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Leon Mika

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

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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