100%. We used to design the pipeline a way that is easily reproducible locally, e.g. doesn’t rely on plugins of the CI runtime. Think build.sh shell script, normally invoked by CI runner but just as easy to run locally.
I like run scripts. Shell or python scripts that do nothing other than prompt the user with what to do, or which choice to make, and wait for them to hit a key to proceed to the next step. Encode the run book flowchart into an interactive script. Then if a step can be automated, the run book script can directly call that automation. Eventually you may end up with a fully automated script, but even if you don't it can still be a significant help.
Someone gave me that idea about eight years ago and I spent the next several trying to look for a nail for that hammer.
I eventually expanded the one I wrote to include URLs to the right places in Bamboo to do things like disable triggers or start manual deployments. By the time I finished that we were doing 10x as many canary deployments as we had been before, and we’re retiring tech debt way faster because of it. 10/10 would do again.
npm publish will open a web browser for you for passcode entry, and I think I’ll do that next time instead of using cut and paste.
I guess talking to people and making friends helps. Online, maybe seek out discords and befriend people and they may tell you. Not unlike how you find cool underground clubs.
You can also just kind of hop from blog to forum to subreddit to discord to social media account etc. passively over time based on what interesting people are talking about or mentioning. My main point is that you can't expect to find a list of good pockets of the internet with low effort, because if they are low effort to find, they will be flooded and made not good.
I spent days worth of reseach some years ago trying to find a reddit alternative (think pre-pandemic, well before consensus started to turn). I more or less found a few substitutes (which includes HN), but nothing that ever truly felt like "community".
As you implied here, the sad fact is that a lot of the niche groups live within the mainstream. on a Discord server, or a subreddit, or Facebook group. And I've moved away from most of those. Probably need to move away from Discord in time too.
Or the other way around… are more recent approaches significantly disadvantaged because of the huge inertia of existing solutions by virtue of them having existed in the training data both broadly and for a long time?
Immediate nostalgia activated. I ran this on a Pentium machine (I think) at home, still living with my parents. Sometimes I yearn for the optimism and relative naïveté of those times.
I still have both the screensaver and the moment that I realized that disabling the screensaver allowed processing to happen meaningfully quicker burned into my mind.
Same. Although with the curse of hindsight, I painfully recall choosing to run SETI@home instead of "mining" some weird digital currency called Bitcoin back in 2010. So, painful.
Exactly the same here. Ran SETI@home on all my machines back in the day. I remember running this weird bitcoin ‘thing’ for an entire week on my main machine which generated around 1.4 btc. Then I DELETED it.
> At Microsoft, we're working to add articles to Microsoft Learn that contain AI-generated content. Over time, more articles will feature AI-generated text and code samples.
Great. As if Learn articles weren't already a mess to begin with.
A few weeks ago, I needed some syntax information to help with building out a PowerShell script. The input and output parameter sections each included "{{ Fill in the Description }}"[1] in lieu of any meaningful content. There wasn't even a link to the data type's description elsewhere in the Learn database. I was ultimately able to get done what I needed to do, but it really irked me that whoever developed the article would publish it with such a glaring omission.
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