johnnycarcin
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Posted by
johnnycarcin on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @09:37AM
from the ask-hn dept.
After 20+ years, I've recently come to the conclusion that I don't want to be in "IT" anymore. It is all I've ever done (sysadmin, dev, security), but I just don't enjoy it anymore. I've started to look around at other options, but as you would expect, the pay for non-tech roles is way lower than what I have grown accustomed to. I am looking to pay off all my debt before switching careers, but...
Well I certainly never expected my project's name to conflict with another "shitty static site generator" haha. I ended up swapping "shitty" for "stupid" however:
https://github.com/esell/sssgI started down the Go template route and quickly realized that pandoc + some other standard tools got me everything _I_ needed. It was a great learning experience for sure!
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johnnycarcin on Monday March 02, 2020 @11:23AM
from the speeduino.com dept.
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johnnycarcin on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:49PM
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johnnycarcin on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:16PM
from the show-hn dept.
Posted by
johnnycarcin on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @09:56AM
from the docs.alephdata.org dept.
coming back, i stumbled over this while looking at options:
https://docs.alephdata.org/. It is a bit more heavyweight than plain elasticsearch, but it has some nice additions that might make it worth it depending on your situation.
submitter here, just to be clear, i have no association with this company. i just happened to stumble across it today and thought others might enjoy it as well :)
Posted by
johnnycarcin on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:41AM
from the oldcomputerbooks.com dept.
While I love the idea, that price is totally insane. I don't see how anyone would be willing to pay that much for what is essentially a beta device. It seems that it is quite difficult to manufacture these devices, at a reasonable cost, without help from the big names :(
Posted by
johnnycarcin on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:52PM
from the github.com dept.
Yeah, the amount of data is pretty small in the grand scheme of things, maybe that is why i'm getting so hung up haha. Elasticsearch was actually the first thing I thought of so maybe I'll just go with that and see what happens...
Posted by
johnnycarcin on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @02:00PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Many HN folks deal with data problems, so I thought I'd ask: if you had to store and index less than 1TB of unstructured (plain text) data, what would you use?I have a bunch of text files and HTML pages that I'd like to dump into something and then be able to search over it, maybe even be able to find relationships (common terms, phrases, etc) between the various docs. I've heard of things like...
Posted by
johnnycarcin on Thursday November 28, 2019 @10:18AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Yes, there are a TON of existing static site generators out there, I know. I'd like to learn a new language/toolset and think a static site generator would be a fun project. Ideally the language would have good templating/macro/pre-processing support. It also can't be golang since that is my preferred language already.I'd also like to stay away from the more common languages like Python and...
Yeah, I'm not expecting a ton given the price point, I have my "real" machines for work.I would like an open and functional option for traveling, conferences etc though. Maybe it is because of delivery timelines or something, but I don't see many people reviewing these outside of initial unboxing type details...
Any real, day-to-day usage feedback on the PineBook Pro? I've looked around on their forum + reddit, and outside of a couple of reviews (mainly only a day or so into ownership), I haven't found much. This one seems to be the most in-depth so far:
http://students.engr.scu.edu/~sschaeck/misc/pinebookpro.html
put together a tiny wifi hacking/testing stick with my pi zero w. i added a USB plug on it so i can just plug it into my laptop, ssh directly to it (not via wireless), and then use the wifi on the pi to do my wifi hijinx :).
this way i keep my host systems wifi "clean" and can use the pi zero as a standalone device without having to worry about power cables, wifi connections, etc.
Posted by
johnnycarcin on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @12:16PM
from the esheavyindustries.com dept.
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Thanks for the response. Just curious, are you single or do you have a family who depends on your income? If the latter, how did your family handle the adjustment?
Posted by
johnnycarcin on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:54PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I feel like this is kind of a "everyone is different" or "duh, just do the math and figure it out" type question, but folks here have been super helpful previously so here goes...Has anyone, maybe those who have become burnt out, changed your industry (say from dev to forest ranger or something) later on in life (40+)? Did you search out a career that had similar pay or did you have to plan...
Wow, thank you everyone for your comments! Literally every comment has provided value and caused me to think a bit more on this. I appreciate all of your responses and hopefully this can help others in a similar situation.
That is a good point (location). I currently am located in Colorado.
Appreciate the reply!
With regards to what do I find interesting, honestly I would put offensive at the top of the list but I do have interests in the defensive side as well as the malware analysis. I am, what I believe, a "problem solver" by nature so I enjoy the idea of being given some unknowns and being told to go figure it out.
Posted by
johnnycarcin on Monday November 19, 2018 @11:34AM
from the ask-hn dept.
For the security folks out there, what is the market like? How much weight is put on having some of the various certifications out there?I have always had an interest in security, especially the red/blue team side of things as well as the forensics area. I have spent my entire career in the world of sysadmin/SRE/shitty dev however so nothing on my resume shows "security". The last couple of...
I'd like to hear about this as well. OpenBSD has been on my list of "to try" for quite awhile but the app/package thing has been a big question mark for me.
I _really_ enjoy being able to apt-get or brew install pretty much any of the applications out there and am a bit worried about how that experience would be on OpenBSD. I guess the best way to find out would be to try it eh? :)
With MSFT buying GitHub it'll be interesting how they spin this with their existing "Azure DevOps" pipeline(s) offering...
original author here, maybe giving some background will help explain why this was created (maybe it won't).
at a previous company we were doing the whole micro-services thing + CI/CD and all of the fun that comes with it. every time a service was compiled (dev, test and prod), a deb package was also created as that is how we did deployments. with many services being built on a fairly frequent basis, we ran into an issue using another setup that used s3 as the backing storage (sorry, i don't remember the name) where we were getting race conditions with regards to the repo metadata. that caused all sorts of fun issues during deployments. additionally, the uploading of packages via our build system was a bit clunky.
when i originally wrote this to solve our problems it really was pretty simple, just under 300 lines of actual code and was designed to "solve" the race condition caused by frequent uploads of multiple different packages AND expose the service as a rest endpoint which fit into our build system better.
since i originally wrote deb-simple a few people have come through and submitted AWESOME changes that have made deb-simple a bit more robust without impacting the overall functionality. some of those changes have made deb-simple a bit less... simple, but the trade-off has been well worth it :)
Posted by
johnnycarcin on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:13PM
from the show-hn dept.