AI product pushing, absolutely. I actually fairly shocked there isn’t more. Probably because they can’t actually predict the output.

“You can do get the most efficient results at the lowest TCO with [insert vendor’s product]!”

But you get ai answers with Google now so… It’s basically the same.

An hour of ideal developer time. Too bad there’s only 3 of 4 of those per quarter.

Quesabirria from the local taco place. Didn’t even realize we were celebrating!

Our first official date was opening night for the Nic Cage movie The Family Man. Married 3.5 years later.

Just remember that actual profit isn’t important to investors. They’re only here make money on the growth of the investment.

Goddamn parasites.

5B run rate explains the wild 183B valuation better. The calculus is usually a solid return after 3 years and double or better by 5, so they’re being on something like a 500B valuation by 2030.

And they very likely won’t be profitable in the real sense even then.

Yep. Ran a config as code migration on prod instead of dev. We introduced new safeguards for running against prod after that. And changed the expectations for primary on call to do dev work with down time. Shifted to improving ops tooling or making pretty charts from all the metrics. Actually ended up reducing toil substantially over the next couple quarters.

10/10 will absolutely still do something dumb again.

I see. That definitely makes 13B way more sane.

It’s decorative gourd season, motherfuckers!

If it gives you any solace, we’re not in the device software group and don’t even interface with them.

99 Honda Odyssey: Walmart Wasteland edition.

$500 million in run-rate revenue

Absolutely astounding that they can raise $13B on a sixth round of funding on that.

For the less finance jargon savvy, “run-rate revenue” just means projected annual revenue.

All this means they spent 3 years of revenue to make this go away.

Absolutely not a profitable business lol.

It might just be hitting the house with the jet itself (after the pilot spends an hour with IT troubleshooting) though.

I was a platform engineer for a cyber security company for 6+ years and had worked in another ramshackle garage-based startup before that. I was burnt out and angry all the time. On call for a week out of every month.

I recently got a job writing software fully remote for a medical device company with a single 30min interview with a non-technical manager.

They don’t even know how to use my skills well. My “mentor” can hardly write an Excel formula. My boss has once seen an excruciatingly simple app I made at someone else’s request. I built it in a couple hours. It has a file chooser button and a run button. Blew her mind. Multi-platform builds are now automated via CI/CD. I seriously over-deliver and they won’t ever know it.

I actually put in about 30 hours/week and bill 40. I have 3-4 short meetings a week to interface with a couple vendors. None of them, even my 1:1 with my boss is on camera. It just isn’t done. I get maybe 2 chat messages and 2 emails a day.

Easiest $150k/yr ever. And my spouse has great benefits through work.

Why the hell would I ever go back to “tech?”

You can search the package database to determine which package(s) provide a file with dpkg --search $file

I might recommend starting with a project.

Something like getting pi-hole running. This would help you learn some of the networking basics. But I’d recommend reading at least enough to have a conceptual foundation about the things you don’t understand along the way (DNS, DHCP, etc).

You’ll want one of their supported OS choices to keep things simple. That means one of: fedora, debian, ubuntu, or centos. I might steer you away from centos just because its user base is a bit more linux-pro so finding specific help might be more daunting, but I don’t have much experience with it either. Maybe use a “server” variant to keep your system demand to a minimum (boot to terminal only).

Mongo DB popularized the “document DB” model which is just storing JSON in a database and offering a way to interact with it roughly like you would data in a traditional relational DB.

7ish years ago, they got fed up with the major cloud providers offering their free software as a service and changed their license to one that is more restrictive.

Of course this is sort of the inevitable outcome: a cloud provider builds a competing product and then “open sources” it in a way that will allow them to grab mind share and eventually erode the company that dared to demand compensation for a “free” product.

Microsoft added a middle finger by announcing it just before mongo released quarterly financials too.

Do you shave with a different kind of gas?!

Reminds me of the old gas shaver kit my grandpa gave me on my 13th birthday.