@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Technical Storyteller | Linux & Open Source Advocate | Product Marketing | Educator | Host of The IT Guy Show | Former Red Hat, GitLab
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@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyThat’s such a cool progression!
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyThats awesome, yeah, Linux has made it so easy to ditch Windows.
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyHaha, amazing! Gotta love those floppy installs.
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyFriday question: what was the first Linux distro you ever installed?
Mine involved a burned CD, a dial-up download that took most of a weekend, and about four hours of fighting X11 to get a graphical login that I immediately broke again.
Would not trade it […]
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyThere’s no fate but what we make.
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy#TechTipThursday: let git find the commit that broke it.
Something worked three weeks ago and doesn't now, and there are two hundred commits in between. Stop reading diffs:
git bisect start
git bisect bad
git bisect good abc1234
Git checks out the midpoint […]
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyA video is a wall. You can't skim it, you can't search it, and you can't tell from the thumbnail whether the forty minutes inside are worth your afternoon. That's why every episode I publish gets a short written companion post. Not a transcript. The spine of the thing, plus two or three moments […]
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyMonday: let's not deploy on Friday.
Friday at 4:47pm: it's a one line change, what could possibly happen.
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyTwo weeks back at GitLab and my brain is full.
It's that specific new job tired, where you haven't done anything physically demanding but you're wrecked by 5pm anyway. Turns out absorbing a thousand new things is work.
Weekend plan: dice, Ren Fair, and no […]
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy#TechTipThursday: stop committing five unrelated things at once.
You fixed a bug, renamed a variable, and left a debug line in there. git add . takes all of it. Instead:
git add -p
Git walks the change hunk by hunk and asks about each one. y to stage it, n […]
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyProductivity tip that quietly holds everything else together: the weekly review.
Thirty minutes, same slot every week. What did I say I'd do and didn't? What's sitting in my inbox pretending to be a task? What actually matters next week?
Every system I've […]
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyBeen a rough couple of years, and lately I've been daydreaming about relocating. New city, fresh start.
Can't move for about a year, so this is the research phase. East Coast hours means geography's wide open. Looking for walkable, a real live events scene […]
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyNew post: the episode guide I build before every podcast recording.
Recording is maybe a quarter of the work. The other three quarters is everything around it, and without a system every episode turns into chaos.
One document per episode. Built before you […]
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyA real commit history from a real project:
fix
fix again
actually fix
revert "actually fix"
please
WORKS
Squash before the merge request. Nobody needs to see what I went through.
#MemeMonday #Git #DevOps #Linux
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyFirst week back at GitLab, done.
New laptop, forty browser tabs, more acronyms than I can hold, and a calendar that filled itself in by Tuesday. Coming back somewhere you already know is a strange mix of familiar and brand new.
Weekend plan: absolutely […]
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy#TechTipThursday: you didn't actually lose that commit.
Bad rebase, hard reset, deleted branch. Before you panic:
git reflog
It's a log of everywhere HEAD has been, including commits that aren't on any branch anymore. Find the hash from before things went […]
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyFramework has no storefront. What it has is a laptop that ships with #Fedora on it and a screwdriver in the box.
Michael Tunnell joins us on Fedora Podcast 61 on the Laptop 12 and the Fedora KDE preload.
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyProductivity tip for anyone starting somewhere new: keep a list of everything that confuses you in the first month.
The acronym nobody explains. The process that needs four approvals. The doc that contradicts the other doc.
By week six you'll stop noticing […]
@itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyThe first time I watched a sales rep read a roadmap slide to a customer as guaranteed ship dates, I understood why product managers get twitchy. A roadmap is a statement of intent, not a calendar. And there's almost never just one. There's the messy internal version and the careful external one […]
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