jim

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wow, 25 years! In 1998, dial up was the standard way to connect to the internet from Home, AOL 4.0 debuted, and it wouldn't be another six years until the Firefox browser was released.

Don’t be afraid to start something new. You never know where it might take you 25 years from now.

I love this quote!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think if there were a bunch of certificates, especially ones I haven't heard of or a lot of low-level ones, I would suspect that you were using test dumps and trying to pad your resume.

I think if you had a cloud certificate and a respectable linux certificate, that would suffice as "enough". Any lab-based certificate is also more valuable than just a paper one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In my opinion, no it's not worth it. A CCNA and the related family of Cisco certifications really trains you to be a network engineer or work in ops in general. The certificate is not very valuable for a dev or devops role in general. The material itself goes over topics that are less valuable like spanning tree protocol. And it doesn't much if anything beyond layer 4. DNS, load balancing, web protocols (HTTP, etc) are all more valuable topics to learn.

Now, the material that you're learning isn't wasteful, necessarily, but devops positions are not generally configuring routers and switches day-to-day, so I don't view this as something valuable for software engineers even in devops roles.

Some of the topics that I find valuable - general TCP/IP in general and some of the routing protocols (namely BGP is the big one) - but the other stuff just requires passing knowledge that it exists and not much else. I would pick up a networking book and go over the topics in there instead of configuring switches and vlans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rocky Linux have said that they can rebuild using publicly available sources in UBI containers and cloud images.

https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/

Though reading the article, I don't know if SUSE is simply rebuilding or forking. In any case, it's cool to see SUSE committed to open source principles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This doesn't help for Gmail. I moved to a different part of the country and I have a spam email account that isn't connected to a phone or second email. Even with the right password, it wouldn't let me log in because I was trying to sign in from a different location and no secondary way to authenticate.

Luckily it was a spam email so it was just annoying to recreate some accounts I used for that email, but yeah ve warned.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I think Tumblr's brand just got ruined. They were known for their nsfw material and now they don't know what else to do with their lack of users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Beautiful illustration!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All posts must contain some form of proof showing that you are actually who you claim to be by connecting you to your lemmy username

This is going to be difficult to get folks to do a a casual AMA.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"I can read this Perl scrip"t should translate to "I'm lying".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've used pyenv for years and it's an awesome tool. Keeps python binaries separate and it has a virtualenv plugin. I've gotten others to use it as well.

It works great for library owners who need to run tox/nox on multiple versions of python in test suites. Love it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

pyenv also has this with the .python-version file which will switch versions. And with the plugin, you can use virtualenvs in pyenv so that a .python-version can be simply: my-cool-project-virtualenv and switching to that directory automatically switches to it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yes but karma makes it worse. It incentivizes getting getting upvotes because you don't want to "ruin" your karma. Expressing controversial opinions, even if they don't generate downvotes, are discouraged with karma. Even OP says he gets a dopamine hit by seeing the karma number go up.

 

I generally don't like "listicles", especially ones that try to make you feel bad by suggesting that you "need" these skills as a senior engineer.

However, I do find this list valuable because it serves as a self-reflection tool.

Here are some areas I am pretty weak in:

  • How to write a design doc, take feedback, and drive it to resolution, in a reasonable period of time
  • How to convince management that they need to invest in a non-trivial technical project
  • How to repeat yourself enough that people start to listen

Anything here resonate with y'all?

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