Hah, is fine. No I didn’t feel “cool.” I’m just the kind of weirdo that was obsessed with guns from a technical point of view as a kid. Think of me more as the kid just slightly on the spectrum who collected data on everything firearm related and then wrote mods for games like rogue spear that tried to adhere to the data. I didn’t shoot more than a .22 rifle or 16 and 12 gauge shotguns until my 20s. This was one of the factoids I still have floating around up there.

Now in my 40s, I still haven’t owned a gun personally, but have been to the range many times with friends (I buy more ammo than I shoot and drinks after). Heck, a few weeks ago I got to put a hundred rounds or so through a friend’s suppressed FN P90 (a very surreal experience), a very nice .223, and pistols in 4 calibers (.22 and 9mm with suppressors, .45, and .357).

.40 S&W and 10mm auto are both 10mm rounds!

Oh, and I’ve found SELinux easier to handle with podman, but that might be just more experience now.

Nothing really critical.

Differences from where I’m at

• docker doesn’t have native systemd integration (“quadlets”)
• docker needs a daemon running
• podman has pods (like kubernetes) which are great for isolation of complex services
• you can run podman containers with kubernetes yaml

Seems like it would be easy to find one in Portland.

Yeah, it is pretty great!

I’m building software to bridge an in house legacy system and a CLI program. It has 1 partial restful API endpoint (no delete, no patch/put). But it does have 3 cyber security suites including one that wraps the runtime. It is not a public API.

I have 4 meetings a week.

Did I mention I work from home?

Going on 22 days waiting for a firewall rule change so I can pull containers from the enterprise GitHub enlistment.

I’ve had discussions with 4 different OUs. Not one of them has been able to tell me why the firewall is different for this VM. There is no way for me to see the state of each and compare.

Good point! No use for a line number when you’re explicitly dumping file names. And if it did work, would likely break the pipe to tree.

I lazily copied the original and just added -l.

grep -l will get you just the filenames

tree --fromfile will read from stdin just fine

So: grep -ril "foo bar" . | tree --fromfile -a should do the trick.

Edit: removed -n from the grep incantation per below conversation.

Looks like there probably isn’t much [toe] nail in that shot.

Yes, the bubble is a pure speculation (growth) game. As long as the new shiny makes more people want in on the stock (public or private) continually, share prices grow and the company has continued runway.

Eventually, private equity exits with an IPO and the public gets a chance to be left holding the bag too.

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.

Yeah, I wasn’t trying to offer commentary. It was pure observation.

The irony in all of this is that we all bring expectation and prejudice to any discussion (and to think we don’t is pure hubris). So, I expected my extemporaneous comment to be controversial when I hit that post button.

It just occurred to me that the specific tone of the writing sounded more like developers writing about a bug than people addressing human issues.

I don’t follow Ubuntu politics and hope they can learn from this experience.

This response reads like a corner case bug with a workaround and a better long-term fix now in the works because it finally bit them hard enough to hurt.

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

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?”

Might even call it a cargo cult.