graemefawcett
@graeme
" Two elderly women discussing knitting over tea " The Universe " With YAML, Markdown and a bit of Ruby I can build you my universe " Betty, as to Sue My 🐘💙🩷 Bioinformatics platform engineer. Wonderfully weird from tip to tail. graemefawcett.ca
""" No dear, /we/ peaked in the 90s """ --- they, to their friends the text based UI who, like themselves, really haven't changed much since for reasons humility will not allow them to admit aloud Jira, implemented with a bit of markdown and YAML and a lovely little plinko machine for an agenda
""" Oh... (magit +forge) not magit +forge """ --- they, finally getting around to fixing their magit configuration and able to introduce GH to Jira who was already sitting into the naughty list of UIs to never be visited again It's not slop when it's this pretty.
U: What are all those failed nextflow worker pods? Me: Well, there may have been an incident in the lab involving that lady and her animals
"verify your age" I had the pleasure of screening this film in youth group, though not for a few years after its release
Org-Jira is nice but Jira with Wanderland is nicerest I really like an agenda view and I really like configuring things in YAML and I /really/ hate logging in to Jira so now I can configure my agenda in YAML so I can manage my Jira queue directly from Emacs and never have to visit that place again
""" It cost how much to sing The Wheels on the Bus on Coreweave? """ --- my HoE, happily reviewing the results of the karaoke zoo that I'm using to load test our new custom classifier + Kueues + custom telemetry components in our next-gen bioinformatics platform because serious work is fun
I got to write a whole post about it :) graemefawcett.ca/posts/access...
""" Shh my dear, they won't hurt you. Your code generator has already been written and it's all JSON upstream of you. We've got many years left """ --- they to their bestie of many years, sad to be left out and feeling a bit existential
""" Typewriters and highlighters """ --- they, as for their design language I need to build the infrastructure to run a bunch of Nextflow workflows across a bunch of compute and keep a pretty good record of what happened when and for how long
Here's another neat use case for a do anything with YAML machine Declarative Proxmox CT management so I can get a friendly little LXC to run a compose stack for... media or something. When your 🐘s only watch Pete the Cat, why not cache a few to save everyone a bit of bandwidth :) #hic
""" I mean, that's what it's for... """ --- they, explaining to their colleagues why the man page for the platform's drone tool is just another node in the graph #platformEngineering #platformengineeringendgamewithalittledeclarativedowhatevermachine
I love this little guy A little declarative do whatever machine. I use it to chain pipelines, and run load tests, and synthetic monitors, and remote probes, and karaoke :) As you do when you have a little declarative do whatever machine
""" Well golly, there's yer problem right thar. You keep opening yer yap without getting the pipes warmed up and all that gunk keeps coming out """ --- they, in their native tongue, though unsure if they were speaking to Claude who wrote the bug or this guy for thinking this is any different
It's like no one even reads airport thrillers anymore as cautionary tales
I guess I used to write some pl/sql too """ And they call me slop """ --- Claude, having had the occasion to read... this
""" I'm not all YAML and Ruby you know """ --- they, fondly remembering when they were mainly EJBs and ImSorryDaveExceptions
We're migrating a bunch of bioinformatics workflows to Nextflow and I need to build some infrastructure around it. Which of course means I need to play with it a bit. - [x] visual workflow designer - [x] k8s debugging info for our jobs and pods - [x] compiler and adhoc task builder
""" Tell me more about these imaginary people """ --- Dr Kagi, in session with a patient suffering from some sort of AI search induced psychosis
""" It ain't a workflow engine until it can sing songs to my kids """ --- they, evaluating their new workflow engine === You'd be surprised how many children's songs implement simple algorithms. This one covers a shape that we use all the time: 1. select candidates 2. evaluate each 3. ???
""" If Unix pipes and PowerShell had a baby and it was only the good parts. """ --- they, as to explain Vivarta's drones #devops #PlatformEngineering #devopsendgamewithallthepeaceandallthecooltoys
""" Gather 'round kids. Let me tell you about the time ECS had no good way to bounce services and `firkin assassin` was born """
""" Hey, how many classic load balancers are pointing directly at ECS cluster nodes with manual registrations instead of actually being integrated with the ECS service they're proxying? """