Should get out of that habit.. Hopefully this is better.
https://pixelfed.social/p/thelastknowngod/624885702810365387
Thing is, I had a reachable goal which made it easier for me to learn and feel good as I had a tangible result.
IMO, this exact thing is what separates the people who succeed and those who give up. If you are only approaching the code as some abstract concept then it will never work. Anyone learning this stuff needs to understand that the code is more like a hammer to a carpenter than anything else.. It's a very physical tool used for doing a real job. If you don't have any nails to hit, you're not going to get anything done.
We focus a lot more on production than the average developer. It's our job to make sure whatever devs build is run quickly, efficiently, safely, and scalably.
You will work with a lot of kubernetes, Argo, terraform, Prometheus, grafana. You'll design build pipelines and software rollout strategies. You plan for zero downtime migrations and upgrades, database maintenance.. You'll have your hands in everything from capacity planning to security to cost optimization to developer support.. User permissions, infrastructure, networking, observability.. You will write RFCs and setup POCs for new tools. You define and track error budgets and figure out how to keep your org under those projections. When there is an outage you will be involved in writing post mortems.
The days are so varied and unpredictable that it keeps things interesting. The landscape changes so often you're never really stuck doing the same thing over and over.
I genuinely love it.
EDIT: The SRE Podcast from Google is actually really great for learning about this world. The first season talks about what you'll be doing and why (based around the SRE O'Riley book). The second season talks about what to expect in different stages of your career progression.
This was me until the kubernetes transition occurred. Now I ssh into nothing unless it's a personal box. I've become a zsh convert.
Uniqlo and Muji are my go tos. Eastern Europe might not have (m)any though. I know they don't in Turkey or Georgia at least..
I don't think the sports management people are hurting for cash in any way but there has to be some tipping point eventually when the value of the exclusive broadcast contracts is overshadowed by the losses from people just straight up not watching anymore.
I live in Turkey but if I try to watch a legal MLB stream I am told I'm in a blackout region. What local advertiser or broadcaster is being harmed by me watching baseball from fucking Turkey!? They would rather change the literal rules of the game to drive engagement rather than just allow more people to watch in a convenient way..
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I hear you but, to be fair, she wasn't popular when this came out.. She was just some nobody artist. This went semi-viral at the time and that's how she became more widely known.
The NYT has had pro life op eds too.. It's important to understand where the other side's dumb arguments come from so you can more easily defend against them.
For me, I try to follow a bunch of sources with differing views.. PBS and NPR for mostly middle of the road American news. The Times for left leaning, WSJ and Bloomberg because it's the closest thing to right leaning that isn't batshit crazy. Al Jazeera, BBC, and the Japan Times for international news. A few Turkish and Georgian sources because it's where I've been living for a couple years. Then just a lot of tech industry specific stuff because it's my field.
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