We are full.

Except not as charming, nor intelligent.

Excel is the database. Excel is the status console. Excel is the web scraper. Excel is the data analyzer.

All hail the mighty Spreadsheet, let us VBA. 🙏

…I feel seen.

There’s a kind of learned helplessness with some developers and tests. It’s weird.

I got handed the keys to the network monitoring suite many moons ago. I immediately started editing the default alert actions to display relevant information, and in some outlier cases escalation procedures.

Most times, it was ignored. Other times, it was skimmed and half-followed. A few people outright refused to do anything differently than they had before (kick it up the ladder).

Glad to be rid of that place.

Here’s a sampling:

How to piss off management with one simple word.

At this point I can only say “if each of us take a few with us before we go the world might end up better some day.”

Lots of them voted “no” when it came time to help NJ and NY.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-58-representatives-who-voted-for-katrina-aid-and-against-sandy-aid

My favorite part is when it’s over and all the fake cheer dissolves.

gestures vaguely at everything

While the net cost of college has been declining due to rising financial aid and steady government funding

…are we just completely ignoring the debt generated by “financial aid”?

People have been saying “Nintendo should release their games for Platform That I Like” for decades. Pretty sure they’re content with doing what they’re been doing.

It’s neck and neck.

I have two Vizio panels, a 2017 and a 2023. Neither are connected to my network. The 2017 got a couple of firmware updates via wired connection in the first year but I nixed that after an update nearly bricked it. The 2023 will turn itself back on for a few seconds occasionally (just the electronics, not the panel)… possibly looking for an open network but I have no way to verify. Neither complain about a lack of connection unless I accidentally select their streaming input.

Don’t forget LGBTQ and furries. 🙄

If they’re like my nephew, the “manosphere” gives them easy answers as to why everything seems to suck.

It’s better to not ask questions sometimes.

backs away slowly

Possibly because you’re logged into world.