Jayme "Danger" Howard
@gimpy
Former tech lead for Reddit's Compute Platform. Now, Infrastructure Security, still at Reddit. Extremely Online. He/Him/His, actually 40 damn years old
On this fine Sunday, I want to share a piece of documentation from one of my previous jobs, where they refused to give me any tools to make a diagram and told me to do it in MS Paint. (I used GIMP instead, for reasons.) They got what they paid for. This is still used in their docs today.
I'm just saying, look at this and know that there are multiple tabs where I'm tuning and going "oh, maybe I like an actual curve better here, should the baseline be higher, how fast do I want to hit the cap"
Thank you for taking care of people in this nightmare time, Brennan. You're a hell of a guy. Here's my contribution.
Look at this absolute monster of a bolt I had to buy. This is absurd. I shouldn't need this. But I did and I hate that for me. Even more, I hate that it did exactly what I needed it for, for about 30 seconds, and now I have no further use for it.
New desk new desk. Need to clean up a touch more, and need a longer displayport cable so I can move the laptop to the table, but it looks nice and I feel less physically broken than yesterday when I hauled it around and built it!
I don't toot my own horn terribly often when it comes to things I've made, but this stuffing? This is a fucking masterpiece and I will never do better.
Under 5 is pretty doable. 😀 You've got a couple typos in the success page, by the way. "Your earned 1 points." Should be "You earned 1 point."
Took 40 years, but I can finally say I've seen the aurora firsthand. Barely visible with the human eye this far south and in a lot neighborhood, but the photo came out better than I expected.
I said I 3d printed a potato, and here's the prototype version. Definitely needs a redo with a smaller nozzle, probably a different base color filament, different support setup, etc. But it sure works for a prototype.
Have you ever seen Gumbus? She's a toothless little old lady with eye problems, but is actually only two years old. I stumbled onto her and was delighted. Sorry about the horrors. If you want to vent off-main, you know where to find me. 💜
Not to make it a competition or anything, but hopefully this makes you feel a little better about it.
Look at them, just a little guy. And don't judge me for the state of the window well. I know I need to do something about it, but I am old and feeble and broken.
I'm not saying this is the best musical there ever was, but damn is it a good show.
Best movie ever, my dude. That blueprint is framed with museum quality glass and is hung on the wall over my desk in my office so I can look up at when I work. One of my most prized possessions.
This is the result that a mixer provides, and I really wish it replaced either the eyes or the mouth.
I swear I'm posting this because I'm hoping it gets a laugh out of you in this absolute shit time you're having.
Not a cat picture from me, for once. Instead, a naughty, troublemaking (very sweet and timid) labradoodle named Bina.