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Morgangeek

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https://morgan.zoemp.be
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Morgangeek··on Srenity Online: Positive Affirmations for SREs
The irony of peaceful wallpapers and subliminal messages remind me of the defunct theprofoundprogrammer.com full of ironical wallpapers for devs/ops. Site is dead but web archives did collect a big portion of it at https://web.archive.org/web/20120728082918/http://theprofoun...
Morgangeek··on How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers
For complex pipelines and code reuse (plugins, pipeline libraries, scripting) between projects, Jenkins offers more features for power users, and its maturity has been proven while GitLab CI still suffers from his young age. Other examples with the Cons at the end of this article : https://medium.com/sv-blog/migrating-from-jenkins-to-gitlab-... and https://stackoverflow.com/a/37430097/2309958 (and I can probably find a lot more :-) )
Morgangeek··on How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers
We manage, install and configure Jenkins as code, without clicking buttons. You can fully automate jenkins activity and setup, from install to job creation, execution, plugin updates, config changes validation etc. Of course only power users will fully use Jenkins power.
Morgangeek··on Colorize Your CLI
I've also aliased cat to bat but it causes me issues when I redirect the output of cat (bat) without \cat to a file as then the file contains color codes that are not expected by other users and tools and cause some tools to not behave correctly,while the issue is invisible to me (unless reading the generated file with \cat)
Morgangeek··on Why some governments appear not to be acting on the Covid-19 threat
Finally actions are taken by the mentioned country (Belgium)
Morgangeek··on Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks/reading list?
I stopped using browser bookmarks and rather use a github repo to collect and archive all the interesting links I find. It's also a way to be independent from Twitter and specific extensions and tools to save my favorite links. Example https://github.com/MorganGeek/bookmarks also it's easier to backup, export, share, convert to anything else, as it's just a git repo
Morgangeek··on Ask HN: Do you feel a need to save good engineering content?
I send them to my kindle. Also I tend to save all links to interesting articles in a github repo, kind of awesome list, for the sake of collecting and archiving them for later reference.
Morgangeek··on Ask HN: What are your favorite non-tech podcasts?
"you are not so smart"
Morgangeek··on Show HN: Adventstagram.com – lean online advent calendar
All lorem ipsum text on the site
Morgangeek··on Ask HN: What do you care about most when looking for a new job?
For me,

#1 people, as I want to work with people who care about what they are doing, and want to work with people I like working with. My strategy for that is to ask for private discussion with future colleague before accepting the job. Then I ask what they like in the job and what they don't like, how they work, what is boring and what is not, why they stay / why they would leave.

#2 continuous improvement : I want everyone to be concerned by documentation, automation, best practices, fixing root cause of issues rather than consequences. I want to work with people who have sufficient balls to say 'No' to stupid orders and take the time to improve something rather than using quick and dirty solutions. I want to see rights decisions being taken.

#3 focus: a good place to work is a place where we can concentrate, and where context switching and interruptions are avoided by everyone.

#4 flexibility, transparency and trust : I want to be able to work without wasting too much time with processes, interruptions, lack of permissions etc. a place where we can trust people enough to give them the ability to give their best and have control on the how-to. everyone should be able to see the important decisions. There should not be room for information hiding and obscurity. People should be able to tell what is not ok without being afraid to be fired

#5 strategy : a place where strategy is clear, everyone work together and have a common language, a common set of best practices they follow, the know why they do stuff, they are all aware of company decisions and strategy, why some decisions are taken, and decisions make sense (no need to waste time and money on useless process and tools that are counter productive)

#6 learning : a good place to learn new hard and soft skills

#7 extra advantages : laptop, internet, home working, transportation, pay, trainings etc help to decide between multiple jobs opportunities

Morgangeek··on Show HN: A search engine to search various public torrent indexes
interesting. possible UI improvement : trigger the search on 'Enter' key press rather than forcing user to click on search. Tested in Safari
Morgangeek··on Show HN: I come up with the concept of Selfie Program
interesting, funny results when using console.log(this)
Morgangeek··on Show HN: Auditus — Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
What's the maximum supported size ? I tried with a (6.392 KB) file and got the following error.

413 Request Entity Too Large nginx