Andy Bakun

Gentleman Hacker; Artifex; Raconteur; At Large; Coder laureate; Victim of Arbitrariness; people think I'm a Consummate Snowball Artist
Every new RPC protocol contains an ad-hoc, under specified, bug-ridden, half-implementation of ASN1.
"talk about 'eventual consistency' while what is maintained is actually inconsistency"
Is there a plugin for Google Maps that lets you navigate with Cities: Skylines keybindings?
"Completion successful"
RT @hirojin: neither docker, nor any of the other (dev)ops silver bullets have actually revolutionized operations.
Arming the sysadmins. THAT would change ops - Aloof Schipperke
UncleDuke1969: "First day?" "Yup. What's the boss like?" "He's very flexible." "How so?" "He's always got his head up his ass & his foot in his mouth." - https://twitter.com/UncleDu...
cluedont: I was going to give up procrastinating for Lent but never got round to it. - https://twitter.com/cluedon...
• @jpetazzo This yeti, stylin' in a company T, greets you when you get off the elevator at the @easypost offices. http://t.co/l4ybZjbYEe
• @lusis Steam has used WebKit for almost 5 years according to these release notes. http://store.steampowered.com/uiupdat...
RT @peterseibel: "as the size of a codebase increases, the cost of recovering from technical debt increases non-linearly." http://static.googleusercontent.com/media...
doltEvan: You really want to imagine a world where, due to e-books, there are no physical books on shelves to activate secret doors. - https://twitter.com/doltEva...
Spot on. "Choose Boring Technology" ~ @mcfunley http://mcfunley.com/choose-... http://t.co/rOmAlvCEEc
Been saying these things for years. "The unheralded social advantages of real hardware" https://twitter.com/mcfunle...
moonpolysoft: Request a demo to sign up! … did you just tell me to go fuck myself? - https://twitter.com/moonpol...
— @patrickdebois A library that abstracts connecting via SRV records has been on my list for a while. An NSS plugin might be a good start.
"…controlling their Dunning-Kruger until they mature into Impostor Syndrome"
GonzoHacker: Install a moat of boring around the really important decisions - https://twitter.com/GonzoHa...
current status: invoking "subfunction 7"
— @sidereelLeah That's called "local maxima". It's a load road.
— @sidereelLeah I think they call this "top of your game". Let's hope it's not "when you peaked".
— @jkottke "Golden Tastebuds"
The Big Bang is going down - Boing Boing - http://boingboing.net/2015...
This is just a cool image. - Andy Bakun
Ghostbuster dog by SorciasLair on Etsy - https://www.etsy.com/listing...
fart: if you are a baby owner, i would say the time when they are just starting to talk and do stuff is "Peak Baby" - https://twitter.com/fart...
plopadop: In my Pulitzer-winning fanfiction the battle between Mario and Sonic parallels the real-life battle between socialism and capitalism. - https://twitter.com/plopado...
nobert: Indiana's "religious freedom" legislation sounds stupid at first but if you think about it, it's actually way stupider. - https://twitter.com/nobert...
moonpolysoft: The Once and Future Trinet Employee - https://twitter.com/moonpol...
BuckyIsotope: Life is a Highway: controlled by the government, filled with giant craters, covered in garbage, and always leads to a dead end. - https://twitter.com/BuckyIs...
jaykreps: The irony of distributed systems is that data loss is really easy but deleting data is surprisingly hard. - https://twitter.com/jaykrep...
faris: “@joshgreenman: It's going to be funny when the same state passes both a "religious freedom" law and a sharia law ban.” - https://twitter.com/faris...
Isn't Arkansas such a state? - Anika
RT @coda: @moonpolysoft That's how I invented the "Sink The Bismuth", which is room-temp pear vodka with a splash of Pepto-Bismol in it.
RT @sox117: Never have truer words been written haha http://t.co/W8xGNszjiO