Went to do gear and butt stuff today, ended up having to fix my OSSM. Somehow the dip switches got all messed up, and of course, I didn't document my settings (they are now). At least the whole weekend wasn't burned, I got a bunch of work on the maker wiki done. SOON!

There was one point where I wanted to work at Shopify, their platform was interesting, I knew a number of very skilled engineers there, and the company seemed to be run by competent individuals. Over the last couple years, that's been proven to be completely wrong, I hope the smart ones leave, fast

Seems like this may be really popular! I'll pick this project back up! All you great people keep me honest, and accountable, I hopefully will have something to start with available in a week or so!

Couldnt work, cause the internet was out, so instead I wrote a script to scrape the signal and log data from my modem every minute to prove to my ISP there definitely is a signalling issue on my cable line. Completely normal activity...

What do people think about having a kinky maker site? Somewhere those of us who make things related to kink could openly share our models, plans, links to code, etc... So we can all build, contribute and share our ideas under open source and/or CC licensing?

Our IT team is incompetent. The manager should be fired. Give me the team, fuck it, I'll do management shit at this point if it means I can get this shit better.

Doing a workshop on AI DLC, "Just remember, it's likely not going to do exactly what you expect, or the same every time" Yeah, that checks, and is completely unhinged for replicatable deployment.

It's been over a month since I've worn any gear. Mind you, I did have a flu the first week of Feb, and have been recovering since, but man am I craving gear time...

Influenza A/B as well as RSV are running rampant up here in Ontario, it's probably a good time to just stay home if you aren't feeling quite right. Don't spread it around, it sucks, and you don't want any of it.

I guess that key is supposed to be an "E"

Honestly, sometimes I miss this world. Then I run terraform and miss it more when trying to figure out why my remote state is all messed up on a critical ASG and ALB, where changing it is going to tear out all your infra at once (and along with it your remaining hair). I miss hardware sometimes.

Turns out I had a flu, 2 days bed ridden and my entire mouth is a canker sore. Guess what they said about this year's flu shot being mostly ineffective was right...

Woke up and everything hurt and was still exhausted after 7.5hrs of sleep. Maybe I need to take a day or two off...

Joint statement from Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees: In March 2026, Kubernetes will retire Ingress NGINX, a piece of critical infrastructure for about half of cloud native environments. This is an emergency. Please pay attention. kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01...

Joining the meshtastic world

I don’t give a shit how experienced you think you are. There is no way to do BC safely, your entire focus is on risk mitigation. All. The. Fucking. Time.

"Did you change the passwords after the last IT Admin left...?" Should not have to be a question I ask at 9:20 on a Friday.

If you have to schedule a 1 hour training session on how to do performance reviews as ICs, the process is way too complicated. 2026 is the year I start looking for new opportunities.

I have a love hate relationship with writing code for kink projects. I love to see and use the finished product, but the journey to get there is so damn long... I started building the chastity key lock box project I've been thinking about for several years...

What kind of boots should go with a Lion MT94?

Had a need...

If AI is so great, transformative and cost saving, where the hell is my 32 for 40hr pay work week?

Holy shit, MGM Resorts doesn't have client isolation enabled on their public wifi... What the absolute shit, guess they've done nothing after their crazy breach a few years ago...

No further comment... #awsreinvent2025

Now I know where our subscription fees go...

First day of my first re:invent

This one?

Also, how do you put your really hacky home automation into a repo to make it show you know what you're doing?

When most of your code samples are for sex toys, how do you share those with a potential employer, who is not at all related to that industry.

Dimensional aluminum extrusion is just industrial grade lego. Why did no one inform me of this earlier in my life... There's so many problems I could have solved!

Client-side Javascript is pretty much always the reason why everything is slow. It gets worse when ad networks get involved. The features of JS are great, but it's always slow. I say we bring back simple HTML from the early 2000's!

Looks like I may be going to Re:Invent... As much as I'm trying to avoid travel to the US, I've wanted to go to Re:Invent for many years, and I think I'd be crazy to turn it down.

This stuff is so cool. When I worked at BlackBerry we used to be able to watch big events in the relay and BBM traffic. New Years across timezones was really cool, and the Olympics was also something wild!

Bad deploy, broke dev. Blamed it on Azure even though we run on AWS. The internet is just a series of tubes man...

UPS fucking sucks. I'm fairly confident they lost my new phone and watch, and neither UPS or apple are willing to do anything yet, telling me to "just wait a few more days". It was out for delivery, and now it's vanished with the tracking not updating for 3 days saying "tomorrow". Great service...

I think my new phone is lost in the UPS aether... Was supposed to be delivered 2 days ago and the tracking has stopped... UPS doesn't know where it is, and all their agents say "system says delivery today".

I would love to be a fly on the wall in Amazon's incident bridge today

Happy annual US-East-1 outage day for those who celebrate...

392hrs, 14 minutes. Millions of parts, so many fuck ups, a lot of really kick ass looking factories. Phase 5 of project Assembly Complete. I've beaten Satisfactory. In a long history of gaming, the first game I've actually ever beaten. Time to start again!

Older picture, but I could go for some of this again. Chest-to-wrist restraints, muzzled, electro plug and strung up. This was a lot of fun, but ran into some issues (not related to the bondage) that ended up ending the scene early.

Not normal kinky thoughts for me, but... If someone could restrain me in rubber, edge me, unzip my crotch and then cum on my locked dick (multiple loads, from multiple people even), and then zip me up and keep me restrained and horny for a long while, I'd be in a world of bliss. Electro too!

Is it really locktober when you are permanently self locked? Just another day/week/month of self imposed lock down. It's taught me a lot about myself, I've learned how important my prostate is to me, and how much more I love the gear, bondage and process than the getting off.

Time to relax...

A hot water heated towel warmer has to be the best use of geothermal water on earth. Iceland is way ahead

I think I want to learn Icelandic. It seems like such a fun language

Another beautiful day to ride. All the families are out too

Hey Perforce, 🖕 Thanks for fucking with Puppet. @voxpupuli.bsky.social doing the good work here

Had 4 disks in 2 servers start throwing errors on Friday. Cue me replacing those with new SSDS, and replacing vmware esxi with proxmox this weekend. Didn't even get a chance to work on the stuff I wanted to 😔

Cloudflare sales call, they really like to jerk themselves off as to how their offerings are better than everyone else.