Clint Popetz

It’s ok to be frustrated and it’s ok to want change. But start with questions about why things are the way they are, rather than assumptions and oversimplifications. Be humble and inquisitive, spend some time learning from others before offering what are probably naive solutions.

I think this is important and it’s not specific to newsrooms. Why are they closing this section of the highway when they don’t seem to be working on it? Why does my software not have this feature? Why did the senate do that thing?

It’s always way more complicated than you can imagine.

Holy shit, this column from @jamellebouie.net is the whole thing

Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.

Can’t believe there isn’t someone scolding you for not including alt text :)

it's a hell of an act -- what do you call it

(Look I’m just saying python is horrid and all the LLMs are written in it, two birds.)

Sam for president if he enacts this and makes programming in python illegal.

We couldn't afford to subscribe to them but I totally read them at the library in my rural town in order to feel connected to a world that I felt was "more like me."

I learned that in gun safety class as a kid in the eighties and it was so rigorously enforced in my family of hunters that I’m just horrified every time I see these photos. Even if the gun isn’t loaded, you never point it at someone!

People are saying there's no upside to this deal. Wait a second. Isn't the end of Chuck Schumer's political career an upside?

You should perhaps be cautious to draw the conclusion that this is “the good place.” ;)

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

My movie life is often just me hoping something will be as good as a The Lives of Others and it never is.

OMG that is spot on.

Err, can of “paint.” Though it was painful to watch

I am not caught up, but I sadly have to concur. When the can of pain fell I just sighed, it’s just a little too wacky now.

three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

If these elections had gone the other way — if the Democratic Party had underperformed or even lost one of these contests — then every commentator under the sun would say, rightfully, that Democrats were in disarray; that even the president’s deep unpopularity couldn’t keep them afloat with voters. But Tuesday was a Democratic victory. And the party didn’t just win — it won by commanding majorities on virtually every field of play. In polls, in focus groups and now at the ballot box, the public is telling us something very clearly: Trump is simply too much. If this is an opportunity for Democrats to win back lost ground — and it is — then it is also a warning to a Republican Party that has tied its entire identity to the man from Mar-a-Lago.

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Glad you are doing better. Thanks for talking openly about this so that people know it’s ok to ask for help!

This is the way.

Also sales are flat/down everywhere because people making buying decisions are hesitant in an uncertain economic climate.

Man I want to live in your dream world. Mine is all exams for courses I never showed up for and pantsless presentations of material I’m unsure of.

Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody promoting Zohran

POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet

Mapping a complex and evolving app to multiple cloud vendors’ apis is, imho, insane. It’s amazing if you can pull it off and I’m impressed by those that do it but it represents a significant drag on the entire team. The world has/will tolerate outages.

Even DynamoDB can't be a Dynamo ALL the time.

The story really is us-east-1, the outages there are much more severe, have wider impact, last longer, etc. It’s a known issue in devops

FWIW an AWS region is not the same as a data center. There are six data centers in us-east-1, the region that's failing. So you can be redundant with regard to a data center failure (say, tornado) but not resilient to the failure that takes out a region.

b/c (a) it's the oldest region and so a lot of people are there and it's very hard to move between regions, (b) it gets the newest services first, so people often do things there b/c it's the only place they can, and (c) that's the first region where AWS tries new things internally that break stuff.