One thing about adulthood that way too many people learn way too late (and have no choice but to learn the hard way): you have to be deliberate/proactive about everything. For the first time in your life, you can't be passive participant in anything.
Friend: Why is your bathroom light purple.
Me: That's the shrimp setting.
Friend: The WHAT.
Me: The shrimp setting.
Friend: There should never be a sentence like that in a normal apartment.
Me: It calms them down.
Friend: WHO IS "THEM."
pause
tiny bubbling sound from bathroom
Friend: Why is your bathtub making aquarium noises.
Me: Okay before you panic,
Friend: THERE ARE LIVE SHRIMP IN YOUR TUB?!
Me: They're temporary guests.
Friend: You have CRUSTACEAN TENANTS.
Me: Their tank filter broke.
Friend: So your solution was "bathtub commune."
Me: They're actually thriving.
Friend: One of them just looked at me with intent.
Me: That's Marcus.
Friend: WHY DOES THE SHRIMP HAVE A NAME.
Me: Because he survived The Incident.
Friend: I'm scared to ask.
Me: Costco parking lot. July 2024. We lost good men.
Friend: THEY'RE SHRIMP.
Me: You don't understand war.
serverless is amazing.
you get:
- cold starts
- 14 dashboards
- functions timing out because JSON was 3kb too large
- logs delivered sometime between now and your retirement
- a billing model based on quantum mechanics
all to avoid managing a VPS that has had a working tutorial since 2009
The literal #1 most suicidal belief you can have is that you’re an introvert/socially anxious/don’t like people.
I was this guy until around 22. Thought I was better than everyone else and actively chose not to be social.
Life completely changed when I started interacting with random people and just trying to make them laugh. Opportunities opened up, made relationships with people I never thought possible. Everything was just less dull and boring. Every day was fun for no reason.
You cannot be a lone wolf. It’s a mental illness.
Life is meaningless without people.
Mi carrera en IT no empezó en la universidad, empezó a los 12 años cuando me saqué un posdoctorado en Ingeniería de Redes viendo tutoriales de YouTube con música de Linkin Park de fondo para poder abrir los puertos del router y jugar con mis amigos.
El fin de una era.
i love how people are saying "if we write a sufficiently detailed specification, the agent can write all our code"
do you know what writing a sufficiently detailed specification that deterministically maps to what a computer's actions is? it's coding