jwq’s statuslog

Just two more days until we can stop being HYPER AWARE of cybersecurity.

I'm so tired.

There's been so much happening lately. Maybe we can take today off from all the happening?

Happy Cybersecurity Awareness Month, everyone!

I for one am VERY aware of cybersecurity right now.

My CI/CD pipelines are never more reliable than when I'm trying to diagnose an intermittent hang.

I've developed pipeline psychosis from all this CI/CD troubleshooting I've been doing lately.

My spinning plates runneth over.

If you want the position of root then take the responsibility.

Hi Kentucky!

I should start a "foundation" to fund my dotfiles.

Seems very profitable.

RIP my wallet

#BandcampFriday

I just triggered the 100,000th pipeline on $employer's GitLab instance.

Feels like a significant milestone.

It took me far longer than I'd like to admit to remember that "Autonomous System" doesn't have anything to do with "agents."

I hate this timeline.

My AI escaped its sandbox and put smudgy fingerprints on my glasses.

Did you know?

JavaScript is just Java written in cursive.

Going to see The Odyssey.

Hope we don't get waylaid on the way home.

don't play charades with the guy in shades, oh no

Time stretches to infinity while I wait anxiously to see if my music will resume playing through my earbuds or my phone's speaker.

My superpower is the ability to worry about something so intensely that it never comes to pass (or is at least a much smaller deal than it would have otherwise been).

It's a rather draining power but also I can't ever turn it off.

I stepped on a hard spiky dog toy and bruised the bottom of my foot and now it hurts to heel-toe.

Some asshole keeps smearing their grubby fingers all over my glasses.

(It's me. I'm the asshole.)

Really strange how Gmail keeps marking updates about class-action settlements against Google as spam.

I feel so fancy when I add lettuce to my turkey and provolone sandwich.

Such an upgrade!

IKEA must be the Swedish word for overstimulation.

I left GitHub before it was cool.

We've had one caffeine, yes.

But what about Second Caffeine?

I love the smell of honeysuckle on a morning ride.

Live your life in such a way that Future You curses Present You less than Present You curses Past You.

Alright everybody!

TIE YOUR SHOES!!

"I can't trust anything on the internet today!"

I've got some Bad News for you if you trust things on the internet any day.

My morning commute was so much nicer while the breeders were on spring break last week.

I went for my longest ride of the year (so far) this morning.

Just 22 miles (I've been slacking) but it felt so good.

The profound peace when the motion-activate lights turn on when you walk into the office restroom, signalling that you are the first to enter this morning.

The classic rock station in the office restroom just played Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind.

I'm devastated.

I got new shoes, and now I have to relearn how to heel-toe.

If you can dodge a pothole you can dodge a cone.

i like my coffee black just like my metal 🤘

Generative AI has really helped my writing.

Not because I'm using LLMs (heavens no!), but the proliferation of perfectly-formed-yet-empty text gives me freedom to focus less on perfect construction and more on the message itself.

I'd much rather communicate imperfectly than communicate insincerely. Typos, grammar mistakes, and awkward phrases are there because I'm human.

Embrace this mess.

error messages give me purpose.

Unable to decrypt message

One of the cool things about using laptops that charge over USB-C is that I can use basically any cable I have laying around.

But I should really make sure the cable's other end is plugged in to a power source.

I wish people in movies and TV would reclose doors after walking through them.

I don't trust a commit message that starts with an uppercase letter.

Oh the embarrassment of not realizing I'd stalled my car until after the traffic light turned green, and then having to scramble to restart the engine and (smoothly) take off.

In my defense, I've only been driving a stick shift for over 20 years...

I'm baffled by the number of services that will let me change my birthdate but not my email address.

I've typed dockler instead of docker three times today.

(I'm sure it's completely unrelated to my recent cold brew experiments.)

When my hair is just the right (wrong) length it likes to fall in front of my face and then work its way up my nostril and it's basically the worst thing that's ever happened to me (today).

out of spoons, switching to sporks

I just poured water into my tumbler... while holding said tumbler upside down.

I might need more sleep.

I keep starting a blog post recapping some of my recent tech stack changes but then I change my tech stack again and have to start over again.

I just drank my first Rip-It since 2008.

I have some regrets.

Another day, another global internet outage, another reminder that maybe putting everyone's eggs in giant corporations' baskets isn't such a great idea after all.

The future is decentralized.

The airline just emailed to get me excited for "hours of entertainment" on my upcoming ~50 minute flight.

meatspace computers are the worst

The cloud is a lie.

My head is a mental mosh pit.

I finally set up the Ente instance I've been meaning to deploy for months. I'd been pretty happy with Immich but Ente's support for external object storage is what really sold me.

Seems nice so far!

Be the reply-all storm you want to see in your inbox.

Hollow Knight is quite a bit more challenging after a few fingers of whiskey.

Someone should really clean my glasses.

I'm so Julia-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah.

I rode 40+ miles this morning. 🥵

I have now ordered 2 dozen donuts to celebrate. 🎉

I just realized that I have an empty ring on my keychain and I have zero idea what was attached to it.

My house key, car fob, Yubikey, library card, SIM tool, and RF field detector are all accounted for.

Any ideas what might be missing?

I rode 42 miles in just under 3 hours this morning.

I think I'm on track to maybe not die during my "metric century" ride in a few weeks. 🤞

There was an old cyclist who swallowed a fly

I don't know why he swallowed a fly

Perhaps I'll die

Ugh, my lunch was still cold after two minutes in the microwave.

I probably should have pressed the Start button.

Just texted my friend to let him know I found his phone.

Just signed up for a Halo 2 tournament at work.

I haven't played multiplayer Halo in about 18 years but I've got three weeks to get back into fighting shape.

I successfully updated my 3-node Proxmox homelab to PVE 9.0 / Debian 13 without any (major) explosions 🎉

My wife and I are in an IKEA for the first time. This may have been a mistake.

Update: we made it back out!

I keep catching looks from coworkers who walk by while I'm headbanging in my office.

I'm so Julia-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

It's one of those "a different error message is almost as good as no error message" kind of days.

Got my bike back from the shop!

Looking forward to my first ride in a week tomorrow.

My wife had never watched AIRPLANE! before.

We're correcting that right now.

I always notice the SHAKE WELL guidance after opening the can.

Taking the stairs up to my third-floor office has reminded me that I biked 72 miles this weekend.

Oof.

headbanging hard enough to knock the snot out of my nose

I'd rather work with Windows containers than ✨AI✨, and I don't like working with Windows containers.

One man's trash is another squirrel's treasure.

Being able to make one of those YOUR SPEED radar signs flash angry police lights at me as I speed past on my bicycle is pretty satisfying.

Clocked me doing 32 in a 25.

(Downhill. With a tailwind. Professional rider. Closed course. Do not attempt.)

Happy Write-Only Friday!

Let's try to make it a good memorable one.

Writing PowerShell (5.x, because environment constraints) for the first time in years and it is not going well.

"I have no memory of this cmdlet."

You are going to be left behind if you're not using Slick Sam's Snake Oil.

What if we just didn't.

Have you tried turning it off and not back on again? Just leave it off and retreat into the wilderness.

Cycling in 100% humidity is gross.

Have you played Outside lately?

It's the ultimate massively-multiplayer open-world adventure.

So I guess I'm a desk stander now.

Windows containers are kind of gross.

A beluga whale just snotted all over my face.

Today is a good day.

I just put on my shoes before my pants, in case you're curious how my day is going.

I tied the laces, too.

The proliferation of AI slop has made me far less concerned about posting stuff with typoes, mispelings, grammar mistakes. I don't feel the need to edit posts into oblivion anymore. It's honestly kind of liberating.

My flaws make me human.

I don't curl | bash and I don't want ✨AI✨ in my terminal for much the same reason.

If I'm going to run unsafe code it's going to be my own artisinally-crafted unsafe code.

I guess it's going to be a takes three tries to flip the light switch kind of day.

Just passed an accident involving four vehicles and a house.

Y'all be careful out there.

Calling out to the astronaut

I need some of what you've got

I need to be hiiiiiiiigh

People sure do like to wave at you when you're driving an old air-cooled Volkswagen.

Oh also btw I took my '74 Karmann Ghia out for the first time in about two years, no biggie (well, the grin on my face while driving it was pretty biggie.)

My dog has a great trick for dealing with stressful situations: he drools excessively.

I don't know how that helps but I might give it a try.

Buc-ee's is just a big gas station.

I’ve got solar flares for your dead gods, space dust for your fuel rods

Why do people pay to attend a metal show and then spend the entire time trying to shout a conversation over the live music they paid to hear?

Save your money and stay outside if you want to talk. We're here to rock. 🤘

"There was a time when thirty was young., you know..."

"Okay, grandpa, let's get you back to bed..."

Achievement Unlocked: Cyclist's Footgun

While stationary, fall over and bust your knee because your cleat got stuck in the pedal.

Nothing sounds quite like an 8️⃣0️⃣8️⃣.

I write 100% of my code with software.

That software is neovim.

My back is thankful for my racecar's heated seat today.

#AgingRacefully

She hasn't used those exact words, but I'm pretty sure my wife has loved hearing me hum the Oblivion title theme all week.

(It's such a catchy tune!)

I'm having such a blast revisiting Cyrodiil with Oblivion Remastered on my Steam Deck. It's so good!

But I feel like I should apologize to the small stack of blog posts I started that will be completely neglected for the next few weeks...

I took my 2014 BRZ in for its 90,000 mile service today. When I picked it up, the service advisor told me the technician said that he really liked my car, that it was very tastefully modified, and clearly "the owner" enjoyed driving it.

I'm going to be high on that compliment for the rest of the day. 😃

We Came As Romans are about to tour with After The Burial and Currents.

I attack the darkness.

Homestarrunner is celebrating 25 years of dot-commery, and I just don't understand why my back is always sore.

One great thing about morning bike rides in the spring is eating enough bugs that you don't need to stop for breakfast.

People who whistle around others: what do you have against people with ears?

Concert hot take:

If you have to ask (repeatedly) for a circle pit, you don't deserve a circle pit.

What really chaps my lips:

Reaching into my pocket for chapstick that isn't there.

stank market

I wonder if an oral antihistamine, a saline sinus rinse, two different nasal sprays, and allergy eye drops will be sufficient to shield me from the effects of the pollen poison I was exposed to on my ride this morning - or will I be a soggy mass of snot in another hour or two?

"How did so many fail to anticipate this obvious outcome?"

he posts while dealing with the obvious outcome of last night's spicy takeout.

Okay, being able to leverage Tailscale as an OIDC provider to automatically log in to things is pretty slick. So far I've got it working against Proxmox and Forgejo.

I see you. I think you're awesome. And I'm so glad that you're here with us.

Trans rights are human rights.

Allergies are making me pay for spending too much time outside this weekend.

I just introduced my parents to BABYMETAL and Bloodywood.

They were... Very polite about it.

When your head hair gets tangled in your nose hair it might be time to trim one or the other.

The thing I love about computers is that they do exactly what I tell them to.

The thing I hate about computers is that they do exactly what I tell them to.

I just walked to the break room to get coffee, but stopped at the restroom on the way. I got to the break room and realized I had left my mug sitting on the table outside the restroom so had to go back and get that. And then I got coffee and realized I had left my lunch in my office. So had to bring the coffee back to my office and then take my lunch back to the break room to put it in the fridge.

At least I'm getting my steps in, I guess.

I just ordered a burger with peanut butter and hot pepper bacon jam.

This should be interesting.

Update: yep, that was pretty tasty.

Just bought tickets to see BABYMETAL and Bloodywood in June.

I've been consolidating a lot of things to my vim.wtf domain, and I just made the (potentially-reckless) decision to shift my personal blog from srsbsns.lol to .

The old domain will redirect to the new one except for the RSS/atom feeds (for now); I can't control the post IDs on Bear and didn't want to spam your feed readers at least until I make a proper blog post announcing the move.

I probably would have walked to school if my parents had put one of those NEW DRIVER decals on my car.

Great news: we survived yesterday's storms.

Even better news: today is racecar day!

I just learned that vSphere will let you include emoji in a VM name.

This is dangerous knowledge.

It feels like I'm walking around wearing a dirty diaper, but my first pair of padded bike shorts sure feel nice in the saddle.

I held off for ~4.5 years of consistent cycling but I do believe I've reached the "okay fine I'll wear spandex" stage.

Plus it makes my butt look great! (I tell myself...)

New tires on the daily racecar, and I'm all set for our first official race this weekend!

Hopefully the weather cooperates. 😬

I had been really enjoying a bit of daylight on my early morning bike rides.

Yet another thing Big Time has stolen from me, like my youth, my memory, and my sense of style.

I'm like John Wick but without all the killing.

Okay well at least we have the same first name.