Very cool! One note: the random sample marked: 'Using a string "true" instead of a boolean true' leaves "true" as a string after parsing, instead of converting to an actual boolean.
To a novice it appears not to work if you've hit Ctrl+S in your terminal to suspend output, for example. Ctrl+Q to release your terminal, Ctrl+C to return control to Vi if something else has it, Esc to get into normal mode if you're not already there.
Thanks for clarifying. I understand this is a bit different, but if folks are using vim, the best resource (in my opinion) for novices is vimtutor. Just type "vimtutor" in the console. It uses an interactive tutorial to explain the basics of editing, saving, moving around — plus the various modes.
* update my hosts file to block sites that suck me in (youtube, reddit and maybe even this one).
* listen to music with no vocals. For whatever reason, vocals distract me from thinking. I often use brain.fm or a "synthwave" set of songs on Spotify.
* write my ideas for architecture/code down on paper and check them off one-by-one. Then handwriting helps me.
The list helps me a lot, if my tasks are linear. But I sympathize in general that it’s not always possible. Rewriting lists when I’m almost there seems to be key.
Breaking down “evaluate framework choices, by making small prototypes” was one I had the other day. First pass was discouraging, because I discovered 3 new frameworks in the course of executing my plan.
Makes sense. But I guess what ultimately worked was rewriting my list once I was half-way into a flow. Once I could actually see all of the puzzle pieces, some switch flipped.
At least they’re in SOS mode. When Rogers in Canada had a total blackout (cellular, home internet, MPLS, corp circuits, their radio stations , everything), phones showed zero bars, but the towers were still powered on and doing some minimum level of handshake so phones didn’t go into SOS mode.
If you tried to make a 9-1-1 call, it would just fail. It wouldn’t fail over to another network because the towers were still powered up but unable to do anything, and Rogers couldn’t power them down because their internal stuff was all down.
Like a day later they said you could remove your SIM card to do a 9-1-1 call. Thanks guys.
Of course, no real info from the provider during the outage. Turns out they did an enterprise-risking upgrade on a Friday morning and nobody at the org seemed to have a “what if this fails plan”. CTO was on vacation and roaming phones were black too and he thought it was just an issue for him.
Some people earlier on this morning said they couldn't make 911 calls. I wonder if it was the same issue and perhaps AT&T cut the towers completely pending a fix. Purely speculation.
Our land-based internet with a different [large] ISP went out about 18 hours before this stuff with wireless started, and is still going on. We've been getting similar contradictory messaging the whole time, and they seem confused about what's causing it. We got a message a couple of hours ago it had been resolved and then 30 minutes later said it was not.
It could be entirely coincidental and unrelated to the stuff with other networks, but the timing was odd and I have never ever seen anything like this outage from them. I can think of one time it was out for around 2 hours in the last 5 years, and it was with a very specific infrastructural upgrade they knew about.
I'm seeing a variety of outages listed there as of 08:30 Pacific, mostly landline. There are a couple wireless outages shown in Sonoma (and listed as impacting Sonoma and Ventura counties). The initial cause is shown as "maintenance activity".
Great article. Love the interactivity. One thing that really helped me understand CSS positioning (and centering) years ago was reading about the box model. Understanding the box model helps you determine flow within the DOM. The `display` and `position` CSS properties are also fundamental to learning about positioning. MDN has great articles on these!
This looks great. I spend a good amount of time each week grepping through Kubernetes log files. Looking forward to trying this out next week. I particularly like the pretty-print and merge options.
