Thursday, January 9, 2020
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 a consultant I'd deployed VBR for customers more times than I can count. Bringing iced water to the hot masses.
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.
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
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 Wikipedia: Peter Ferdinand Drucker (/ˈdrʌkər/; German: [ˈdʀʊkɐ]; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation.
Monday, January 6, 2020
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 is writing more. I didn’t write as much as I’d like but it’s been really helpful to articulate my thoughts.
Saturday, January 4, 2020
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. However, the same build on my wife’s Mac, also running Catalina, never came anywhere near that even during what could be described only as “aggressive emailing.
Friday, January 3, 2020
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 institutions. Culture doesn’t make sense, to anyone from outside. Culture is common sense, to anyone embedded in it. To understand and work with a large organization, let go of trying to make sense of it.
Thursday, January 2, 2020
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 been a slow learner. I was working as a university system systems administrator. I was severely underpaid. — Michael Stanclift ⎋ (@vmstan) December 3, 2019 The question that prompted this blog post.
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
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 can be angry at cruelty, angry at the forces destroying democracy for their own corrupt power, angry at the malevolences driving our climate crisis.
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?
Wednesday, December 25, 2019 →
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.