Hey Breck, I was one of those staying on your couch. Had a great time and yes, without AirBNB wouldn't have been able to connect to great people around the Bay Area.
I know we're talking about penguins here, but watching the BBC video made me remember a flat mate at uni who told me about the BCC covering the Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino. (Yes that's right. Spagehtti-Harvest.) He was really disappointed to learn later in life that 'Spaghetti don't grow on trees'. https://youtu.be/tVo_wkxH9dU
I would love to give Terraform a spin. However one thing our team needs is support for Ansible. If you look at https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/2661, radekg has worked on an Ansible Provisioner, but it looks like not many people know about it. Could some of your team maybe look at the following pull request https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/pull/19021 and help radekq to ship the Ansible Provisioner? Thanks!
Hey, thanks for the shout-out! I'm doing what I can to make the provisioner work as reasonably as possible. It would be awesome to get it into the core, but indeed, there's no pick up from Hashicorp. It might be that Ansible is just too wide of a scope to settle on one man's implementation, there are so many different workflows for Ansible, some of which going way past the Terraform provisioner.
It's easy to imagine that merging my PR would open a Pandora's box, leading to people requesting full Ansible support, without really thinking through if they make sense in the context of Terraform.
The one thing that would make sense for Hashicorp, is to figure out how to distribute provisioners, similar to https://registry.terraform.io for modules. Distributing provisioners faces the following problems:
Thanks for the contribution. So we definitely want to get Ansible in and there is a lot of pressure to do so. At this time the focus is 100% on 0.12 core and then we're going to take a look at provisioners again. Sorry for the delay.
Using Ubuntu in our development and production environment. It's rock solid. However might switch to Kubuntu as it appears to have better HiDPI support through plasma compared to gnome.
You should also consider KDE Neon, an 18.04 base but KDE/Plasma directly from the devs. If you use Snaps for your useland tools you have very stable base and a super up-to-date userland. I'm very happy with it.
Just wanted to add my support for KDE neon. I used kubuntu back in 16.04 and switched to neon instead.of the next LTS kubuntu and I haven't regretted it. Plasma feels a lot more stable and up to date than it did with kubuntu and I haven't had any problems since switching.
In Stephen King's book 'The Stand', he comes to the same conclusion: Doctors and surgeons to keep people from dying. Mechanical and civil engineers trying to get electricity back up etc. Groups of people will fiercely fight for 'this talent' and do whatever it takes to keep it.
Here is a bookmarlet[1] that will allow you to bypass paywalls. What it does is redirect you to FB outgoing page. Since news networks allow Facebook users to see their entire content, you get access to the article.
In my case, I believe I managed to identify the root cause: 90% of the work I do is slightly over my head. As a bootstrapped solo founder and to stretch out the money I saved up I must do a lot of the tasks myself, which you would usually hire a specialist to do. This is not restricted to the technical aspect of my business but also concerns the legal, financial and sales side. So, imagine you’re a top of the line DBA with many years of experience and I ask you to take care of the front-end of the app as well as the backend, deal with the GDPR (without the help of a lawyer) and figure out sales in a market where traditional sales don’t work, you will eventually spread yourself thin. Now, this is how I overcome the challenge: as soon as I get a task which I don’t know how to tackle e.g. getting a firm grasp on double taxation avoidance agreements and procrastination sets in because I’m unsure where to get started, I break everything down into a single task and try to conquer it. Depending on the complexity of the task and lack of my knowledge how to tackle it the greater the procrastination. That procrastination, however, helps me, in turn, to process the task in ‘the background’ until I find a way to get started. Not sure if this makes sense, or if it is just me. On the other hand, constantly working on different tasks across professions has helped me to quickly learn the fundamentals of each sector/topic/issue/field. If it is really needed I can still consult with a specialist and save some money, because there is a baseline for discussion and I know exactly what I need/want.
Like us. We started a newish project on Rails and couldn't be happier. 90% of the app's job is to do CRUD. Wouldn't want to use any other framework for that job.
