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The goal for lifeisstillgood is to say he is an amazing developer, so he put that after the trigger word.
The cat feeder is I understand a feels like a good point as it feels rather trivial, but for the most part technology helps everyone to be more efficient. Even with the cat feeder its not just a few minutes - it means I can stay out later from work, or go on trips for several days without having to worry, or pay someone to come as a cat sitter. Its cost of $50 pays for itself in just one 7 day trip of not paying for a cat sitter, which usually would be some low paid immigrant from East Asia. Efficiency gains all around.
But they barely manage to do this, they just have a single example of their flight being delayed repeatedly over and over. You'd think if this was an actual phenomenon they could come up with lots of examples and not need to keep repeating themselves.
I can think of obvious and damning counter examples, too. In China their physical infrastructure massively improved during the same period they got access to smart phones and unlocked the digital world. Contactless payments, including Google and Apple Pay, along with apps like Monzo to easily send money to friends have rendered cash obsolete where I live (London). I have an app that connects to my automatic cat feeder so I no longer need to feed my cat 3 times a day. She still loves me, sits on my laps and purrs all the same.
Am I missing something or is the central point of the blog that digital frictionless increases real world friction obviously untrue?
Location: London, UK
Remote: Preferred in office but OK
Willing to relocate: Unlikely but depends on location and timing
Technologies:
- Kubernetes
- Azure, AWS, GCP
- Terraform, Bicep, Ansible
- GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD
- Linux, Bash
- Javascript, Python
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTkQd-VyOI2kpd3KGlofZ3ZcV5T_5ZqX0YyaWAlTVduoY_hCjbDpHmyHXJMm9qdNWwAbJ-8s52d0f8G/pub
Email: tom.czns@gmail.com
Platform / DevOps / Cloud Engineer in the UK, have worked at banks and a big online retailer. Expert in CI/CD pipelines. I care a lot about increasing developer productivity and at the jobs I've had have made drastic reductions in times for developers to deploy to production, run tests, or get a test environment up and running.This way when it came to bedtime my thoughts aren't racing because I've already allowed my brain time to process them.
I think for many people when they go to bed it is the first time in the day they're not distracting themselves, and have time to just think. So all the thoughts from the whole day, or days, come rushing in at once and you feel like your "mind is racing". If you do this earlier in the day you might find it a lot easier to get to sleep.
In the 19th and early 20th century the British owned the seas, a post 1945 another English speaking country has - the United States.
What I do now is have markdown files, and use the OS folder system for organising. I then use OneDrive for syncing - this works perfectly fine between MacOS and Windows, and for both I use Visual Studio Code for editing. For android I use an app called FolderSync to sync and TMarkor for editing.
Has been working perfectly for over a year now.
If you are not willing to engage with or understand the other side of the debate you will have no capacity to understand or debate the modern day Kissingers who are currently in government.