Stanclift Supplimental: I’ve been pretty consistent about taking vitamins and such for 15 years. I go through periods where I’m more serious about it, and sometimes just keep it simple. I have added what exactly I take to my Now page. I’ll break down down why this list, at a later date.

Fedi Summer: The following is an email sent to all vmst.io members on July 3, 2023. Hey there, vmst.io Member! Before you swipe left on this message, allow me to clarify that I’ve considered for a long time whether to send an email to all of you. I deeply respect your privacy and understand that you …

Micro.blog: After decommissioning the vmst.io WriteFreely instance last week, I moved my blog back to Ghost. But then this weekend I remembered what an absolute shit experience writing or editing on a mobile device is with Ghost. A few people mentioned that they just don’t blog from mobile, but I like to …

Sleep Apnea: I went to an ENT a few weeks ago because I have been getting tonsil stones for a few years now, especially bad in the winter months. He said “yep your tonsils need to come out, this is going to be terrible, plan to be out for at least a week” 😯 That adventure is now scheduled for the …

Write(less)Freely: On Friday, the vmst.io team made the decision today to sunset our WriteFreely offering for vmst.io members. Since launching in January we've only had 23 users create blogs, of which only 12 users ever generated any content, many of which were a single post. In total we had about two users aside from …

Classic Ordering: Elan Hasson asked in a Matrix chat group of Mastodon admins how he should go back and watch classic Star Trek. It got me thinking about a list of episodes to help jumpstart your knowledge without having to watch every Original Series episode (of which some haven't aged super well, or are confusing …

Netlify More: We’ve been using Netlify for the docs.vmst.io site for a while now, but it wasn’t until recently I realized it could be used for other things that we host. I’ve now successfully moved: element.vmst.io, our Element Web portal for accessing Matrix. elk.vmst.io, our Elk alternative web client for …

Instance Purge: This morning I removed just over 3000 dead instance connections from vmst.io. I know Mastodonizens don’t follow their follower accounts as closely as some folks on other networks, but I wanted to let you know you this operation might have caused some go missing in this purge. These are instances …

Blue Green: I've doing some blue/green (maybe it's just A/B) testing on vmst.io this week with server updates and Mastodon dependency testing. Specifically focused on some upgraded versions of Nginx and Puma (which are now fully live for everyone) and some backend libraries for the streaming API to things like …

Virtually Federated: I've been doing things with computers, since last October. In addition to launching a Mastodon instance at vmst.io I've since launched an integrated WriteFreely platform at write.vmst.io. As a result I will be blogging there regularly from now on. The vmstan.com site will remain here for the time …

January Infrastructure: One of my core beliefs about Mastodon and the Fediverse is that there needs to be transparency in the operations of the various projects and instances. This includes transparency in both the financial and technical operations of the instance. For the financial piece, we have a single source of truth …

December Infrastructure: I wanted to provide a round-up of some changes to the vmst.io infrastructure since it went live last month. No More CloudflareOur domain had always been registered and DNS provided through Cloudflare. For a brief period I was testing their WAF (web application firewall) service with the site but …

Registration Numbers: I’ve had a few thoughts rattling around about registration numbers on vmst.io, vs instances that are generally wide open. The instance officially went live on October 6, but didn’t let anyone else join until a few weeks after. We are listed on joinmastodon.org so we definitely see more random user …

November Infrastructure: This post is a rollup and expansion of a set of Toots around the new vmst·io infrastructure that went live on the morning of Wednesday, November 23, 2022. When I launched vmst·io at the start of October, it was intended to just be a personal instance. mastodon.technology had just announced it's …

Interested in trying into an alternative to Twitter? Mastodon is a federated and decentralized social network with over 8,000 different active instances. I’m running vmst.io, which is open for signups. No ads or algorithms. Join us.

If you’re interested in moving to Mastodon, or just want to dip your toes in the water, if you ask nice and you’re not a jerk you can maybe join my instance. vmst.io

In the tradition of complaining about social networks in other social networks I’d like to comment that my preferred Mastodon instance is currently down. 🐘

I’m slowly learning to just embrace the suck.

I’m sure this is just a total coincidence and has nothing to do with what’s going on in the world aspr.hhs.gov/newsroom/Pages…

Still Here: Honestly just making sure my site still works 🤭 Considering the news of the day, maybe I'll just blog more.

I’m tired of so much of my life being dictated by what some rich guys woke up and decided to do.

I’m against tweets being editable right up until the point that the feature is enabled for my account.

I feel bad for the guy who scheduled his technical interview with me for 3PM on a Friday. My brain is fried, and all I have to do is ask the questions.

Remember folks, you don’t have to have an opinion on everything. It’s fine.

Fortunately my Apple Watch Series 5 came back from the repair center with a fresh battery (technically I think it’s a whole new watch) this morning, so I’ll have more incentive to wear that for the time being.

My ability to shift from super chill to incredibly impatient may be my super power.

Come down for my morning coffee, and the 8yo is nom-noming some leftover beef and broccoli for breakfast. You do you, kid.

“This is the most substantive redesign of the iPhone since the X” youtube.com/watch?v=ZQErjW…

Why does the “All” notifications tab only show me about half of my mentions along side other things (RT/likes, follows, etc) but the “Mentions” notifications tab show me all the mentions? All should be all 😏

The UPS driver with my iPhone orders drove RIGHT PAST MY HOUSE and then continued on and is now a few neighborhoods away. I know he’s just delivering the air/priority ones on his route but SERIOUSLY COME BACK!

I usually have a good poker face but someone just said something so seriously to me that was just dystopian/absurd and I couldn’t help but start laughing.

Zoom is down. No more work today.

Having one of those mornings that makes you evaluate all the choices you’ve made that have brought you to this point. Mostly the ones to have children. 😫

Anyone watching the Mudge hearing and shocked that Twitter is a hot mess of a company clearly hasn’t spent enough time on Twitter.

Apparently blocking outbound port 80 breaks updating for macOS. That doesn’t seem great.

My children don’t eat meals. They just eat constantly and sometimes they sit down while they’re doing it.

I’m locked into a 7yo birthday party by myself tonight but I’ve had pizza and cake already so really I’m just living high on life.

The Commonwealth: the only valid money is the one with our living monarch on it. The Americans: dead Presidents, also, the guy who invented electricity.

Experimenting with blocking outbound port 80. Pretty sure this is not a good idea, just curious what happens.

Oh, and had a 1:1 with my boss.

Temporary UPS is in place. Internet is back up. Wife’s iPhone is ordered. I need a nap.

Just had my second UPS failure in my home network rack this year. #everythingisdown

It appears the new iPhone 14 Pro Space Black finish is the same as my beloved Series 5 watch, so totally doing that. Unclear to me why Apple can’t sync material finishes across lines.

It seems like Apple engineers who were sent home in 2020 discovered that it’d be really cool if their products worked outside.

Apple isn’t saying you’ll live forever if you wear an Apple Watch, but they aren’t saying you’ll die wearing one either.

This weekend my wife’s best friend is literally living out one of my worst nightmare scenarios. She dropped her iPhone in a lake. The week before the new iPhone announcements.

Artemis not going to space today. 😏

My seven year old just called me out for describing someone as a “red head” 🤔

Kansas recently legalized online sports betting. Every social media app now thinks that’s all I want to see.

Actually I’m so tired drinking the coffee might require too much effort. I hope I’m not getting sick.

“Sporting KC is the first MLS team to ever score three unanswered goals in the first half in three consecutive games.” Yet we are in last place 🤦‍♂️

Don’t be a dick.

I’m tired of Bluetooth shit just only working right when it feels like it. It’s 2022, I shouldn’t need cables running everywhere but I’m about to replace my “Magic Mouse 2” with whatever cheap wired mouse I can find.

Who among us hasn’t hung onto nuclear secrets for longer than they should have?

My favorite feature of FreeBSD seems to be when I change my password and can’t login via SSH anymore.

If you want something run right, you’ve got to compile it yourself.

One win, one loss. Tomorrow is another day to learn and try again.

OH: soccer isn’t just about running and kicking, it’s about thinking… if you just want to run around, hit something, and then be told what to do… go play football.

Feeling fancy. Got my first ever pedicure today. 👣

Went and took the two littles for the second COVID shot, and who should be there volunteering but Ms Collins, my freshman biology teacher.

Raise your hand if you personally have NOT had COVID. Sometime I feel like the only one. 🙋‍♂️

You know in hindsight, maybe letting nine lawyers in black robes decide what rights we have, based on their interpretation of what a bunch of guys in white wigs (many of who were totally cool with owning other people) wrote down two centuries ago, isn’t such a great system. 🤔

This is an OpenPGP proof that connects my OpenPGP key to this Twitter account. For details check out docs.keyoxide.org/advanced/openp… [Verifying my OpenPGP key: openpgp4fpr: 8959B1D9EE9D6E5FC4D75344EDA33AEA39161179]

There’s two wolves inside of me. One really wants to overcomplicate things and the other is all about KISS. THEY ARE CONSTANTLY ARGUING ABOUT MY HOME NETWORK.

Totally just text my macOS login password to a friend of mine, because Universal Control had focus to the text field on my iPad. 🫣

Welp.

It would be great if the “keep me logged in” function of the new myVW app would … ya know … keep me logged in.

Just sitting around wishing I was powerful enough to buy anything I wanted by convincing Morgan Stanley to loan me all the money to buy it.

Bought a new wedding ring. After 14 years of marriage and life my ring finger can no longer live within its constraints. New one is 1.5 sizes bigger 😆

I actually signed up for CNN+ Ask me anything.

Anytime I’m asked to provide a bio for work things like a VMUG it’s so … generic. I’d much rather go all in and say “Michael tweets too much, mostly reaction GIFS, drinks too much, mostly coffee, watches Star Trek all day and thinks any one who eats Miracle Whip is a monster.”

News: OMG THERE WAS NEARLY ONE BILLION DOLLARS IN FRAUDULENTLY COVID RECOVERY CLAIMS Me: only one billion?

My oldest son slapped his little brother this morning. We’ve banned him from Oscar Mayer for 10 years.

A tech conference by any other name would be just as sweet.

Me: I’m going to make a concerted effort to quit buying so much crap from Amazon. Also me: this PoE to USB/Ethernet converter is only $10 and can be here Thursday? 💸

1952 1988 2008 2022 #RCJH 🏆

This whole Elon buys a 10th of Twitter thing has me wanting to do something else with my free time.

Someone finally showed me ‘shellcheck’ as an integrated linter for Bash scripts in VSCode, and now I’m seeing all the many errors of my ways 🤯

If you use my Gravity Sync script to replicate multiple Pi-hole instances then you’ll want to check out the 4.0 beta github.com/vmstan/gravity…

Still thinking about it.

I’m thinking of giving up coffee.

I have decided I really don’t care for the MX Master 3 mouse. I’m back to my Apple Magic Trackpad.

COVID_Omicron-V2_FINAL_Updated.pptx

I used to work for a company called DST. It’s gone now. So should be with DST.

If Twitter and Facebook are banned inside Russia, what are all the bots and troll farmers going to do with their newly acquired free time?

Anyone else remember 2019? Wasn’t that good times?

You know you’ve done a bad thing when even the Swiss take a side.

What is the cost of lies?

Of all the places on the ENTIRE PLANET to be fighting a war right now why TF would Chernobyl be anywhere on that list.

🇺🇦

Attention home owners with sidewalks on your property: You are (legally) obligated to clear your sidewalks after a snow. Respectfully, The guy who purposefully buys his home on the side of the street without sidewalks.

Over the weekend I learned that FreeBSD has “stable” and “release” images. Only release lets you use the built in update utility to run the latest system. Stable is just a point in time image. Not sure how this makes sense to anyone else.

How is it that the United States has never medaled in Biathlon? It’s principally about shooting guns. I’m surprised we didn’t invent this game.

How I wanted to spend my Saturday morning: digging through the Windows registry.

I feel like this day is taking forever.

Google does not make it easy to delete things from Photos. 🥵

This is excellent TV, CBS. Well done.

Spend two weeks rebuilding team workflow from a bunch of manual steps to a Microsoft Form and Power Automate system. Give presentation on new system, go to do live demo after weeks of testing without issues. Run live demo, fails, because of transient Microsoft Azure outage. 😩

Fellow anxiety sufferers, ain’t nothing greater than when your boss gives you an hour notice for a mandatory team meeting at 4:30 in the afternoon, am I right? 😩

I’m on something like day 19 of this (not Omicron) cold, that I would really like to just be done with by now. I know multiple people who’ve tested positive for COVID and gotten over it in the time I’ve had to deal with this crud. 🦠

If you’ve ever wondered how far your COVID vapors travel, turn on the Bills/Patriots game and look at the exhaust pouring out of the helmets of the players on the field. 5F in Buffalo tonight.

You would be surprised at how many people after being given permission to say you don’t know the answer will still try and dig to make up some nonsense answer. I almost always wish they’d let me move onto another topic they do know about. In the real world you’d just Google it.

It’s just one stupid thing after another.

You learn a lot about what devices in your house are up to, just sitting around and watching DNS requests.

The thing that I’ve disliked about Slack from the beginning (and what I dislike in most apps) is the custom font.

OMG I was today years old when I learned that “/slackfont” is a thing. /slackfont Helvetica Neue 🤩

Not even before 9am this morning, got notices that two of my oldest son’s tested positive. Gonna be a long week.

I get unreasonably upset by my childrens inability to leave my stuff alone, in Minecraft.

My mentions regret that earlier retweet.

9yo: Did you do something different to your hair? Me: I didn’t take a shower today. 9yo: Yeah, that must be it.

On my way to urgent care for a PCR test because I’m not trusting the antigen test that I took last night.

✅ Scratchy throat ✅ Coughing ✅ Runny nose/congestion ✅ Headache ✅ Sneezing ❌ COVID Test Kind of wish I could just have this and be done. Feels dumb just having a regular cold right now. 🤧

Having a three year old is like having the worst version of yourself around all the time.

The temperature outside has more than tripled since I woke up this morning. It’s 7 now. Fahrenheit. #heatwave

We just discovered my not quite 5mo has two teeth.

3yo wakes up crying with a runny nose and cough. Use antigen test on him, but the run of the nose swab makes him angry-gag and throw up on me. Sample shows negative, and I’m sure how he’d even get COVID given his super limited exposure BUT HOW IS HE SICK AT ALL? 🤷‍♂️ Happy 2022.

My paternal grandmother loved to tell jokes. She would be called into service at any holiday for the latest good stories. They were usually pretty dirty. When I’d visit her house, we’d listen to listen to old comedy albums and watch SNL. But before that, we’d watch Golden Girls.

Anyone else install a bunch of new iOS Safari extensions when they launched and then over the last few weeks remove them because it turns out you really don’t need all that crap running for the same reasons why you don’t need a ton of them on the desktop? Just me?

Confession: I’ve never seen Die Hard. Before now.

My three year old gives near zero fuchs about Santa’s naughty or nice rules. I think he’s decided to just call his bluff.

There’s few things as frustrating as a three year old trying to gaslight me by saying “I didn’t poop my pants!” while I’m literally wiping it from his ass. 💩

If you need help getting your vCenter mitigated against #Log4j2 then we have a Python script posted that automates that process. You can run it against manually fixed systems to validate. Also 6.5/6.7 have new services mitigated that the script will do. kb.vmware.com/s/article/87088

Don’t worry I’m sure the bad guys are waiting for you to get those change orders filed before you patch. #Log4j2

Workarounds and patches are available for multiple VMware products that are exploitable by the log4j2 issue — including vCenter, Horizon and the Unified Access Gateway. Implement. Now. vmware.com/security/advis…

Let’s just go back to sending letters and making phone calls. Has anyone ever remote exploited a fax machine?

Little children don’t seem to comprehend that a single well time poop joke can be hilarious, but hearing about poop all day can be infuriating.

Nothing in streaming services work tonight. No worries I’ll watch something on my Plex. Except latest update seems to have caused audio and video to go out of sync. Maybe I’ll read a book. Problem is I don’t think my Kindle is charged.

Yeah so I’m like two weeks post-booster and feeling good about all this COVID stuff again so if we could please stop talking about Omnibus or whatever this new bullshit is that would be great.

I’m both incredibly jealous of everyone going to #reinvent2021 while also happy to not be going to #reinvent2021 right now.

My kingdom for an updated iOS 15.2 beta. The auto-brightness bug on the iPhone is killing me.

My three year old is going to trigger me to a murderous rampage. How’s your Sunday going?

Had an urology appointment in preparation for a vasectomy. During the exam he asks what I do for a living, I said I work for a software company. He asked “what kind of software?” So I proceeded to explain what a hypervisor does while he squeezed my testicles. How was your day?

University of California, San Francisco, did a study gathering health records from 87 health care centers across the country. It found that people taking antidepressants were up to 28% less likely to die from COVID-19. In other news my anxiety has dropped up to 28%.

Everyone in our immediate family is vaccinated. Everyone we associate with is vaccinated. We wear masks everywhere, aside from when we’re outside. We don’t eat inside restaurants as a family. There have been no sleep-overs or unrestricted play dates. This shit can still get you.

Everyone else in the house is doing fine, including our 3 month old. We have all tested negative, multiple times, since Thursday. We’re hopeful it stays that way. The only things our kids have done since last March is school, where they are masked at all times, and play soccer.

On Thursday my oldest came home from school with symptoms of COVID-19. We took him directly to urgent care to get a test, which came back positive. He’s been in our basement bedroom in total isolation. His fever lifted today, and only remaining symptom is difficulty speaking.

I just want to sleep until next week.

I don’t usually give a damn about college football but winning is kind of nice. Thanks for the experience, Texas.

Me: Why are my tweets just sitting there with a “sending” spinner on the website? Is Twitter having issues? Also me: Oh yeah, I subscribed to Twitter Blue for a month to see what it was about, and “Undo Tweet” is a thing, even though I almost always use Tweetbot. 🤷‍♂️

Watching the most recent episode of The Morning Show… Wife: “There’s just too much going on, first this happens, then this happens, then there is COVID now too?” Me: “… do you not remember what life was like in 2020?”

Booster Day + 1: Sore arm, otherwise normal. I’m not sure if it’s good or bad that none of these have done anything to me as far as noticeable side effects, but I’ll take it.

I do some of my best work at the last minute.

I love being able to hit one button in the Home app and updating all my HomePods at once. I only wish the Apple TV was in there as an option too.

Thing 1 and Thing 2 have their first Pfizer shots scheduled for tomorrow! 💉 💉

I feel like an idiot.

I didn’t know I needed this. youtu.be/BwPL0Md_QFQ

My three year old son just proclaimed himself The Vagina King.

Protip: Put your devices in “Do Not Disturb” while giving presentations, so we don’t all have to listen to your notifications.

Me: you’re the only one that gets me. Also me: I know!

The definition of “too many kids” is usually one more than how ever many you have.

Past performance is not a guarantee of future success.

Everyone complaining right now about a notch on a MacBook Pro in a few weeks will be saying the same thing everyone says about notches on iPhones now. “I don’t really notice it.”

Just because a process has multiple steps doesn’t mean it’s nefarious. There are multiple steps involved in changing the oil in my car. It’d be easier for someone to read HTML code.

“I know VMWare” 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩

Regular reminder also to not be a racist, and/or a sexist, and/or a bigot.

I love a rainy night.

From last October. No idea why I was wearing sunglasses inside.

I don’t think I’d be a very good cult member.

The world needs more Facebook outages.

T-Mobile support has been absolutely abysmal lately. Been waiting on hold or for chat for literally hours today.

Sometimes I think the new email “DING” in Outlook is out to get me.

Sometime I find myself just swaying from side to side like I’m trying to calm a baby. Except I’m not holding a baby.

T-Mobile took a couple hours to activate my new SIM on the iPhone 13 Pro but it seems to be working fine now. 🤞 First impression: ProMotion is smooth.

iPhone 13 Pro is hefty.

All your heros will eventually disappoint you.

My body just tried to cough, hiccup and burp at the same time.

Having been on my share of company all hands calls, even when you work for a fairly open org, they are usually pretty boring. (Minus maybe when Pat left.) Can’t imagine the worlds most secretive company is any different. Someone live tweeting on from Apple is, not THAT exciting.

I love the black DLC coating on my stainless Apple Watch Series 5, and extremely disappointed that they don’t make them with this finish anymore. It’s practically indestructible and looks as good as the day I pulled it out of the box.

Where was this #USMNT against El Salvador and Canada last week?

Everything is better with LEDs.

Flu shot acquired. 💉

Watching #USMNT ⚽️ game against SLV, and 😳 at the 20ft high fences around the pitch, and the security forces with riot shields protecting players during corner kicks. Wondering if I need this for my first grade rec game next weekend. 🤔

Tried to schedule flu shots for the family and our doctors office didn’t have a clinic until November. Said they might have some available in October.

That thing where your child spits up INTO your mouth. #DadOps

The number of time I just find myself watching Paw Patrol after all of the kids have left the room is TOO DAMN HIGH 🐾

Are fanny packs making a comeback? Because if so, I am here for it.

The tree of sanity must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of Twitter followings.

Get your shot, get 10 packets of ramen noodles. must be in jail to qualify news.meredithlmg.com/washington-jai…

I turned the default text size up one notch on my iPhone and now I feel like I’m 73 not 37.

This kind of stuff tips me in favor of decentralized crypto currencies. I don’t have the need to pay for porn or subscribe to an OF, but for the people that do, and the creators, having “Big Finance” say you can’t is just unacceptable. arstechnica.com/?p=1788655

My two year old might be a psychopath.

Regular reminder that health insurance companies suck.

Fuck bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

I just stubbed my little toe on the door so hard my stomach hurts.

LinkedIn really needs a dark mode. I do my best people creeping in the evenings and it’s burning my retinas.

That state of tired where just pressing your eyelids together for 2 seconds feels better than … the thing that got you into this state. #DadOps

CDC to recommend everyone go back to masking indoors regardless of vaccination status. Super.

Me: I want all the devices on my home network to have consistent and easily identifiable names, in consistent IP spaces. Also me: having all these names lacks creativity and is a lot of work to maintain. Me again: having all these random names is a pain to remember what’s what.

Anyone know what the deal with the Team USA face masks are all about? Watching the swimming medal ceremonies and the ones these girls are wearing look more like something Hannibal Lector or Bane would wear and less like anything I’ve seen in the last 16 months.

I get there’s not a lot of love for ultra-billionaires in general, but why is there so much hate towards Branson and Bezos and not as much for Musk when it comes to shooting stuff into space?

Microsoft’s internal Linux distro (Mariner) uses Tiny DNF as it’s package manager — tdnf was developed for VMware Photon OS 🤯 blog.jreypo.io/2021/07/09/a-l…

These #AllStarGame uniforms are 🗑

Me: I don’t need to snapshot this VM before I change this, I’ve done this a hundred times before. Also me: I really wish I’d made that snapshot.

Be a goldfish, England.

Any good games on today?

Is it just me, or did Twitter change the font used for the web interface?

How much does the DoD have to pay Microsoft for killing JEDI?

Apparently you can only store 32 OATH-TOTP codes on a Yubikey, which basically means it’s not useful for this purpose for me. I learned this after I tried to program the 33rd code. 🤦‍♂️

Is the ocean still on fire? Asking for a friend.

With all these breaches and ransomware attacks going on, I say we just shutdown the Internet for a while until we figure out what’s going on.

9: Is there a White Sox game on? Me: Why? Oh right — you don’t like the Cubs anymore. 9: I also like the Cardinals. Me: WHAT?! What is wrong with you? How are you a member of this family? 9: I just like whatever the opposite of the things you like are. Wife: He finally admits it.

Need the kids to come upstairs? Restart the Minecraft server.

My two year old keeps saying “why” to anything I say to him. It was cute after the first few times but after 139 it becomes a little grating. #dadlife

That thing when you’re on a team call, and the lead is talking about how important it is that we all complete our QTP well before the deadline, and you’re pretty sure he’s talking directly to you without talking directly to you.

That thing when you’re checking out at the grocery store, and you hear someone’s ringtone is the TOS communicator sound, and start looking around to find your people.

I forgot to tell him we even gave out awards to each other for who could do it the best. #vExpert

How is there still no default Weather app for iPad? Or Calculator?

Me: I’m not going to just buy stuff on Prime because it’s on sale today. Also Me: I bought this DeWalt 20V Max Cordless Drill Combo Kit because it was half off on Prime.

Why do all the grocery store delis around here think people want a bunch of sugar in their “homemade” potato salad? 🤮

I tell you what, HBO test email Twitter is my favorite kind of Twitter.

I just bought another computer so my not yet three year old can play Minecraft with his brothers. #dadlife

I’m having youth soccer coaching withdrawals.

Get your vaccine, or suffer the consequences consumer.healthday.com/5-13-new-coron…

Have the confidence of a member of Congress that doesn’t own a calendar.

6yo: You’re weird. Me: Remember that conversation we had about half of you coming from me, and half coming from your mom? 6yo: Yeah Me: What do you think I gave you? 6yo: I’m pretty weird too huh? Yep.

All three children are crying in their beds, mad at me for different reasons. Loving #dadlife tonight. 🙄

I’ve wanted to buy a Ryzen Threadripper chip for a while, for no other reason than I love the name. Then I found out there is a Threadripper Pro, and the only thing stopping me is… The $6000 price tag.

“A new sign-in has been detected on your eBay account” 😟 … Oh yeah that was me.

Watching an old episode of Full House, where The Beach Boys come and take the Tanner family (who live in San Francisco) in a limo to a concert — but the next scene is them at the Los Angeles Colosseum. 6 hours away. It’s almost like TV is a huge lie.

I’m trapped in the slowest Taco Bell drive thru line on the planet. Send help.

I don’t have a ton of rules for my kids to follow. But not watching their shows on my streaming profiles is one. And they just. Can’t. Do. It.

I had to run an errand this morning near Micro Center, so I dropped in around opening. Stumbled upon a fresh shipment of Nvidia RTX 3070 cards so I bought one (they limit you) — but I don’t know what to do with it now.

Siri just tried to auto correct “come vacuum” to “coke vaccine” 💉 I was not aware that was something you could do. 🤨

Your regular reminder that it’s not necessary to have an opinion (shared or not) on everything.

I almost forgot how much of a joy planning holiday events with extended family was. Any possible way we could go back into lockdown this weekend?

Random Person: Me: Rando: You know what? I think these masks are all about government control. I don’t even wear them. And, I’d like to see who’s really died from this, who brought this, minorities, people in inner cities. Me: … You know this the line for the Chinese restaurant?

AirTags work. Had my kids hide one in the house three times and was able to find it within a few minutes. It’s complicated a bit by having a multi-level home.

There are some phrases that when I do a GIPHY search, that accidentally return soft-core porn, and I have no idea why.

Dear IOT device manufacturers, can we please make it so the only way to change the Wifi password to a device is NOT to perform a factory reset?

I rearranged my desk a few weeks ago, it was perfect. I rearranged my desk a few minutes ago, it’s now perfect. I’ll rearrange my desk in a few weeks, it’ll be perfect.

The only thing I really need to know about this European Super League is if it has any impact on the next season of Ted Lasso.

Anyone who’s had their second Covid vax in a different arm have a tingling sensation in their original injection site? My wife thinks I’m imagining it. I’m pretty sure it’s for real.

Gravity Updated: Just under a year ago I started working on a side project, which I talked about here, called Gravity Sync.The basic premise was to create a script that would synchronize two Pi-hole 5.0 instances. What started out as a few lines of bash code though has grown into something kind of crazy, and has …

Being vaccinated does not mean you should make changes to prod at 5pm on a Friday.

We’ve now reserved two different Airbnb/FRBO for this summer, big house in remote location with a pool for us and our COVID Pod family to vacation at. They’ve both been sold and cancelled on us. 🙄

I’ve reached the point in maintaining my Gravity Sync script where even though I’m the sole maintainer and have written 98% of the code, there are things that I assume the script works in a specific way but when I go look at it, realize “nope, it doesn’t do that at all.”

I updated my iPad Pro to the latest iOS beta last week, and it killed my Magic Keyboard. I’ve tried reupgrading, restoring, downgrading to stable iOS to no success. Going to see about getting it swapped out tomorrow. The iPad is so much less useful for me without this accessory.

I love this — “You don’t know what’s going on in people’s lives” kottke.org/21/03/you-dont…

I haven’t had a reason to wear a collared shirt, nice pants, or put product in my hair for over a year. But I think going out to get my #fauciouchie is a good enough of a reason as any.

People making a big deal about governments approving veterinarians to give the COVID-19 vax. I have known my vet longer than my GP. I’d be more than happy to let her poke me for this. Plus, after the shot, she’d probably rub my belly and give me a treat for being a good boy. 😄

That thing where LinkedIn says you should wish one of your contacts a happy birthday… except they’ve been dead for a few years 🤨

My range isn’t huge but this pandemic has led to me hitting both my longest and my shortest hair of maybe my life in the course of a few months.

If each update to macOS Big Sur could quit removing the Xcode CLI tools, that’d be great. 🤬

There is a high school kid walking home in front of my house, with a beard thicker than anything I could dream of growing. Not jealous at all. Not even a little bit. 🥲

9yo: Dad why are Vulcans always science officers? Me: Bud, I’m on the phone. 9yo: Uhhhhhhhggg. … He’s got a point there …

My frequently used emoji reactions has been reset in Slack. I am broken.

3/4 of my parents/in-laws have been fully or partially vaccinated. 1/1 grandparents. 🙌

Is there some compelling reason for me to get out of bed this morning?

My customer asked what the new VCTA certification exams were like, and I didn’t think I could speak to it without taking one. First time with a proctored home exam as well. Not bad. #CrushedIt youracclaim.com/badges/75d8931…

I feel like I have been talking all day.

About to see how well my home UPS units work. Kansas City metro is starting rolling power outages right now! fox4kc.com/news/temporary…

Is there a German word for being disappointed when you got exactly what you expected?

Is there not a way with Microsoft Teams (for Mac) to automatically mute when I enter a call? It’s probably not a great look professionally to for everyone to hear my groans and sighs.

Updated to Big Sur 11.2 Magic Keyboard is lagging to hell over Bluetooth now. 😩

I really need to clean out my office.

Apple Music: Here is a playlist of country songs from 1991. Me: Oh neat, I remember these from when I was a kid, man this must have been like 20 years ago. Apple Music: … Me: THIRTY YEARS AGO?!

My mom got her vaccination today. 🙌

When you’re getting something for free, remember to ask yourself: am I the customer, or the product?

“Why is there a PlayStation controller in my underwear drawer?” #dadlife

It’s like this thing knows that I complained it on Twitter, and it’s letting me know who’s boss.

Today I worked from early in the morning until late in the evening. I made many calls and took many meetings.

“Dad will you read my fortune cookie?” 🥠 Sure… it says ‘Your Minecraft server will be deleted.’ 😏 “WHAT?! Noooooooo” 😭 Just kidding, it says your dad is a jerk.

I hate computers. I’m just here for the coffee.

Capital can refer to: uppercase letters accumulated wealth the city that serves as the seat of government. Capitol is the building in which the government meets. grammarly.com/blog/capital-v…

When I said you should be using Signal, I didn’t mean all at once. 🤷‍♂️

I’ve owned or used all three unibody MacBook Pro (2010, 2013, 2017) and the 2017 is my least favorite of all of them. It has nothing to do with the keyboard (no crumbs!), or the Touch Bar, or the ports (USB-C FTW). It’s that the fans, run, constantly, under the slightest load.

What is your masking system?

May we all live in less interesting times, soon.

Every time they mention on CNN that “they deleted his Twitter account” I just bust out laughing. It’s so absurd.

Do we just need to IP ban all White House public IP segments until after next week?

I’ve been participating and in some cases administrating online communities for over 20 years and never in my wildest dreams did I ever contemplate the President of the United States being someone who would be personally banned and then using duplicate accounts on any platform.

New rule: you can either be on social media, or have the nuclear codes, but not both.

Get rid of him.

Supporting and defending the Constitution isn’t just about following some rules or holding offices. If this moment doesn’t clearly show what “all enemies foreign and domestic” means, then I’m not sure what does.

This cannot go unanswered.

I don’t even know what to say right now.

I forgot how terrible the original Xbox controller was. I think they’d redesigned it by the time I bought one, but I remember playing at a friends house on that giant one. Would love to know who thought that was a good layout.

Talked to my manager today, told her if I didn’t see $11,780 added to my salary, there would be, probably, consequences. Said just tell HR she counted wrong.

Internal monologue — Me: WHY ISN’T THE NEW CODE EVEN RUNNING!? Also Me: Did you push the changes to Git? Me: FUCK!

I was looking forward to ringing in the new year by being “that guy” who clears the neighbors driveways after the big snow storm. But my snowblower won’t start, so ya’ll are on your own. ⛄️

In the process of taking down Christmas decorations… Me: “can we leave all the cards hanging? Wife: “I guess, why?” Me: “I like to see all the faces of the people we can’t see right now.” 8yo: “That’s not cool, that’s kind of… sad.” Me: 🤷‍♂️

Some people have passionate opinions about really dumb things.

WW84 sounds amazing in Dolby Atmos on a stereo pair HomePod. WW84 itself was, uh… fine.

I hope my roof can support Santa’s sleigh, reindeer, and whatever sort of ride the Tooth Fairy uses, should they decide to stop by at the same time tonight. Might need to reinforce the attic rafters, or maybe I should just be out tonight directing traffic?

Middle son lost his first tooth today. Going to be a busy night at the Stanclift House for mythical gift deliveries. 🦷 🎅

“The acceptance of pardons carries a confession of guilt.” — Burdick v. United States (1915). Other courts have echoed that since.

No, no, no. Just, no. theverge.com/2020/12/23/221…

You have an application that is causing a system to run at 30% CPU utilization. You make a change that causes it to drop to under 15%. Have you reduced the CPU load by 50% or by 15%?

Sure fire way to stress test your MacBook Pro battery. Run the Java version of Minecraft on it. 🔥 🔋 📦

Last Minecraft update is broken on my 6yo’s PC. So you can imagine how that’s going right now.

Things I don’t need: a “Ultimate Gift Guide” from my dermatologist.

I sort of love how I have a running joke with my customer that anytime there is a security patch for our products it’s personally my fault. #tamlife

The only thing worse than technology that doesn’t work, is when it only works some of the time.

I sold all my Bitcoin last night. I made 5x what I invested two years ago. That $1 just bought me a latte!

And I’m learning this party is happening while CNN is reporting the IHME model is predicting 658,000 deaths by March. Quit being so ducking stupid.

Just learning there is a birthday sleepover of third graders going on two houses down from me. Part of me wants to explode the the other half just rolls my eyes because of course there is.

Google is adding end-to-end encryption to RCS via the Signal protocol (hey, Apple, could we make RCS a thing on iOS?) theverge.com/2020/11/19/215…

If your question to me begins with “did you see” and ends with “on Teams” then I can say with 95% certainty the answer is: no.

Since I have been alive, Bush 41 serving only one full term seemed like the rare exception to the two term rule, but in the grand scheme of US history it’s really recent times that has been the exception. #perspective

Fun fact: Out of 45 (soon to be 46) US Presidents, only 14 have served two complete terms. (FDR was three and some change) - and four of those have been since 1980. The rest either lost re-election, served partial first terms OR died or resigned in their second terms.

Firmware updates to the home network Unifi switches. Just another average Sunday.

Today is still Wednesday, right? Asking for a friend.

Got an Apple baltic blue iPhone 12 leather case for my birthday yesterday. I’ve been using the black silicone since launch, and while I really like this new silicone design one over any of the previous one, the leather is so much more premium feeling.

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Why am I getting goosebumps watching a motorcade? 😂

Our democracy is complicated. It has always been complicated. This is by design. Breathe.

It’s a Pop Tarts and Chex Mix kind of day.

I’m being told that if you put your “I voted” sticker under your pillow tonight, the anxiety fairy brings you a Xanax.

Every four years, America learns in one night where all the cities and people are in Florida, and then promptly forgets.

Important poll: How much coffee is too much coffee today? When do I switch to whisky? Should I blend them instead? Is taking Xanax with this safe?

🗳 🇺🇸 🌊

Oh it’s the GM, so only going out to folks with the beta profile.

iOS 14.2 is dropping to a phone near you, right now. Friday afternoon? Seems like a great time to update.

What’s the best way to get notified when a container image on Docker Hub is updated?

I really need a nap.

I find myself using the swipe keyboard on iOS a lot recently.

I watched Borat II. If you’re tempted, just go watch the trailer, you’ll have seen all the good parts. Seriously. I’d like the last 90 minutes of my life back.

My six year old has figured out that Siri on the HomePod can identify him by voice — “I turned it on from my iPad” — and both his eight and two year old brothers are annoyed that she doesn’t know them too.

It’s been a week since I accidentally ended up with a nearly shaved head and after initially hating it … I might just lean into this. 👨‍🦲

My XS Max already feels comically large to hold now.

To be clear, I’ve already voted. Biden could walk out naked wearing a tiara and do the Macarena for 90 minutes and neither my vote nor my opinion would change.

I told him I wasn’t sure what that meant because “I only took the ACT and it was 20 years ago.” I left the room to walk to the library to study, where I promptly got lost because the school had been remodeled and I couldn’t find my way out. 🧠

Want some more insight into my 2020 dreams? Well too bad, here it is anyway. Dream last night I was back in high school class. Of course there was a surprise test over a book on “Jewish life in Allied occupied Germany” 🤷‍♂️

The instructor was Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsich. 👨‍⚖️ Of course I was sick the day the book was assigned. I asked for an extension and was told I could have a day, but my own custom test would require “SAT-like” writing precision.

My eight year old just taught me that you can put 3D animated dinosaur models in PowerPoint presentations. Get ready for the most intense TAM Status Reports you’ve ever seen.

Apparently, in Bash 5.x, when you use curl to download a bash script and pipe it to bash, then use that script to git clone a repo, with more bash scripts, then in the same script use ‘sh’ too run the local script, when you source a file it “cannot be found” 🙄 Works in Bash 4.x

All I’ve really had to eat today is a donut, some Chex Mix, and a whole bunch of coffee. This doesn’t seem healthy.

I’ve cut my hair a half dozen times during the pandemic. Each time the results have been more than acceptable. Today the trimmers and I got into a bit of a disagreement, and I lost. 👨‍🦲

Today I accidentally stumbled on the awesomeness that are SVG images.

✅ Pi-hole deployed in Docker on Photon OS ✅ Stubby deployed in Docker on Photon OS ❓ Getting Pi-hole container to talk to Stubby I understand they need to be on the same network in Docker, but so far I’ve been unsuccessful in doing that. 🤔

Also nearly ordered a pizza with pepperoni on it the other day, but then I realize I don’t do that anymore, and got sad. So I ate chicken instead. Again. 🐓

Corona is launching a hard seltzer line. 🙄 Right, because nothing makes me think “refreshment” in 2020 like the Corona.

Next time I do a job interview I’ll be sure to respond to each question with “thanks for that question but let me tell you about something else entirely.”

Any bash nerds out there? I’m trying to make a script that runs by piping to bash after grabbing with curl. Mostly everything works fine except I need to prompt for user input (read command) but it just skips over that. When I download and run the script locally, it prompts.

I occasionally talk about my bizarre dreams here, but I’m sick of having them, just few nights this week I want to go to bed and wake up the next morning with no movie having gone on in my head.

He doesn’t care about me. He doesn’t care about you. He doesn’t care about them. He only cares about himself.

My uncle died unexpectedly on Monday. Just sitting on the couch watching the Chiefs game with his daughter and then in a minute he’s gone. He was kind of “famous” in my hometown, and people always used to assume I was his son. RIP Bob 🔥 #DumspterFire2020 kuathletics.com/former-kansas-…

I have now reupgraded to macOS Big Sur (third install this cycle) but this one feels like a keeper. 🤞

BREAKING NEWS: OCTOBER SURPRISE! It’s October already.

I’m continually embarrassed and in many cases depressed by the political state of our nation. I keep thinking we can’t get any lower, and then we go lower. When is this nightmare going to end?

We are so fucked.

Other apps on my phone I expect to have a “Stories” component before long. GitHub Weather RSA Authenticate

The highs and lows of retail therapy. High: I bought a new MacBook Air. Lows: It’s not for me.

The most important thing you’ll read today, maybe during this whole pandemic imgur.com/gallery/s9tnKrK

Putting a hard boiled egg on top a salad with chicken in it seems like the ultimate FU to the animal kingdom. “I’m going to eat you, and your unborn children!”

Keep digging, 2020.

vSphere 7.0 U1 will support a new Monster VM maximum configuration of 24TB of RAM and 768 vCPU. Honest question: How does one even buy/build a physical server capable of hosting that?

I’m tired of: Slack Zoom Teams Outlook

When I hear people say that we’re only half way through this, I think they are so far off. I think best case we’re maybe 1/3 the way through. 2021 will mostly be more of the same.

I wish all the content owners would just decide what services their shows and movies will be on, and stick with it. I’m now (temporarily) subscribed to STARZ so the kids can finish The Land Before time movies the started watching somewhere else. 🙄

I feel like I’m being beat over the head with a baseball bat by my allergies this weekend. Thanks Mother Nature.

Setting up my own recursive DNS resolvers for my network might have seemed like overkill at the time, but considering how often Cloudflare’s have stopped responding for various reasons in the last month, it seems like the right choice.

Wife: “what do you want to be when you grow up?” 5yo: “I want to work for VMware.” Wife: “I thought you wanted to cure coronavirus?” 5yo: “Yeah that too, I’ll work at VMware and then stop the virus on the weekends.” Me: 😭

Choosing the outcome you want, and then cherry-picking facts to support the position you’ve predetermined, does not constitute a “data drive decision” 🤦‍♂️

Some mornings I need a “Find my Coffee” app on my phone. Gotta have more coffee to be able to remember where I put my coffee. #catch22

Grammatical Nerds: should that be “an f’n joy” or not?

“The Airplane Mode indicator might not reflect the current Airplane Mode status in Settings. (66932775)” Good thing no one gets on airplanes anymore. developer.apple.com/documentation/…

If Apple doesn’t release updated iOS betas in 25 minutes, I’m going to … I dunno, probably just keep struggling through the current one.

Question totally unrelated to anything going on: if you just come out and announce to people you’re doing something that would otherwise be illegal or unethical, is it still illegal or unethical?

The Apple IIe was the first computer that I ever used. Seeing the launch video is kind of amazing, in some ways Apple’s vocabulary for how they do this hasn’t changed much since 1983. youtu.be/Sif9KHQkDk4

I have a recurring dream where I’m surrounded by folks not wearing a mask, start to get upset, and then I realize that I left mine in the car.

“Our app says we should have 15 by the end of the week.” Your app says you have 7 right now, your app is a liar.

Cannot get the theme song to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country out of my head. Might as well watch the movie.

I’m doing two technical interviews this afternoon for an open TAM role, and we do them via Zoom with video, so I put on a “nice” shirt for the first time in … I’m gonna say March?

What qualifications does one have to have to run for local school board? Asking for a friend.

It’s August 4. I have the AC turned off and all the windows open. I’m contemplating working from the back deck. 2020 is weird.

How do people who regularly get a lot of interaction on Twitter not go insane with notifications. I had a few more popular threads and such and it’s just a ton of alerts every time I open the app. Almost wants to drive me back to a third party app to avoid seeing it all.

Next time we land something this important from space off the Florida coast, can the Navy or the Coast Guard be around to blast the idiot onlookers out of the water?

WELCOME BACK TO EARTH, BOB AND DOUG!

“Breaking the Law” has become my 5yo’s new favorite song. Not sure if I should read anything into this regarding his future, or not. music.apple.com/us/album/break…

I have a UDP joke, but I’m not sure if you’ll get it.

I need a vacation.

When you see an ad on Instagram and think “oh those pants would be nice at work, if I ever have to wear pants again.”

One of our friends drove across town to bring us a dozen fresh glazed Krispy Kreme doughnuts, just because. You should have more friends like mine.

Me installs spell-check markdown plugin for VSCode. Me sees all the red squiggly lines. Me cries. Me sorry.

Scotch whisky is the best whiskey. 🥃

NSX for vSphere 6.4.7 with support for vSphere 7.0 is now available docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-…

Purpose. 🤦‍♂️

GitHub experts of Twitter: I notice a fair number of people who fork my repo, but then do nothing with their copy, even to keep it updated with my changes. What’s their pourpose?

I love how you tell Google to share a calendar with someone and then sometime in the next 90 years it appears on the other person’s account.

I just got crushed by Monopoly, by an 8 year old. I suck at capitalism.

If you’re reading this, you survived the first half of 2020. Congrats.

Ever have a dream where your troubleshooting an issue, and when you wake up, all your brain wants to do is keep trying to figure out the nonsensical issue you were fighting? No? Just me? 🧠

Tonight I learned that karma sometimes plays the long game, but it’s still a bitch. Be good to each other.

Every year, like clockwork after WWDC — “Are you going to install the new betas?” No. OK, I’ll try it on the phone. But not on the Watch. Eh, maybe the Watch. No macOS. Eh, what could it hurt?

The expectations that they set for coaches to monitor a team and enforce distancing were ridiculous to begin with, but their communications always seemed to be centered around getting back to revenue generating events like tournaments. But they got their positive press coverage.

Some day I will wipe my system and remember to make an easily accessible copy of my SSH keys. 🙄

The process for doing this involves me standing up a VM running Windows 7 (their instructions) with Internet Explorer 11 to install an ActiveX control. Migrating down, which they process in their cloud. Then sending up, which they process in their cloud.

My wife manages the finances for a non-profit. She’s been getting setup in a QuickBooks Online trial, and later getting low cost access via TechSoup. The only way you can move existing QBO data to another QBO account is to migrate it to QuickBooks Desktop and back to the cloud.

8yo: “MAC Address, is that just an Apple thing?” Sit down son, tonight we are learning about layer 2/3 networking.

I haven’t had beef in 4 weeks. AMA.

I think I’ve reached the “maybe I’ll just cut my own hair” portion of the pandemic.

Is “shit-show” one word, or two?

90 days ago was March 10. The day before the NBA shutdown, before Tom Hanks was diagnosed with COVID, before Trump’s national TV address, and before The WHO declared a pandemic. Before lockdowns, masks, social distancing and before 112,700 Americans would die. Only 90 years ago.

I finally picked up a pair of AirPods Pro late last week. I love the functionality but am struggling with sealing and consistent fit. Currently using a large in the left, and small in the right. Anyone else have such widely mismatched earholes?

Woke before 6 AM to find the youngest had pooped himself awake, and that the five year old was also awake and roaming around the house. Happy Thursday, ya’ll.

Also, “it shouldn’t be too hard to support an alternative SSH client” … 1000 lines of code later … it wasn’t worth this.

That thing where you have to read your own documentation to remember what a variable in your own script is supposed to do 🤦‍♂️

There are a couple of flies that have made their way between the window and blinds of the dining room. My kids have nicknamed them “Bob & Doug”

8GB of RAM on a Raspberry Pi. Native boot from USB coming, and Raspbian is now Raspberry Pi OS. If only there was a way to run VMs on a Pi 😉 raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspb…

Alright, back to work everyone. #LaunchAmerica

Mother Nature ruins EVERYTHING 🚀 ⚡

OH: “stupidity is a bipartisan issue”

Gravity Sync: I just got on the Pi-hole bandwagon a few weeks ago, and boy do I love it. Really, who doesn't love DNS? And what is better than a Pi-hole? Two Pi-hole! With the release of Pi-hole 5.0, I wanted to rig up a quick and dirty way to accomplish keeping my Pi-hole HA instances in-sync, but it has quickly …

Replacing sprinkler heads. Playing in the mud, with a purpose.

Soooo, after I drop a bunch of cash on a new refrigerator yesterday, today the controller in the old one appears to be working fine again. Front panel never flipped out. Compressor still running, ice maker still making frozen water masses. I think it just wanted a vacation.

I had a nightmare last night that my middle child was eaten by cougars. How’s your day going?

We’ve wanted to replace our dishwasher for a while, and finally decided to pull the trigger, so of course now is the perfect time for our refrigerator control board (that I replaced a few months ago) to die, again.

I need a couch in my office.

I had a dream the other night that we found a previously unknown set of rooms in our house, and my biggest concern about this was how I was going to get WiFi to the new wing.

I just turned dark mode off on my Mac and now my retinas are on fire. 👀

You know what I love about Linux? There’s like 7 different ways to set a static IP address and DNS resolver.

I’m exhausting and I’m thankful my wife hasn’t filed for divorce yet during the pandemic. Stay at home order lifts Monday.

I’m barely functional today.

The power has been out for exactly one hour and the home has already devolved into chaos.

Related: what do people from Utah, Oregon, Maine, or Illinois call themselves? Utahers? Utahans? Utahtities?

Can we agree that when folks from Michigan call themselves “Michiganders” it sounds a little bit silly?

And I just dropped a jar of mayonnaise on my toe. That’s how my day is going.

This might sound stupid, but… I really just want to go walk around a Target.

Ooh, the latest “New Outlook” for macOS beta interface added “All Accounts” back in. It’s the little things.

Is the feeling that everything I’m reading is slightly italicized some sign of something?

My kids are currently running around the house playing “Surgeon General” — we live in weird times.

The number of times I open Slack when I’m trying to open Photos, or vice versa, IS TOO DAMN HIGH.

Wife pops in my office: “Is it really Thursday?!” Me, surprised: “No, it’s Friday." W: “I thought it was Wednesday." checks calendar M: “… It appears to be Thursday.” The struggle is real.

I knew there was a good reason why I’ve always been allergic to these things 🙅‍♂️🐈 cdc.gov/media/releases…

Why do people give PowerPoint presentations while not in presentation mode?

The vSphere Flash Client dies on in December! kb.vmware.com/s/article/78589

Throwing keepalived in front of a pair of PiHole servers and getting it to work with IPv6, yeah sure why not?

Toilet paper is now more valuable than a barrel of oil.

Pandemic project success 🤘 I think I might have found the magic combo of Pihole blocking rules that doesn’t break the CNN tvOS app but doesn’t show the ads.

Good news folks. I thought we were out of tortilla chips but I found another bag in the basement. Nachos!

#pandemicdreams Royals vs Nationals in abbreviated World Series, game 7 ends in tie that must be decided by an obstacle course run by the coaching staff. Ned Yost crushed it.

Why do people insist on cutting onions during Pixar movies? End of Onward and I swear someone somewhere was chopping some pungent ones.

Today I discovered blink.sh and mosh.org. 🤯

Lots of power in a tiny package. virten.net/2020/04/vmware…

Today’s pandemic menu: reheated rib eye steak, peanut butter M&M’s.

Apple and Google have partnered on COVID-19 contact tracing technology, both companies will release APIs that enable interoperability between Android and iOS devices using apps from public health authorities. apple.com/newsroom/2020/…

“Mom, my teacher ‘liked’ my assignment!” #BraveNewWorld

Sorry I’m just watching the news.

I know we’re all making due with what we have, but if you’re going to be interviewed on live TV via web cam, figure out how to position it so we aren’t looking up your nose.

British PM has been hospitalized for COVID-19 😳

Possibly unpopular opinion: I hate hate hate Cheerios. I hate their appearance and texture, but most of all I hate the way they smell.

Two, kids. Whatever.

I’m starting to think Zoom is a bit of a privacy dumpster fire…

“Weimar Republic” is trending… there’s something you don’t see every day.

I’m being told it’s Saturday. I’m not sure I believe that, but the real question is, does it even matter anymore?

If you’ve got an hour of your life to spend thinking about the 1918 influenza then this video is worth your time, fascinating look at how viruses evolve and jump between species m.youtube.com/watch?v=48Klc3…

Nobody goes to Zoom for an “advertising experience,” personalized or not. And nobody wants ads aimed at their eyeballs elsewhere on the Net by third parties using personal information leaked out through Zoom. blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27…

I should go to sleep, but sitting alone in a dark and quiet house listening to the thunder and falling rain might be worth being tired in the morning.

I just watched the season finale of Picard, and holy shit do I have feelings. 🤯

EACH DAY IS SLIGHTLY MORE EXHAUSTING THAN THE LAST ONE

WFH #protip for Apple users: don’t forget to charge your Magic Keyboard/Mouse over the weekend.

How do we not already have a continuity of government plan that factors in congress being able to do their job (vote) from remote locations?

Watching regular TV (Last Man Standing) instead of the news and can’t stop thinking “WHY ARE THEY SO CLOSE TOGETHER RIGHT NOW”

There it is. See you in a month. #stayhomekc kctv5.com/coronavirus/co…

I need to build a green screen for my Zooming activity.

Had a nice conversation with the new neighbors tonight… from our respective decks. #SocialDistancing

New iPads!? Finally something to obsess over besides the pandemic.

My oldest is way too fucking happy about school being shut down. 🙄

You also have to (at the time at least, it could be different) turn in your approved list to the store when you check out, so if you can’t get everything on it when you leave, you don’t get it. Again, my experience with this is 15 years old, but it’s not an easy thing to be on.

Yesterday I learned, that it’s believed that the 1918 flu pandemic (aka Spanish Flu) actually originated in Kansas. 🌻 (You’re welcome, world.) It’s thought to have jumped to humans from horses and then around the world during WW1. 🐴 kansascity.com/news/business/…

For a while after I got the standing desk I was just using a balance ball to sit on.

Currently buying a new office chair. I’m normally about 50% WFH and use my standing desk in the afternoons, but at 100% my legs are going to need a break.

Went and got my hair cut, so I’d look nice in the webcams for the next year. My barber walked up and offered his hand to shake, so I politely offered it to bump instead, because, you know, Corona. And then I let him run his hands through my hair for 30 minutes. 🦠

“Practice social distancing” — no problem folks, I’ve been practicing for 36 years, I’m a certified professional.

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Thinks to self: “Man, why is everything loading so slowly this morning?" VPN is connected through Shanghai. #WFHfail

It occurs to me that leather iPhone cases are probably really disgusting from a microbiotic perspective.

Wasn’t 2019 great?

I’ll bring this up twice a year until I don’t need to ever again. End DST. Consolidated time zones. Make it so. qz.com/142199/the-us-…

On the bright side, I now have brownies.

It turns out you can sleep for 30 hours and still be tired.

Anyone know of a service that takes multiple iCal URLs and aggregates them into one?

If the MCSE dies alone in a forest, does it make a sound? petri.com/microsoft-is-r…

It has been 4 days since the last child … wait … It has been 0 days since the last child vomited in this house. ☣️

One command to bring that soothing tone back to your boot process. mrmacintosh.com/how-to-enable-…

Three kids, 5x 24-hour stomach flus in the last two weeks. ☣️

Alright. Kids are in bed, daddy is going to play some Modern Warfare, everything is updated and go to go right? Xbox: OOOOOOH, you wanted to do multiplayer? That’s another 10GB download. Please wait.

I bought an Xbox One X today. AMA.

Interesting Enough: Greg Morris writes: … I do suffer quite a lot with imposter syndrome. The great thing is, I have learnt not to check my blog stats, I’m not bothered about podcast downloads and I sure as hell don’t care how many people follow me on social media.I too, have mastered the art of not checking blog …

#KnowYourWorth got you feeling down? Make sure you’re not comparing 🍎 to 🍊. Someone making $200k salary with 5 years of experience might sound like a lot but not when you’re living in NYC or SFO. You’d have to pay me at least triple that to move to either of those places.

Universal TAM: This video from Atlassian was shared internally at VMware a couple of weeks ago, and my initial comment was that minus the few references to their company specifically, this video was a great representation of the role of Technical Account Managers, generally. I was apparently not the only one who …

My oldest just 🤮 so much and in so many places I seriously contemplated just burning my house down and starting over. ☣️

I’m kind of digging this XFL thing.

I work with some of the best people.

In Mahomes We Trust #ChiefsKindgom #SuperBowLIV

WHAT IS HAPPENING

I was on a treadmill two days in a row. Someone give me a f’ckn medal.

“Skimmed milk has been found to statistically increase the rate of acne by 24%” – We go live to 14 year old me: 🤯 youtu.be/oakWgLqCwUc

Oh, you can get it for free too, just visit kube.academy 😁

Project Nautilus: Introducing VMware Project Nautilus: Project Nautilus brings OCI container support to Fusion, enabling users to build, run and test apps for nearly any OS or cloud right from the comfort of your own Mac. With Project Nautilus, Fusion now has the ability to run Containers as well as VMs. Pull images …

Lots of people, in the interest of privacy, don’t want to give their phone number to Twitter. They’ve made some mistakes with them. Ironically, I just looked, and I am one of them. bleepingcomputer.com/news/technolog…

Anyone who travels with an Apple Magic Mouse have a good carrying case option? I recently picked up a second one to keep in my bag, because using the trackpad for extended periods of time was bothering my wrist.

No edit button for you! theverge.com/2020/1/15/2106…

Resume Deletions: There are some things that just aren’t worth putting on your resume. This was the reminder that came to mind during replies to Owen Williams on the tweet machine. I once joined a company that announced on my first day that they had very little money left, and that all "unnecessary" …

Sorry, I misspoke, the Chiefs aren’t actually playing. Just running around Arrowhead.

🙎🏼‍♂️ Go write them out 10 times. … 👦🏼 Here 👱🏻‍♂️ These ones are spelled wrong, and you only did it 4 or 5 times. Go try again. 👦🏼 YOU ARE SO MEAN 🤷🏼‍♂️ … 👦🏼 Here, I did a new page. 🙎🏼‍♂️ This is the same page you did before except you just erased the incorrect ones. 👦🏼 YOU ARE …

👱🏻‍♂️ Did you study your spelling words? 👦🏼 Yes 👱🏻‍♂️ Did you write them out? 👦🏼 Yes 👱🏻‍♂️ Show me your notebook. 👦🏼 Well… 🙎🏼‍♂️

Veeam Team: The first time I used Veeam's backup software was in 2010. Up to that point I'd had experience with Symantec Backup Exec, Microsoft Data Protection Manager, and Commvault Simpana. The first time I used VBR to backup my vSphere infrastructure it was like the proverbial iced water to a man in hell. As …

You know what? I’m going to avoid getting too worked up about this. Every time Twitter changes something about the service (280 characters) we freak and say they’re ruining it, and in the end it’s… fine. theverge.com/2020/1/8/21056…

Oh, 2020, you had such promise.

When the latest iteration of Twitter for Mac launched it was OK, but pretty rough around the edges, it’s been interesting to see how they’ve iterated on it over time to make feel more and more Mac-like. Case in point, today’s update added support for the Touch Bar.

Delicious Strategy: I don't know who Peter Drucker is, but Matt's quote attributed to him, is sound: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" This cannot be overstated. pic.twitter.com/pWwjEw8Z4j — Matt Haedo (@matthaedo) January 7, 2020 Apparently Peter is a kind of a big deal, at least according to …

Skip Day: It turns out that finding something to write about every day is really hard. Shocking, I know. You may have noticed (or, maybe not) that January 1-4 there was a new post here every day. I skipped yesterday, but I blame my participation with this tweet from Jehad. A decision I’m happy about in 2019 …

Outlook Overload: For the last couple weeks I’ve been confused why Microsoft Outlook on my Mac would start consuming over 100% CPU while sitting idle, spinning up my fans, and generating a bunch of disk write activity. At first I assumed it was because I am running the Fast Ring in order to run the new macOS design. …

Nonsense Awareness: Jessica Joy Kerr in her blog post titled “Open your eyes to the nonsense” has a great anecdote from a friend, about the software development process at a utility company: “We make power, not sense.”But she goes on to make a wider point about evaluating the existing culture and processes of …

Thirty Eight K: I've historically been pretty terrible at two things: negotiating salaries, and promoting to my own skills. As someone who freely admits the movie of his life story could very well be titled The Imposter Syndrome, when it came time to discuss with a recruiter or hiring manager what I was worth, I've …

Resolution Delusion: I'm not one for making new years resolutions. They always get broken, and then you're disappointed in yourself. However, Brent Simmons posted something on Inessential which I think is a good goal for anyone this year: My resolution is to try harder to get angry only when it’s actually worth it. I …

I feel like 2020 Me has already let 2019 Me down.

My home printer just decided that it doesn’t want to accept print jobs anymore, worked fine last night, and OMG IT IS ALMOST 2020 WHY ARE PRINTERS STILL TERRIBLE.

I can’t be the only one who’s tired of “Top X of 2019” or “The Biggest X of the 2010s” stories, right?

Do you have a retention “policy” on your personal email?

My 14mo managed to 👋 to my dad that he needed to 💩 and did it in the 🚽 for the first time. It’s a 🎄 miracle.

I went out and offered them a snack, which we have out for all the delivery folks … one of them (who lives in my old neighborhood) asked if I had any Guinness. Sadly, I did not. 😆

NetNewsWire for iOS public beta now available inessential.com/2019/12/22/net…

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

I have seen the thing. Carry on.

Everyone stop tweeting about the movie that came out tonight. Please.

All I’ve been doing today is replying to deleted tweets.

It’s not exactly a lie if I just don’t tell the kids school has been cancelled tomorrow.

Just got my first post-AWS vendor email. Unsubscribe

Oracle is moving OpenWorld out of San Francisco and to Las Vegas, citing cost and “street conditions” bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/n…

The Wheels for the new Mac Pro are $400. 😹

VMware Remote Console 11.0 can now be installed from the Mac App Store. Installation from the App Store is recommended on machines running macOS 10.15 or later. apps.apple.com/us/app/vmware-…

There’s a rodeo convention that has rolled onto the Vegas Strip mid #reinvent. There is now an interesting convergence of developers in hoodies and cowboys in Stetson hats.

One advantage to hosting thanksgiving is once everyone is gone, and the kids are in bed, you can eat more pie. 🥧

The close up shots of the peanut butter in Reece’s commercials make me want them a lot less. 🤢

“I’ve gotta get one of those.” 😂 #TheMandalorian

My ability to be patient with new umpires and referees is proportional to their ability focus on the game and do basic math.

Me: Only retain 30 days worth of iMessages. iPhone: Oh you’d like to keep these forever, right?

The Disney+ app (at least for Apple TV) is very well done. It did something I’ve never seen before, a “skip recap” button for #TheMandalorian.

My kingdom for a children’s toothpaste dispenser that is incapable of making a huge mess.

I haven’t been particularly “excited” for #TheMandalorian coming out because … Trek > Wars … but I was hooked in the first 5 minutes. Damn.

Are all of the #MSIgnite sessions live streamed?

Thanks for all your lowball bids, Twitter Friends, but I sold my S4 for a more reasonable price this morning.

Researchers unearth malware that siphoned SMS texts out of telco’s network AKA why we need end to end encrypted messaging everywhere. arstechnica.com/?p=1594265

Congrats #Nats

Want to buy my Series 4? swappa.com/listing/view/L…

5yo: “Grandpa can we go outside?” Gpa: “Sure but don’t step in the bare spots, I just planted grass there.” 5yo: 🤔 “Grandpa why did a bear leave spots in your yard?”

Renewed drivers license. ✅😑 Got good photo. ✅😎

Played baseball, soccer and football with the boys and neighbor kids this morning. When is nap time?

I’ve had the full on hiccups FOUR FUCKING TIMES today. I feel like a child.

So I was able to diagnose the failed control board in my refrigerator and order a replacement, and swap it out. $330, but good as new!

Upon further inspection of the dishwasher, escalation engineer was able to determine initial analysis was incomplete, and only minor updates to infrastructure were required. Dishwasher now performing as expected. DNS still sucks.

Home refrigerator crashed today, the electronics are toast. Last time this happened a reboot solved it, but not this time. DR plan has redundant cooling options in the garage but some food loss expected. What was unexpected is our dishwasher also failed today. I blame DNS.

Fire up the grill, folks! Red meat is good for you again. nytimes.com/2019/09/30/hea…

Apparently I had to add a payment method, before I could update my address and add my tax ID (SSN) … so more info, to close it. Now in 2-3 weeks a PIN will arrive in the mail, which I will verify.

Complaining about people complaining about people complaining about a thing, so meta.

I updated around 5 hours ago and it’s only down 10% - on watchOS 6.0 it’d probably drop 30% in that time. It’s too early to say for sure, but it’s a positive development.

I’ve had the Apple Watch Series 5 just over a week. It’s essentially the Series 4, but the always on display is so worth it. (I also went to stainless from aluminum. Love it.) But, battery life has been unimpressive, so I decided to run the watchOS 6.1 beta on it tonight.

Mandatory corporate training is mandatory and corporate.

One of my home devices reached its effective end of support yesterday with the release of iOS 13.1. It was the original iPad Air that my oldest users. Today he was very unhappy to find out Apple Arcade isn’t available to him.

5yo: “Dad, what happened here?” (Lifts shirt up) Me: 😄 “Nothing happened, that’s your nipple.” 5yo: “Oh, do you have them too?” Me: “Yes” 5yo: 🤔 “Mommy doesn’t have them, she has ‘milk snacks’ right?” #dadops

iOS 13.1 GM now installed. One less beta in my life.

I turned off 3D Touch on my XS Max to see what the fuss was about losing it on the 11. The only place I notice the different between it and Haptic Touch is text selection shortcuts, otherwise, meh.

Oh, you have to hold down go, and then wait for yet another error message to indicate something else that’s wrong. Who wrote this shit?

OK, that last part was a lie.

All the goodness in the new Horizon 7.10 administrative interface makes me wish I was doing EUC again. blogs.vmware.com/euc/2019/09/wh…

It looks like iOS 13 ready updates are starting to drop into the App Store. Bring me native dark mode to all the things!

Just created #startrek on the corporate Slack. Why didn’t this exist already?

Wife, just before we fall asleep: “You’re not buying any new iPhones, right?”

My oldest just threw a fastball that I missed and hit me directly in the manboob. Which begs the question, who made baseballs so hard?

My almost one year old has an obsession with pulling ventilation covers up off the floor. Which begs the question, who made these so easy to pull out?

Now that Apple has a cash transfer system, and a credit card, they need to come back and rework the interface to their iPhone Upgrade Program. Having to login and deal with the Citizens One crap is so non-Apple. Let me pay and manage my account from the Wallet app.

That thing where you look down at your iPhone and it’s 9:41. (True believers will know what I’m saying.)

I need to do #vmworld expenses. I really do.

“Behind the toilet is not an acceptable place to store your iPad.” #dadlife

I just saw a man with 🥑 tattooed on his arm. Now, I enjoy some guacamole just as much as anyone, but you’d really better damn well love avocado to permanently place it on your body.

#vmworld attendees that don’t want your bag, I’m trying to bring some back to KC for a customer that got their travel cut at the last minute. Let me know if you’re willing to make a donation.

Rivers and seas boiling. 40 years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes! Human sacrifice. Virtual Machines and Kubernetes, running together… MASS HYSTERIA blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2019/0…

See you tomorrow #VMworld3Word

Avis just sent me an e-Toll bill that makes it look like I went galavanting across Manhattan on a recent work trip. RFK Bridge, GW Bridge, Holland Tunnel, Battery Tunnel, New Jersey Turnpike. Problem is, I’ve never been to New York. 🤔

Oh hey, my Raspberry Pi 4 finally shipped.

Well, it’s certainly been an interesting morning…

Click all the images with a tractor. clicks tractors Click all the images with a crosswalk. clicks crosswalk Click all the images with a storefront. throws computer out window

The accumulation of wisdom isn’t always directly proportional to age: Mr. Hambleton is “a very young 89,” his wife said, and when they built the house, “he was only 82,” so the property’s upkeep “didn’t seem like that major a thing.”

I might be over coffee.

I’ve temporarily switched to Twitterrific as my “primary” client because of strange scrolling issues in the official app on iOS 13 beta. It’s reminded me how much I miss third-party Twitter clients being almost first class citizens.

VMunderground 2019 tickets are now on sale! vsquaredb.ticketleap.com/vmunderground-…

Between AT&T’s Call Protect app, and the iOS 13 beta “Silence Unknown Callers” feature, my phone hardly rings anymore. It’s glorious.

Welcome UHANA to Team VMware. We are making more investments in AI, this time in the Telco space. blogs.vmware.com/telco/vmware-t…

OneDrive updated it’s menu bar icon to be even more blah. I wish I had the ability to hide it completely. At least it’s not as nasty as what Dropbox is up to these days.

I got stung by a bee/wasp tonight, on the side of my neck, while trying to take pictures of my kids at the park. Honestly the first time I can ever remember this happening. Thankfully, I don’t appear to be allergic, just feels like I’m stabbed in the neck repeatedly. 😩🖕🐝

DM me if you’re interested in a latest generation Kindle Paperwhite (ad free) for a good price.

Odd feeling to find out the first person you were ever friends with has died. I hadn’t seen him since high school, but at 4 he was the one who showed me how to play Super Mario Brothers, and we fed each others Ghostbusters obsessions. (He was Ray, I was Egon) #RIP Kenny.

It seems Amazon Prime Day is basically the same things you normally by from Amazon, except with an Echo Dot included. Vitamins? + Echo Dot. Toaster? + Echo Dot. Echo Dot? + Echo Dot.

Mandatory corporate training program is mandatory.

Why do children (or adults for that matter) lie about trivial things that can be easily verified? Did you brush your teeth? Yes. Why is the toothbrush dry? Magic.

Fun to get hit by brutal winds, on trash day. Neighborhood is covered in everyone else’s stuff.

This is the same behavior you get when launching Zoom from a link on iOS, a prompt to start the app. I’ve never considered this to be disruptive, I actually prefer it. It seems like Zoom could fix this by registering a URI handler in Firefox, and call it a day.

We are now a two HomePod home.

🇺🇸 ⚽️ 🏆 🙌

I just bought another HomePod 💸

I’ve been using an iPhone XS Max for the last month. Tonight I picked up an iPhone SE. I used to think that was the perfect phone size, but I could never go back. #BiggerIsBetter

I picked a heck of a day to stop drinking coffee.

Feature breakdown for VMware Horizon 7.9 and Client 5.1. youtube.com/watch?v=Gs0ble…

What happens on iOS 13 when two iPhone users who’ve never spoken with each other before call each other with the block unknown caller feature enabled? An endless loop of voicemail? Or does it acknowledge someone you tried to reach is returning your call?

Why do my children refuse to understand that I don’t want their feet on me? 😫

Order two egg rolls from local take-out 🥡 get a dozen egg rolls instead. 🤷‍♂️

Getting out of bed this morning seems painful. 😫

What does it say about me that I’m super excited for a mandatory VPN client upgrade only because the icon looks better in the macOS status bar?

“Across four studies (about 800 participants total), our research found that low identity integration led to greater feelings of inauthenticity and, in turn, a higher likelihood of engaging in unethical behavior.” hbr.org/2019/06/why-au…

My customer is hiring, senior virtualization engineers. If you’re in the KC area and want to “do VMware” at crazy scale, let me know.

PowerCLI 11.3.0 is here, with new cmdlets for controlling HCX code.vmware.com/web/tool/11.3.…

The Nespresso machine is more effective if you put a cup in front of it before brewing. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Dropped my wife off at Target, then opened my phone to see #TargetApocalypse2019. Didn’t realize I’d never see her again. Oh well, 11 years and 1 day is a good run.

I forgot to mention, we’re getting a new couch to replace the one we’ve had since we started living together 🛋 It’s the little things 😘

Today, I learned that poop transplants are a thing. And if they mess it up, you die. 💩😷 nbcnews.com/health/health-…

After stressing all day, I brought a bottle of favored spirits over to my neighbors to whom I sent this unintentionally offensive text, and they laughed it off and said if they get free booze I can call them anything I want in the future. I have fun neighbors.

1Password now has support for U2F keys as an additional second-factor at login, and coincidentally, Safari in macOS Catalina and the Mojave Technology Preview have native U2F support blog.1password.com/introducing-su…

It’s always about licensing. thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/04/…

Apple is moving to zsh as the default shell in macOS Catalina support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050

GM and Ford could merge? We really are in the dark timeline. 😱 msn.com/en-us/money/co…

Feeling Helpless: For a while, what transpired in the aftermath of that night, left me feeling betrayed by some people that I thought I could trust, and feeling helpless. Like so many times in life before, I was told by those who had the power to stop what was going on, that there was nothing they were willing to do, …

I will not run the iOS 13 betas. I will not run the iOS 13 betas. I will not run the iOS 13 betas. I will probably run the betas. 9to5mac.com/2019/05/28/ios…

“Apple is my teacher, it’s in the lead. As a student, why go against my teacher? Never.” 🤨 9to5mac.com/2019/05/27/chi…

Some things are easier to discuss with thousands of strangers than your own family. 🙄

“Every day after lunch, the lights are dimmed in most offices so workers can nap, which is common at companies in China” — I could handle this. cnn.com/interactive/20…

Et tu, Harry? latimes.com/business/la-fi…

Lots of security updates in macOS Mojave 10.14.5 😳 support.apple.com/en-us/HT210119

My middle son has figured out what speed limits are, and how they work, and has taken to notifying me what they are every time he sees a sign, and alerting me anytime I exceed it, and OMG I DONT WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN ANYMORE.

I’m becoming more and more annoyed by people who have no respect for the time and schedules of other people.

My 4yo setup a timer on his iPad to go off around 4:30am with the emergency klaxon sound. I watched the first episode of Chernobyl on HBO right before bed. This made for an interesting nighttime combination.

Gigacast Appearance: I was recently a guest on Gigacast, along with Cody de Cody De Arkland and Al Rasheed, to discuss mental health and my recent Kernel Panic post. Being lifted onto the shoulders of giants, thanks @eric_shanks @ericblee6 @aaronbuley @al_rasheed @reillyusa @Codydearkland for having the courage to share …

It’s about damn time. 9to5mac.com/2019/05/06/you…

Just did a clean install of Mojave (👋 corporate image) and using Homebrew, Cask and MASCLI, I was able to dump a list and then reinstall nearly every application I use, in three lines. brew install $(<brew.txt) brew cask install $(<cask.txt) mas install $(<mas.txt)

Seven year olds can be real assholes.

Are there any good community resources around the VCP 6.7 Foundations Exam?

Put another zero on Facebook’s fine, $30b is a much better start nytimes.com/2019/04/25/opi…

Pay no attention to the lack of cable management. 🙈

I survived #AvangersEndgame

1 hour, 7 minutes until #AvengersEndgame

VMware AE at lunch, to waitress: “do you have a hypervisen?” 🤔 “hefferveisen?”

I should point out that I find the smell of Cheerios disgusting.

Kid in the dugout was swinging his bat around. I walked over, grabbed it midswing and put it on the ground. Said nothing, then walked away. My son: “That’s his way of telling you to stop” The kid picks it back up Son: “If you do it again he’ll lose it on you.” …

The creators of Ninjago are making a kid focused Star Trek animated series - I picked the right time to have children 🖖 deadline.com/2019/04/star-t…

I’m happy and humbled to see how popular my “Kernel Panic” story has become. I tried to reply directly to anyone who commented, especially those who reached out via DM, or even VMW internal Slack, email or LinkedIn. If you shared your struggle with me, I see you, and I thank you.

I love the fact that every interaction around this has been positive, from people I have known for years, and from people I’ve never met. If you’d told me 2 years ago, in the darkest moment of my failed state that even 5 people would have cared, I barely would have believed you.

But, if you’d told me thousands of people would read my story in a weekend, and hundreds of them would reach out directly, I would have deemed that impossible. I want to keep having this conversation, to be a signal for those who were me, two years ago. Keep it up. Thank you! 🙏

Kernel Panic: I’ve been thinking for over two years about how to talk about this, how to talk about the day I couldn’t process anymore. The day where my bullshit buffers overflowed. The day of my internal kernel panic. When starved for resources, my brain finally threw up a PSOD, and quit. vmstan 1.0 build …

Why does updating Xcode from the Mac App Store consume all available CPU resources on your system?

😱 the season finale of Star Trek Discovery 🤯 and the alternative theme music at the end 😭 soooooo gooooood 🖖

That thing where you’re at a dinner with a couple dozen people and in addition to the handful of conversations going on at the table there is another conversation going on Twitter…

I’m seeing all these videos and promotions for #PowerbeatsPro but it doesn’t look like you can buy them yet. Am I missing something?

I like the Virginia coach’s style. #NoTie #NationalChampionship

VMware Enterprise PKS 1.3.6 now supports NSX-T 2.4 integration docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Ente…

The short of this? Being a hardware startup is hard in 2019. mashable.com/article/amazon…

I need DRS-like functionality for my kid’s soccer team. 8 kids, only 4 can play at a time. 1 is on season long maintenance mode. At least 1 might be unavailable at any time. 2 are twins and must sub each other. 2 smallest are too chatty on field. Must balance workloads and time.

Thanks to everyone who reached out. 4yo is basically back to normal today, trying to wrestle his big brother at 6:40 AM this morning. I anticipate more ER visits between the two of them, before long.

vSphere 6.7 U2 is the release you’ve been waiting for blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2019/0…

Avengers: Endgame tickets for Thursday at 7PM have been secured.

Also, HEY EVERYONE there is a TAM position in Wisconsin that I want to get you in for! Also, one in Texas. You, me, together. Let’s make that happen.

It was only a matter of time after Apple announces they’re releasing a metal credit card that people start clamoring for cases. Perhaps something leather that fits in your back pocket? 🤔 9to5mac.com/2019/03/26/app…

Hasn’t shown up for my in the app yet, but hopefully by sundown 🌚 9to5mac.com/2019/03/28/twi…

Ugggggh. I forgot how slow spinning rust drives are. 😩

I’m team #JIF. How do you pronounce it?

For those not using the official Twitter apps the new image capture and tweet overlay options are kind of neat. Seem to appear just like a normal tweet for third parties.

I would say VMware had hybrid-cloud religion way before 2017, but this is an otherwise interesting take. diginomica.com/a-funny-thing-…

It’s a tough life, being animated office supplies. theverge.com/2019/3/22/1827…

#vExpertClassOf2013

New AirPods with even better battery life, faster device switching and wireless charging?! As someone who uses the last generation all day, everyday, ordered without hesitation.

Can any Solidfire gurus tell me if updating the Element OS code also upgrades the VASA/VVol provider running on the nodes, or is that a separate operation? #vExpert

My wife bought me some new deodorant. So far I‘ve had a mixed impression. One the one hand, it smells like coconut. On the other, it rips the hairs from my underarm during application. But, yah know, coconuts. 🤷‍♂️

VMware Horizon Client 5.0 for Mac has a refreshed user interface and now supports macOS Mojave dark mode 😎 docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Hori…

You know what would make this situation less complicated? Spreadsheets.

It’s so good to be home, where the mesh WiFi runs runs off a 1gig connection, the shower temperature has more than two settings, and the Nespresso is plentiful. Oh, and there is proximity to wife and kids.

Just got the email, I’m now #vExpert *******

Anyone at #wwko still at the Grand feel like a walk to In-N-Out?

Did anyone else at #wwko in the MGM Grand have a shower that only had two settings? Death Valley or Antarctica?

My day is looking up. No one sitting next to me on the second leg to #wwko. Nap time!

All I did was ask for a cookie from the flight attendant. I gave her an opening to start conversation and she went in for the kill. No cookies for her, gluten free.

Normally I’m very good at sleeping on planes, unless the person I’m sitting next to insists on telling me their life story.

Maybe I’ll play the tables tonight. I was already selected for a “random” rubbing by my friendly neighborhood TSA contractor. I think it’s my lucky day. 🍀

I bought a new suitcase. My wife was annoyed. Later I’m working from my home office and hear my four year old say… “Mom, you should let dad buy whatever he wants. He bought one suitcase. Let him buy three suitcases if he wants."

NSX-T, 2.4. Get it hot, get it fresh, get it now! my.vmware.com/web/vmware/inf…

The former head of Kaspersky Lab’s investigation unit was sentenced to 14 years by Russian military court for treason, by providing FBI analysts with information on an investigation into the activities of a Russian businessman darkreading.com/vulnerabilitie…

I love watching Pat talk about things he’s excited about cnbc.com/video/2019/02/…

I was the good kind of busy this week.

Show some positivity to the people around you today.

Although one of those things I would like to do someday. 🖖

That thing where you’re like “why am I still hungry?” and then you realize you only ate half your sandwich and get to keep going.

Despite what my Nest might believe, the bacon was not burnt.

#vExpert 2019 applications close at midnight tonight. Don’t be lazy like me and wait to the last minute. vexpert.vmware.com

Hey, did you know Apple is doomed? 9to5mac.com/2019/02/06/aap…

I’m so ready to get KonMari-ed youtube.com/watch?v=xZfn_O…

Do I spark your joy? techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/thi…

Good news! Your VCP will no longer expire after two years. youtube.com/watch?v=T1mTUX…

Anker 10w Qi charger, with USB-C connectivity, half off today … YES PLEASE, I’ll take four! amazon.com/gp/product/B07…

Neat 🙄

Still boring. Even the commercials.

This game is booooooooring

Inspecting JSON files on iOS with Jayson macstories.net/reviews/inspec…

Just watched “Theee Identical Strangers” and so now my paranoia about being an unwitting participant in a science experiment is on high alert.

My AirPods are really starting to show their age. After a couple hours on the phone, the battery just can’t hold out. Need some Gen 2s, like, tomorrow.

It makes more sense than Microsoft buying them 🤷‍♂️ en.globes.co.il/en/article-int…

I’ve decided I need to put a fireplace in my office. 🥶

When I started at VMware, I rolled over my 401k which happened to be managed by the same firm that managed the last two. Easy peasy you might think. Except they somehow left $12 in my old account, which eventually just got paid out to me directly, and now I owe $5 in taxes on it.

The Smart Keyboard on an iPad Mini would be kind of cool, although maybe tough to type on. macrumors.com/2019/01/29/ipa…

I did something wrong last week (shoveling snow?) and now my back is been most unhappy for days.

My new house has snow/ice falling off it and down the gutters, making noise, all the time. I don’t ever remember it with my old house. It’s really strange. Maybe it’s because the roof is more complicated?

The first episode of the new season of Star Trek Discovery is now available on YouTube 🖖 youtu.be/8rvMqRrtmkY

Turns out you can’t run an infinite amount of workload on a finite about of resources. Who knew?!

Found a great bash utility called “thefuck” that corrects and reruns your previously incorrect console command. Installs on macOS via homebrew with “brew install thefuck” github.com/nvbn/thefuck

I have no opinion on the matter. #WednesdayWisdom

First clear blue sky day in what seems like forever. And, fresh snow with a layer of ice under it, all over the ground. Happy Wednesday!

Excess Battery: I recently picked up an iPhone XS Smart Battery Case, for my iPhone X. I’ve previously owned the 6S battery case for my iPhone 6, and the iPhone 7 case. Let me first say that even though Apple has designed the case for the XS, it worked on the X running iOS 12.2.2 without any effort. The two …

The last iOS tip on here is fairly lame, but the others I legitimately did not know. youtu.be/OXcnwQJGtIc

I’d consider it an honor and a privilege to be punched in the face by Buzz.

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” delish.com/food-news/a236…

Wow! Company flies candidate across the country for an interview that the candidate bombs, so they cancel his return flight and leave him stranded in an airport workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1265…

“Project Tango” is now ready to dance blogs.vmware.com/management/201…

vSAN Stretched Cluster is no longer just for Kings and Queens blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/…

I told the lady at the deli this morning that I wanted a pound of “roast beast” — I watched too much Grinch this holiday season.

How much bacon is too much bacon for breakfast in one sitting?

How many english muffins are too many to eat for breakfast in one sitting?

I’ll take two please! theverge.com/2019/1/8/18172…

Is there some German word for assuming that the cause of a problem is way more complicated than it actually is, that you refuse to accept the basic evidence in front of you?

#vExpert 2019 applications are open! blogs.vmware.com/vexpert/2019/0…

Just went for a walk and left the phone at home. Series 4 with LTE is 🦄

My newborn seems to run on a regular 11:30pm to 9:30am schedule for bedtime, which lines up with my cycle pretty well. Doesn’t leave time for activities 🤦‍♂️ but, sleeping in on the weekends is nice. 🤷‍♂️

It’s funny the way people speak to me differently when we’re out with our baby, but not our older kids. They assume he’s our first. Take him out on a nice dinner and someone says “you’re so brave” … I want to be like, “lady, I normally do this with …

I should just close Twitter now…

USB-C cryptography standard allows authentication of devices 9to5mac.com/2019/01/02/usb…

I hate reading shit that makes me angry right before getting ready to fall asleep.

Trying to figure out how to optimally layout the Infograph watch face is giving me anxiety.

I read an article about the original Command & Conquer games being remastered the other day, and ever since I’ve just wanted to play some old school Red Alert.

It’s 1PM, and I’m still in my pajamas. Very productive times around these parts.

People who send glittery Christmas cards in the mail should be arrested.

“Welcome back to Instagram, we see that you clicked through on a watch ad last time. Here are a dozen other watch ads in your timeline.”

“(Your) gift deliveries” 😉

Oldest: “Dad, I don’t think Santa is a different person, I think you’re Santa” Me: “I think you’re a very smart kid, but if you tell your brothers … I will end you.” #dadops #santaops

Watching Star Trek Generations for a Christmas movie. Anyone want to argue this with me?

I’m not sure why my oldest feels that waking me up via rage inducing behavior is the best thing for him on Christmas Eve.

Sometimes, I try to eat something different, and it’s great. Sometimes, not so much. Tonight, not so much. #CurriedGoat

If your app has a dark mode, but you don’t trigger a dark on screen keyboard, you’re doing it wrong. ⌨️

Today it’s off to The Mothership for an EBC visit.

Something I’ve learned over the last few years is there are times it’s better to say nothing at all. In public.

Everyone on our team call was going back and forth about if they use Evernote or OneNote. I just sat quietly and thought… Apple Notes. #weirdo

Bug? Working as intended. techcrunch.com/2018/12/14/fac…

VMware Horizon 7.7, now with more HTML5 docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Hori…

Rendering of the “site approach” for the new KCI airport looks really nice vimeo.com/306209068

What does the coming disruption in infrastructure mean for system integrators still focused on putting hardware in racks? overcast.fm/+J0JzD2ZBk/39:…

I’m not sure what’s more upsetting to me: that Brent Spiner is annoyed with me on Twitter, or that the notification quality filter makes it so I don’t get alerts from his replies? Now I’m wondering how many other famous people have I been inadvertently ignoring?

Jeez, is there any other Trek alumni that I can annoy today?

Revisting ​​Essential: Back in July 2017, I wrote about my 10 essential iOS applications. I thought now that we’re reaching the end of 2018, it might be a good time to revisit that list. As I mentioned at the time: I find it helpful to mix things up from time to time, even going as far as doing a reset of my app icon …

In Forbes and Just Capital’s 2018 ranking of America’s best corporate citizens, released on Monday, few companies are doing better than VMware. It ranks as America’s seventh-greatest corporate citizen. forbes.com/sites/antoineg…

“Hey, we don’t say shit, Dad!” 🤦‍♂️ #dadops

I just started transferring my domains to Cloudflare. #CloudflareWave5

Headed to the Apple Store to pickup an LTE Series 4 Watch. Not for me. Not for my wife. For my kids great-grandmother. #falldetection

I can’t wait for the baby to start eating real foods so he can complain about how terrible everything we make is, just like his big brothers. 🙄 #dadops

The great thing about a task manager is that it centralizes the list of all the things I didn’t get done.

Reminder: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

Is VDI dead? — No, the VDIs are fine techzone.vmware.com/blog/vdi-dead

If PowerBI could manage to stay open long enough for my report to load, that’d be great.

Unreasonable excited for a new set of PowerPoint templates. This is #TAMlife.

Yet another thing we’re in the hook for killing — The trouble with tuna: ‘a lot of millennials don’t even own can openers’ wsj.com/articles/tuna-…

Last weekend we had a blizzard. Tonight a thunderstorm. Kansas.

VMC on AWS expands to GovCloud cloud.vmware.com/community/2018…

Had some of those dreams last night where I was hired back at my old employer. This is what I deserve for creeping on LinkedIn profiles of former coworkers before bed.

Alternative future headlines: Amazon warehouse robots in Europe stage ‘human rights are robot rights’ protests techcrunch.com/2018/11/23/ama…

Marital compromise: when it comes to Christmas lighting this year I wanted to go all Clark W. Griswold, and my wife wanted a tasteful application of only clear lights. So we put up exactly what she wanted. Plus a blow up Darth Vader holding a candy cane. 😘

Just walking upstairs right now feels like a Herculean effort. #HappyThankgiving

This #chiefs game. 😳

Being the parent of an infant means not having any nice clothes. There are just shirts with spit-up stains, and shirts that haven’t been spit-up on yet.

Japan’s cyber-security minister has ‘never used a computer’ 🤨 bbc.com/news/amp/techn…

Need to check the status of a VMware cloud service? status.vmware-services.io

In the fallout of the whole Twitter API change from a few months ago, I don’t miss 1) push notifications 2) tweet activity (likes, RT, etc) 3) streaming but I really wish that DMs were instant again.

Exploding iPhone X on upgrade to iOS 12.1 ‘definitely not expected behavior,’ says Apple — phew! 👨‍🚒9to5mac.com/2018/11/14/exp…

My baby’s head kind of smells like maple syrup. I’m starting to wonder if maybe he’s part Canadian. 🤔

The DND function on iMessage threads should sync between clients.

If your last 38 tweets are just daily Paper.li updates, you’re doing this thing all wrong.

At current rate of install, it may have been more efficient to just reimage the SD card.

Anyone know what it costs to put a pinball machine in your house?

The baby slept for almost 4 hours without interruption last night. Which means so did dad. It was glorious.

It’s a great day in Kansas 🌻

I (early) voted. You should too. 🇺🇸

I’ve recently become familiar with the term #dadcore — I had no idea I was so fashion forward.

Mystery interstellar asteroid Oumuamua ‘could be gigantic alien solar sail sent to look for signs of life’ standard.co.uk/news/world/mys…

For some reason I like Mojave’s dark mode a whole lot more when I have my Mac on a big monitor. I’ve been using my MacBook Pro in clamshell mode hooked up to my Samsung 24” 4K display, for the last couple days. Even Microsoft Office (latest insider build) looks nice dark.

The cable management situation in my home office is disgusting right now, but I’m trying something different and don’t want to commit myself yet.

November is the best month of the year. My birthday, my favorite holiday, and an election. 🎂 🦃 🗳

Both kids went to bed easily and were never heard from again tonight. Maybe I should have them run to the front door of every house in the neighborhood on a regular basis.

Announcing General Availability of VMware vSphere Platinum, the best edition of vSphere since … Enterprise Plus blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/1…

Hmm, apparently one can share a calendar with the entire company. #TIL

We’re only two products into the #AppleEvent and my bank account is already screaming.

The company I worked for last year was aggressively trying to consolidate the number of *nix platforms, eliminate legacy tech like mainframe, DB2, WebSphere and reduce the overall spend with IBM… By moving to Red Hat’s stack. I’m sure they weren’t the only ones.

“Cyber security company” is not how I would ever have described RedHat 🤨

While helping my parents move I found a letter I wrote to myself in 1999.

AMD confirms no new drivers for 32-bit versions of Windows will be released news.softpedia.com/news/amd-kills…

55% of America’s billion-dollar startups have an immigrant founder forbes.com/sites/stuartan…

Apple killed the ‘Graykey’ iPhone hack forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

Tractor-trailer carrying nearly 30,000 pounds of Bagel Bites overturns at I-70 in Kansas City #totalloss 😱 fox4kc.com/2018/10/25/tra…

CBS places two-season order for animated series ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ techcrunch.com/2018/10/25/cbs…

Registration is open for the November KC VUMG - signup now! community.vmug.com/events/event-d…

Using an iPhone could cost a Samsung celebrity $1.6m 📱 9to5mac.com/2018/10/24/usi…

Tim Cook blasts ‘weaponisation’ of personal data bbc.com/news/technolog…

Driving around while wife gets her hair done for family photos tonight, four year old and newborn are snoozing in the back of the van. This is the most quiet I’ve had in weeks.

Wife asked me last night if I bought a billion dollar ticket, I said no because she gets mad at me for wasting my money. “It’s only a waste if you lose.”

I probably wouldn’t tell anyone, including my family. You’d all just wonder why I was always replacing my Apple toys on a daily basis. Maybe I’ve already won. 🤔🤫 #IfIWonABillionDollars

I’ve reclaimed my iPad Pro that my son has been using for the last few months. Seemed like a silly device for a four year old, and I have plans for it again. Don’t worry though, he got a mini 4.

USB-C charging cable for Apple Watch? I literally cannot buy this.

Kid 1: carefully bathe in perfectly warmed water in specially designed infant tub Kid 2: hover over regular bath tub and wash child with soft towels and special soaps Kid 3: “can he just get in the shower with you?”

Apple is distancing itself again from Google and Facebook with a new privacy website finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-dis…

We may have hit a sweet spot in car seat rotations where I can finally transport more than one adult in my car 🙌 who wants to go out to lunch with me now?!

Everything but Windows is what will save Windows petri.com/everything-but…

Every vSphere release generates the same drama. So… Protip: Before installing any significant enterprise software upgrade, validate all the products surrounding it are supported. Test them before going into production.

Automating downloads from MyVMware virtuallyghetto.com/2018/10/automa…

Lunch time me: I should eat fewer carbs. Dinner time also me: I’m going to eat half this large pizza.

Has anyone else who got a flu shot had pain in their arm a couple weeks later? Was fine immediately after but this morning woke up muscle pains that have persisted all day. Hoping I just slept on it wrong, and not preparing for it to fall off.

Works to perfectly frame picture to include all people, pieces and parts. Picture gets posted to Instagram as a square photo with shoes and tops of heads out of frame. 🙄

Love it when you have to wake up and question what the duck your mind is doing up there while you’re not using it. So there’s something to chew on this Sunday afternoon. Under his eye.

I had a dream last night we lived in some Handmaid’s Tale like world except that I was on the wrong side. I’m petty sure I was trying to help some people escape to 🇨🇦, but also doing horrible things to others in the process. So that’s awesome. 😩

Alarm goes off, checks phone, 8am soccer game cancelled due to field conditions. Sweet! Back to sleep. 2 minutes later, four year old appears. “Dad, I peed the bed.” 😩

Facebook says Russian firms ‘scraped’ data, some for facial recognition nytimes.com/2018/10/12/tec…

New Release: PowerCLI 11.0.0 #TurnItUpTo11 blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2018/…

I can’t be the only person who thinks the new Jimmy John’s menu board design is complete garbage? It feels like they intentionally made it awful.

4yo: Dad read me this book. Me: How about I close my eyes and you tell me what the pictures are, then I’ll tell you a story about them. 4yo: OK, there’s an apple and a chicken. Dad: 😴 4yo: Dad? Dad? … Dad! #dadops #babylife

Good news — Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/1…

How am I just now learning there’s a Hurricane Michael in the gulf?!

Did Freud have any conclusions about anything that aren’t caused by sexual repression?

Also “For Freud, teeth falling out in dreams point to anxiety about sexual repression” — 🤨

Been having dreams about my teeth falling out this weekend. Thought it was related to recent dentist visit (all good) but the Internet says it has to do with “insecurities, especially about a personal loss” and “life changes and growing pains” — yep.

The butt of a baby, sleeping on your chest, makes for a great spot to prop up your smartphone. #dadops #protip

iOS 12.0.1 is coming soon macrumors.com/2018/10/08/app…

For anyone curious, Hendry is an old Scottish surname that runs in my family. My other kids have Swedish and Irish family names, so we are just completing our ancestral world tour. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇸🇪 🇮🇪 #ReleaseNotes #BabyStanGA

Over the course of the next 12 hours, there was some cramping and pushing and yadda, yadda, splish splash…

It took me a while to figure out what she was telling me … that her water had broken … so after briefly having a mild panic attack, arguing that she was mistaken, and finally realizing that this is not a drill

So after an emotional Friday, I went to bed mentally exhausted around 10pm. About and hour and a half later I was awoken by a frantic wife and that would be the only sleep I’d get for a little while.

The last 48 hours have been a wild roller coaster. Someone stop the ride I need to take a nap. More later…

Now, after that day, life has said “hold my beer” …

To say that today was emotionally draining would be an understatement. After 15 years, I know it was best for him, but damn. We went on our last walk, alone. He got to sniff everything he wanted along the way.

The next 24 hours are going to be rough. Finally made the vet appointment that I’ve been dreading having to do for a while.

And also, Russia bbc.com/news/world-eur…

Everything is broken bloomberg.com/news/features/…

On this day in 2011, I passed my first VCP exam. I got a 328. 🙌

FYI — If you’re running VSAN 6.6 or 6.7, you need to patch kb.vmware.com/s/article/58715

Wi-Fi gets versioned theverge.com/2018/10/3/1792…

Other than the usual no one likes to talk to me reasons.

It looks like DMs in Twitteriffc for Mac are broken for me. So, that’s awesome. I wondered why no one was replying to me all day. 🤷‍♂️

Is there a direct download for a full install of Windows 10 version 1809 available yet?

I finally hooked up my 4K external display for the first time since we moved back in February.

PowerPoint #protip — There is a special mode to present your slides. We don’t have to see the rest of your desktop. ☺️

I have apparently lost my USB-C to HDMI adapter. 🤦‍♂️

After all these years the Glyphboard site has finally been updated! mrgan.com/gb/

I’ve resumed normal Apple Watching. You may stand down from red alert.

I am not wearing my Apple Watch today. You may now panic.

I was mildly annoyed this afternoon when my son and I went to the pharmacy to get flu shots, he got a super hero bandage. I was given a plane beige one. Dads need cheering up after being poked too.

Me: Should I order this on Amazon or just go buy it in a store? Amazon: Order in the next 53 minutes and receive it on Monday! Me: Oh that’ll be good. Here’s my money. Amazon: Thanks … You’ll receive this on Tuesday. Me: 😠

Just discovered Halide, wow. itunes.apple.com/us/app/halide-…

FYI — Backblaze and Mojave don’t play nicely together help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/artic…

Great commentary on how push notifications are broken – it’s a measurable stress reduction when I take control and start turning them off on my devices, but it’s an ongoing battle magenta.as/push-notificat…

I’m not totally there yet, but Mojave dark mode is kind of growing on me.

Anyone know if there are any massive objects out in space space headed towards the planet soon? Asking for a friend.

It’s the Year of V-DaaS-I! blogs.vmware.com/euc/2018/09/ho…

Conference organizers, take note of the visibility of names and social media handles on the #MSignite badges. This is good. Not everyone has 20/15 vision like me to casually read a 10pt font around flopping around someone’s midsection from 7ft away.

With Instagram’s founders out, welcome to Facebook Inc. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

VMware Fusion 11 is here! blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/201…

Played around with a XS Max for a bit during lunch. It’s, huge, yet not as unmanageable as I’d expected.

This is apparently a real thing swissarmy.com/us/en/Products…

Anyone else remember when #FollowFriday was a thing?

There are many ways to be “the guy” (or gal) and sometimes it’s just showing up and doing the work.

I usually opt for self checkout lanes because I don’t want someone else to judge me for being a well off, 34 year old adult, who still likes to eat Pizza Rolls.

So, I reverted my Mac back to High Sierra today, and will likely hang out there until Mojave.1 or so.

Happy ESXi 5.5 End of General Support Day! 🎂

Did “Raise to Speak” that was announced at WWDC for watchOS 5 get cut? I remember them showing the ability to not have to say “Hey Siri” to the watch.

Better Blocker by Ind.ie has updated with a newer, simpler interface and support for iOS 12 — this is by far the nicest content blocker on iOS. itunes.apple.com/us/app/better-…

In progress: encrypted local backup of iPhone, restore to iOS 12 GM. Just to shake out any crufty beta upgrade stuffs. Probably not necessary, but it makes me feel better about myself.

Bring on the iOS 12 app updates!

Protip: let people like what they like.

Best wishes to all those who’ll still be up in three hours ordering their iPhone XS and Apple Watch. I’ll be with you in spirit, but physically, you know… sleeping.

Uh oh. I’m looking at mechanical watches again.

Similarly, I lived at our old house for 9 years and could barely get our neighbors to talk with us. Maybe 12 interactions total. In less than 9 months at new place, we’ve already had cross-family BBQs and hang outside in the evenings just shooting the shit multiple times a week.

I can text back and forth daily with people I have never actually met in person and share intimate life details with them. Yet people I meet in person (and have good rapport with) will ignore my attempts to communicate outside of prescribed social interactions. Is it me?

Making real life friends as an adult is odd.

Really trying to mentally justify a fully loaded 44mm Watch 4 Steel w/ LTE but probably won’t.

The Max name on the new iPhone is just 🤦‍♂️ but I’m excited about everything else. Will be keeping my X right where it is but probably ordering Xr for Wife.

“Hey Siri, am I going to die?” #AppleEvent

That intro video. So awesome. #AppleEvent

Could the tech news industrial complex please quit trying to ruin everything? #apple

Getting so much satisfaction watching my lawn guys verticut my yard right now. Dead grass flying everywhere! Going to look so nice next year.

#911attacks were 17 years ago. I was 17 years old that day, a senior in high school. Half my life was before then, and now. Kind of strange to think about it that way.

I try not to read anything into pre-announcement iPhone rumors, but if this supposed iPhone XC/Xr version happens, I think it’ll be the phone my wife wants. She’s been eyeballing my X and asking “do they have more colors, and less shiny?” (Aluminum frame instead of …

My children are seemingly incapable of sleeping in on a weekend. 😩

I made perhaps my best pulled pork ever tonight. Unfortunately it was not the butt I pulled off first and served to all my party guests, it was the one that was done two hours later. 🤦‍♂️

Facebook’s Instagram acquisition was a regulatory failure recode.net/2018/6/2/17413…

Correction: VMware Horizon 7.6 is now available. Support for vSphere 6.5 U2 and Ubuntu 18.04, Windows 10 1809 desktops. docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Hori…

Just changed my corporate account password for the first time, so I’m now waiting for #AllTheThings to break.

Horizon Client 4.9 now features H.264 decoding, and IPv6 support for macOS docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Hori…

VMware Horizon 7.6 is now available. Support for vSphere 6.7 U2 and Ubuntu 18.04, Windows 10 1809 desktops. docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Hori…

I switched all my Linux and macOS systems over to fish shell a couple weeks ago, and have really enjoyed it. Color coding & syntax highlighting, command autosuggestions, tab completion. Worth a try. github.com/fish-shell/fis…

My plan to limit myself to using Twitter only on mobile lasted about two days. 🤷‍♂️

If I could grow facial hair like this guy after even two weeks, I would probably #vBeard all the time. But, alas, I can not. youtu.be/dlqE7XRzWVw

Is there a way to trigger Mac App Store downloads via CLI?

Starting with Firefox version 62 for Mac, Adobe Flash applets will be run in a more secure mode using process sandboxing support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/chang…

I was looking forward to getting my hair cut all day today, but when I got there my guy had a family emergency and had to bail. Considered having someone else do it, but I’m loyal to a fault. #stillshaggy

VMware extends data center to cloud and edge forbes.com/sites/jasonblo…

Firefox will start blocking all cross-site third-party trackers fastcompany.com/90230864/if-yo…

Kids spend night at grandmas. Assignment for the day is clean up downstairs storage area and prepare nursery. Instead, go eat giant breakfast. Take two hour nap. Go to grocery store.

Perhaps it’s time to stop differentiating what kind of work we think is “real” … and start valuing hard work in whatever form it comes. newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

Alright, I’ve had a few days to recover. When exactly is #VMworld 2019?

So when does basketball season start? #kufball

The inconsistencies in features between Outlook.com, Office 365, Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Mac is maddening.

Anyone got options for a shorter USB-C PD cable that’ll work for a 15” MacBook Pro than the 2m Apple version? I know it sounds odd, but for my uses I don’t generally need something that long and would rather have a shorter cable in my bag.

Plans for today: ✅ eat donuts with boy ⭕️ obtain espresso based beverage ⭕️ wash car ⭕️ sit on couch That is all.

Kansas City, I am back inside of you.

Walking through the halls on the way to #VMworld breakfast next to a gentleman speaking French to someone on the phone. I couldn’t understand anything until it came out, very clearly: CIFS Some things a curse word in any language.

People give me crap for my high total tweet count, despite being on the service over 10 years. Then I see someone with 2x my stats and think “what does that guy do all day?!”

I really do love my job. If that’s not totally apparent.

Back’s killing me #VMWorld3Word

#VMworld #Protip smile and be kind to the people working the show, directing traffic, scanning badges, serving food. This conference doesn’t happen without them. #DontBeThatGuy

I went back to my hotel around 10pm last night physically exhausted but mentally so jazzed up about the day that I couldn’t go to sleep for two more hours. #vmworld

Managed to sneak away for long enough to update to latest iOS 12 dev beta, and thankfully the Wallet app is fixed again.

Lots of cool product and service announcements at #vmworld, but the most trippy thing is that stage.

I’ve made it #vmworld3word

Disable introvert mode #vmworld3word

The Boeing’s going. #vmworld3word

Here we go! #vmworld3word

From the looks of my timeline I think I’m in the minority NOT flying into #vmworld Vegas tonight.

Now kinda packed #vmworld3word

Step up your Visio game. Create environment diagrams that look like those in the VMware Validated Designs documentation. communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-38595

So many things to do before #VMworld. But first, first grade soccer game.

Not packed yet #vmworld3word

Are you ready for #VMworld? blogs.vmware.com/vmworld/2018/0…

Ever since my kids went back to school last week, they do their best to push my buttons in the evening. It’s like instead of art or music they’re teaching a special class at inducing rage in parents. #dadops

VMware is changing the way we name certifications blogs.vmware.com/education/2018…

I topped 64,000 postings to this blasted social media networking thing today. I’m starting to think I might have a problem.

Apple removes Facebook Onavo app from App Store cnbc.com/2018/08/22/app…

MY TWITTER IS BACK! That was the longest hour of my life.

Security researchers show how attackers targeting Airmail for Mac could get a copy of all your emails 9to5mac.com/2018/08/22/air…

I need to stop browsing online for mechanical watches before I get any wild ideas.

Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during California wildfire arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Early 2017, interviewed for a role that was outside my background but interested me. About 10 minutes into interview, hiring manager asked why I was wasting his time and ended the call. The next month I landed a position there where I was senior to that guy. #ShareYourRejection

From 2003 to 2016, use of VMware virtual servers saved a total of 415 million metric tons of CO2 fortune.com/change-the-wor…

My youngest was in two half days of preschool this week, and already has a brutal cold. The world would be a lot healthier if it weren’t for these pesky kids and their dog. #dadops

How is Outlook for iOS such a nice app, and Outlook for Mac still such a dumpster fire? I know they acquired the iOS app, but come on!

6 million users had installed third-party Twitter clients techcrunch.com/2018/08/17/6-m…

My typing skills are terrible recently. I’m throwing all kinds of extra words into sentences. I’m losing it here folks.

Twitter company email addresses why it’s #BreakingMyTwitter techcrunch.com/2018/08/16/twi…

Reminder: Twitter is 🖕 third-party client users and developers tomorrow.

Both boys are successfully back in school now. No tears from anyone involved. Including dad. #dadops

VMware response to ‘L1 Terminal Fault - VMM’ (L1TF - VMM) Speculative-Execution vulnerability in Intel processors for vSphere kb.vmware.com/s/article/55806

Looking for something to do in the evenings at #VMworld? There’s always eating alone in your hotel room (I won’t judge you at all) or one of the many vendor/community events found here! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

My #VMworld calendar is basically full, and I’ve not even bothered to register for any regular sessions. It’s all customer meetings, and community events. Thursday morning is about the only open spot, for now.

Google tracks your movements, like it or not apnews.com/828aefab64d441…

“A private company must file financial reports with the SEC when it has more than 500 common shareholders and $10 million in assets, as set by the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934.” dummies.com/business/accou…

Group FaceTime has been removed from the initial release of iOS 12 and will ship in a future software update later this fall.

Do you want to lose your iPad? No? Then get some underwear on! #dadlife

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Privacy Policy: Who we are This is Virtually Benevolent, the personal website of Michael Stanclift. Our website address is: GHOST_URL/. If you’re reading this content somewhere else, I don’t know what to say. It should also be loading with TLS, if it’s not, run. What personal data we collect and why we collect it …

I FOUND THE SOURCE OF THE ALERTS

Unpopular opinion: I like the Touch Bar.

There isn’t a way to use another iOS device as an AirPlay 2 endpoint is there? For example, stream music from my iPhone to two iPad at the same time?

Amazing how some people, when presented with the opportunity to do the right thing, always do the other thing.

I still haven’t got used to Control Center coming down from the top on the iPhone X.

Of the top 5 largest websites in the world without HTTPS support, all 5 are from 🇨🇳whynohttps.com

If I had free money I would be dumping it into $TSLA right now. At best you make $50 a share when it goes private, at worse you get to sue Elon.

I know this sounds silly, but I need to do a better job of bookmarking stuff.

Turn the world off, I want to get out.

First time on a roller coaster in 15 years, so of course I choose the most aggressive one in the park (Timber Wolf) because that’s my son wants to do. #dadlife 🤢

Devoured a perfectly prepared ribeye and now getting ready to watch The Wizard of Oz with the kids. Life ain’t terrible.

Mac might be Airmail + Fantastical. I really don’t want to use Outlook. 🤢

Having issues with native Mac/iOS 365 sync. Events disappearing/appearing, meeting acceptance status not showing across devices, etc. Going to give VMware Boxer for iOS a try to see if our own client can do any better. Haven’t settled in Mac solution. itunes.apple.com/us/app/vmware-…

I’ve exhausted my GIF allotment this morning on #vExpert welcomes.

So you’d think that if you logon to the other account with the new email address, and change it to something else, you could use the first account with the new address and the old password. Nope.

Southwest has no plans to stop being Southwest inc.com/bill-murphy-jr…

I rediscovered Tooth Fairy for macOS to handle switching my AirPods off my phone, and I forgot how great it works c-command.com/toothfairy/

Plastic Straw Ban — with everything wrong in the world, we are going to send people to prison for using a straw?! newsweek.com/plastic-straw-…

Ah, it’s Apple quarterly earning day, where all the tech people pretend to be finance people for a day. Maybe I should just close Twitter now.

Are you a Kansas City based vRealize Automation enthusiast? My customer is hiring. DM me for details.

Nothing better than going to bed late, being woken up by a crazy dog in the middle of the night, getting up much earlier than normal, and coming down with a cold. My head feels like it’s going to explode. 🤧

Today in #TweetYourMeat adventures, trying a new short rib recipe. There’s bourbon involved, so worst case, there’s that.

I wish there was a way to trigger the Ignore Conversation function in Apple Mail. Or, you know, people could quit using Reply All to a dozen distribution lists.

Twitter kicks bad accounts off the platform, gets punished by 20% stock drop. 🤦‍♂️

VMware vSphere 6.7.0c has been released docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSph…

Burglar wakes up couple to ask to use their Wi-Fi network arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Certified Expert: I’m pleased to announce that yesterday I passed the VCAP6.5-DCD exam, thus earning the VMware Certified Implementation Engineer – Data Center Virtulization “milestone” after elevating the VCAP5-DCA exam that I earned back in 2014. The DCD exam has been on my list of things to do since not long after …

VCAP6.5-DCD exam, passed. 🤘

I’d never heard of the term “Monte Carlo simulation” until an internal presentation this week, and now I’ve seen it come up in tweets and other things three times this week.

Great, now Watson is trying to kill us statnews.com/2018/07/25/ibm…

Sometimes the track pad on my MacBook Pro is just like “f— you, no drag and dropping allowed” and I have no idea why.

Leaked benchmarks show Intel is dropping hyperthreading from i7 chips arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/0…

In other news, I can go back to lusting after new hardware.

BREAKING NEWS: All software has bugs.

macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update addresses #throttlegate issue on new MacBook Pros 9to5mac.com/2018/07/24/app…

Facebook looking to return from 365 to Gsuite. theinformation.com/articles/in-re…

This year’s iPhones may require an official USB-C charger for fast charging 9to5mac.com/2018/07/23/iph…

VMware Horizon 7.5.1 now available, with, resolved CVEs! docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Hori…

Deploy and manage GCP resources from within your vRealize Automation environment cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/vmware…

See you in the morning, folks. Or not, who knows. 🤷‍♂️

VMunderground tickets go on sale tomorrow at noon Vegas time vsquaredb.ticketleap.com/vmunderground-…

I did something totally out of character yesterday, and upgraded my phone late in the cycle to the iPhone X. And my only regret was that I didn’t do this sooner.

iOS 12 developer beta 4 requires device to be unlocked before connecting any USB accessories appleinsider.com/articles/18/07…

I’m only human, after all.

Anyone with a 15” MacBook Pro have direct experience with a USB-C external battery? Looks like most of them output at around 30W, which is about 1/3 of the stock charger. Is it worth it even on what amounts to a trickle charge?

$VMW ready to soar seekingalpha-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/seekingalp…

Apple Twitter for two years: The new MacBook Pro is terrible! Apple Twitter last week: Hooray they fixed the MacBook Pro! Apple Twitter this week: The new MacBook Pro is terrible again! Me: I like my 2017 MacBook Pro just fine thank you.

Woke up at 3:30 to let the dog out and now my inner monologue won’t shut the f— up.

End of availability announcement for vRealize Log Insight for vCenter Server (the 25 endpoint version that uses your vCenter key to activate) blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/0…

Traveling with wife on separate airline bookings. I have Pre, she does not. So obviously I left her to go through with my kind. #badhusband

This mall was made for me. Apple Store next to an Eddie Bauer, and a crazy socks store across from a Starbucks. 😍

2018 MacBook Pro keyboard uses silicone membrane to protect from dust 512pixels.net/2018/07/2018-m…

6-core CPU, Apple T2 chip, 32GB of RAM, TrueTone display 😭

The updated MacBook Pro now supports 32GB of RAM. I’ll be eligible for upgrade in 1029 days. 😩

Room and travel finally booked for VMworld. See you there?

The upside to your dog getting old and losing his hearing is he doesn’t give a shit about fireworks anymore.

GPS issues appear to be resolved in iOS 12 beta 3. 👍

New rollup patching simplifies VMware ESXi updating blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/0…

My boss just called me and told me to take Thursday and Friday off. Far be it for me to disobey a direct order. #fivedayweekend

I had a dream last night about meeting the guy who was the leader of the A-Team, and now I have the theme song stuck in my head.

🤔 cnbc.com/2018/07/01/del…

I bet my oldest that he can’t not talk for 15 minutes. There is blissful silence for about 3 minutes and then he breaks. Reset the clock. Wait. Break. #dadlife

All I want, is for me to ask my two children “go put on your pajamas” … one time, and have it just happen. No repeat requests, no manually forcing them into their bedrooms. Just a simple execution of a simple request. Just, once. #dadlife

I guess the updated Apple Maps sort of explains why location/GPS is all jacked up in the iOS 12 betas. There was more going on than they announced at WWDC.

vSphere 6.7.0b, 6.5 U2b, 6.0U3f, 5.5U3i have all been released to address Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), Variant 4 vmware.com/security/advis… #update

Protip: don’t misspell your own job title on LinkedIn.

VCAP6.5-DCV Design exam scheduled for late July.

GitLab is moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform … for, reasons about.gitlab.com/2018/06/25/mov…

The family/business drama going on around Buzz Aldrin right now is just, sad. arstechnica.com/science/2018/0…

While driving back to my house: “I should really clean up my office.” Sitting at my desk: “Meh.”

I walked into a metal pole. The pole won.

My son doesn’t believe me when I told him I went for a walk, by myself. 🤔

Did my first child tooth extraction. Not the first tooth he’s lost, but the first I’ve helped long. The little snapping sound it made was very satisfying. #dadlife

Living up to my online identity gives me so much anxiety mashable.com/2018/06/20/onl…

The more shit that gets added to Instagram, the less interested I am in using it.

Someone just asked me if I was active on Twitter. 🤣

6YO: “Dad, mom says your stock is down.” I’m not sure if he’s talking about $VMW or something else 🤔

Looking at wedding photos on our 10 year anniversary, and the only thing I can think is: I used to be so skinny 😭

If only there was a large metropolitan area available to film a show called Kansas City that looked like Kansas City 🤔

A dystopian political comedy about Kansas City on Hulu?! Bring it on. kansascity.com/entertainment/…

I have a consistent ability to nap on planes, except when it’s a red eye.

We’re all imposters. qz.com/1296783/it-tur…

Sometimes, my brain plays tricks on me, and I do stupid things.

I need some new I ❤️ NSX stickers. I used my last one to cover up my previous HP corptop logo.

Loving Zoom this morning. Can’t get audio to work on either my iPad or iPhone, and for some reason the client won’t reinstall on my Mac.

Everyone you meet is dealing with their own demons. From your best friend to the jerk at the coffee shop. Including you. Money, work, family, illness, it doesn’t matter the reason. There doesn’t need to be a reason. What can you do about it? Speak your truth, listen to others.

Anthony Bourdain 😕

What do you use for (digital) note taking?

Grapefruit juice is terrible. It’s like volunteering to drink the stomach bile that comes up when you’ve been throwing up and have nothing left to give.

This game of musical beds that I play with my children through the night needs to end. #dadlife

I’m shocked at how well iOS 12 beta 1 is running for me so far. Like, better than iOS 11.4 final. What is happening?!

It seems like this is the first year in a while where there aren’t compelling feature updates to iOS that require a corresponding update to macOS. In the past it’s been things like Notes, photo file format, Messages sync, etc.

Please, deliver all your I TOLD YOU SO and other assorted ridicule now. It will be processed in the order it was received.

Do be clear, I am not applying it. I wish I never received it. It’s just sitting there taunting me.

Love the opening focus on iOS performance for older devices. #wwdc

Are you ready for some WWDC?

Took one kid to a movie, took other to the park, now I’m being screamed at by the older one because younger one took his toy. So yeah, it’s Saturday. #dadlife

Off to the 10am showing of Solo, with the oldest, making us a Duo.

With the installation of macOS 10.13.5, all my Messages are so iCloudy now. All is right with the world, nothing could possibly bring me down.

macOS 10.13.5 is here!

I need ad block I can apply to my TV while watching the local news.

VVols in vSphere 6.7 now has support for WSFC (Windows Server Failover Clustering) via SCSI-3 reservations blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/…

I know that force quitting all my apps on iOS doesn’t really help anything in particular, but it’s kind of satisfying sometimes.

Over-under on macOS 10.13.5 getting released today?

I’m not smart enough for these new smart elevators.

Other movies I’ve not seen recently: Deadpool, Solo.

I don’t like to take them to movies like these until I’ve seen them first and can decide if I’m going to scar them for life, first.

“Dad when are you going to take me to see the movie where $BelovedSuperhero dies?” What?! “All my friends have already seen the movie where $BelovedSuperhero dies!” Why go now if we all know how it ends?

I think my 6yo just spoiled the end Infinity War for me.

Essential for sale, why buy an Android phone when you could have your phone manufacturer! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“Unplug your Alexa devices right now.” arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/0…

Reading through my tweets from 10 years ago seems like parsing the thoughts of a totally different person. So much has changed.

I don’t know why I’m receiving this tweet.

VMware UAG 3.3 is now available. Removes dependency on IP Pools for deployment, and uses Photon for the base appliance OS! docs.vmware.com/en/Unified-Acc…

Starbucks mobile payment system is more popular than Apple Pay in the US, but it only accounts for 12% of their transactions recode.net/2018/5/22/1737…

1Password for Mac just updated itself to version 7 final. 🎉

Also in today’s Fusion 10.1.2 update (and in Workstation), remediations for VMSA-2018-0012: Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigations for Speculative Store Bypass issue vmware.com/security/advis…

I think I need a new desk chair. And a new desk.

VMware Fusion 10.1.2 is out, with support for Ubuntu 18.04, Windows 10 1803, and security updates docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusi…

I was honestly wondering the other day if anyone on Android could see half the emoji we iOS people throw at them. blog.emojipedia.org/twitter-switch…

By age 35 you should have powered your blog using at least seven different content management systems.

Just saw a SEAT Ibiza, in Kansas. Very odd.

iOS 11.4 had better include iCloud Messages, and not get yanked again. After getting used to it in the 10.3 betas, it’s hard to go without it.

Holy cable management Batman! brightbuilds.net/780tshiro

What the changes to the Twitter API mean for third party app developers apps-of-a-feather.com

The VMware 2018 EUC Champions blogs.vmware.com/euc/2018/05/vm…

This is how third-party Twitter clients die.

I finally heard the fans on this new MacBook Pro spin up, when running Microsoft Office updates. 😯

So does Tweetbot 3 not sync read status to iOS, or is it just me?

Liven up your vSphere lab environment with vYetti virtuallyghetto.com/2018/05/vyetti…

583m fake accounts closed by Facebook in the last quarter. That’s nearly 2x the number of active Twitter users. (Real or otherwise) theguardian.com/technology/201…

Tweetbot needs a native GIF picker.

Tweetbot 3 for Mac is now available techcrunch.com/2018/05/15/twe…

My house is being circled by A-10 Warthogs, again.

Glassdoor sold for $1.2b, now owned by the same company as Indeed recode.net/2018/5/8/17333…

Fully featured, no-Flash, this fall. #html5 #vcenter blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/0…

Remember children, never read the comments.

Thankfully a police officer happened to be in the neighborhood pretty quickly after it happened, so I flagged him down and then a fire fighter who lived nearby saw us and came to help as well.

Watched a guy lose control of his motorcycle and get thrown from it on my way back from lunch. Called 911, and made sure he was OK. Bone sticking out his leg, huge road rash on his butt. Could hardly move, he was at least wearing a jacket & helmet, it could have been far worse.

I’ve been having a lot of dreams about lawn care. I wonder what that means? 🤔

The new Skype for Business on Mac is a significantly less awful UI experience than the last time I used it.

Self guided benefit orientation is such a great idea, especially if you’re someone who’s changed jobs anytime in the last 5 years, when it’s all basically the same things. No need to sleep in front of the HR folks.

Anyone used Radio Silence before? Seems to be a little less complicated than Little Snitch. radiosilenceapp.com

I must be getting old. The default resolution setting on the new 15" MacBook Pro is way too high. One notch down matches the previous 15" setting, and is so much easier to read.

Aaaaaand Twitter website is currently breaking…

I like the new Reddit design 💁‍♂️

VMware TAM: I have accepted a job with VMware, as a Technical Account Manager (TAM). To say I’m excited about this would be a gross understatement. VMware has been the company I’ve spent the majority of my technical focus on up to this point, and since announcing this change on Twitter last week I’ve been …

Just found out my CCNA-DC expired at the start of this month. Seems like something Cisco should have tried to warn me about?

Although in this case, I’ll have only worked for the new owner for 2.5 weeks. Not worth mentioning.

Or my company that was just recently acquired. They’ve not yet rebranded us to the corporate parent. At some point they likely will. Is that a new entry? Does it start at the purchase, or the date the rebrand happens?

Recent example, LinkedIn contact lists DellEMC as employer since 2010, but that brand didn’t exist prior to 2016. So which one did he work for then? 🤷‍♂️

When a company you work for, or used to work for, gets bought or changes names, at what point (if ever) do you use the new name on your Resume or LinkedIn? Is it a new entry or rename of existing company?

I’ve been writing, editing, and rewriting this blog post for over a week and it still sucks.

Siri, add “Upgrade Ubuntu systems from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS” to my Reminders for tonight.

Welcoming a fresh voice to the current crop of Star Trek movies. Also, Daddy Kirk is coming back! variety.com/2018/film/news…

Update-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2018/…

I’m pretty sure I’ve lost the USB-C charging brick for my iPad 🤦‍♂️

Two words: wear pants work.qz.com/1242801/gms-dr…

Back seat conversations: Batman is not an Avenger. China is just two states away from Omaha. #dadlife

What happens 9 months before today on the calendar? So many people I know with birthdays today.

Blueberry Lover: Occasionally I’ll wear my “blueberry” VMware certification shirt to work. Some people in the community love these shirts, some people don’t. I, do. Blue also happens to be my favorite color. Occasionally someone I work with in my current workplace will comment on it. Before the last year, it was a …

Here comes vSphere 6.7 blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/0…

One of the guys I work with pronounces meme as “Me-Me” … I love the way he say it so much, I refuse to correct him.

Night Court is one of my all time favorite shows, I’ve actually been going through a rewatch the last few months. Sad. nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna8…

VMware has a new tool for anyone to quickly view and compare product config maximums across different versions virtuallyghetto.com/2018/04/new-vm…

Why do my children insist on putting their feet all over me?

I just have to make it through tomorrow. And Thursday. I guess Friday too. Shit.

I wonder if 15 years ago when MZuck was working in his dorm room if he thought this is how he’d spend his days?

So after I reset my AirPods they work great on my iPhone, but as I just tried to switch to my iPad it refuses to connect. 🤦‍♂️

My struggle with iPad home screen icon layout is perpetual.

No additional charge, except you know, tuition. 9to5mac.com/2018/04/09/mar…

One complaint about official Twitter client, is that muting a user doesn’t also mute quotes tweets from that user. I still see commentary and then “Tweet Unavailable” under it. Might as well just unmute them.

I typically advocate against Twitter having an edit function until I notice some error in one of my tweets that is getting some attention.

The machines are out to get us. arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/t…

Brisket off the smoker for a nap, off to the grocery store to find something green to eat along side it.

Are the timers you set on the Google Home persistent across devices? If I have one that I set in my kitchen device, can I check the status from one I put in my office?

To honor the April snow storm that didn’t happen (yet) I’m spending my Saturday smoking a brisket. I don’t know exactly how this honors the lack of snow, but it will be delicious either way.

Twitter is deprecating many of the API features that third party apps rely on apps-of-a-feather.com

MZuck says Facebook will impose new EU privacy rules “everywhere” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Time to patch the switches! thehackernews.com/2018/04/cisco-…

My AirPods had been sluggish to respond for a while, I was putting up with it, but just did a full reset on them tonight and noticed an instant difference. Good as new! gearpatrol.com/2017/04/03/fac…

Hey Siri, you’re getting a new boss. nytimes.com/2018/04/03/bus…

First day of baseball practice on new a team … Coach: “we are going to learn how to catch, how to throw, how to hit, how to run” 6YO: “I already know how to do all those things.” Coach: 😐 Dad: 🤦‍♂️

I like the refined battery status and Mac unlock animations on watchOS 4.3.

I’m moving desks again. 10 months. 5 moves. At least this time I get a window seat.

Relative to those in the Facebook Normal condition, those in the No Facebook condition experienced lower levels of cortisol and life satisfaction … Facebook vacations could ameliorate this stress—at least in the short-term. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Yum! Love the logo. vegnews.com/articles/page.…

1.1.1.1 is a thing, and it looks pretty great 1.1.1.1

“Nobody loves you, when you’re down and out.”

The iCloud 200GB increase for education should be extended to everyone at the very least it could be more than 5GB. macsparky.com/blog/2018/3/th…

If you’re going to continue using Facebook, isolate it with Mozilla’s Facebook Container blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebo…

iPhone 7 battery after 18 months: 96% 💪

Anyone else on the 11.3 beta not seeing the final version?

When everyone around you is saying CIFS but you still insist on still calling it SMB, who’s really the crazy one?

I like how our internal recruiters have our LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter handles in their email signatures but we as employees can’t access any of those services.

Monday’s status: My give a damn’s (already) busted.

Hmm, Duke v KU. I love it. #bluebloods

Elon doesn’t mess around. techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/elo…

I really miss doing the kind of work that would let me get my hands dirty on solving tough problems. I deal with so much in an a obscure, abstracted way now. Just making assumptions about how things work, I don’t know how to actually get shit done.

Friendly bunch of folks today in the Ford dealers service waiting area. Feels rude to be working while everyone is chatting.

Victory for the right kind of Wildcat, nice job K-State. #Emaw #MarchMadness

WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook theverge.com/2018/3/20/1714…

Facebook is easy to quit. Don’t forget they also own Instagram, WhatsApp, and make Oculus. Gotta quit ‘em all!

Please wait, your priority request will be processed in the order of screaming and yelling I receive.

It was only a matter of time before something like this arrived, and honestly it makes more sense over the long term bgr.com/2018/03/18/lyf…

Kansas Kansas State West Virginia Texas Tech One quarter of the #Sweet16. Big 12, represents.

My 3yo just sat in my lap and declared me The Best Daddy in the World” — so take that, haters.

Well there’s something you don’t see everyday. #MarchMadness

Walking out to the car carrying five grocery bags so of course I managed to drop the one that had nothing but a carton of eggs in it.

“If it’s done through a GUI, it’s fine, if it’s through a CLI we need a change request.” 😭

Scott Kelly didn’t change his DNA inverse.com/article/42379-…

Ate some undercooked chicken, so I’m probably going to die now.

I think my Nest Hello preorder has shipped, or is shipping soon. Credit card has been billed. Ditching the Ring 2 that I picked up last month. Have not been thrilled with it.

Doorbell Tweets: I received a lot of feedback from my tweet about ditching a new Ring for Nest Hello. I think my Nest Hello preorder has shipped, or is shipping soon. Credit card has been billed. Ditching the Ring 2 that I picked up last month. Have not been thrilled with it. — Michael Stanclift (@vmstan) …

Cut off from Qualcomm, Broadcom may eye other chip buyouts seekingalpha.com/news/3338764-c…

It only took about 15 minutes on Monday to come down from my #sfd15 buzz. 🤦‍♂️

One thing I really enjoyed about #sfd15 was the cross-section of nationalities who attended and presented. Great conversations this week with people from Malaysia, Poland, Kosovo, Italy, Netherlands, Israel, UK, China, Ukraine, Australia and many others.

Being placed next to these server racks makes me reminisce of my consulting days, only thing missing is a box to sit on. #sfd15

Hey, I’m a vExpert for another year. 🎉

Huawei Dorado AFA uses PCIe switching between controllers (from 2 up to 16) which took me be surprise #sfd15

Things IT geeks don’t care about: corporate cash flow and patent portfolio. #sfd15

Dropbox has three regions in the US multiple facilities per region multiple clusters per region all blocks data replicated within and across regions #sfd15

WekaIO metro/stretched cluster needs 1ms latency between datacenters. Can span failure domains across sites though, (one 8+2 cluster can be active across both locations) - more latency would use snap/replicate between active and secondary clusters. #sfd15

California, I am in you. #sfd15

Just taking a pass at the list of fellow delegates for #sfd15, it’s a very international group! techfieldday.com/event/sfd15/

I haven’t had to fly for work since last May. I’ve missed the friendly folks at TSA.

Chrome on Windows ditches Microsoft’s compiler, now uses Clang arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/0…

Gift for #sfd15 Yankee Swap acquired.

My weird path to #infosec I get my coffee, and drive to work. As I come off the elevator, they all sit in locked room on the other side of my cube wall. I occasionally ask for things to happen and then they tell me no and think I’m going to cause the data center to burn down.

I’m so glad I bought a new bed for my 6yo’s so he can sleep on the floor of his room with the dog nearly every night since we moved in. 🤷‍♂️

Dropbox is presenting at Storage Field Day 15 and they will reveal their custom-built storage servers! techfieldday.com/event/sfd15/

Watching my 6 year old on his iPad, doing the swipe down on the key to get a number/symbol off the virtual keyboard. I never showed him this. I barely know how to do this. I asked him where he learned this. He just shrugged.

Tell me the problem you want to solve, not what you think the solution should be.

🚨 Apparently there is an awesome Clapton documentary on Showtime right now? How was I not informed of this sooner? 🚨

Just looking at the schedule for #sfd15 next week is exhausting. Going to be a busy week! techfieldday.com/event/sfd15/

Please, excuse me while I eat an entire roll of Girl Scout cookies. I won’t be long.

The Internet is an awful place.

No, I didn’t spend my morning putting all the LEDs in my house into a big spreadsheet I can sort by style, manufacturer, light temperature, lumens, and wattage. Did you?

Spent some time fishing and terminating cable this evening, but all my eero are on a wired backhaul now. Also ran my HDTV antenna up into my attic. Getting things cleaned up around here.

I really need to shave.

That thing where someone says something earlier in the day, and you don’t think much about it, but then you start to replay it in your head and start to find it ridiculous and then partially infuriating.

Great thing about iMessages in the Cloud: When you delete a thread it removes it from all your devices. Frustrating thing about iMessages in the Cloud: When you delete a thread it removes it from all your devices.

Corporate excitement: Today we got access to WebEx, as a replacement for the terrible AT&T Connect.

I’m ready for some iOS 11.3 beta updates today. Maybe to (re)fix (again) the out of order iMessages issues. Don’t let me down Apple.

I need a cigarette 🇨🇦 #VirtueAndMoir

Since my attempt to get a Mac at work failed, I’m now asking to be upgraded to Windows 10, so I can at least feel like a modern PC user, if it’s the life I must lead.

It’s Sunday night, but there is no new Star Trek Discovery, and won’t be for many months. ☹️ Keep watching women’s snowboarding, or rewatch last weekends Discovery season finale? 🤔

Driving home from Target, by myself. Brain on auto-pilot, I’m just cruising along, then finally realize I’m getting ready to turn into the driveway of the house I haven’t lived in for two weeks. 🤪

Once upon a time, I feel like I was really good at my job. Other people have thought so too. I think it was something I enjoyed.

I’d kind of been taking an unintentional break from tweeting the last couple of weeks. Life and work was way too busy and overwhelming. Never fear though, I’m now back to annoy you, 280 characters at a time.

The total elimination of incandescent bulbs from my new house has begun. #LEDlife

“The database team is doing some purges…” Sounds fun.

IBM continues tape progress despite cloud and flash advances techrepublic.com/article/ibm-co…

What a nice surprise, walking around new house and noticed a new box on the outside. Google Fiber has already been run to my new house. Was originally told 4 months out. Setup is next Wednesday.

We are now just tenants in our own home. Off to buy another place now.

Tonight is the last night in our house, while it’s still “ours” — we signed our closing documents today, buyers to tomorrow. Have to be out by Sunday. #firsthouse #upward #onward

Cisco ASA Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability tools.cisco.com/security/cente…

Hawaii employee thought missile attack was real apnews.com/4b97e6b961274f…

It’s totally normal to just spend your entire day in meetings, unable to get any actual work done, right?

Happy Kansas Day!

“EMC World” is no more blog.dell.com/en-us/dell-emc…

Dell EMC restructures infrastructure organizations, merges in what’s left of VCE m.crn.com/news/data-cent…

Hawaii missile alert employee not cooperating in probe apnews.com/45a2644d76d94a…

Does macOS 10.13.4 beta have Messages for iCloud as well?

I need to find something better to do with my time.

Is it Friday yet?

It’s Monday morning. Why wouldn’t my PC blue screen first thing? #whereismymac

Since the last beta of iOS 11.2.5 is really the GM in disguise, I’ve rev’d both my iPhone and iPad up to it. I’m going to argue this technically doesn’t violate my #NoBeta rule.

I got to hear in at least four meetings in the last three days about how I did a thing … that I didn’t actually do. I’ve just quit fighting it.

Screaming into a pillow when you get home is an acceptable end to the workday, yeah? Asking for a friend.

People who slept like 💩 last night? 🙋‍♂️

The iOS Economy daringfireball.net/linked/2018/01…

This week has just been one of those go home and curl up into a ball weeks.

Western Digital ‘My Cloud’ devices have a hardcoded backdoor — because of course they do betanews.com/2018/01/07/wes…

How do so many people lack the self awareness to know how awful they are?

Schools in general need to quit acting like they have some kind of ownership over the children (and the adults, be it student or parents) attending there.

The Kids Are Boning Less gizmodo.com/the-kids-are-b…

John Young, who flew the first manned mission Gemini, landed on the moon and commanded the first Space Shuttle, has died — fewer than half of the dozen humans who walked on the Moon are now alive. This guy was always one of my favorite Astronauts. arstechnica.com/science/2018/0…

iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2 already had mitigations built in for #Specter and #Meltdown support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394

Eero lays off 30 employees 🙁 techcrunch.com/2018/01/03/wi-…

Protip: Don’t sit and study your mortgage statement, or that less than 1/3 of your monthly payment actually pays for the house. 🤮

I’m at the point where I’m looking at the weather for the next ten days, and getting really excited about seeing highs in the low 40s. This single digit and negative temperature stuff is 👎

Doing home electrical work used to terrify me. Now I’m only mildly shocked.

My iMessages have randomly been coming in out of order for a couple weeks and it’s only getting worse. Anyone else seeing this?

Intel processor design flaw forces macOS, Linux, and Windows kernel redesign theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/int…

I’m never buying/selling another house again.

Normally I’m pretty indifferent to the idea of New Years being all that important. However, 2017 was a really tough year and in many ways mentally draining. So, good riddance. ✌️

“Raw water” — OFFS mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/din…

Sometimes the best thing I can say is nothing.

Decided to work a little bit today to catch up, spending my day fighting our project management application. I should have stayed in bed.

Battery battery 🦇

Our dog has been staying with my in-laws since last Thursday, while we sell our house. Have to say, not having pets to worry about for the last week has been kinda great.

I need coffee.

Made an offer on a house on Monday, went under contract Tuesday. Cleared out our house on Wednesday. Listed Thursday. Got an offer Friday. Had a dozen other showings this weekend. And oh yeah, it’s Christmas.

The Apple headlines of the day are going to cause me all kinds of grief during the holidays. I frequently have been arguing with friends/family that Apple doesn’t intentionally slow down your phones with updates. 🤦‍♂️

I feel like I need to see TLJ again.

I’m simultaneously annoyed and happy by all the folks I work with who are already on PTO this week.

ConvergeOne acquires AOS 👋 info.convergeone.com/about/press-re…

Silicon Valley techies still think they’re the good guys — they’re mistaken wired.com/story/the-othe…

Browsing /r/StarWars as a safe place to understand what I saw last night. #NoSpoilers

Tickets acquired for tonights showing of Space Movie: No Spoilers Please.

Monday: urgent care visit for 5yo, ear infection Wednesday: urgent care visit for 34yo (me), sinus infection Saturday, urgent care visit for 3yo, ear infection #drainageproblems

Disney buys much of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox in deal that will reshape Hollywood latimes.com/business/holly…

“There are generally two groups of men who look better with beards: those who’ve had disfiguring facial injuries and U.S. presidents named Abraham.” taskandpurpose.com/army-beards-sa…

I was bullied all through elementary school, from about second grade on, both mentally and physically. Less so after junior high. But it still impacts me to this day, I still struggle with how to deal with assholes.

I haven’t received a work email in almost 3 hours. Something is wrong.

My future is calling. I should probably answer.

It’s amazing how gross phones get, inside of their cases.

Currently attempting the old wipe/restore on wife’s iPhone 6s, and then likely my 7 later today.

Microsoft leaks TLS private key for cloud ERP product, and it was still in use for more than 100 days after the initial report medium.com/matthias-gliwk…

“Dad today and tomorrow are going to be the best of two days of my life!” Why? “Because I got to have three donuts this morning and tomorrow you come to my school all day.” So, yeah, I rank right up there with donuts.

Things that fascinate me: the case choices people make for their iPhones.

“Prime Video is, without question, the worst Apple TV app I have on my Apple TV” daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12…

Uber paid 20-year-old Florida man to keep data breach secret reuters.com/article/us-ube…

The Amazon Prime Video app now available for Apple TV 🎊

Oath and Mozilla are in a legal battle over a Yahoo search agreement that former Marissa Mayer crafted (badly) recode.net/2017/12/5/1673…

eeroOS 3.5.2-38 NOW WITH system stability improvements and bug fixes! #hellyes #mynetworkisready support.eero.com/hc/en-us/artic…

Text replacements now sync between Mac and iOS via CloudKit daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12…

Quentin Tarantino might be making a Star Trek movie — I’m not sure how I feel about this. theverge.com/2017/12/4/1673…

Apple Pay Cash starting to appear as an option for more folks, sending a $1 around to friends and family to motivate people to setup.

Apple releases tvOS 11.2 for 4th and 5th generation Apple TV models macrumors.com/2017/12/04/app…

Apple Pay Cash now rolling out on iOS 11.2 for non-beta users 9to5mac.com/2017/12/04/app…

I’m starting to wonder if maybe the inevitable robot uprising would really be a bad thing. 🤔

Since we didn’t have Thanksgiving last week because of 🤮 we are doing it tonight. Just getting ready to pull the 🦃 off the Traeger. 🍴

I’m old enough to remember when the Chiefs were undefeated.

Apple refined their emoji set for iOS 11.2 blog.emojipedia.org/ios-11-2-emoji…

If you’re running iOS 11.1.2, update to 11.2 now, before your phone starts rebooting — you know, this has been a rough week to be an Apple apologist 😤 macrumors.com/2017/12/02/ios…

macOS High Sierra will be the last macOS release to support 32-bit apps “without compromise” developer.apple.com/macos/distribu…

I know this seems totally odd for me, but I could really go for some bacon right now. 🥓

Everything is broken.

John Cena is being sued by Ford for reselling his Ford GT jalopnik.com/john-cena-is-b…

The best part of working from home is that my wireless doesn’t make me two-factor authenticate my iPhone/iPad every 15 minutes.

After installing 10.13.2 beta 6, root user is disabled and doesn’t let you login with blank password (it incorporates 2017-001 fix)

Maybe after 11.2 and 10.13.2, I’ll jump back off the beta train for a bit.

I’m pretty methodical about the layout of my iPhone home screens. My iPads have always been a mess. I can never seem to get a good flow, and iOS 11 only made it trickier.

Repair file sharing after Security Update 2017-001 for macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 support.apple.com/en-us/HT208317

The 2017-001 security update does not appear if you’re running macOS 10.13.2 beta, FYI.

Apple Security Update 2017-001, patches root password flaw support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315

Eu tu Matthew?

Apple releases fifth iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2 betas 9to5mac.com/2017/11/28/ios…

Thought I’d throw Ubuntu Desktop 17.10 in a VM and give it a spin. Realized, I haven’t had Fusion installed on my Mac in six months. Kind of makes me want to cry.

1/4 of the Christmas tree lights (just put up yesterday) have already died. 🤦‍♂️

Is there a noticeable difference between the iPhone X vs iPhone 8 Plus in terms of battery life?

No iOS 11.2 beta updates today, Apple? 😔

Thank you for emailing me over the holiday. Your message will be processed in the order was received. If you need immediate assistance, too bad.

“A man entered the Costco store brandishing a weapon. He was shot by an off duty officer shopping in the store. No other injuries were reported.” kshb.com/news/local-new…

Someone just tried to shoot up my local Costco. 🤬

If you’re good today, you can go to grandmas and have a sleep over. #lies

2 of 3 major Cydia hosts shutdown this week #iosjailbreak macrumors.com/2017/11/23/mod…

I didn’t think infection across the home could get worse, but the dog just threw up in the living room.

“This offering has been developed independent of VMware, and is neither certified nor supported by VMware.” re: Azure blog.cloud.vmware.com/s/content/a1y6…

OnePlus won’t support Android Oreo’s quick OS updates feature theverge.com/circuitbreaker…

3yo Sunday 🤮 5yo today 🤮 Wife now 🤮 Michael 😷

So I guess everyone has to put emoji in their displays names now?

Tonight for dinner: chips and salsa, reheated Costco Mac & Cheese. #healthnut

Today is your monthly reminder that Uber is an awful company.

Meg Whitman to step down as CEO of HPE cnbc.com/2017/11/21/meg…

Is anyone else using the Siri watch face in watchOS 4? I was for a while, and while it will occasionally surface useful information, but it’s seems pretty static/predictable. For the most part I’ve moved back to Utility, which is static/predictable but nicer looking.

Sites log your keystrokes and mouse movements in real time, before you click submit arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

For a while I’ve been wanting to buy colored Hue lights for my front porch, but I just can’t bring myself to spend $50x2 on lightbulbs.

Power blip, everything in the house just rebooted. Happy Saturday!

How is there not a TweetDeck for iPad?

How Pat Gelsinger saved VMware vsphere-land.com/news/how-pat-g…

What am I up to? Oh nothing, just moving blog engines again. Think I’ll actually write something this time? Probably not.

1Password is copying the wrong value [Fixed in version 7.0.1] discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/837…

Amazon Web Services exiting China, selling to local partner in $300M deal geekwire.com/2017/reports-a…

I’ve been running the beta of Firefox 57 “Quantium” as my main browser on Windows and my backup on Mac. It’s great. It comes out Monday. If you’ve abandoned Firefox for Chrome in the past, it’s worth a fresh look. mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…

Facebook defends revenge porn pilot that has people upload nude images of themselves 🤦‍♂️ techcrunch.com/2017/11/09/fac…

I don’t know what the right way for Twitter to implement general verification is, but I don’t need to. Plenty of smart engineers out there who can solve all the world’s problems, right? This one has been obvious for years, certainly long before the events of the last ~18 months.

What’s an acceptable time period for tolerating stupid 280 tweets, when can I be safe to mute or unfollow the violators?

Amazon erases new hypervisor from AWS EC2 FAQ theregister.co.uk/2017/11/09/aws…

If you’re going to make a 280 post, at least break it up visually. #paragraphs

New airport, who dis? #NewKCI kansascity.com/news/politics-…

My Twitter web client now shows that I have 280 characters. I’m not sure how to feel about this.

I still have 140. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Yep. 140.

If you live in Kansas City (proper) and don’t go vote for #newkci today…

Level 3 broke the Internet today, this explains why I couldn’t Google my way through work wired.com/story/how-a-ti…

Anyone own a USB multimeter? Trying to find a good one.

In 2015, Twitter discovered a trove of accounts with Russian and Ukrainian IP addresses, but nothing was done bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic…

AP finds hackers hijacked at least 195 Trump web addresses abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir…

T-Mobile and Sprint put an end to the speculation around a transaction newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs…

I loved House of Cards, but after the third season it just wasn’t great — and then real life became crazier than fiction.

iPhone X teardown finds two battery cells and an “unprecedented” logic board arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/1…

I cannot find my 29w Apple USB-C brick and Lightning cable. This is concerning, not because I have an immediate need… but it was expensive.

Some Google’s Pixel 2 XL units are apparently shipping without an OS neowin.net/news/some-goog…

I’ve had the iPhone 7 Smart Battery Case on since Monday morning and I’m getting used to the hump, and never being worried about battery %.

1Password 7 looks fantastic, especially with quicker access to copy/paste from favorites macstories.net/ios/1password-…

But, I basically don’t drink.

You can now change your Apple ID from a third-party email to an Apple domain 9to5mac.com/2017/10/31/cha…

Both my Macs seem to be stuck on the last beta of 10.13.1 (17B46a) not showing final version as an update 🤔

It’s way too cold out to be begging for candy.

Ah, well, what the hell, iOS 11.2 here I come.

“Playing a Podcast with chapter markers may cause the Podcasts app to crash.” — iOS 11.2 known issue

“After using an iPhone with an iPhone dock, using a charger without the dock requires restarting the phone.” — known issue in iOS 11.2 beta.

Good time for a reminder: You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Choose wisely. businessinsider.com/tim-ferriss-av…

I’m halfway tempted to pickup an iPhone 7 battery case.

5yo: You should be Guy Diamond. Me: I don’t think anyone wants to see me naked and covered in glitter. 3yo: DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!

TIL there is an underground fire in St. Louis, burning since 2010, about 1000ft from a bunch of nuclear waste chicagotribune.com/news/nationwor…

Do you want to buy an iPhone? swappa.com/listing/FCQ844…

I’m thinking about selling my reserve iPhone 6, is it better to leave it running iOS 10.3.3 or upgrade it to 11.0.3?

I have the theme song to The Simpson’s stuck in my head.

I just sold all my $twtr.

GE and Walmart announced that they would be giving employees the choice of a PC or Mac appleinsider.com/articles/17/10… theregister.co.uk/2017/10/19/ge_…

Twitter will start naming advertisers and showing what ads they are running adage.com/article/digita…

Currently looking at photos from my vacation last week hoping it’ll #relax me.

This whole day needs a reboot.

I just got an ALL CAPS EMAIL from someone I’ve never even met before, so yeah. Happy Wednesday!

I really don’t like how the leather on the ‘Sea Blue’ leather iPhone case has worn. The edges are a disgusting shade of green.

I’ve been bouncing between official and unofficial Twitter apps for the last couple of weeks. Honestly, things to like both ways these days.

The advantage of having an employer with a frustratingly restrictive email policy, is it’s very simple to not check it away from the office.

I haven’t checked my work email since 4:30pm on Wed 10/11. I’m afraid to open Outlook tomorrow morning.

Moving apps around, in/out of folders is still a little wonky on iOS 11.1, otherwise it’s great.

Recent culinary discovery: Walmart store brand “processed cheese product” is superior to actual “Velveeta” for making Rotel dip.

I wish I could mute people on specific days. College game day, for instance.

I have inadvertently reactivated my Facebook account.

My children are punishing us for a week in Hawaii without them.

Apple working with AT&T to bring Band 8 LTE to iPhone users in Puerto Rico imore.com/apple-working-…

Delta allegedly switching flight crew hardware from Surface to iOS in early 2018 appleinsider.com/articles/17/10…

I get why Apple removed ‘telnet’ and ‘ftp’ from High Sierra, for the normals. Need an enable option. Hate having to put them back via Brew.

The latest iOS 11.1 beta appears (based on size and build number) to be the “final” version, so, upgrading.

This is surprising to me, Apple Stores only account for 10% of retail iPhone sales. 3/4 still buy from carriers. 9to5mac.com/2017/10/19/app…

iPhone: 36,100 photos 638 videos iPad: 35,944 photos 620 videos Mac: 35, 573 photos 588 videos “Updated just now” 🤷‍♂️

I had a 6 Plus with mixed feelings. It was RAM starved, and black — I don’t know why I did that, I prefer white iPhones. Also bulky.

I know the iPhone X is coming soon, but part of me wants to buy an iPhone 8 Plus this season and see what happens next year.

Is it reasonable to think that 280 characters on Twitter is a bad thing and be irritated that you don’t have it enabled yet?

Amazon H2Q: Who’s in the running? cnbc.com/2017/10/18/ama…

Eero v3.5.0-312 released with KRACK WPA2 patches support.eero.com/hc/en-us/artic…

Discovered that homebridge-nest is a thing this afternoon, so guess what I’m doing tonight? github.com/kraigm/homebri…

Twitter took 11 months to close a Russian troll account that claimed to speak for the Tennessee Republican Party buzzfeed.com/kevincollier/t…

Meant to take a Dramamine for a boat ride this afternoon, accidentally took melatonin. Didn’t puke, but was super sleepy all day.

Microsoft quietly patched the KRACK WPA2 vulnerability last week bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

Microsoft is redesigning Outlook for Mac and Windows theverge.com/2017/10/16/164…

The average American household reports owning 2.6 Apple products. The wealthiest own 4.7 products per household. cnbc.com/2017/10/09/the…

It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies. Israel, Russia, the NSA, and Kaspersky. nytimes.com/2017/10/10/tec…

Don’t text and drive, kids. 16yo girl hit a tree in the park across the street from my house.

I’ve been having people tell me I need to use the official Twitter client for a while because it’s better … we’ll see…

Apple quietly releases iTunes 12.6.3 with iOS App Store theverge.com/2017/10/9/1644…

Is Apple not being as aggressive in pushing iOS 11 updates? My parents and siblings still on 10.3.3. Spending dinner doing updates. #goodson

🤓 Confession: I’ve never seen Blade Runner (1982)

When am I going to be able to ‘like’ Instagram Stories?

Apple gave Uber the keys to your iPhone screen, and it was all super shady mashable.com/2017/10/05/ube…

I’d be curious to know what the numbers are on people still using AIM.

AIM will be discontinued on December 15, 2017 help.aol.com/articles/aim-d…

Moving desks again. Fourth time in four months. Same building. New floor. #corplife

Netflix to raise prices for new and existing subscribers by up to $2 per month aftvnews.com/netflix-to-rai…

I want to throw my work PC out the window. Fortunately for the PC, the windows are sealed.

Microsoft Edge is coming for iOS and Android blogs.windows.com/windowsexperie…

Sirius to acquire Forsythe siriuscom.com/2017/10/sirius…

IBM pioneered telecommuting. Now it wants people back in the office. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Me: I told you not to pour that water on the floor. 3yo: I didn’t! I put it in my mouth and spit it out.

According to Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet still runs Microsoft Windows theverge.com/tldr/2017/10/3…

Yahoo now says the 1 billion accounts hacked in 2013 … was actually 3 billion accounts #3x wsj.com/articles/yahoo…

“I’m just going to get in here and put some comments in here …” 2 hours and 100 lines of code later “… I didn’t comment any of this.”

Weekly iOS point releases? Yes, please.

Uber’s internal investigation into trade secrets taken from Google was just made public buzzfeed.com/carolineodonov…

5YO: “Dad if you turn on ‘Trolls’ music I’ll sing for you.” Me: “Is that a feature or a bug?”

Star Trek Discovery is pretty intense. Not what I expected at all. Makes JJ Trek seem campy. Give me more.

Papyrus, is so good. youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJN…

The camera bump on the 8 looks so much more purposeful than the 6/7. In a good way.

Equifax CEO Richard Smith retires with $90,000,000 fortune.com/2017/09/26/equ…

I have 6 quarts of cold brew coffee seeping in my refrigerator but it won’t be done until later today.

Lots of odd and unhappy dreams last night.

I just went from feeling great to feeling awful in the span of like 15 minutes. Hot, headache and wanting to throw up.

I’m going cross-eyed looking at Python code all day.

There’s no ‘FM radio’ in your iPhone for Apple to magically turn on imore.com/realities-turn…

Apple received ~13,500 National Secuirty Orders so far in 2017, up from ~2,750 received during this time in 2016 macrumors.com/2017/09/28/app…

If data is the new oil, then Equifax just caused a huge environmental disaster csoonline.com/article/322888…

Achievement unlocked: Quadruple booked calendar! #corplife

iOS 11 keeps changing the default behavior of double tapping AirPods. It was Siri, then play/pause, now back to Siri for 11.0.1.

I just don’t feel like getting up today.

Russia’s Federal Security Service is seeking the encryption keys to Telegram themoscowtimes.com/news/fsb-seeks…

Breach at Sonic Drive-In may have impacted millions of credit cards krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/breach…

Accidentally sent my RSA token through the washing machine. Still works.

It’s probably all in my head but iOS 11.0.1 does feel snappier. I’m all about security patches, bug fixes and performance improvements.

All of the tweets by Twitter folk justifying their 280 character limitation are too damn long. I can instantly identify all the extra words.

I’m definitely going to need the iPhone X so I can fit a single tweet on one screen again.

I give up.

Bill Gates switches to Android phone bbc.com/news/technolog…

macOS High Sierra final is apparently a slightly different build than the GM that dropped last week. 17A362 vs 17A365.

I moved my desk one cube over since a coworker left last week, so now I don’t have to sit adjacent to a main traffic way. #corplife

I give #StarTrekDiscovery two 🖖🖖 up.

We have engaged the Klingons. Oh, buddy.

The introduction for ST Discovery reminds me of something out of a James Bond movie intro. I approve.

Nerdgasm in process 🖖

Star Trek Discovery better have a stellar theme song.

Apple HomeKit devices are suddenly booming theverge.com/circuitbreaker…

Costco chocolate chip cookies are fucking delicious.

I’m 33 and have a giant pimple on my nose. I’m getting too old for this zit.

I know force quitting all your apps on iOS doesn’t help your battery life or anything like this but sometimes its just a fun gesture.

In spectacular fail, Adobe security team posts private PGP key on blog arstechnica.com/information-te…

iTerm2 leaks everything you hover in your terminal via DNS requests bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

Cisco will buy NetApp, says Summit Redstone - Why hasn’t Cisco already bought NetApp, asks Michael Stanclift barrons.com/articles/cisco…

watchOS 4: The BirchTree Review birchtree.me/blog/watchos-4…

OneDrive integration in Files is a bit lame, it brings up their app folder interface instead of browsing within the Files app

Working Copy becomes the first app on iOS 11 for me to take advantage of the new Files integration.

I weep for networks service providers everywhere. May the bandwidth be with you. #ios11day

iMore iOS 11 review: Smarter, better, faster, bolder imore.com/ios-11

iOS 11: The MacStories Review macstories.net/stories/ios-11…

Barclays upgrades VMware, says partnership with Amazon ‘changes everything’ cnbc.com/2017/09/14/bar…

58k tweets. JFC.

No matter where I go, or what I do, I can’t escape being “The View Guy” #vdi4life

Justice Department investigating Equifax execs who dumped shares before announcing breach techcrunch.com/2017/09/18/u-s…

Craig Federighi answers some burning questions about Face ID techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/int…

The Handmaid’s Tale makes Emmy history as first streaming show to win best drama ew.com/tv/2017/09/17/…

If you’ve never watched Handmaid’s Tale, don’t start now, it’ll give you nightmares and make you paranoid. Take a Xanax and watch tomorrow.

Engineer for an S&P 400 financial tech company. Studied journalism and political science. Didn’t finish my degree. #unqualifiedfortech

Currently at the pediatric ER.

The fun of IoT is when you decide to change your Wifi password, you have to tell All The Things.

I’d seriously throw my phone out the window if this happened to me.

I’ve had two people with Samsung phones talk about a recent update putting ads on their lock screens. How do people find this acceptable?

I feel like watching the iPhone 7 keynote (last year) again just to get a good buzz about my current devices.

I always pre-heat my oven.

Explaining two factor authentication with RSA tokens to my five year old. You know, as all parents do.

I didn’t even process the fact that iPhone 8 preorders are tonight until a few minutes ago.

Reports say Alphabet held talks to invest $1 billion in Lyft fastcompany.com/40468656/repor…

Apple iTunes 12.7 removes iOS App Store functionality macrumors.com/2017/09/12/app…

Apple increases prices of select iPad Pro models due to rising NAND flash costs 9to5mac.com/2017/09/12/ipa…

I still have apps that haven’t updated beyond iPhone 5 resolution, even though they’re still maintained. It’s only been 3 years. 🙄

$10/mo to add a watch to a shared data plan seems excessive to me.

With iOS 11, more options to disable Touch ID means better security eff.org/deeplinks/2017…

On that Face ID keynote goof 512pixels.net/2017/09/on-tha…

I don’t know if it’s because I don’t feel well, or because much of it leaked ahead of time, but I’m leaning towards another year on my 7.

I bet Craig is great at reading bedtime stories.

LIVE DEMO FAIL

Wait what, my evil twin can unlock my phone?

Series 3 looks really great, but I’m not too upset to have purchased a Series 2 last month.

Where can I order my own Apple Park?

I’ll be really happy to get my hands on the final versions of iOS, watchOS, etc, mostly so that third-party apps can release updates.

The inside of the Steve Jobs theater reminds me a bit of my high school auditorium, except with way nicer seats.

Billions of devices imperiled by new clickless Bluetooth attack arstechnica.com/information-te…

UK government says humans will always be in charge of its robot weapon systems #skynet theverge.com/2017/9/12/1628…

Apple adds new mail-in option to iPhone Upgrade program 9to5mac.com/2017/09/11/mai…

My youngest decided to filibuster his bedtime last night. He barely stopped to breathe for two hours while he told me his life story.

Apple firmware: Leaks, links, and locking it all down imore.com/apple-firmware…

On the eve of the next iPhone, as they are set to get even bigger screens…I still think the iPhone 5S/SE is the pinnacle.

How to opt out of Equifax’s rights-stripping arbitration clause boingboing.net/2017/09/10/off…

Was excited to show older son that we had tickets for 35th anniversary Star Trek II showing tomorrow. “That doesn’t look very fun.”

Hey, Instagram! Please stop ruining my feed with your algorithm imore.com/hey-instagram-…

David Knopf, the new CFO of Heinz Kraft, is 29 years old qz.com/1073055/david-…

Tintri plunges after first post-IPO earnings report (-28%) marketwatch.com/story/tintri-p…

I left my AirPods at home this morning. Really cramping my style today.

All that I want this morning is for OneDrive and SharePoint to not barf on me when trying to save my Office documents to them. Please?

Oracle ‘systematically denies’ its sales reps their commissions, forces them to work to pay off ’debts’ theregister.co.uk/2017/09/07/ora…

JetBlue capping Florida flights at $99 ahead of Hurricane Irma thepointsguy.com/2017/09/jetblu…

“We want to do a thing.” “OK, do you have $20k?” “No” “OK, can we bill the customer for it?” “No” “OK, then you can’t do the thing.”

National Hurricane Center website is getting crushed. Maybe they should move it to the cloud. #dadjoke

Apple releases new Beats Studio 3 headphones featuring W1 chip and noise cancellation #daddywant 9to5mac.com/2017/09/04/app…

I need a jacket for my evening walk. Hello, fall? 👋

The Royals have won their last two games since my little tirade on Saturday. You’re welcome, Kansas City.

Siri saves sick girl from Harvey floodwaters cnn.com/2017/09/04/hea…

AT&T customers with Arris modems at risk of remote hacking theregister.co.uk/2017/09/01/att…

How much car wash is too much car wash?

The Secret History of FEMA wired.com/story/the-secr…

Ok, I’m done complaining about sports.

Since last Friday the Royals have lost 6 games, have been outscored by 46 runs, and our injured ace was arrested for DUI. 🤷‍♂️ #notouryear

Royals are off to a great start tonight. 🙄

Evolution of the starship Enterprise #nerdporn cbsnews.com/pictures/evolu…

How Apple engineered its watch to push you to perform at your peak menshealth.com/content/inside…

Allergies hit with full force today. This is my least favorite day of the year.

How NASA kept the ISS flying while Harvey hit Mission Control theverge.com/2017/8/31/1622…

Just because an application is managed through a web address, it doesn’t make it a “web server”

It’s been about a year since I moved my blog over to Medium, so of course I’m planning to move it again. It’s all I do with it, really.

5yo is “complaining” that he doesn’t need technology time at school because he already knows how to use the iPad.

Apple wins technical Emmy award for Siri’s integration w/ Apple TV 9to5mac.com/2017/08/29/app…

Privacy is now a right in India money.cnn.com/2017/08/29/tec…

Prepare for APFS in macOS High Sierra, if you have an SSD, you cannot opt-out support.apple.com/en-us/HT208018

Western Digital enters into an agreement to purchase Tegile Systems tegile.com/release/wester…

Millennials are 10x as likely to delete an app off of their phone due to its appearance, according to comScore #Guilty

Uber to stop tracking riders post-trip axios.com/uber-to-stop-t…

Maybe too early to know for sure but I think the latest iOS 11 beta fixed my eero roaming issues.

Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, will be offered the job as Uber’s new CEO recode.net/2017/8/27/1621…

BGP leak causing Internet outages in Japan and beyond. bgpmon.net/bgp-leak-causi…

I know I’m late to the game here but the Apple Watch Series 2 really is a significantly better experience than the original.

Night Court was a solid TV show.

For 10 years, the Twitter hashtag has fueled both social activism and dad jokes recode.net/2017/8/23/1618…

Majority of U.S. consumers still download zero apps per month techcrunch.com/2017/08/25/maj…

Farewell, vCenter Server for Windows blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/0…

“We decided to compare Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 device with an iPhone 8 dummy to…” Stop.

VMware plans to deprecate the Flash-based vSphere Web Client with the next release of vSphere blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/0…

I like to ask “why did you pick $product to use in your environment?” questions in interviews.

To answer the question I keep getting from people, no, I’m not going to be at #vmworld. Job change this summer mixed up my schedule.

Anyone else with iPad Pro Smart Keyboard on iOS 11 beta notice physical keyboard input stop responding? Mine works again only after reboot.

FBI telling US companies to drop Kaspersky Lab silicon.co.uk/security/fbi-k…

Apple will build its next data center in Iowa arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

In iOS 11, Safari will strip out Google AMP links for shared stories techcrunch.com/2017/08/23/ios…

Google’s Cloud Platform gets a cheaper, lower-performance networking tier techcrunch.com/2017/08/23/goo…

This applying Instagram filter effects to screenshots thing needs to stop right now.

Medium will now pay writers based on how many claps they get theverge.com/2017/8/22/1618…

Bring out your dead … gear youtu.be/rAaYwGdvaKk

Verizon’s good unlimited data plan is now three bad unlimited plans theverge.com/2017/8/22/1618…

Had a rough morning. Then eclipsed. Now I’m having a hard time getting focused back on work.

No colors any more I want them to turn black.

Monday? Sunday! Funday.

Second Walmart trip of the morning.

If you try to take a picture of the eclipse tomorrow without a proper setup, you will destroy your camera. youtu.be/2TO_yZDxryQ

Having a bad job ‘worse for health than unemployment’ healthinsurancedaily.com/health-insuran…

You’re going to hear a lot of FUD about Apple’s Secure Enclave being hacked. It wasn’t. imore.com/youre-going-he…

In the future, your body won’t be buried, it will be dissolved wired.co.uk/article/alkali…

iOS 11 has a ‘cop button’ to temporarily disable Touch ID theverge.com/2017/8/17/1616…

Constipated gorilla in Kansas zoo recovering after surgery apnews.com/0c6dd467422447…

Apple Watch Series 3 unlikely to support direct phone calls, but VoIP calling a possibility macrumors.com/2017/08/16/app…

Former longtime Apple engineering leader Chris Lattner is heading to Google to work on AI recode.net/2017/8/14/1614…

In my objective view, there is no such thing as objectivity.

As high quality 4K video goes mainstream, Apple’s HEVC will help keep file sizes at bay 9to5mac.com/2017/08/15/4k-…

First day of kindergarten. Why are they cutting onions?

Apple, Aetna hold meetings to bring Apple watch to millions more cnbc.com/2017/08/14/app…

Things I love: ordering stuff online and then being told I have to call someone to “complete” the order.

Update gone wrong leaves 500 smart locks inoperable arstechnica.com/information-te…

I did a bad thing. I installed the iOS 11 beta back onto my iPad. Thankfully, it’s not that bad, so far. iPhone is staying on 10.3.

MVNO Ting Mobile sees subscribers spike and churn evaporate in Q2 fiercewireless.com/wireless/mvno-…

I just contributed a PowerShell script I wrote to my company GitLab repo. Am I #DevOps yet?

Tolerance is not a moral precept extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-n…

The real reason middle-aged men dominate cycling theconversation.com/the-real-reaso…

IBM sues its CIO to stop him moving to AWS crn.com.au/news/ibm-sues-…

Disney will pull its movies from Netflix and start its own streaming services cnbc.com/2017/08/08/dis…

I’m still not running the latest iOS betas, because, reasons.

iOS 11 beta 5 adds a toggle for Background App Refresh based on Wifi or Cellular.

Mozilla’s new file-transfer service isn’t perfect, but it’s drop-dead easy arstechnica.com/information-te…

Ting/T-Mobile Wifi calling is far more consistent and reliable than the AT&T version ever was for me. Makes sense as they’ve done it longer.

My house is currently being circled by four A-10 Warthogs. 😮

Really need to clean up my home network switch, and UPS cabling. But that would involve ripping most of it out. Can’t impact prod. #techdebt

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a great movie. Also, The Final Frontier isn’t awful. #ConfessYourUnpopularOpinion

LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Returning to Theaters for 35th Anniversary m.ign.com/articles/2017/… #ticketsacquired

I used to think there was no such thing as a bad chocolate chip cookie. Then I had one. 🍪

I’m going to need to start charging my Apple Watch at work. Hitting power reserve at 7:30pm isn’t great. Or I could work out less.

Bring laptop to meeting, to get work done. No one else brings laptop, end up being the presenter for the room. 🤦‍♂️

I need to rethink my home office desk layout.

Google Earth app update adds 64-bit support in time for iOS 11 cutoff 9to5mac.com/2017/08/02/goo…

‘Real people’ do not want secure communications, claims UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd grahamcluley.com/real-people-no…

Netflix is on the hook for $20 billion. Can it keep spending its way to success? latimes.com/business/holly…

Outback Steakhouse Denies Illuminati Ties people.com/food/outback-s…

What’s the shortest job you’ve ever had? For any reason. Mine was two months, because the owner lied about everything.

Apple firmware release may reveal iPhone plans sixcolors.com/link/2017/07/a…

Why go to a known brewery and get upset that they don’t carry a beer that they don’t brew? Then order Coors Light out of protest? #idiots

Carrying around my 6 as a test phone for Ting reminds me how much better the Apple leather case for the 7 is with #MetalButtons

Softbank wants to take Sprint and merge with it Charter and then roll in T-mobile theverge.com/platform/amp/2…

Congress asks U.S. agencies for Kaspersky Lab cyber documents reuters.com/article/us-usa…

Tonsil stones.

Dipshit salesman who knocked on my door late last night was out again in my neighborhood tonight.

Rouge One is on Netflix?!

Come knock on my door at 9pm trying to sell me shit and you’re lucky if all I do is yell at you.

No more new emails threads, I’m good for now.

Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.

#unpopularopinion I like Siri

Target has Apple Watch Series 2 on sale for $70 off. 🤔

After watching the new Star Trek Discovery trailer, this is the first time I’ve really been excited about it youtu.be/hC7IMj7WFyE

That thing where you get out of the car and the same song is playing in the restaurant. Except you were streaming from your iTunes library.

Mice caught on tape at a Chipotle in Dallas money.cnn.com/2017/07/20/new…

Define Essential: Two weeks ago, after regretfully trying to use the iOS 11 developer betas on my primary devices, I was forced by general instability to roll back to iOS 10. Unfortunately, there’s no great way to do this without doing a restore and fresh install. I had a backup from iOS 10 that I’d taken prior to …

I think allergies may have snuck up on me today.

Elon Musk: I got ‘government approval’ for New York-DC Hyperloop. Officials: no he didn’t theguardian.com/technology/201…

Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV have all been updated. Watch should be done sometime Thursday evening.

Advantage of being home with sick kid, fast wifi to download all the #iOS #tvOS #watchOS #macOS updates today.

Remind me never to tweet about food again.

Chipotle closes Virginia restaurant after 13 customers get sick businessinsider.com/chipotle-close…

I hate that government calls everything “cyber” … they should use an industry standard term for stuff no one understands … like “cloud”

DuckDuckGo is my search engine of choice. #ComeToTheDuckSide - we have privacy. duckduckgo.com/#1

HTC’s default keyboard app is now showing ads neowin.net/news/htcs-defa…

So what’s this Games of Throne show all about?

My right glute hurts. A literal pain in the butt.

Congresswoman’s iPhone contained nude images, and an aide put them online arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Someone complained about Dunkin’ Donuts hot cups and a war broke out on Facebook bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/07/…

Oldest child is spending the weekend at grandmas, so the rest of the family took a 2 hour nap today.

VMware 2017 Cycling Kit virtuallyghetto.com/2017/07/vmware…

Six major US airports now scan Americans’ faces when they leave country arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

How Cloudflare’s fight with a ‘patent troll’ could alter the game techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/the…

Pew study says 41 percent of adults in the U.S. have been harassed online techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/pew…

Monday morning, 8AM conference call, almost seems cruel.

Dropped the bike off at the shop for a tune up. Gears clicking and brake pad sticking.

You apparently cannot downgrade from the developer iOS 11 beta to 10.3.2 stable, but you can to 10.3.3 beta 6.

Remember kids, just say no to beta. I’ve managed to brick both my iPad and iPhone while trying to rollback. #FML

Second pair of Oakley Crosshair 2.0 bite the dust. Crushed in the car. One pair left.

#VoteMoose not squirrel.

Open Good app, login, wait, crashes. Reopen Good, login, wait, crash. Reopen, crash. Reopen, login, figure out what room meeting is in.

Independence Day, also known as 3-5 days where my dog doesn’t pee because he’s too afraid to even go outside.

I was really hoping for a pre-holiday iOS beta update today.

I had six meetings on my calendar at 8am this morning. They’ve all been cancelled.

I had my own office from 2007 to 2010, it was pretty great. Massive waste of floor space though.

I ate too much cheese.

iOS developer beta access should come with a coupon code for an Apple iPhone battery case.

Happy Canada Day, y’all. 🇨🇦

I was not on the Apple train when the original iPhone was announced. I was hung up on the fact it couldn’t do Exchange email. 🤷‍♂️

That thing where you forget to unpause your watch half way through your ride.

“Hi, who joined?”

I left my AirPods at home today. It’s really disrupting my flow.

I’ve spent way too much time in the last week dealing with toilets. 💩

Home ownership is overrated.

Day One now has end-to-end encryption help.dayoneapp.com/day-one-sync/e…

Since iOS 11 nuked the native Twitter share sheet, what’s the easiest way to tweet a link in Safari?

iOS 11 feature request: ability to turn off text labels for all apps, so they look like the ones in the dock. Would be so much cleaner.

iOS 11 beta doesn’t seem to kick up a web login prompt on wifi. Can’t connect to corporate wifi now.

To beta, or not to beta, that is the question. 🤔

When I walk past the security desk at work and hear the squawk of their radios it makes me wonder if they’re an Eye. #HandmaidsTale 🤔

The plumbing problem I spent 5 hours working on Saturday, took an actual plumber 15 minutes to fix.

Just what I wanted to do this weekend, spend 5 hours on a DIY project that ends in needing a plumber to come out on Monday.

Having wifi issues at home with new iPad. Figured I’d try the 10.3.3 public beta. It broke all third party app multitasking. Back to 10.3.2.

“They prefer SDN to Cisco Nexus 1000v hardware switches.” #facepalm …-theregister-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.thereg…

Is anyone out there with a new iPad Pro that has Eero having issues? I have strange issues staying connected at home, but fine at work.

Going from the screen real estate of the 12.9 Pro to the 10.5 really has been noticeable, but I’m so much happier with the portability.

Cisco UCS PowerTool Core Suite for PowerShell communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-74217…

“If you have a manager that isn’t supportive of you building a brand, find a new manager.” #amen

10.5 iPad feels downright small after using the 12.9 for a while.

My 12.9 iPad has a new home.

Maybe all the wind tonight will bring down enough dead ash trees to motivate all my neighbors to deal with them properly.

Thinking about downsizing from my older 12.9" iPad Pro to new 10.5" iPad Pro.

I’ve never been into the sticker game on my Mac, but I feel like my corporate PC needs some flair.

Note to self, in order to keep Twitter mentions sane, never mention sandwich condiments again.

Amazon buys Whole Foods, because sure, why not.

Corporate laptop is pretty nice hardware, for a PC. Touchpad sucks, and Windows 7 w/o local admin makes me want to cry. Otherwise, nice.

Life in Big Corporate: I don’t have a laptop yet. #NoEmailNoResponsibilities

First Sunday evening in almost six years that I don’t have a time sheet for billing due.

Unexpected result of owning a white car: investigating car wash memberships.

Reasonable Salary: The process of looking for a new job is stressful. If you already have one, you’re a bit like a secret agent, sneaking around town trying to complete the mission of getting someone new to agree to sign your paychecks, without the old boss finding out. If you don’t have a job, it’s even more …

Upcoming blog entry is one of my longer ones in recent history, and one of my most heavily rewritten/edited. Just a “7 min read” still.

Does your Costco have a car wash?

Great to get follow up emails from vendors for conferences I didn’t even attend.

Taking both kids to the mall by myself to try and buy a belt was not the brightest idea I’ve had this week.

Hey good news, I have a sinus infection.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…

I was finally able to watch the #WWDC17 keynote. So much awesomesauce.

Today’s #wwdc keynote is the first one for a long as I remember that I won’t be able to watch live.

My 2yo, wearing American flag pants and no shirt, shoves an entire piece of bacon in his mouth and starts running around the house. #dadlife

I haven’t had any coffee since April 15.

Doing sit-ups in my bedroom at 11pm for 3 minutes to get that damn green ring.

Crisis averted, an SMC reset appears to have been successful at fixing my MBP issues for now.

My extended AppleCare warranty just expired a month or so ago.

Mac has been acting odd the last couple days, wireless issues, not unlocking from Watch. Then just sitting here the fans kicked up to full.

Something about having a turbocharged car turns me into a nut. Up late last night researching fuel octane, detergents and synthetic oils.

Buying a car really is a extremely dumb experience. So many games. But nowhere near as bad as a house.

Experimenting with LinkedIn publishing tonight. Reposting #newjob content from Medium blog. linkedin.com/pulse/end-begi…

TIL, macOS Preview can open .pptx files.

I heard a rumor that VMware was giving away some nice socks at #CitrixSynegy, which makes me sad, because I don’t have any of my own…

How is it that I went from never hearing of these fidget spinner things last week to nothing but them today?

Beginnings End: This morning I gave two weeks notice to my current employer, a Kansas City based VAR, where I have been a senior data center engineer for the last six years. I’ve enjoyed many aspects of my current role; becoming certified in new technologies, learning new skills, and solving problems for customers. …

When I got a push notification that Cloud Computing had won the Preakness I was pretty sure I’d recently had a stroke.

ABC cancelled #lastmanstanding!?

I promise I’ll have my #TFD14 write up done tonight. Right after I do this one other thing… 🙃

Oh good. The exits to the highway that go towards my house are all closed. Taking the long way tonight 🙄

I hate using Uber. Driver cancelled on me after 10m wait. Next one was somehow actually $30 cheaper but his car smells.

Dude, not everyone in the airport terminal wants to listen to your music.

“Storage is old stuff” 1000s of storage admins start crying #TFD14

Datrium team is a combination of VMware principal engineers + Data Domain CTOs. Impressive. #TFD14

Fighting some horrendous hotel wifi to bring you all the #TFD14 tweets this morning.

I’m apparently now live streaming a podcast. #TFD14

The live demo $deity is very angry today. #TFD14

WE do not fear the CLI #TFD14

So much iSCSI hate in the #TFD14 room.

Should be in Boston by midnight. Disappointed to miss #TFD14 welcome dinner, but fired up for tomorrow!

Hey cool, power went out at home, in the middle of trying to pack. #TFD14

Four hours in the car yesterday and another four today. Gives you a lot of time to think.

VCSA upgrade from 5.5 to 6.5 would only let me select “X-Large” in the GUI on small install. Forcing me to go CLI today.

Three weeks without coffee.

Did three Windows vCenter 6.0 to VCSA 6.5 migrations already this morning. All went flawlessly. #migrate2vcsa

It seems the Internet is exploding this afternoon. I’m just going to sit here and not click anything until it cools down.

Got some exciting news this morning, can’t wait to share.

Cisco scoops up SD-WAN startup Viptela for $610M techcrunch.com/2017/05/01/cis…

It was nice to see the Royals be fun to watch for at least one night this year.

Microsoft will separate Edge browser updates from the Windows 10 OS with Redstone 3 neowin.net/news/microsoft…

47, raining. Perfect day to take a nap.

Southwest CEO says airline will no longer overbook flights businessinsider.com/southwest-ceo-…

Between The Leftovers and The Handmade’s Tale, I’m really getting my fill of bizarre alternative reality right now.

Senate staffers’ ID cards have photo of smart chip on them, not an actual chip arstechnica.com/information-te…

Tweetbot for Mac 2.5 released, with updates to match new DM and reply features added to iOS last week

Recent app updates bundle sizes: Tweetbot, 11MB. Overcast, 19MB. Instagram, 94MB. LinkedIn, 262MB. Support your indie developers.

Purge completed items from Reminders sixcolors.com/post/2017/04/q…

I should sell my old iPhone 6. Question is do I want to jump through the Swappa/eBay/Craigslist hoops, or just sell it to Apple for less?

Now I have Kenny G songs stuck in my head.

Random idea: if you’re signing up for a free service, think about how they’re making money to stay in business (hint: you are the product)

Fixed my semi-busted TV. Pulled the power cable. Hard reboot. Works fine now.

Things that went from shaggy to clean cut today: my hair my lawn

There is a Rockabye Baby rendition of Hamilton. OK kids, it’s nap time! itun.es/us/l9Prib itun.es/us/l9Prib

Seven days with no coffee. It’s almost like the title of a horror movie.

Starcraft is now free, really really free. arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04…

Functionally the bigger screen of the 6/7 is great and all, but going by just blind feel the 5/SE is the perfect phone size.

Why is everyone talking about Turkey? Don’t you know you’re supposed to eat ham on Easter?

Intel pulls out of OpenStack amp-timeinc-net.cdn.ampproject.org/c/amp.timeinc.…

I’m on my fourth day without coffee.

I’m always thrilled to sit and wait for a table when we have a reservation.

Oh, yes youtu.be/zB4I68XVPzQ

Today on Twitter: dropping bombs, on-premises.

Patch/reboot remote host. It takes really long time. Get nervous. Ping test. The first 7 attempts drop. Panic! It starts responding. Relax.

I need a nap.

My number of grammatical Twitter typos is up dramatically this week.

Is 1080 content on a 4K 55" panel going to look as awful as 480 did/does on 1080 panels?

I was having dreams last night about logical switches and distributed firewall rules. #TooMuchNSX

Twitter announces (mostly positive) changes to third party API access macstories.net/linked/the-twi…

Clips by Apple is now available appsto.re/us/Jufsib.i

I’m not even sure what to say about this Pepsi ad, except maybe … why? m.youtube.com/watch?v=PCEm21…

OVH Group to acquire vCloud Air business linkis.com/www.vmware.com…

Know when to walk away. Know when to run.

Choosing Electives: I’m going to start this by saying something that might seem strange for a post like this, but is no surprise to my closest friends: The last two months, and especially the last two weeks, have been very stressful and mentally draining. Without getting into the details of it all, I will simply say …

VMware is “going native on network virtualization” and shedding support for third-party vSwitches blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtual…

Oh, great, hail. #ksstorms

Had to move my VCAP6-DCD exam out from this Saturday to sometime in May, just have had way too much going on right now to focus on study.

Trying to take a video of “Hey Siri” for home automation, using a second device, is a problem anytime you try to play the video back.

Is there a way to tell when the HFS to APFS conversion on iOS devices is completed? Just for the sake of my own personal anxiety levels.

Apple TV seems to have taken the tvOS update without setting fire to my bedroom. It’s the little things.

iOS 10.3 to the iPhone, bring on some APFS!

Project for this evening: UPDATE ALL THE THINGS. #iOS #macOS #tvOS #watchOS

I was hoping to perfect my colored light sport team automation this weekend with the Jayhawks for the Final Four but that isn’t meant to be.

Finally picked up a Hue starter kit (from Meh this week) and now two of my living room lights are Siri controlled. Need to get more bulbs.

I once power cycled the wrong host in the middle of an HA failover. That guy burned down an apartment complex and 20 houses.

I’d hate to be the welder who went to work yesterday and accidentally started an eight-alarm fire. Talk about a Case of the Mondays.

Surprised we didn’t see iOS 10.3 drop today, maybe next week?

Hello, world. (This account is public again)

The next version of Android is supposed to have better battery life #EvergreenHeadlines recode.net/2017/3/21/1499…

Apple didn’t release anything of direct interest to me today, therefore, Apple is dooooooomed.

I’m pretty sure my youngest son bruised one of my ribs when he body slammed me during bed time. Fatherhood is a contact sport. #dadlife

The final season of The Leftovers returns, Easter Sunday. Because of course it does.

Gah, having a private account blows. Go to reply to someone, remember they don’t follow me, realize they won’t see it.

This fire is insane, up to “8 alarm” now.

After years waiting for Google Fiber, KC residents get cancellation e-mails arstechnica.com/information-te…

I am not a Duke hater. But I don’t mind when they lose.

I’m not prepared for temperatures in the 80s already. This is unacceptable.

Netflix is ditching five-star ratings in favor of a thumbs-up. I give this decision ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ theverge.com/2017/3/16/1495…

Apparently when my tweets are private, and I reply to someone who doesn’t follow me, even if I follow them, they can’t see it. 🤔

I have set my account to private for the time being.

Rocker with mom. Rocker with dad. His bed. The floor with dad. Rocker with dad. 😴 My bed in two hours. #2yosleepcycle

I’m so over these wild temperature swings. Below freezing on Monday. Wearing shorts today.

The more I go along in IT, the more appealing terms like LTSB, LTS, ESR, become.

Ubiquiti network gear can be ‘hijacked by an evil URL’ – thanks to its 20-year-old PHP build theregister.co.uk/2017/03/16/ubi…

I don’t want to brag, but so far my bracket is working out perfectly.

I filled out my bracket before the deadline. I’m sort of a pick the team I like the most type player, or that’s in the Big 12. Or just KU.

VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability vmware.com/security/advis…

I’m curious what the future of Little Flocker looks like, now that Zdziarski has moved to Apple and disappeared from social media.

I had to manually reinstall VMware Tools in my Windows 10 VM after updating Fusion to 8.5.5.

Windows Server 2012 R2 storage services providing NFS backing for ESXi hosts. That… different.

Sweet, the cables on my garage door pulls snapped last night. Home ownership is so awesome.

Nintendo Switch browser contains a WebKit exploit that was patched last year youtube.com/watch?v=xkdPjb…

Oooh, new theme on the corporate ConnectWise instance after upgrades last night. Fancy.

Biannual reminder that I’m a proponent of abolishing daylight savings time and collapsing the US into two time zones qz.com/142199/the-us-…

Today is my first time with an Icy Hot patch. Maybe if I was an athelete this would be normal, as it is, it’s just making me feel old.

Serious question, how many messaging products does Google have?

Insurance report: New gutters, roof, repair/repaint west siding, new storm door, repair/repaint deck, rewrap all damaged windows. #HailSucks

For all the worry about how “silly” AirPods look, I think I get more positive interest from random people about them than any Apple product.

Judge blocks FBI from forcing fingerprints from targets to unlock iPhones chicagotribune.com/news/ct-forced…

It appears the whole west side of my house got beat to shit by hail last night.

First they came for SimpliVity, and I said nothing. Then they came for Nimble, and I said nothing. Then they came for me.

I don’t want to email anymore.

$TWTR is back under $16, thinking about buying more. Still up from when I bought in last time.

I need some baseball in my life. Soon.

My apologies to anyone who works at Yahoo, but the company needs to be burned to the ground and then the ashes sent into deep space.

I guess now would be a good time to schedule my VCAP6-DCD exam.

I’m not trying to start anything here, or provide any judgements, just some numbers. I will say, my employer pays all my certification fees.

$9320. Required ICM class: $4125. VCP exam: $250. Two VCAP exams: $950. VCDX apply: $995. VCDX defense: $3000. Not including any retries.

I know it costs VMware money to staff the VCDX panels, coordinate and review submissions and provide a space for the actual event, but, wow.

VMware certification exam price increases coming April 1 blogs.vmware.com/education/2017…

Apologies for the random screenshot posts coming and going. Trying to get a Workflow to work that isn’t.

Workflow 1.7.1 lets you run Workflows from inside other Workflows. Finally. my.workflow.is/whatsnew

Growing up I used to always eat steaks prepared well done because that’s how my dad made them. It was my mother-in-law that turned me.

People are complicated.

Battery percentage indicators stress me out.

Elections, sports championships, award shows, I can’t take any more of this shit.

If you looked at my Instagram feed from like the last two weeks you’d think all I did was eat BBQ. You’d be right.

Men’s Wearhouse, not Warehouse. I just got it.

The case against the EU “state aid” case against Apple: 13 billion euros out of thin air fosspatents.com/2017/02/the-ca…

It’s only Tuesday.

I’ve given it 6 months, but I’m continually annoyed with the way iOS 10 does conversation threading in Mail.

So far my week is off to an awesome start. #alternativefacts

“So we have a question about our upgrade. Why didn’t you install 6.2?” There is no 6.2. 🙄

Oh and after 22GB they throttle your connection during periods of congestion. Much, unlimited.

AT&T has a new “unlimited” data plan that is more expensive than everyone else, doesn’t allow tethering, and downgrades your video streams.

I’ve owned Workflow for a while but never really used it. I’ve finally started writing some and now I’m hooked. #automate

Opens Twitter. Looks around. I’ll be back in a bit.

New jeans are being delivered today. 🕺🏼

Recent Instapaper outage caused by 2TB file limit on ext3 backed Amazon MySQL instance. Cloud can be messy. medium.com/making-instapa…

I frequently clean out my iOS screenshots, and archive them to Apple Notes, so I made a Workflow to do it faster. workflow.is/workflows/a90b…

TwIM, looks like an excellent dedicated Twitter DM client macstories.net/reviews/twim-i…

William Henry Harrison was President for only 31 days.

I have a memory of running Windows 9x in on a PowerPC based Mac back in the day. Anyone know what software package that would have been?

It’s almost like the people doing product development at Twitter have no idea what they’re doing.

Neowin Retrospective: Most of the people who know and interact with me professionally, or on social media know me as “vmstan” — and if you asked most of those people they’d tell you I only pay attention to two things when it comes to technology: VMware and Apple. They’d be mostly right. But there was a time before that, …

Testing out snapshots in Apple’s next-generation APFS file system arstechnica.com/apple/2017/02/…

Enough Windows: I’ve not been a true “Windows user” on a daily basis since the glorious afternoon my first MacBook Pro arrived in 2011. That didn’t exactly mean I quit using Windows on that day, but over time I’ve continued to slim down my actual needs of the Windows desktop operating system to the point where now …

Tempature yesterday: 28F Tempature today: 69F 🤷‍♂️

Deploying the Horizon Access Point as a replacement for the View Security Server may be one of the more frustrating things I’ve done lately.

Close and restart Chrome, certificate is now valid and “Secure” green. I hate the Internet.

My oldest came home from his (publicly funded) PREschool today excited to talk about levers and fulcrums.

Court backs Microsoft suit over surveillance gag orders politico.com/blogs/under-th…

Here’s why people are saying iCloud is secretly storing your ‘deleted’ Safari history 9to5mac.com/2017/02/09/icl…

Apparently the tweet about Trump’s hacked Twitter was from 2013. It was a more innocent time. Carry on.

#vExpert Year Five

Yesterday was the first time I’d used Apple Pay in a browser on macOS, authenticating with the Watch.

I’m so picky about app icon placement on my iPhone, but my iPad is always just 🤷‍♂️

So if there’s a tie after sudden death does the House get to decide?

Tom Brady isn’t of this planet. Wow.

I feel for John Malcovich.

Good to see #41 still kicking. That dude is a beast. Why did I choke up just now? 🇺🇸

I’m not much of a football fan, but I’ve always liked birds 🐦 #GoFalcons

“No, no more naked Lego.” … I said with a straight face. #dadlife

I still haven’t figured out why I have a keybase.io account.

It is OK to talk about other things on social media. It’s not OK to totally ignore what’s going on. #StayWoke

Man in Vietnam veteran hat was pretty fired up in a conversation at Starbucks, finally announced “I didn’t vote for Trump” and walked out.

This is just absolute lunacy.

When people cite Obama and “all his executive orders” remember that he issued the fewest of any two term President since Ulysses S. Grant.

FEDERAL JUDGE HAS ORDERED STAY OF TRUMP EO!

Dealing with a 5 y/o who won’t write thank you cards while stressing about the destruction of Americas standing in the world community.

My LinkedIn profile is now in lockdown mode.

I hope everyone who “couldn’t vote for either of them” is thinking really hard this morning about what your country is becoming.

Green card holders are lawful, PERMANENT RESIDENTS, of the United States. They pay taxes, they just can’t vote, just what the GOP likes!

Is having a LinkedIn profile essential for “doing business” or is all the value pretty declining? I’m seriously considering closing mine.

7 times it looked like federal agencies subtweeted Donald Trump this week vox.com/policy-and-pol…

Congrats America, we’ve survived one week of the Trump Presidency. Only 208 to go!

I feel like we need some sort of trusted third party to verify the identity of all these alt/rouge government accounts.

Anyone using AirPods on a Mac with WebEx? I can’t get any audio or in or out of them in meetings. Works fine with other Mac apps.

Finally renewed and upgraded my VCP6-DCV before it expired at the beginning of next month. 🙄

I helped start my neighborhood’s Nextdoor group, and now I want to close it. Turns out, there’s a reason I don’t talk to my neighbors.

So we’re going take on new debt to pay for the border wall, and then pay 20% more for guacamole to pay it off? Fuck this shit.

President Pence in the first 100 days 🙏

I feel like it’s a good time for another reminder, America, that you made a horrible mistake.

“Set-SmbServerConfiguration -EnableSMB1Protocol $false”

iOS 10.2.1 wiped out a big chunk of my iMessage history on my iPad. So, that’s awesome.

Seriously how much amount time and energy is being expended by now federal employees, to keep the ego of the Supreme Cheeto inflated?

I think what we really need is an Alternative President.

Seriously this Spicer guy is going to have an aneurism if he tries to keep the intensity he had today.

The new Press Secretary makes the Iraqi information minister look sane and rational.

Well, that was fun.

Oh the irony. The rain starts as soon as he’s inaugurated.

Why am I watching this? #trainwreck

When the sun came up, Barack Obama was President. When it goes down, it’ll be Donald Trump. Hopefully, it comes back up on Saturday.

Doing two new Cisco HyperFlex installs this month. #hci #vExpert

Play in Netflix now works with the TV app imore.com/play-netflix-n…

LinkedIn has a new design.

5YO: “oh crap!” Wife: “we don’t say that” 2YO: “yeah, we say ‘holy crap’” 😂

The most stressful thing I did today was freehand draw a Flash logo with icing on a giant cookie.

The inauguration is scheduled for Friday, but does anyone know when the time travelers arrive?

Pro tip: when you screw up, admit it and move on.

HPE + SimpliVity. Not surprised. Congrats and best of luck to all involved.

I wish Man in The High Castle would go into more detail about how John Smith goes from US Army Captain to The #obergruppenführer

96 out of 100 Android users can’t see the latest emoji symbols 🤷‍♂️ sixcolors.com/link/2017/01/m…

AirPods are awesome. My wife teases me about wearing them, but whatever. Probably just jealous. 👂

Random strangers picking fights pretending to know about my socioeconomic status and life history. Breath. Don’t feed the trolls.

My 2 year old has been accidentally calling my RetroPie setup, the “Pretendo” … which is oddly very on the nose.

You’ve prepared yourself for the moment Trump gives Putin the Presidental Medal of Freedom, right?

I’ve got a few code names for Donald I’d like to propose. But most of them aren’t appropriate in mixed company.

Family that comes into my house and acts disrespectfully, I’ve had it. Go away. Stay away. Thanks.

I keep saying it, because it continually needs to be said. America, you made a really, really, poor choice.

When I watched “The Man in The High Castle” last season, I thought “America would have never accepted Nazis!” 2016 cleared that up for me.

Kansas City ranked 52/100 for STEM professionals… so, basically, we’re meh. wallethub.com/edu/best-worst…

The hackers are hacking the hackers motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-st…

Seriously, America, we fucked this up.

Asking Trump multi-part questions seems like a recipe for not getting anything answered. Press needs clear and concise questions.

Hey everyone, some random lady we’ve never heard of before apparently is replacing the Supreme Court. #emoluments

Trump really likes to stay hydrated.

How far into the Trump administration will he still be talking about how awful Hillary is and relitigating the campaign?

“We had much hacking going on” 🙄

I shouldn’t be watching this press conference. It just makes me want to drink more.

Anyone know anything about “InfoArmor” ID theft protection and credit monitoring? It’s apparently a benefit of my employer now.

Who setup the audio for this speech? You had one job.

2017, already fucked up

Has anyone been elected President and then resigned before taking office? Asking for a friend.

Just another reminder, America… you chose poorly.

I still don’t understand why Apple doesn’t make a stock weather and calculator app for iPad.

Wanted: Recommendations for beautiful weather app options on iPad Pro 12.9” that run at native resolution.

Shouldn’t need to say this: if you take other peoples tweets or content give the author/creator credit and do not present it as your own.

Had to declare a bit of podcast bankruptcy tonight.

Apple removes app that let you find your AirPods theverge.com/2017/1/9/14211…

I think I fixed it, had to move the adapter to a PCIe x16 slot, even though it’s a x1 card. Not enough power supplied.

I’m being reminded why I got out of the PC repair business.

Replaced the wireless card on my parents PC. Problems went from bad to worse. Time for a Mac.

Finally figured out how my kids keep turning activating closed captioning on the Apple TV. Triple tap the touch sensitive part.

Reminder: America, you made a poor choice.

Royal Photographic Society honors Kate Middleton, upsets photographers, because they don’t like Royal Photographers petapixel.com/2017/01/04/roy…

Intel chiefs “even more resolute” on Russian election meddling findings arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Just a quick reminder, folks… Everything is fucked.

Finder for Airpods - find your lost Airpods … how long will this last on the App Store? appsto.re/us/8UaZgb.i

Microsoft’s Windows 10 design refresh revealed in leaked screenshots theverge.com/2017/1/5/14176…

My former employer laid off 320 people yesterday kansascity.com/news/business/…

To all my wireless nerds: Amplifi vs Eero. Go!

Hmm… I wonder what The Wirecutter recommends for a new desk cha…ONE THOUSAND…never mind I’ll just sit on this box.

Costco on a holiday, yeah this was a great idea.

AT&T Call Protect has done nothing for me. Today: telemarketer with no alert and first “Unknown” caller that doesn’t even show in app! #fail

Started watching “This Is Us” last night. So, many, onions.

Anytime I go somewhere without my AirPods, I quickly miss having them.

I’ve been getting multiple reports that other people are being required to return to work on Tuesday. This is an epidemic.

I’m being told that I have to go back to work on Tuesday. This is bullshit.

Central Time Zone friends, we have 37 minutes to save 2016.

Don’t pretend 2017 is going to be any different than 2016. Terrorism has already killed 35 people in Istanbul. It’s day 1. Happy New Year.

I’m finally retiring my Facebook account, tonight.

I’m earmarking any further political donations be used only for firewalls, IPS/IDS, encrypted everything, user training, a legitimate CISO.

I gave generously during the election, I was anticipating the fundraising to quiet down after Nov 8. I was called six times yesterday alone.

#RogueOne tickets acquired.

I finally beat all the levels on MARIO RUN with the pink coins. Onto purple.

All the pictures my Jewish friends are posting of their Chinese Christmas dinners is making me hungry.

Don’t let El Cheeto Supreme ruin your holidays. It’ll likely be the last ones we ever have.

document your own stuff 2) change your vendor provides passwords 3) read your (encrypted) emails 4) happy holidays!

I’m past the point where everything El Cheeto Supreme says or does gets me angry. Im saving it now for big stuff. Strategic Outrage Reserve.

#AirPods Comfy, clear sound/mic. Stays in ears. Pairing simple. Stereo/mono iOS switch fine, flaky on Mac. Auto on/off works. “Hey Siri” 👍👍

Electors, let’s do something #unpresidented today.

Follow me because I’m pretty, not because I claim to be some kind of engineer.

Note: 20000mha batteries take a really long time to charge to 100%.

I should compile a slide show of the various rooms in our house where the people involved in painting decisions may have been … impaired.

At two random points today, both of my children started quoting Hamilton lyrics. I feel like I’m winning as a parent.

I had a series of ridiculous dreams last night. I wondering if maybe those sausage wontons at the Christmas party had some “special spices.”

PTO started at noon today, company holiday party is tonight. After that I’m out until 2017.

What do you mean you don’t have a copy of Putty on here? HOW DO YOU EVEN SSH BRO!?

iOS 10.2 seems to have brought a return to random/daily prompts for my iCloud password.

Where is the key for the third door on Mario Run World 5-3?!

I need some Mario in my life today.

I wish the ability to import Evernote into Apple Notes was there when I wished last year, by hand, like an animal imore.com/how-switch-eve…

I should probably do more account clean up, delete all the things I’ve signed up for over the years and forgotten.

The truth is I’ve not used my Flickr account for anything serious in years. I never used the Yahoo one for anything either.

You can also import Evernote into Microsoft OneNote using this utility onenote.com/import-evernot…

Reminder: Apple Notes has a native import function for your Evernote data lifehacker.com/how-to-transfe…

Filmmakers and journalists ask camera companies to embrace encryption theverge.com/2016/12/14/139…

I had a dream that Apple finally released the AirPods, but that Trump won the election.

Went through and cleaned up a bunch of notification settings on my iPhone and Apple Watch tonight.

Alan Thicke died?! Damn. cbsnews.com/news/alan-thic…

Hey, I wonder how much battery life I have left? Wait a minute… macrumors.com/2016/12/13/mac…

More details about all the new Emoji in iOS 10.2 than you could probably want blog.emojipedia.org/ios-10-2-emoji…

Refreshing on Marbury v. Madison, as one does. Reminder that our government has been a hot mess for a long time.

AirPods being launched into more than 100 countries and territories apple.com/newsroom/2016/…

AIRPODS AIRPODS AIRPODS THIS IS NOT A DRILL

New “TV” app on Apple TV and iPad. 👍

The thing about Trump’s tweet about the F-35 costs being out of control, is that he’s probably right. It is sort of a mess of a project.

I wish IP geo-location stuff didn’t always think my Google Fiber connection is in Michigan.

Xcode 8.2 with support for macOS 10.12.2 is out, but not macOS 10.12.2, yet.