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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • If anything goes wrong with the deploy script, such as failing tests, no harm will be done because the script exits upon the first error encountered.

    How do you clean up? Once the deploy script is fixed, how do you know what’s been done and what needs redoing?

    Have you considered ansible/puppet/chef/salt — environments dedicated to deployment and cleanup, with idempotency to allow for fixing and repeating the deployment, across multiple operating systems and versions?








  • I maintain millions of dollars worth of equipment and company data, yet you don’t trust me when I say I’m sick!?

    I had a violent gastro thing, vomiting and diarrhoea for two days, I could barely walk. When I called in on the third day, the boss demanded a doctor’s certificate. On being told that I couldn’t safely drive to the doctor, he asked “How will I know that you’re really sick?”. I sent him a photo of the contents of the toilet. He didn’t ask again, and never mentioned it again.