Here's what Tiggi.es Web UI looks like after a bunch of CSS work! Waiting on another commission to replace my profile pic with some woofs, tigs, yerfs, etc. with an orange highlight.

If Tiggi.es users notice a little latency, ATT in Austin overall is having some issues with routing. It may impact some greater than others. I've coordinated wth a few others in Austin and have provided data for ATT to address. It should be resolved sometime on Monday. Most might not notice […]

Did more Tiggi.es CSS work. Added mouseovers to the post action buttons, made hashtags and links to users mentioned in posts the same burnt sienna to match the rest of the scheme, changed the @Mention and @Reply text in the notifications column to match the blue reply action. Also got rid of the […]

Did some more tweaking of the Tiggi.es WebUI to re-enable responsive columns on resize within reason, and didn't break the multi-column holrizontal scrolling.

Celebratory porkchop lunch with my sister and her family.

Decided to be Houston Burrs today. @VictorKoopa needed stuff picked up and there are a few things I’d like to pick up.

Made the action items a little more easy to discern by color on Tiggi.es WebUI.

@adronia Made all of the icons more easily discernable.

@adronia I changed the star color.

[Work stuff, reflection, etc.] A little reflection on my promotion... Do I feel I deserve it? Yeah, I kinda do. Do I feel that I'm lucky to have had things line up that I can be in a role where I can drive an engineering team forward? Also, yes. But would it have "just happened?" - No. I had […]

Burrs just got promoted today. 🐻🎉

And it looks like I fixed it.

Working on fixing the streaming service...

Got a good call this morning while putzing around with Maston

Still hacking at it..ugh.

Still trying to work out some CSS bugs.

Sorry for the weirdness this morning - Tiggi.es is now updated to Mastodon 4.5.0! - I had to do a brief restore from a snapshot, so we lost ~30 seconds of data. Shouldn't be a big deal. There were a few dependency updates I needed to manage. I've had to do some CSS updating because I don't want […]

[Rando shitpost…] Your friendly reminder to: SEE ROCK CITY

Burrs took a SuperMoon pic tonight. #supermoon #moon #photography

Might go to Dallas tomorrow after work. Need a little getaway.

PSA: I’m still a burr. As you were.

Short ATT outage again tonight. Escalating this and likely going to Be moved to a less problematic splitter soon.

At work, I need to constantly remind myself that no matter what I do, there's a "power" disparity between me and the folks on my team. And I need to try and be gentle to folks, since a look or word can make or break their day. My work life, as told by Disney Memes...

[AI Mention, commentary] I'm increasingly finding that another thing that really bothers me about AI, is that rather then people intelligently leveraging AI as a tool that can be idiotic sometimes, and being responsible for its output, they see it as a tool to have them do work "more easily" in […]

They sell ice cream. Just for Burrs. And I acquired some. My weekend is complete.

Wow, I sold an OLED monitor on FlakeBook Marketplace and the guy didn't even try to talk me down on price. I'd already come down a lot. Once I demo'd it to him, he wanted it and was sold. Helped that we had the original box for it and I ran RGBW burn-in tests to show him it's in good shape […]

The European market has Tig and Yerf cereal.

[Tigs] Tigs keep on telling me I deserve better tigs than them, so I remain tigless.

I've got 3 uses available on this invite for https://tales.tiggi.es - https://tales.tiggi.es/invite/T7nypm Use it to write stories, tech documents, fiction, nonfiction, thoughts, instructions, whatever you'd like. We're using WriteFreely, so you can share on any social media of your choice […]

Another sticker, Burrs taking care of @Vanvidum 's orange deficiency. :)

[Drawing, eye contact, burrs] New Didneyfied Burr sticker from @[email protected] @[email protected]

Stopped in a French bakery to get some cwasso - the French guy at the counter told me “your Cologne…I sold high end fragrances in France for 10 years. That is Hermès. You have great taste, Sir.” I told him, “No one has ever spotted it before. I’m impressed!” He replied, “My nose does not lie!” […]

Tommy is having a rest after being tired from a week of resting. #caturday #flamepointsiamese #orangecat #pets

Fixed a dumb issue with Tales.Tiggi.es, our WriteFreely instance. It was throwing generic errors on subscribe attempts. Tracked it down to a “10 second timeout.” Like everything else, we run our own mail server here. That server is configured to delay greetings by 20 seconds to help mitigate […]

Happy Benji The Cat Day! 🌙🐈‍⬛🎃 #halloween #blackcat #pets

Looks like I've got 2 Quality Engineering roles opening up. Remote US/Canada Technical requirements: * 3-7 Years working in a Quality Engineering or related role * Author/Own/Execute test cases across front and back-end services * Meet regularly with customer-facing leads, be the voice of […]

The Litter Robot 5/Pro have cameras so you can spy on your cat, and AI so it can "detect" whether they are going #1 or #2. Though no litter hopper (a practical accessory) is available yet. I'm not sure I trust AI to diagnose my cats noisy pictures taken in a dark […] [Original post on tiggi.es]

[Work stuff, positions opening up] May be posting some remote quality engineer roles on my team here soon. If anyone knows of any folks who are good with testing event driven architecture (Kafka) with lots i of Linux/Kubernetes experience, excellent test documentation skills, and a passing […]

I’d like to live in a world again where folks don’t conflate experience with content. Content is nearly infinitely scalable and immediately available. Real experience has texture. It’s often not completely repeatable. It can’t be played at 2x speed. But it feels like we’re undergoing cultural […]

Tonkatsu wants you to join the dark side. It has a warm.

Welcome @crazyyellowfox to Tiggi.es! :)

Tonkatsu wants you to join the dark side. It has a warm.

I love how Mouser explicitly breaks out tariffs in their checkout. It’s unambiguous who’s paying it.

[Enterprise storage stuff] It's amazing just how much critical IT infrastructure relies on SAS still. Even the latest LTO drives are all SAS or Fiber Channel. Caching hot data for large data sets to NVMe is a thing, as is keeping datasets that are small enough to fit on NVMe, or workloads that […]

You know you’ve been chronically around furries when someone mentions they bought a new pillow and your initial thought is to ask what kind of daki it is. When it’s actually like, you know. A pillow.

One advantage of going LTO8 for backups - I can get a smaller safe deposit box at the credit union for offsite backups. Getting space for 46 tapes is much more expensive (and painful to manage) than just 12.

Acquaintences be like: "I just bought a new RTX 5080/5090 GPU so I can game in 4k/240Hz!" Burrs be like: I just bought an LTO-8 tape drive. Acquaintences be like: Uh...why are you spending money on tape? Burrs: *exhale*

Just renewed my 3-Node Proxmox licenses for another year. It's not cheap, but I'd rather support them than have them feel the need to become another VMWare. Not cheap, but (some..) of you guys are worth it. ;)

I've made some changes to the authoritative DNS servers for Tiggi.es, Wuffi.es, and other domains hosted (including the one hosting our primary and secondary DNS servers) to add resolvers for the following geographies: USA (Austin, TX) @ here - 2 Existing DNS Servers USA (New York) New USA […]

Just made another investment in the infrastructure behind Tiggi.es. To do complete backups of nearly 200TB of Data required multiple sets of tapes in our 23 tape library (23 tapes + 1 cleaning tape) and its LTO-6 tape drive. I’ve just upgraded one of the drives from an LTO-5 that we no longer […]