worldofgeese
The original EverQuest theme song was mine. Captured the epic wide-eyed wonder of going on an adventure perfectly.
Hey there! And thank you for reading.
Let’s take your example, as a Nomad cluster operator. The Acme Corporation may have a team for provisioning and maintaining this Nomad cluster. The organization wants to give customers the option for self-service. As a Nomad cluster operator on the Nomad team, because you are empowered with agency and visibility, you get to think of creative solutions to the problem of self-service. The billing team? They’re doing that too. And your two teams may collaborate. But the onus is on you to be creative and work within your skillset to best deliver.
Maybe you decide to go sit with the billing team for a week to understand the provisioning flow from the moment a customer presses pay to the automatic creation of a new Nomad cluster. Because you are empowered, you act. You’re happier because you don’t have to go through seven layers of command to be effective.
Does that help?
I run Guix System on my personal laptop and Project Bluefin on my work machine.
Guix is even easier to get started with now thanks to the Guix Packager , a web UI for writing Guix package definitions.
Project Bluefin auto-updates thanks to its use of container images deliver system updates. It’s also just a great platform to get started writing containerized apps, since it ships with rootless Podman by default and you can easily add new developer tools using just commands.
I deeply love the story of Grendel. He’s left an invisible imprint on me since I was a young boy fishing issues from my father’s oversized trunk that squatted tempestuously in our living room. Thank you for this summary! I learned a few things I hadn’t known.
For those who grew up with Grendel and now work in tech, like me, I did a talk on mindfulness and conflict in the workplace using the leitmotif of Grendel. Matt Wagner was kind enough to allow me to use his art for the talk.
The Intel discrete cards are fantastic value for money. There’s plenty of folks on the internet who can attest to this. Intel’s support story in general (so not just graphics cards) on Linux has been nothing less than sterling. If you’re using any Linux kernel you can expect Intel stuff to just work. It’s been this way for at least a decade.
I’m devastated they didn’t choose to pick up webOS for this.
