memes

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

    A cartoonish doctor character with a stethoscope mirror on their head speaks, 'You have just killed your afternoon dealing with a CDN. How does it feel?' in a speech bubble.
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    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!
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    It’s DNS. It’s always DNS. It always will be DNS.

    A retro-style computer error message features a pixelated character and humorous text about a DNS server failure, with options to restore, restart, or quit. Message is: Your trusty DNS server has decided not to show up to work today. Next time, remember your IP addresses yourself.
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    🛠️ The Death Generator

    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…

    Auto-generated description: The message box from Castlevania 2, consisting of a black background and blue frame with bold white text reads, WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO POST A MEME.

    Via: Robb Knight

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    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.

    The yo dawg meme with the caption: Yo Dawg heard you like passwords for your passwords, so we added a password for your passwords for your passwords.
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    On the subject of names of social media sites:

    A Seinfeld meme consisting of a conversation between two characters discussing adherence to a content style guide, humorously addressing the continued use of the name "Twitter".
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    Learnt a valuable lesson today, which I will share with you via another King DerpCats most wondrous meme gen’rat’r.

    Auto-generated description: A medieval-style illustration of a cat holding a rat is overlaid with humorous text about the importance of packages. Old English text: Thy package imp'rtance is less'r than thy plans, whatev'r the imp'rtance of thy package may beest. In modern English: The importance of your package is less than the importance of your plans, no matter how important your package may be.
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    Auto-generated description: A meme of blue-striped cat holds a book while standing upright with the humorous text, 'Brevity may be the soul of wit, but loquaciousness is the soul of sounding super smart.'
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    Smack bang in the middle of the automation smiling curve for my current task. 😩

    A meme depicting a smiling curve graph illustrates the relationship between problem size and satisfaction. The left size says 'Job really small. I'll just do it manually.' The right size says 'Argh, too big. I better automate.' In the centre is an arrow pointing to the lowest point on the curve with the annotation 'Automate half the job, but then realise it's probably quicker to just finish it manually.'
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    Removing personal identifying information from logs is a laudable goal, but it does make troubleshooting issues in prod rather difficult.

    Auto-generated description: A medieval-style drawing of a cat with humorous text in an old-fashioned font. Meme text: Thee shall nev'r knoweth who is't didst the thing! In modern day English: you will never know who did that thing.
    Source of meme image
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    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:

    Auto-generated description: A mock-up of a reminder for a tax return due on 24 September 2024, with options to Mark Complete or Snooze, with a mouse cursor hovering over the Mark Complete option, giving the sense that the user will click it.
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    Hot take: bagpipes actually sound pretty good.

    Sock photo of bagpipe players on a British town with the caption ‘#pipe_those_bags’ near the bottom.
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    Surprising how much of working with TLS certificates is just dealing with PEM files.

    A meme of a blackboard with the heading 'Things for today', then the items '1/ Decode from PEM', '2/ Encode to PEM', '3/ Decode from PEM', '4/ Encode to PEM' written in white chalk. The first two items are crossed off.
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    So, this is how my morning went.

    A drawing of a Git commit tree showing a successful merge of Y with a green CI/CD run, a few commits of me making changes to a branch over the course of 2 days, then eight commits with a few minutes between each one with each one having a red CI/CD run. The commit messages suggest that each one was an attempt to fix the CI/CD problems of the previous one.

    Apologies to my reviewers for all the notification emails they’re receiving during this battle with the CI/CD build.

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    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.

    Two columns, the left one with the heading 'This Universe' and five evenly sized boxes with the label 'Nah, it'll take too long. I'll do it next time', the right one with the heading 'Alternate Universe' with one large box with 250% the height of the left boxes with the label 'Build the thing' , and six small boxes taking up 50% the height of the left boxes
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    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.

    Meme of the Simpsons featuring the purple Stern lecture Plumbing van, with the text modified to say 'Stern Lecture Coding' and 'I told you not to Mock that'.

    (To be fair, this time is was my fault: I haven’t got around to writing the unit test yet).

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    I’ll bring the lighter fluid. #burn-all-computers-to-the-ground

    DALL-E image of a pile of 90's desktop computer in a field set on fire.

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

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    @odd shared a link to O Rly and given the recent tech news I couldn’t help myself. Enjoy.

    “Hardcore Twitter” O Rly book cover