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Quick git worktrees

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:11:16 +0000

Quick git worktrees

You’re in your repo on some other branch and need a quick clone?

Create

git worktree add ../<path> <branch>

git worktree add ../$(basename $(pwd))-main main
cd ../$(basename $(pwd))-main

git switch -c my-new-feature-branch

Clean up

git worktree remove $(basename $(pwd))-main

sqlite3 Frequent Commands

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:04:17 +0000

sqlite3 Frequent Commands

Tables and Schema

.tables
.schema user

Pretty Print / Columns / Headers

Column mode turns on columns all on it’s own.

.headers on

ward_id|ward_num
1|6

.mode column
ward_id  ward_num
-------  --------
1        6

.width 10 10
ward_id     ward_num
----------  ----------
1           6

Using 1Password SDK with External Secrets Operator

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:53:18 +0000

Using 1Password SDK with External Secrets Operator

https://external-secrets.io/latest/provider/1password-sdk/

The downside with the upstream docs is it’s a copy and paste from the deprecated Connect Server documentation. It does not cover setting up authenticating to 1Password at all. Do we still need Connect in some way? Service Accounts?

We’ll be following part 1 from the SDK setup tutorial (https://developer.1password.com/docs/sdks/setup-tutorial) and then where part 2 starts using Node, we’ll configure External Secrets Operator.

(Optional) Create a vault to use with External Secrets operator. In this example we’ve made one called k8s.
Log into your 1Password account online
Create a service account for 1Password:
1. https://my.1password.com/developer-tools/infrastructure-secrets/serviceaccount
2. Give the account a name (eg. eso)
3. Grant read only access only to the vault you created. Service accounts can’t be modified after they’re created. If you need to make changes, revoke the service account and create a new one.
4. Save the token to a different vault in 1Password. We will need to inject this into Kubernetes so ESO can use it. There is a helpful “Save in 1Password” button right there to do it as well.
(Optional) Create a secret to test with: op item create --category login --title "test-login-1" --vault "k8s" 'username=example' 'password=password'
Inject the service account token into your cluster so K8s can connect. You can either use kubectl apply to apply a yaml file or do it as a one liner.

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: onepassword-eso
type: Opaque
stringData:
  token: |-
BASE_64'd_TOKEN_VALUE_SAVED_IN_STEP_3

kubectl create secret generic onepassword-eso \
    --from-literal=token='TOKEN_VALUE_SAVED_IN_STEP_3' \
--namespace external-secrets

Create your secret store and optionally, the example item to confirm it works:

---
apiVersion: external-secrets.io/v1
kind: SecretStore
metadata:
  name: 1password-sdk
spec:
  provider:
    onepasswordSDK:
      vault: k8s
      auth:
        serviceAccountSecretRef:
          name: onepassword-eso
          key: token

---
apiVersion: external-secrets.io/v1
kind: ExternalSecret
metadata:
  name: fetch-from-onepassword
spec:
  secretStoreRef:
    kind: SecretStore
    name: 1password-sdk
  target:
    creationPolicy: Owner
  data:
    - secretKey: test-login-1
      remoteRef:
        key: test-login-1/username

Last let’s check the value:

kubectl get secret -n external-secrets fetch-from-onepassword -o jsonpath='{.data.test-login-1}' | base64 --decode

Enabling IPv6 with Telus on a Unifi Express

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 01:17:39 +0000

Enabling IPv6 with Telus on a Unifi Express

Internet Settings Page

Setting	Value
IPv6 Connection	DHCPv6
Prefix Delegation Size	56

Network Settings

Click the IPv6 tab!

Setting	Value
Interface Type	Prefix Delegation
Prefix Delegation Interface	`<name of your WAN>`

Once the prefix delegation goes through you’ll see your /56 show up below Gateway IP/Subnet.

Using the auto settings (SLAAC) works great for my home network.

Recipes for Pegasus

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:22:54 +0000

Recipes for Pegasus

Hario Pegasus

See the V60 - very similar, same settings.

Dino Balidoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1__9Xu5jBY

A modified version of the 4:6 method (brewed 92C and lower temp on last pour), and agitate at end.

1:14 ratio 20g coffee 280g water

Aim for 3 minute brew time.

Bloom with 60g, let sit for 30 seconds
Second pour of 50g
Third pour of 60g
Fourth pour of 50g
Fifth pour (80C) of 60g, agitate

Recipes for Suiren

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:22:31 +0000

Recipes for Suiren

Hario Suiren

Recipes same as V60?

West of Centre - The problem with GDP per capita

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:40:11 +0000

West of Centre - The problem with GDP per capita

No notes recorded - title says it all

West of Centre - Short: The problem with GDP per capita

https://overcast.fm/+AAXSpwsKxMI
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-407-west-of-centre/clip/16159103-short-the-problem-gdp-per-capita

iCloud Tab Data

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:47:38 +0000

iCloud Tab Data

Your iCloud shared tab data is saved in a sqlite database on your computer.

While it used to live in ~/Library/Safari/CloudTabs.db, it now lives at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Safari/CloudTabs.db (a lot of things have moved to ~/Library/Containers over the years to wall them off from the rest of the system without permission)

All the Tabs One Liner

sqlite3 ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Safari/CloudTabs.db 'select url from cloud_tabs'

Prettifying JSON with Zed with an unsaved file

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:31:15 +0000

Prettifying JSON with Zed with an unsaved file

cmd+k, m, , cmd+shift+i

Source: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4858#issuecomment-2189888214

Deleting an item from Atuin's history

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 20 May 2025 18:12:49 +0000

Deleting an item from Atuin’s history

Find the item using the interactive search:

atuin search -i <something>

Open the item using Control-O
Delete the item using Control-D
Quit by using Control-D again

Heavy Strategy - 086 - Next Highlights

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:21:57 +0000

Heavy Strategy - 086 - Next Highlights

10:45 - “How if scientists want people to understand what they’re learning, what they’re trying to learn, they need to be telling the story themselves. Because when other people tell the stories of the sciences, they tend to either get it wrong or shape it towards their own ends rather than having it being about science.”
11:30 - facts don’t change minds. Facts in the context of a story change minds
17:46 - user story rationale. The importance of explaining why.

Heavy Strategy - HS086: [Next] Highlights: Drone to Titan, and More!

https://overcast.fm/+AAkr1YsRjRo
https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/heavy-strategy/hs086-next-highlights-drone-to-titan-and-more/

CBC Ideas - How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:15:34 +0000

CBC Ideas - How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

3:40 the only way to be a faithful…

5:30 - Imperial US evangelicalism 6:48 - the victim/persecution complex is fundamental to evangelicalism

24:00 - the undercurrent and basis for why white was used in the title. It was inherently racist and patriarchal despite its ability for folks of colour or women to use the church as an organization for good. Until it became inconvenient for the march towards taking power. 25:45 - the myth of colour blind Christians. 30:30- the efficacy of evangelicals at gate keeping and erasing history

Ideas - How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

https://overcast.fm/+AAAAcT6APh4
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/jesus-and-john-wayne-white-evangelical-christians-1.7355223

Cisco SecureClient (AnyConnect), macOS, DNS, and IPv6

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:39:32 +0000

Cisco SecureClient (AnyConnect), macOS, DNS, and IPv6

So you don’t have native IPv6 but now you have IPv6 via your VPN and DNS/connections just won’t work?

Welcome to a macOS feature that’s been around since 2018 to ignore IPv6 if your primary interface doesn’t support it.

While this was fixed for a bit in macOS 13.4 it came back.

Run BEFORE you connect to the VPN:

sudo scutil --disable-service-coupling on

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 508 - Leadership and Capacity: A Deep Dive into Modern Management

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:02:16 +0000

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 508 - Leadership and Capacity: A Deep Dive into Modern Management

Improvement is a deliberate effort. Leaders can “only actually” manage confidence (in people, org) and capacity (extensibility).

The gotcha of running too lean means you don’t have the capacity to problem solve, and makes everything brittle and fail catastrophically.

Make it safe to fail.

Finding where capacity is low can be more effective than looking for where there is risk. Having the capacity to manage the risk. Eg. Wanting to have your people to deal with the unexpected.

If you’re having difficulty developing - check if you have the correct definition of the problem.

The advantage of asking how and not just why as a leader. N

PreAccident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 508 - Leadership and Capacity: A Deep Dive into Modern Management

https://overcast.fm/+AAtF0A6NSfQ
https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/e/leadership-and-capacity-a-deep-dive-into-modern-management/

Software Misadventures - Ditching the rules to build a team that lasts with Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 06:09:37 +0000

Software Misadventures - Ditching the rules to build a team that lasts with Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck

Honest, in depth look at making curious teams that last and the importance of not letting yourself myopically only looking at one portion of a business.

Why to ask someone’s happiest time in interviews, and the importance of folks empowered by helping others. That gratification and validation is not only at promotion time.

The importance of transparency - how open meetings and recorded meetings can help with that.

Software Misadventures - Ditching the rules to build a team that lasts | Bryan Cantrill, Steve Tuck (Oxide)

https://overcast.fm/+AAmkoobweI8
https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/oxide-ditching-the-rules

Alberta Advantage Podcast - Imagined Alberta - Western Canadian National Fantasies

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:29:15 +0000

Alberta Advantage Podcast - Imagined Alberta - Western Canadian National Fantasies

A fantastic academic exploration of the evolution of the fringe view of Western Canadian exceptionalism that our current provincial government subscribes to.

Alberta Advantage Podcast - Imagined Alberta: Western Canadian National Fantasies

https://overcast.fm/+AAKvqowGmN4
https://albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/03/02/imagined-alberta-western-canadian-national-fantasies/

CBC Ideas - On Culture Wars in Christianity

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:44:49 +0000

CBC Ideas - On Culture Wars in Christianity

06:00 - “culture war is internalized in religious communities when we are susceptible to what I’m gonna call ideological capture” “ideological capture is when we become the sorts of people for whom we think what makes us who we are, our identity, is what we know, what we believe, the truths that we proclaim. But here’s the piece that I think we often don’t appreciate. I think it’s also very, very, very important for us to be seen as the people who know those things.”

10:40 - “If we recover the thickness and almost the kinesthetic aspects of being a believer, ironically, we wouldn’t think of it as just believing. It would be about loving and longing and desiring. And this is what the spiritual adventure is about.”

16:40 - “What I’m more interested in is then all of the religious folks and Christians who have to go through the work of rationalization of why they would then support this person who is utterly cynical about such things, I think, but they have to do a sort of internal rationalization in which they know this is symbolizing that this is someone who’s going to fight for our interests.”

21:00 - “third way here is not just some brokered compromise between the two poles. Instead, the third way requires a kind of new level of consciousness and self-consciousness where we recognize ourselves anew because we can see ourselves locked in this polar mirror opposite wrangling. And in that sense, the third way recognizes the gifts and goods that each of the poles represent.”

23:21 - “I’m really intrigued by your suggestion, because in many ways, I think those moments of Jesus’ discourse are the moments in which he’s trying to implode our tendency to set up everything as binaries.”

The rest doesn’t fit with quotes but explores mysticism, exploring, and finding communion.

41:30 - “The question we should be asking ourselves in the midst of the culture wars is not what do you believe, what do you think, what do you know? It should be asking, what are we afraid of?”

Ideas - On Culture Wars in Christianity

https://overcast.fm/+AAAAcRns4Bw
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/culture-wars-christianity-james-smith-1.7225356

Heavy Strategy - 073 - Failure and Resilience

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:30:11 +0000

Heavy Strategy - 073 - Failure and Resilience

Ned @ 3:30 - “But when they say, I dropped out of college and look how well it worked out for me, there’s a lot of asterisks after that. So it’s important to bear in mind that failure itself is not a great thing. It’s the way in which you fail and what you learn from that failure that actually helps you succeed later.”

Greg @ 6:00 - Has an interesting point that it’s a mistake to treat failure casually - to let it become an abrogation of responsibility.

My note: I think this is a bit of pointing out “move fast and break things” has tradeoffs, and hand waving away the negatives is irresponsible. Also underscores an importance to understand the scope of your failure compared to a mistake.

Kyler in response - “Well, I like that idea. I think that mindset of no matter what I do, whether I succeed or fail, I have learned, which means this is a success, makes you very resilient”

My note: There’s no short pithy answer to underline that failure is not good - but you can definitely build from it.

Greg @ 11:00 - Interesting point on top of the family side - did working those extra hours take an opportunity away from someone else?

Joanna @ 14:50 - schedule messages on Slack and don’t feed an imbalance that contributes to a toxic environment.

Ned @ 20:45 summarizing Joanna’s story - “It’s what you do in after a failure that sort of defines how you look at it in retrospect. So you decided to make a decision to try to make it better as opposed to just kind of covering it up and not talking about it.”

Kyler @ 24:30 has a good story on how not owning up and the cover up is a million times worse than the initial issue.

28:00 - touches on intellectual safety - NTSB rules, 5 whys, rubber duck debugging, etc.

If it’s a systemic problem, putting it on an individual to fix it may not be the right answer. But there is no perfect process.

Joanna @ 36:30 - “at some point, you have to depend on people to do the right thing, regardless of what the process is, which means they need to internalize what the right thing is. And that’s much more complicated than it sounds. It’s something we actually do a lot of training on.

There’s a whole concept called mission command that has to do with, why are you doing what you’re doing? And whose mission is it? And whose mission is that in support of? And how do the missions join together?”

Heavy Strategy - HS073: Failure and Resilience

https://overcast.fm/+AAkr1bEotm8
https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/day-two-devops/heavy-strategy-failure-and-resilience/

Heavy Strategy - 072 - Making Distributed Work Successful

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 23:26:42 +0000

Heavy Strategy - 072 - Making Distributed Work Successful

01:30 - the difference between distributed vs remote. Remote/hybrid assume there is a correct place for where work gets done. Distributed accepts work gets done where the worker is

06:00 - team building has changed. We don’t have management by walking around anymore.

07:00 - video calls require change.

One option - good meeting hygiene. What is the point of this meeting? What do we need to get out of it? How do we avoid the meeting being the start of the discussion about something OR make it clear that is the point.

Is this done with a pre-meeting? Amazon like read the briefing notes at the start of the meeting?

On the other side and something not discussed is how do we offer space for organic discussion?

13:00 - treat meeting time as far more precious.

14:00 - “It’s just that in person, we’ve been cheating and treating time as free, because essentially, once you’re on the clock, you’re in the office, we basically pretend like your time is worth nothing. And the real issue with distributed work is all of a sudden, people are realizing how long it does or doesn’t take to get stuff done.”

24:00 - example of distributed work

Heavy Strategy - HS072: Making Distributed Work Successful

https://overcast.fm/+AAkr1Y0Vyhk
https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/heavy-strategy/hs072-making-distributed-work-successful/

CBC Ideas - The Return of Inequality - Lessons of History

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 04:49:52 +0000

CBC Ideas - The Return of Inequality - Lessons of History

The exploration on how wealth inequality is reaching breaking points and how this is part of liberal democracy’s largest existential threats.

12:20 - in Canada 1% have 37% of the income growth.

“David Hulchansky, who’s a professor of housing and social work at the University of Toronto, has written a fascinating study entitled The Three Cities Within Toronto about the geographic distribution of inequality and the gradual creation of an island of wealth surrounded by poor suburbs.”

“even more alarming for me is the source and the nature of today’s inequality and in particular how it’s undermining the meritocratic values that are so crucial for liberal democracy to thrive.”

And following this how the inequality leads to your inheritance being the primary determinant for your wealth and success.

“Individuals will become better off not primarily through a lifetime of hard work, as suggested by the American Dream, but through how much capital they inherit.”

21:30 - increases in mental illness, drug addiction, obesity, loss of community life, etc. all increase with an increase in inequality.

The effects of inequality damage our social fabric - especially when it creates an inequality of opportunity. (Eg. Having to buy your way into things)

24:30 - “the vast majority within the 1% pursue what economists call rent seeking, appropriating a greater share of the existing pie rather than enlarging the pie. And many derive their wealth from connections, whether familiar or political.”

26:00 - “there’s a feedback loop that’s been established whereby economic inequality translates into political inequality and political inequality creates further social stratification.”

40:00 - a good reminder how fragile liberal democracy is and its weakness to being overconfident it’s structures will help it survive.

43:00 - we don’t talk about the positives anymore because inequality has destroyed them. And because of that - it leads to anger, frustration for some, and extreme entitlement for others.

45:20 - “researchers consistently found that as levels of wealth increase, feelings of entitlement also rise, and levels of empathy and obligation towards others decline. … statistically speaking, the tendency to look out for number one increases as a person rises to the top of the status hierarchy”

This leads right into the research showing more expensive cars are more likely to break the rules of the road - failing to stop

48:05 - “Having more means that you can rely less on others, leading in turn to a reduced feeling that you owe anyone anything.”

Ideas - The Return of Inequality | Lessons of History

https://overcast.fm/+AAAAcSWF8qk
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16066042-the-return-inequality-or-lessons-history

It Shipped That Way - Continuous Discovery Habits, with Teresa Torres

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:41:27 +0000

It Shipped That Way - Continuous Discovery Habits, with Teresa Torres

5:20 - the reminder to remember the context of the advice that comes out of FAANG companies and the survivorship bias intrinsic in it.

6:30 - focus on what leads to good decisions

8:45 - you have agency to change your habits even if the org is not interested.

12:00 - the book mentions a product trio - it should be read more as a set of five cross functional focuses - feasibility, usability/accessibility, viability, desirability, ethical. The team should cover and collaborate on all 5.

36:30 - “Have we developed our own practice and our point of view?” - something folks develop as they mature.

“And a lot of that is not having a step by step process. It’s being willing to like react to what you’re hearing back from that feedback loop and then matching the right tool based on what you’re hearing.”

38:00 - References a quote from Daniel Kahneman - “The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct.”

38:46 - “And I get to the very end, and one of the things he says at the end is, even knowing about these biases doesn’t protect you from them.”

“Like even being aware of these biases, this is not how you overcome them because your brain will still construct a coherent story and it’s gonna feel like truth. And I think this is a big reason why we need to do discovery together because somebody else can see your bias way better than you can”

40:00 - folks believe their fast system 1 response. Asking more helps shows the reality with a system 2 response and pulls away some of the biases.

“if we interview people asking where our questions don’t get around that filter, we’re gonna build products that people aspire to use, but don’t use. In fact, gyms, their whole business model is based on this.”

“I think the challenge is, we’re aspiring to live to a standard. We literally wouldn’t hold another human being to, right? And so we have to understand that, and then we have to ask questions that counteract that.”

It Shipped That Way - Continuous Discovery Habits, with Teresa Torres

https://overcast.fm/+AA9k5rZcyHQ
https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/27

Does A Frog Have Scorpion Nature? - Jokes For Jokers with Jesse Alford

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:25:29 +0000

# Does A Frog Have Scorpion Nature? - Jokes For Jokers with Jesse Alford

1:30 - People tend to rail against something that is really shallow. Then showing how this applies to Scrum

3:15 - “And it’s kind of tedious, but it can also be fun. But, like, Scrum specifically, I’m going to say when the most virulent and common version of a thing is the shallow version of it, maybe that’s the thing. Like, there is a point at which the identity switches from being like, oh, yeah, there’s a real Scrum where people are doing it right and they’re having good experiences.

Those become the weirdos. And actual Scrum, I think, has to own the outcomes that it actually, to my eyes, reliably produces.”

“Scrum is the shallow version of Scrum.”

“The good ship Scrum has been sunk by its consequences”

10:45 - Reiterating a line from Patrick McKenzie - “I solve business problems — occasionally a computer is involved.”

Another Patrick McKenzie line about how businesses are fundamentally unserious about certain items such as hiring

From the above link:

“All value is in the execution.”
“Companies find it incredibly hard to reliably staff positions with hard-working generalists who operate autonomously and have high risk tolerances.”
“The tech industry is fundamentally unserious about how it recruits, hires, and retains candidates.”
“Startups are (by necessity) filled with generalists; big companies are filled with specialists. People underestimate how effective a generalist can be at things which are done by specialists. People underestimate how deep specialties can run. These are simultaneously true.”

11:30 - “people are fundamentally unserious about a lot of the things that they’re doing. And when someone is fundamentally unserious about something, you kind of don’t want to update your opinion about that thing too much from it”

Hiring practices are falling into two categories - beacon protection where they’re big enough to have their internal management structure to deal with bad actors that get through.

And the rest are fundamentally unserious. The tiny fraction that are serious are “we have roles open and we need to find good fits for them because if we don’t find the right productive people for these, we will suffer negative consequences.”

14:00 - another Patrick McKenzie article got mentioned - Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice

24:00 - exploring how pay bands, levels, and promotion expectations creates a system to create agency less agent - a line manager who has little to no ability to affect compensation and promotion.

01:37:00 - “I just paid a million dollars to teach you this lesson. I didn’t want to and it was not a good price. But I’m not about to let someone else benefit from my investment”

And how companies struggle to turn failure into success because someone can use their failure experience.

01:45:00 - “I’m really curious what the reputation of ops and DevOps and similar type roles will be in a few years, because the domain of doing things to production offers the type of pulse pounding feedback that tends to cause people to become really careful and thoughtful and iterate on their systems. And as a community and a practice and a discipline over the last decade, it has by and large been filled with people who are very good”

02:20:00 - A fantastic exploring how planning poker points can actually be useful - if they are not a shallow practice. If used as the start to a discussion, for nuance, and backed by team culture they can have value. Examples included complexity levels, unknowns, - so when there was a divide it would require a conversation of why folks thought it was more or less challenging or complex as appropriate.

“Looking at this as a practice that can be shallow or deep is a really interesting example because it has all these characteristics about being such bullshit and so on.

“Ultimately, pointing is in service of something. And the way to tell if you’re experiencing a very shallow version of it or a potentially useful version that you can get value out of is basically whether or not everyone wants to do it. At Pivotal, people would all have reasons for why they wanted to do this pointing, why they wanted to use a particular scale.”

“These are all deep practice reasons. These are all deep practice benefits. And everyone has to be realizing them.”

If you ask for the rationale behind a team’s pointing system “and “you get just sort of a ravel of contradictory reasons or of like, well, it’s just what we do, or for velocity or something else, okay, now you’ve got a shallow practice on your hand.”

02:31:00 - interesting point on avoiding shallow comments - don’t allow them because it destroys the ability for deep conversations.

Does A Frog Have Scorpion Nature? - “Jokes For Jokers” with Jesse Alford

https://overcast.fm/+ABHj6YQshXE
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nik9125/episodes/Jokes-For-Jokers-with-Jesse-Alford-e2imrad

Tech Lead Journal - 171 - The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy and Adaptive Ethics - Mark Schwartz

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:05:34 +0000

Tech Lead Journal - 171 - The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy and Adaptive Ethics - Mark Schwartz

Bureaucracy is neither good, nor bad.

9:30 - learned helplessness in the face of bureaucracy is not good 10:20 - Max Weber’s definition of a bureaucracy has 6 characteristics:

Division of labour
Hierarchy
Technical competence (a set of skills required for a position)
Rules (processes as well)
Flow of paper
Impersonality (people follow the rules) This is a way of doing things - eg. Open a ticket and anyone can take it and it has process to be done.

22:00 - What makes a bureaucracy bad?

bloated - controls are heavy handed, lots of waste
Petrified - doesn’t change
Coercive - controls ensure you say no and keep the status quo

23:45 - the opposites

Lean - how can we make this control so it doesn’t get in the way? Or less burdensome
Learning - do controls evolve?
Enabling - do you use the rules/controls to better get your job done

And it should be clear that each of the above “bad” and “good” descriptors could be used to describe the exact same control.

Author has 3 personalities/types on how to push bureaucratic to evolve:

Monkey
Razor
Sumo wrestler

Monkey - provoke and observe. Try changing to see what rules actually matter, eg. Change answers in documents or look

Razor is all about lean/six sigma/etc. Can we take waste out by revisiting how a control objectives can be better handled.

Sumo - use the system against itself. Eg. Make processes and policies to do the right thing.

45 min mark on the issue with how bureaucracy focuses on fairness and can not do equitable. Also how the digital approach vs traditional approach for inclusion creates a tension.

Tech Lead Journal - 171 - The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy and Adaptive Ethics - Mark Schwartz

https://overcast.fm/+AAfKlzwgz9Q
https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/171/

CBC Ideas - Sometimes I think this city is trying to kill me

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 23:00:29 +0000

CBC Ideas - Sometimes I think this city is trying to kill me

Robin shared his journey in real time on Twitter. It was part of what educated me on the need to be engaged, on the need to push for designs for people. Additionally his exploration on how urban design decides the scraps we argue to get a piece of.

Sadly, this history and threads are yet another little piece that we lost with the destruction of Twitter by a petulant billionaire.

08:12 - “the city is a medical intervention”
09:30 - debate quote. Resources are finite.
10:30 - they have a budget and it’s turned into a healthcare budget and the police are major sources of that we’re sitting our cities up the field
11:00 a shared understanding of a single organism,
19:15 - urban planning is political act that verifiably causes harm. This is why it’s so important our politicians represent everyone.
22:15 - the importance of understanding that we are the environment for others. We affect others. whether or not you want to believe it.
26:35 - cars are the major source for noise pollution in major cities.
27:49 - “Sometimes I think the city is trying to kill me”
32:35 - part of what makes nature so healing is the drastically smaller amount of task demands - navigating cars, police (Robin is a PoC)
37:04 - you can not dream, when you can not sleep.

CBC Ideas - “Sometimes I think this city is trying to kill me…”

https://overcast.fm/+AAAAcRXyUmI
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/robin-mazumder-zeidler-evans-lecture-1.7030125

Using jq to modify files

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 06:22:48 +0000

Using jq to modify files

Insert/Append

echo '{"hello": "world"}' | jq --arg foo bar '. + {foo: $foo}'
OR
echo '{"hello": "world"}' | jq '. + {foo: "bar"}'

{
  "hello": "world",
  "foo": "bar"
}

And “directly” in a file:

jq '.path += { "claims": "bar" } ' file.json > file1.json && mv file1.json file.json

jq can not edit in place.

Replace

echo '{"hello": "world"}' | jq '. + {hello: "bar"}'

Delete

echo '{"hello": "world", "foo": "bar"}' | jq '. | del(.foo)'

It Shipped That Way - The Problems Get Squishier, with Luke Hutscal

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 21:47:13 +0000

It Shipped That Way - The Problems Get Squishier, with Luke Hutscal

“There’s no right or wrong to any of this. Everything will work. Are you comfortable paying the costs to make it work. Do you know what your costs are and can you make it work?”

Find people really interested in learning and growing

Make wrong things feel wrong.

Understand the adage - “Choose Boring Technology”

It Shipped That Way - The Problems Get Squishier, with Luke Hutscal

https://overcast.fm/+AA9k5r-rqos
https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/26

Day Two Cloud - 239 - (Almost) Every Infrastructure Decision I Endorse or Regret

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 21:25:56 +0000

Day Two Cloud - 239 - (Almost) Every Infrastructure Decision I Endorse or Regret

Social media posts will tend negative, research will tend to suffer from survivorship bias. Be aware of the information’s limitations.

Approach things by knowing the problem you need to solve - don’t have a solution to find a problem.

This can lead to tool sprawl - documentation/golden paths help - but it’s a mistake to think of it this way. Complexity sprawl is a much bigger deal than tool sprawl - 3 smaller tools can work better than one much larger complicated tool.

The importance of being intentionally public - makes it easier to add folks who were missed and also makes it easier to see why decisions were made.

Tools are culture.

Approach gen AI like a search engine - requires skills to use it correctly and able to judge the results just like search results.

Incentives matter - if you don’t have incentives to prevent throwing things over the fence, you get pain.

Create a process only if it will solve a problem.

Manage the impacts of alerts.

The power of saying no. Articulate the consequences of saying yes.

The Fat Pipe - Most Popular Packet Pushers Pods - D2C239: “(Almost) Every Infrastructure Decision I Endorse or Regret”

https://overcast.fm/+AAKN3IjAIfY
https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/day-two-devops/d2c239-almost-every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret/
https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/

Kustomize and Resource URLs

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:55:16 +0000

Kustomize and Resource URLs

Assumptions

You have a .tar.gz file and/or a folder of yaml files that can be downloaded (https) or found in a cloned repository.

In your kustomization.yaml you can include the following resource types:

Clones the repository and assumes it can build from the yaml files at the root of the repository.
Clones the repository and assumes it can build from the yaml files in the directory directory at tag 1.0.0
Download a specific file - hence the https:// at the start.

resources:
  - github.com/example/clone
  - github.com/example/directory?ref=1.0.0
  - https://github.com/example/example2/releases/download/tag/abc.yaml

Step CA SSL

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:33:08 +0000

Step CA SSL

https://smallstep.com/

Step CA offers to run as a service/server. So you can use it as an ACME endpoint or for other integrations.

https://smallstep.com/blog/everything-pki/ is a great overview.

A big note - Step strongly encourages automation - so the default certificate length is a single day.

Create your CA

step ca init

step-ca $(step path)/config/ca.json
step ca root root_ca.crt

Create a certificate

step ca certificate localhost localhost.crt localhost.key
step ca certificate svc.example.com svc.crt svc.key

step ca certificate localhost localhost.crt localhost.key --not-after=5m
step ca certificate localhost localhost.crt localhost.key --not-after=90d

Bundle Certs

step certificate bundle localhost.crt root_ca.crt localhost-bundle.crt

Check a certificate

step certificate inspect svc.crt --short

Creating a cert in two steps (with CSR)

step certificate create --csr foo.example.com foo.csr foo.key
step ca sign foo.csr foo.crt

Export your CA root

SSH Certificates

Step will also help deal with SSH certs which allows you to rotate your SSH keys frequently.

Bootstrap your CA:

step ca bootstrap --ca-url [CA URL] --fingerprint [CA fingerprint]

Configure SSH:

step ssh config --roots > /path/to/ssh_user_key.pub

Configure SSHD:

cat <<EOF >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# This is the CA's public key for authenticating user certificates:
TrustedUserCAKeys /path/to/ssh_user_key.pub
EOF

systemctl restart ssh

Create SSH Cert

step ssh certificate alice@smallstep.com id_ecdsa

Linking directly to text fragments

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:36:55 +0000

Linking directly to text fragments

https://alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-content.html

https://example.com/page.html#:~:text=[prefix-,]textStart[,textEnd][,-suffix]

Links to “hidden” elements only works in Chrome at present.

If you’re using Chrome, simply highlight some text, right-click, and you’ll find the “Copy link to highlight” option in the context menu.

Has been a thing since Chrome 90 (Apr. 2021)
Safari with 16.1 (Sept. 2022)
Firefox added the ability for the links to work as of Firefox 131 (October 2024)

City Population in Communities and Peaks

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:56:20 +0000

City Population in Communities and Peaks

Historical Populations: https://data.calgary.ca/Demographics/Historical-Community-Populations/jtpc-xgsh/about_data

Unfortunately Socrata’s UI can’t find the max population and show the date, so a little data science is needed.

https://gist.github.com/Chealion/6205500530b33c97ee2c58d12af8e226 has the max pops and their years and how I did it.

Other data sources:

Calgary’s 2019 Census: https://www.calgary.ca/content/dam/www/ca/city-clerks/documents/election-and-information-services/census2019/2019-censusresultsbook.pdf
Calgary Community Profiles: https://www.calgary.ca/communities/profiles.html based on the 2021 federal census

For some background/context - this is a good older article (from 2016) showing the results with maps focused on just 2000 vs 2015 populations: https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/one-map-that-shows-calgarys-doughnut-of-decline-neighbourhoods-may-be-facing-trouble-ahead

The article is limited in that it only looks at two dates - not the peak populations of communities, which for some go back to the 60s or 70s.

Another item to be aware of is Calgary’s household size has held firm at 2.6/household across the city for 20 years because of our general growth. That number has been declining continent wide since the 50s. The point being - to maintain a population without adding units, the household size needs to stay the same.

The above context is important when figuring out if the fact we have old numbers is enough to majorly change what was seen pre-COVID. We can thank the massive 2019 budget cuts for killing the census and why I’m so glad we’ll be getting it back after it got added as an amendment to the rezoning for housing work in May.

Software Misadventures - The hard power of management and the soft power of senior ICs - Josh Wills

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:22 +0000

Software Misadventures - The hard power of management and the soft power of senior ICs - Josh Wills

This microservice could have been a SQL query “Is this the simplest thing we could have done and why didn’t we do it?”

Software Misadventures - The hard power of management and the soft power of senior ICs | Josh Wills

https://overcast.fm/+AAmkooaQHyc
https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/josh-wills

Software Misadventures - From High School Suspension to US Chief Data Scientist | DJ Patil

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:14:09 +0000

Software Misadventures - From High School Suspension to US Chief Data Scientist | DJ Patil

00:06:00 - the importance of taking a chance of folks and investing on people 00:19:00 - guidelines, not rules. But is based on the assumption of a solid ethics understanding. 00:22:30 - formal learning vs life learning 00:25:27 - finding ethics classes, and exploring things you know nothing about to broaden your horizons and ground yourself. 00:27:00 - “… as technologists, we really suck at this. We really suck at understanding who our customers are.” “Until I sat down with someone, I didn’t really understand it” (re: criminal justice reform) 00:29:29 - where’s the real people? (Are the right people impacted at the table?)

Software Misadventures - From High School Suspension to US Chief Data Scientist | DJ Patil

https://overcast.fm/+AAmkopC2j5Y
https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/dj-patil

vim Snippets

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:58:44 +0000

vim Snippets

Moving around

f and F will jump the character on the line that you enter. Shift F will go backwards.
t and T are similar but will put you one character in front of where you want go
gu and gU - and number for lines to make upper or lower case.

Showing Spaces

:set listchars=eol:$,tab:>-,trail:~,space:␣
:set list

The space:␣ is gold. Thank you loxaxs!

Preventing Indenting when Commenting

You’ll need to add the following to any filetype. (In this case we’re showing # and yaml)

set indentkeys-=0#

autocmd FileType yaml setlocal ts=2 sts=2 sw=2 expandtab indentkeys-=0#

Block Editing

Enter visual mode: Control-V Select lines: eg. 5j for the next 5 lines Enter Insert with Shift-I Type stuff/make changes Hit Escape

Software Misadventures - Stories behind building HashiCorp - Mitchell Hashimoto

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 04:18:36 +0000

Software Misadventures - Stories behind building HashiCorp - Mitchell Hashimoto

No notes recorded

Software Misadventures - Stories behind building HashiCorp | Mitchell Hashimoto

https://overcast.fm/+AAmkorOxUsQ
https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/stories-behind-building-hashicorp

ffmpeg Snippets

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:10:22 +0000

ffmpeg Snippets

Ogg Vorbis to AAC

ffmpeg -i myaudio.ogg -c:a aac -vn -b:a 160k myaudio.m4a

Image Sequence to H.264

ffmpeg -framerate 10 -pattern_type glob -i '*.jpg' -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4

Using community.general.cloudflare_dns

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 06:14:22 +0000

Using community.general.cloudflare_dns

- name: Create AAAA record
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    zone: ZONE NAME
    record: "{{ ansible_hostname }}"
    type: AAAA
    value: "{{ ansible_default_ipv6.address }}"
    api_token: <TOKEN HERE>

The War on Cars - Fixing America's Car Culture with David Zipper

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:32:31 +0000

The War on Cars - Fixing America’s Car Culture with David Zipper

This is a banger full of really good sound bites.

5 min mark:

“At some point, you have to make a choice of whether it’s more important to save lives or to facilitate fast car traffic.”

85th percentile, right on red, parking minimums. All “feels rightish” starting points that have proven to be key to the negative reinforcement cycles in safety on roads.

15:40:

“due to some federal regulations like the CAFE loophole that allowed SUVs to be treated as light trucks, and there are some other federal rules, but a lot of that is due to the car companies trying to figure out how to make more money from a given sale. SUVs and trucks are more expensive and more profitable than smaller cars, sedans and station wagons. That is a big part of it.”

Zipper’s article from 2022 noting just how much worse the growing size of vehicles is for anyone not in a vehicle: https://slate.com/business/2022/11/suv-size-truck-bloat-pedestrian-deaths.html
Interesting public sector actions:
- speed governors on the public fleet can cause a noticeable impact in average speed when non emergency vehicles can’t speed.
- Weight based car fees

The War on Cars - Fixing America’s Car Culture with David Zipper

https://overcast.fm/+AAO31o3BirI
https://thewaroncars.org/2024/01/02/fixing-americas-car-culture-with-david-zipper/

Mask Change of a Prefix in Netbox in Python

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 23:27:20 +0000

Mask Change of a Prefix in Netbox in Python

import pynetbox

def main():
    nb = pynetbox.api('NETBOX_URL', 'NETBOX_TOKEN')

    ip_addresses = nb.ipam.ip_addresses.filter(parent="192.168.0.0/24")
    for ip in ip_addresses:
        if "/32" in str(ip):
            corrected = str(ip)[:-3] + "/24"
            ip.address = corrected
            ip.display = corrected
            ip.save()
            print ip + " -> " + corrected

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Escape Pod - 918 - Conference of the Birds

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 23:36:07 +0000

Escape Pod - 918 - Conference of the Birds

By Benjamin C. Kinney

Short story exploring a program creating its own personality.

Escape Pod - Escape Pod 918: Conference of the Birds

https://overcast.fm/+GJrp1brpU
https://escapepod.org/2023/12/07/escape-pod-918-conference-of-the-birds/

COMMONS - CULTS - Multilevel Marketing (Episode 7 and 8)

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:19:02 +0000

COMMONS - CULTS - Multilevel Marketing (Episode 7 and 8)

Episode 7

MLMs have moved from co-opting femnist and suffragist terminology to holistic, all nautral, non toxic, etc.
Pseudo-religious experience
Completely adjacent to the prosperity gospel grift.
The requirement for folks involved to only operate on hope and dreams.
If you fail - it’s a character defect. If you succeed - then it’s part of the system. This is part of how it becomes a belief system.

Episode 8

Multilevel marketing isn’t based on rational business logic, it’s not even built on a irrational business logic. It’s ideology. It’s faith. It’s a particularly American form of faith. The Protestant ethic stripped away of even the pretensions of Christian charity.

Amway’s DNA and creation is all prosperity theology and making the 99% set up to fail to feel shame and not blame Amway.
To do fraud on an industrial scale you need a belief system, propaganda. Authoritarian control is a requirement

COMMONS - CULTS 7 - Hey Bossbabe!

https://overcast.fm/+7ppdxFQeo
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/cults-7-hey-bossbabe/

COMMONS - CULTS 8 - The Eye of the Pyramid

https://overcast.fm/+7ppetVn2M
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/cults-8-the-eye-of-the-pyramid/

Code Complexity Clock

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 03:53:53 +0000

Code Complexity Clock

Source: http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complexity-clock.html

12:00 - Hard code 3:00 - Config Values 6:00 - Rules Engine 9:00 - DSL

Noting the fun of how you keep moving around the clock. This has been very, very clear in my last decade of work.

Florian Haas did a fantastic talk referencing this again. See slides and YouTube video - quit pretending you can get off the complexity clock.

Docs or it didn’t happen
Principle of Least Astonishment
Test cases or else
Feature flag or else
Aim to keep things simple, because you can’t make them simple

Recipes for Mugen

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:27:33 +0000

Recipes for Mugen

Hario

20g coffee
240g water

Single pour. Let draw down ~ 2 minutes

Find it on the thin side but solid.

Reddit Recipes

https://new.reddit.com/r/pourover/comments/17dzs3u/mugen_how_is_it_so_good_is_the_v60_a_lie/

17g coffee
270g water
One pour

Takes 2:15-2:30

Recipes for V60

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:26:05 +0000

Recipes for V60

Iced Coffee

15 g coffee (slightly finer than table salt)
155g hot water (196F)
130g ice

50g water
Bloom 35 seconds
105g water

Mike Devlin Recipe (Go to recipe)

29 g coffee (slightly finer than French press)
440 mL water (just off boil)
Rinse filter
Infuse and let bloom 45 seconds.
Pour from centre out clockwise

Tonx Recipe

27g coffee
414 mL water
Rinse filter
Infuse. Let bloom 30-45 seconds
Pour in centre in small circles until full. (“Ride the bloom”)
Should have a uniform heavy layer of grounds coating filter when done.

Monogram

22g coffee
350g water
Rinse filter
Infused with 50g water and let bloom 30 seconds
Pour 100g in circles going from centre to outside and back. Wait until water is almost back to grounds.
Second pulse: Pour 100g in circles going from centre to outside and back. Wait until water is almost back to grounds.
Third pulse: Pour 100g in circles going from centre to outside and back. Using a spoon give the outside grounds a gentle stir

James Hoffmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI4ynXzkSQo 30g coffee
500g water

Rinse
Poke grounds
Add 60g water, swirl to mix
Wait 30 seconds
Add to 300g (60%) by 1:15
Cone should stay full
Pour the remaining gently
When done with weight, stir one way and then the other to get grounds off side
Allow to drain and then give the brewer one last swirl

Cafec Osmotic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9hR77mfqe0

Pour slowly and more frequently - stop when you see the coffee bed rise.

18g coffee (coarser) 250g water

Pour initial 45g for bloom (40 seconds) Second pour until 150g (should finish at ~1:45 mark) Third pour in small circles until 300g Last pour - circle out to the edge. (should finish in 3:30-4)

4:6 Method (Tetsu Kasuya)

2016 V60 winning recipe. The tl;dr is 40% of the water in the first two pours, while the other 60% split up more. The first portion affects the brightness, while the second affects the body. See their blog post on it.

40g coffee
600g water

(00:00) Bloom with 100g, wait 45 seconds
(00:45) Add next pulse (140g), wait 45 seconds
(01:30) Add next pulse (120g), wait 45 seconds
(02:15) Add next pulse (120g), wait 45 seconds
(03:00) Add next pulse (120g), wait 45 seconds
(03:30) Remove

The basic is 5 x 120g pours But tweak the pours slightly for sweetness (long second pour) or acidity (longer first pour). Last 3 pours affect the strength of the coffee - 4 x 90 instead of 3 x120 can increase. 2 x 180 would reduce.

Recipes for AeroPress

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:24:20 +0000

Recipes for AeroPress

Espresso

From the AeroPress manual

Normal with filter in
22g coffee fine
Water up to the 2.

My Standard

Water 195F
16g coffee
almost full.
Wait 30. Stir back and forth with paddle 5 times.
Wait till 2:00 mark.
Screw on filter and press out. Stop when you hit air

AeroPress Inverted

13g coffee - slightly coarser
170g water
Stir 5 times clockwise, 5 times counter
Sit for 60 seconds
Stir again
Screw on filter, remove air, flip and press out

Stubby

25g coffee
Inverted
Fill 50g, stir
Fill 100g (150 total)
Cap and press air out
Flip at 1:00
Press for 30 seconds
Fill mug with 100g https://aeroprecipe.com/recipes/the-stubby

Jeremy Moore (US Champ 2014)

Standard
17g coffee
260g Water 202F
Pour water in circular motion over coffee - ~46 seconds
Stir Once
Let sit for 47 seconds
Plunge for 48 seconds
http://usaeropress.tumblr.com/post/83960788636/jeremys-winning-aeropress-recipe

Lukas Zahradnik (World Champ 2015)

Standard
20g coffee
230g Water 73C (165F)
Bloom 15 seconds with 60g water
Turbulent wiggle for 15 seconds
Pour rest of water for 10 seconds
Press
Stop Pressing just under the 1
1:30 total brew time
http://worldaeropresschampionship.com/2015/06/23/lukas-zahradniks-winning-recipe/

Nick Hatch (World 2nd 2015)

Standard
17.5g coffee
280g Water 85C (185F)
Add 50-60g Water
Stir 5 times
Let bloom for 25 seconds
Add rest of water in 20 seconds
1 minute plunge into cold cup
More: http://worldaeropresschampionship.com/recipes/

Tim Wendelboe

Standard
14g coffee
215g boiling water
Stir, 45 sec steep, stir, press for 10 sec.

Lukas Zahradnik

Inverted
20g coffee
220g water at 79C
Add 60g water. Let bloom for 30 seconds
Pour remaining to 220g.
Attach and press after 1:40.

Ben Kaminsky

Inverted
14g coffee (fine)
190g water off the boil
Recommends pushing boiling water through filter first.
Wait 30 seconds off boil, add 95g of water. Zero scale.
Add coffee, one stir.
Add rest (95g) of water.
Wait 50 seconds.
Flip, and take 25 seconds to plunge. Stop at air sound.

James Hoffmann

Standard
11g coffee (grind fine - 12?)
200g water at boil
Place piston in to create vacuum
At 2:00, gentle swirl
At 2:30, press gently all the way

Sour - grind size too coarse
Bitter - grind size too fine

Love me some acid (Kata Muhel)

https://aeroprecipe.com/recipes/love-me-some-acid

Inverted
Double paper filter
20g coffee (medium)
230mL water @ 81C
Soak coffee with 70 grams water
Swirl for 15 seconds
Fill remaining water
At 1:00 mark, put cap on
Invert at 1:20
Start plunge at 1:30 to be done around 1:45.

More Recipes?

https://aeroprecipe.com/

Recipes for Chemex

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:23:15 +0000

Recipes for Chemex

Wet filter with warm water. Discard water
50g coffee paper filter
Wet grounds and let bloom. Once deflated, pour rest of water in circular pattern
650 grams water

Recipes for Kone

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:22:24 +0000

Recipes for Kone

Go To

26g coffee 420g water

26g finer than paper filter
Pour 100g water to soak grinds
Allow to settle
320g more water
~2-3mL per second in centre

Large

45g
Pour 100mL to soak
Allow to settle
550 mL more water (~3 minutes to pour)
Let drip for 1 minute

Recipes for Japanese Style Iced Coffee

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:21:52 +0000

Recipes for Japanese Style Iced Coffee

Rule of Thumb

To accommodate the melting ice, use a hot water to coffee ratio:
Chemex (ice in Chemex) 12:1
Aeropress 10:1
V60 13:1
Kone 11:1

Grind finer than you would normally for hot.

Eight Ounce Coffee

53g coffee
(Roughly 1/3rd ice, 2/3 ice on the 15:1)
235 grams ice
560 grams water

IPv6 subnet sizing Reminder

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:42:36 +0000

IPv6 subnet sizing Reminder

/64 - local subnet
/56 (256 x /64) - site/subscriber
/48 (65k /64 or 256 x /56) - if you know you want to give out /56s
/32 - 65k x /48s

Generally you’ll use a /32 to give /48s.
/48s will give /56s.
/56s will give /64s
And the smallest you go is the /64 (with some very minor exceptions)

It Shipped That Way - The Culture You Want to Build, with Charity Majors

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 23:57:08 +0000

It Shipped That Way - The Culture You Want to Build, with Charity Majors

Management Journey

The challenges of - did you support enough? Too much?
is someone contributing or detracting through a team sense of trust
incentivize getting it right

FAE = Fundamental Attribution Error. Systems thinking can help - over analyzing actions leads to bad conclusions.

Patrick Lencioni - The Advantage - https://www.tablegroup.com/product/the-advantage/ Organizational Health is paramount

It Shipped That Way - The Culture You Want to Build, with Charity Majors

https://overcast.fm/+9k5oW88Gs
https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/19

Escape Pod - 911 - Driftwood in the Sea of Time

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 12 May 2024 16:54:24 +0000

Escape Pod - 911 - Driftwood in the Sea of Time

By Wendy Nikel

What is more human? The hubris that leads to time paradoxes, or the fact we can make community to make something more than ourselves?

Escape Pod - Escape Pod 911: Driftwood in the Sea of Time

https://overcast.fm/+GJrplZadc
https://escapepod.org/2023/10/19/escape-pod-911-driftwood-in-the-sea-of-time/

Getting into a K8s Cluster - externalIPs, nodePorts, load balancers that all lead to Ingress or Gateway API

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 04 May 2024 17:21:33 +0000

Getting into a K8s Cluster - externalIPs, nodePorts, load balancers that all lead to Ingress or Gateway API

The tl;dr is that if you want to get external access you need to get an IP to forward traffic. This can be separate, or using a load balancer service.

externalIPs

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#external-ips

externalIPs:
    - 198.51.100.32

Is added to your service definition.

Kubernetes does NOT manage these IPs or the routing for this. The assumption is that this IP is on a node in the cluster.

This can work well with only a handful of IPs and tight coupling between the cluster and applications.

nodePort

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#type-nodeport

A port available on all nodes can be used. Eg. http://my-k8s-node.domain:31234

spec:
  type: NodePort
  selector:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: MyApp
  ports:
    - port: 80
         # By default and for convenience, the Kubernetes control plane
      # will allocate a port from a range (default: 30000-32767)
      nodePort: 30007

Load Balancers

Use a cloud based load balancer to get traffic in. Alternatively you can leverage MetalLB, PureLB, or Porter

MetalLB

Either L2 mode or BGP mode. Needs a controller, and a speaker to configure nodes.

PureLB

For fun - it can hook into Netbox to get info for IPAM.

Cilium L2 LB

Baked right into Cilium.

Ingress

Ingress requires Ingress Controllers. Ingress Controllers do not manage the IPs - they are configured to use externalIPs, nodePorts, or load balancers to get the traffic to the Ingress Controller.

Gateway API

Gateway API is a replacement/evolution of Ingress. While Ingress was HTTP only in design, Gateway API is less specific.

The Gateway API spec is also about including items like Service Mesh - it also means that instead of a separate Ingress Controller you can leverage your CNI.

https://cilium.io/use-cases/gateway-api/

Day Two Cloud - 214 - Preparing People, Teams, And Infrastructure For Automation

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:40:25 +0000

Day Two Cloud - 214 - Preparing People, Teams, And Infrastructure For Automation

Is not overly prescriptive and something I can point folks to on how to get things prepared and starting on the addition of automation.

12 min mark - the importance of observability of what’s happening. The illusion of control was always there and folks need that certainty.

Version control is the tool/process necessary to start this. It should be your source of truth. Beware tool proliferation - you can’t buy a DevOps (they’ll sell you one though)

Repository approach - you can change. Undersegmentation and over segmentation is always an issue - find what works for your org. Guest is not a fan of monorepos - but also clear other orgs make it work. (Eg. Google - but they have tooling just for it)

Proponent for using Terraform whenever possible - if need be drop to Ansible. Most of it is to do with resource management than config of existing resources.

Other side suggestions:

Use Postman to explore a device’s API.
Copilot and/or ChatGPT is awesome for commenting your code

The Fat Pipe - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts - Day Two Cloud 214: Preparing People, Teams, And Infrastructure For Automation

https://overcast.fm/+KN3Kzc0kI
https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/day-two-cloud/d2c214-preparing-people-teams-and-infrastructure-for-automation/

Governor Francis Sargent

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 01:41:40 +0000

Governor Francis Sargent

“And there is this to remember as we begin: the risks we take come down to betting on ourselves. On people vs things, on people vs automobiles, on people vs the reckless destruction of our homes, our environment, the very quality of our lives all in the false name of progress. The only real progress is the progress of people. I don’t think we can go wrong when we put our money on ourselves. I’ve counted on your help before and it’s been there. I call upon you once again and I’m sure that you will answer that call.”

Discovered this listening to the big dig podcast

City Council to YouTube

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:16:02 +0000

City Council to YouTube

Thanks to qntmpkts on GitHub for the initial confirmation this is possible to take a HLS stream (m3u8) and send it to YouTube: https://gist.github.com/qntmpkts/403a027a4bfe99812ebf8952c41f8789

Also check out ffmpeg’s documenation page on this: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/EncodingForStreamingSites

ffmpeg -re -i protocol://domain.tld/stream.m3u8 -c:v copy -c:a aac -ar 44100 -ab 128k -ac 2 -strict -2 -flags +global_header -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -bufsize 3000k -f mp4 "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/<STREAMNAME/KEY>"

Calgary City Council Stream

Current Link: https://lin12.isilive.ca/live/calgarycc/live/chunklist.m3u8 (The 12 in the URL can change as there are multiple servers)

This link can be found most easily by going to https://video.isilive.ca/play/calgarycc/live and then looking at the network tab in your browser to find the m3u8 URL it’s hitting.

Codec Details

HLS H264 (Main), yuv420p, 1080p AAC 48hz

ffmpeg -re -i https://lin12.isilive.ca/live/calgarycc/live/chunklist.m3u8 -c:v copy -c:a aac -ar 44100 -ab 128k -ac 2 -strict -2 -flags +global_header -bufsize 3000k -f flv "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/STREAM_KEY"

Test to local file

ffmpeg -re -i https://lin12.isilive.ca/live/calgarycc/live/chunklist.m3u8 -c:v copy -c:a aac -ar 44100 -ab 128k -ac 2 -strict -2 -flags +global_header -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -bufsize 3000k -f mp4 test30seconds.mp4

Test local file to YouTube

ffmpeg -re -i test30seconds.mp4 -c:v copy -c:a copy -strict -2 -flags +global_header -bufsize 3000k -f flv "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/STREAM_KEY"

Downloading a previous day’s stream

Don’t use ffmpeg since we aren’t needing to copy/transcode. youtube-dl is great.

youtube-dl -f 0 --hls-prefer-native https://vod.isilive.ca/nospace/hls/calgary/Council-_-Primary_Public-_-Hearing-_-Meeting-_-of-_-Council_2024-05-02-11-21.mp4/index.m3u8

Notes from trying this

The audio starts to fall apart whenever the stream switches after a long break. This is fixed by ensuring you re-encode the audio to aac like the original snippet.

Other options

Other folks recommend using OBS to take the input and send to YouTube and then have more control over the stream.

CBC Ideas - The Dark Side of Charisma: Molly Worthen

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:54:09 +0000

CBC Ideas - The Dark Side of Charisma: Molly Worthen

“Charisma is sometimes dangerous allure that gives a leader to move a crowd.”

“To me what charisma is really about is the impulse to worship, to connect with someone or something transcendent that lends meaning to our puny, mortal lives. And gives us a sense of control over the chaos even if we’re not the ones in control. A confidence that someone is”

“The flip side of that allure is revulsion”

The exploration of how and why quasi magical words have been used to explain charisma going back to Max Weber.

The North American tendency/theme to swing in level of trust in authority and expert knowledge - and its downside where embracing conspiracy theories and similar rises quickly. “44% of Canadian adults believe that big events like wars, recessions, and outcomes of elections are controlled by small groups of people working in secret” (from an Abacus poll)

The rise of the “guru” (cough grifter cough) in all areas continues - and you can see the same

The concept on how the charismatic renewal movement set the stage to the destruction of traditional North American religious institutions and the rise of non denominational “gurus”. It couples nicely with secularism - less the move away from religion and more that folks moved away from organizations.

42:40

“How can they fall for this false authority. These are all very reasonable questions, but they are usually questions we ought to ask ourselves about the “gurus” and “sages” who might have a little too much influence in our own lives.”

43 min mark - these are impulses and it’s important to be aware of these impulses.

Ideas - The Dark Side of Charisma: Molly Worthen

https://overcast.fm/+cT6RuQo
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/molly-worthen-charisma-politics-1.6984410

Sprawlcast - The Rumble Over Rezoning in Calgary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 01:21:22 +0000

Sprawlcast - The Rumble Over Rezoning in Calgary

A fantastic look at how and why the base land use needs shifting.

“the only thing I can guarantee you about your community is that it’s changing.”

“…inclusionary zoning or upzoning. It’s an element of the city’s housing strategy, which council approved in September of 2023.”

For the above - upzoning is one tool in addressing our housing crisis.

“We got way better [than if we hadn’t provided input], and understand that you’re going to have 300 nice new neighbors. And once you get to know them, you’re not going to see the building. And and that’s the truth, right?”

“The housing strategy is about the entirety of the housing continuum. That’s not why it’s just one action to do a rezoning. It’s about 90-plus actions to deal with everything from sheltering to deeply subsidized housing to every part of the market continuum.”

“All the previous measures have been, okay, let’s have some growth inward—but just in a few places. In some corridors, in some nodes, close to LRT stations. And that all seemed to be very reasonable. But what doesn’t really work—and we have seen it over more than a decade—is that doesn’t provide enough diversity. In the end, it doesn’t open up enough land for growth.”

“So what builders are doing is they’re clustering in places where there’s the least market risk, and that’s the premium neighborhoods. It is neighborhoods like Inglewood. It is neighborhoods like Altadore. It is neighborhoods like West Hillhurst where the land is more expensive, but there’s a proven and tested market.

And so what we think this change will allow is by taking away some of that regulatory time and risk and cost, and allowing more neighborhoods to have that opportunity, that peanut butter gets spread way more across a larger geography of the city. So it’s not just about building in Altadore or Inglewood. It’s about building in Acadia and Bowness and Dalhousie and Mayland Heights. And land costs in those areas are less.”

“For example, in 1920, just west of Inglewood in Victoria Park, white Calgarians fought city hall in an effort to keep black Calgarians out of the neighbourhood.”

“while many people aren’t arguing anymore for racialized segregation, by nature zoning is in itself class and economic segregation.”

Sprawlcast - The Rumble Over Rezoning in Calgary

https://overcast.fm/+MdpkHIrCY
https://www.sprawlcalgary.com/blanket-rezoning-inglewood

IPv6 Subnet Tips

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:59:11 +0000

IPv6 Subnet Tips

`/112` / Last Nibble

fc00:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:xxxx

`/96` / Last Two Nibbles

fc00:0000:0000:0000:0000:xxxx:xxxx

`/80` / Last Three Nibbles

fc00:0000:0000:0000:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx

`/64` / Half the Nibbles

fc00::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx

`/48` / But first 3 Nibbles

fc00:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx

`/32` / But first 2 Nibbles

fc00:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx

`/16` / But first Nibble

fc00:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx

`/0` / The whole shebang

fc00::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx

vim, ale, and fun

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:43:54 +0000

vim, ale, and fun

ale

https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
Asynchronous Lint Engine

Ale is a fantastic syntax checker for vim and neovim and has made my life a lot easier.

Toggling ale on and off

However there are many times I just want it to shut up so I can read the file in question…

:ALEToggle
:ALEDisable
:ALEEnable

Customizing Ale

There are two use cases that Ale drives me nuts because while fantastic defaults I run into issues where they cause issues:

Spell check

:set nospell

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 463 - Don't Fix People, Fix Processes

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:52:31 +0000

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 463 - Don’t Fix People, Fix Processes

11 min mark - “Don’t ask who failed. Ask what failed”
Deming’s 14 points - https://deming.org/explore/fourteen-points/
17 min mark - “when something happens, the tendency to push back and go to the old way is very attractive”. Going back to punishment, pushing back is something to know will try to happen but the old way wasn’t good - how happy were you with the old way?

PreAccident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 463 - Don’t Fix People, Fix Processes

https://overcast.fm/+tF0AD6Eow
https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/e/papod-463-don-t-fix-people-fix-processes/

1Password CLI Snippets

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:07:13 +0000

1Password CLI Snippets

Password generated elsewhere

op item create \
--category login \
--title "TITLE" \
--vault "VAULT NAME" \
password="Password"

NOTE: Not recommended since this stores it in your history and other places. Using JSON files or having 1Password generated is the correct way (versus the quick and dirty for a temp password way).

The password/field values are found by looking at the template:

op item template get Login

And then assigned with assignment statements (see https://developer.1password.com/docs/cli/item-create/#with-assignment-statements)

1Password generates the password

op item create \
--category login \
--title "TITLE" \
--vault "VAULT NAME" \
--generate-password='letters,digits,symbols,32'

https://developer.1password.com/docs/cli/item-create/

CBC Ideas - The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln by Julian Sher

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:32:02 +0000

CBC Ideas - The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln by Julian Sher

A fantastic trip through the story of how much Montreal was used as a safe haven during the Civil War, how happy Canada was to profit off of the Civil War, and just how much Canadian elites like Sir John A MacDonald supported the South.

We (Canada) has blood on our hands and we love the fantasy that we don’t.

Counter intuitively we have the Daughters of the Confederacy for their memorialization to remind us how party Canada was to the civil war and classism.

Ideas - The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln by Julian Sher

https://overcast.fm/+cTaDg1I
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1.6964456

CBC Ideas - Astra Taylor - The Hidden Truth of the World

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:19:14 +0000

CBC Ideas - Astra Taylor - The Hidden Truth of the World

“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and just as easily make differently” - David Gregor, Anthropologist

Things I liked:

14 min - The corruption/evolution of the words freedom, security, and democracy following 9/11
Part of “Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone“ contrasts direct democracy (Occupy) compared to the captured representative democracy at the time. Now I’m curious to read it.
25:40 - “it’s actually a system where we all have to think, deliberate, and govern together“
The point that voting is not democracy - it may be an action but is not democracy in of itself.
28 min mark - The framing that elections are more aristocratic rather than democratic due to the barriers to entry.
31 min mark started a section on how public spaces and institutions represent key components of democracy - how accessible are spaces? Are there bathrooms?
A library or a park can be a cathedral to democracy - accessibility, common good, etc.
- Me: democracy does not have exclusivity on this but shows the strength of a democracy
People don’t feel inequality - they feel instability.
Debtors revolts are not new.

CBC Ideas - Astra Taylor: The Hidden Truth of the World

https://overcast.fm/+cRspvyk
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16049642-astra-taylor-the-hidden-truth-world

Fund Management Fee Translation

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 01:45:06 +0000

Fund Management Fee Translation

On a default $1000 annual contribution at 5% with various MERs over 15 years:

Type	Value	Fees	% in fees
No fees	22,657	0	0
Standard (2%)	19,157	3,501	-15.45
Tangerine (0.85%)	21,089	1,569	-6.92
Wealthsimple (0.5%)	21,719	938	-4.14
Vanguard ETF (0.24%)	22,202	456	-2.01

(Thanks https://www.getsmarteraboutmoney.ca/calculators/fee-calculator/)

Management Fee Translation

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 01:45:06 +0000

Management Fee Translation

On a default $1000 annual contribution at 5% with various MERs over 15 years:

Type	Value	Fees	% in fees
No fees	22,657	0	0
Standard (2%)	19,157	3,501	-15.45
Tangerine (0.85%)	21,089	1,569	-6.92
Wealthsimple (0.5%)	21,719	938	-4.14
Vanguard ETF (0.24%)	22,202	456	-2.01

(Thanks https://www.getsmarteraboutmoney.ca/calculators/fee-calculator/)

Postfix Queue Commands

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 03:30:04 +0000

Postfix Queue Commands

See queue

postqueue -p

Flush queue

Set to deliver again

postqueue -f

Nuke entire queue

postsuper -d ALL

Delete just one message

postsuper -d <message id>

Tech Lead Journal - 144 - Better Value Sooner Safer Happier - Jonathan Smart & Simon Rohrer

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 02:21:47 +0000

Tech Lead Journal - 144 - Better Value Sooner Safer Happier - Jonathan Smart & Simon Rohrer

12:43

“There is no playbook. There is no one size fits all. That’s why I like the words patterns and anti-patterns. Usually successful, usually less successful with the anti-patterns. There is no playbook because every organization is unique. Because every organization is a complex adaptive system. Every organization has its own unique history and culture and incentives”

Value is at the heart but not at any cost.

If you want to do an agile transformation - don’t. Instead focus on outcomes. Beware the focus on a tool/process instead of the why.

“Better products faster” became “Better value sooner”

There must be an incentive. The flip side of incentive is a threat and not enough orgs remember this. You need to nurture psychological safety to minimize threat.

Change is only some process and mostly culture.

Role Model
Psychological Safety
Emergent Mindset - acknowledging the future is not knowable and to have hypothesis and test.

Tech Lead Journal - 144 - Better Value Sooner Safer Happier - Jonathan Smart & Simon Rohrer

https://overcast.fm/+fKlzoCOoM
https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/144/

Addigy and Launchd

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 23:24:22 +0000

Addigy and Launchd

Addigy records Launchd items in “Third-Party Agents” and “Third-Party Daemons”

You can make a monitoring item on it for when these facts change.

Alternatively use the API to take a look see:

curl --location --request GET 'https://prod.addigy.com/api/devices?client_id=CLIENT_ID&client_secret=SECRET' | jq '.[] | {"TAG": ."Asset Tag", "Agents": ."Third-Party Agents", "Daemons": ."Third-Party Daemons"}' | grep -v addigy | grep -v Nudge | grep -v munki

The Gray Area with Sean Illing - The new crisis of masculinity

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:33:58 +0000

The Gray Area with Sean Illing - The new crisis of masculinity

Christine Emba gives a fantastic look into how masculinity’s place has been morphed and turned into fertile ground for grifters with toxicity to sell.

When the only available vision is a toxic version of masculinity are we surprised at the results?

12 min markish - Beware the trap of falling into things being a zero sum game. The same issue that created hesitancy to affirmative action, is the same issue that is creating hesitancy to support because things have changed.

The void created over the last decades is like progressivism leaving labour behind. The space has been ceded and anything recognizing them is seen as better than nothing.

36 min mark dives into the ease of blaming of others and the hypocrisy of those who are behind the policies that created the situation in the first place - eg. offshoring and then surprised at impacts of that.

39 min mark underlines the erosion of communities - the chance for folks to find others in their community to provide good role models has eroded significantly.

40 min mark - You can’t mandate community

The overlap with programs to prevent youth from joining gangs oddly wasn’t noted.

The lack of ceremony or rite of passage and its effect is not something I ever gave much credence and the showing of David Gilmor’s work shows I was wrong.

There are many ways to be a good man - society needs a positive answer to this.

The Gray Area with Sean Illing - The new crisis of masculinity

https://overcast.fm/+QLhUnxNzw
https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/23813985/christine-emba-masculinity-the-gray-area

Misc Ansible Snippets

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 04:26:22 +0000

Misc Ansible Snippets

Ad Hoc Commands

ansible -m ping all
ansible -m command -a whoami all
ansible -m command -a "uname -r" all

Serial

Serial can be used to trigger numbers of hosts as part of a playbook:

Doing 3 at a time:

- hosts: all
serial: 3

Staggered across 10 nodes:

- hosts: all
serial:
  - 1
  - 3
  - 6

Forks

In ansible.cfg:

[defaults]
forks=40

Max number of connections when running Related: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_strategies.html

Removing brackets from an IPv6 address in Terraform

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 04:24:41 +0000

Removing brackets from an IPv6 address in Terraform

replace(openstack_compute_instance_v2.INSTANCENAME.access_ip_v6, "/[\\[\\]]/", "")

# If using counts
"${replace(element(openstack_compute_instance_v2.INSTANCENAME.*.access_ip_v6, count.index), "/[\\[\\]]/", "")}"

Tech Lead Journal - 142 - The Power of Leadership Principles and Positive Leadership - Michael Foss

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:47:09 +0000

Tech Lead Journal - 142 - The Power of Leadership Principles and Positive Leadership - Michael Foss

3 questions from the team to the leader before you can gain trust and start change:

Can I trust you?
Do you care about me?
Can you help me

Gemba/Genba - (Go and see the work at where the work is done) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemba

Push to document standardized pieces of work.

One successful approach is starting with good and then work backwards to get it

Tech Lead Journal - 142 - The Power of Leadership Principles and Positive Leadership - Michael Foss

https://overcast.fm/+fKlxzZK8g
https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/142/

Day Two Cloud - 203 - Becoming An SRE - It is More Than Just Software Skills

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:50:54 +0000

Day Two Cloud - 203 - Becoming An SRE - It is More Than Just Software Skills

SRE is using software engineering skills with operations.
SRE is also a propagandist role - part of your job is to effect culture change on a team to use SRE like approaches.
Resilience to help teams address toil and get folks to learn
Culture eats strategy for breakfast

The Fat Pipe - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts - Day Two Cloud 203: Becoming An SRE – It’s More Than Just Software Skills

https://overcast.fm/+KN3Ib-guU
https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/day-two-cloud/d2c203-becoming-an-sre-its-more-than-just-software-skills/

Behind the Bastards - Why Kidnapping Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere (Part One and Two)

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:38:12 +0000

Behind the Bastards - Why Kidnapping Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere (Part One and Two)

No notes recorded

Behind the Bastards - Part Two: Why Kidnapping Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere

Part One:
https://overcast.fm/+4cUOQ9xlo
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-why-kidnapping-conspiracy-theories-119136045/

Part Two:
https://overcast.fm/+4cUNKMNf0
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-why-kidnapping-conspiracy-theories-119290385/

From Here to Queer - Marni Panas

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:33:14 +0000

From Here to Queer - Marni Panas

Looking at the recent history of trans inclusion and the significant work and threats still being dealt with.

Also learned a lot more about the Imperial Sovereign Court of the Wildrose

From Here to Queer - Marni Panas

https://overcast.fm/+4ZIFFp3og
https://www.edmontonqueerhistoryproject.ca/podcast

Current Terminal Font and Colour Scheme Choice

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 06:31:15 +0000

Current Terminal Font and Colour Scheme Choice

Font

Monaspace Neon, Regular 12

Colour Scheme

iTerm: Toasty - https://github.com/jsit/toast.vim/ (for colour scheme in general) Wezterm: config.color_scheme = 'Gruvbox dark, hard (base16)'

vim Colour Scheme

Toast Alternative: Solarized Dark

Bear

D.Boring Ayu Mirage for dark mode

Escape Pod - 895 - Man on the Moon

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:20:59 +0000

Escape Pod - 895 - Man on the Moon

By Elaine Midcoh

No notes recorded

Escape Pod - Escape Pod 895: Man on the Moon

https://overcast.fm/+GJroB5SpA
https://escapepod.org/2023/06/29/escape-pod-895-man-on-the-moon/

Tech Lead Journal - 138 - Building Application Security Program - Derek Fisher

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 22:11:45 +0000

Tech Lead Journal - 138 - Building Application Security Program - Derek Fisher

Microsoft Threat Model Tool
Threat Dragon

Maturity models
Application security is a sidecar to engineering - it’s to help and improve engineering because shifting left is good but it’s not exclusive.

Tech Lead Journal - 138 - Building Application Security Program - Derek Fisher

https://overcast.fm/+fKlw7Rb7g
https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/138/

Alberta Unbound - Chinese Inclusion Acts

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:56:20 +0000

Alberta Unbound - Chinese Inclusion Acts

No notes recorded at the time

Alberta Unbound - S4 Episode 10: Chinese Inclusion Acts

https://overcast.fm/+a8TD1l340
https://senatorpaulasimons.podbean.com/e/s4-episode-10-chinese-inclusion-acts/

Getting There - Ep 7, The March 2023 Datadog Outage with Laura de Vesine

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:39:53 +0000

Getting There - Ep 7, The March 2023 Datadog Outage with Laura de Vesine

The root cause of this issue (systemd-networkd restarts messing with iptables and bridges) turned out to cause several issues for our OpenStack clouds at work months later.

Getting There - Ep. 7, The March 2023 Datadog Outage with Laura de Vesine

https://overcast.fm/+1cuTxtmZc
https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/getting-there/ep-7-the-march-2023-datadog-outage-with-laura-de-vesine

CBC Ideas - Jay Pitter - The Future of Culture Is

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:54:22 +0000

CBC Ideas - Jay Pitter - The Future of Culture Is

No notes recorded

Ideas - Jay Pitter: The Future of Culture Is …

https://overcast.fm/+cTThkJM
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/jay-pitter-urban-equity-housing-1.6863376

Having less show formatting

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 23:52:35 +0000

Having `less` show formatting

less -R

It Shipped That Way - Coaching New Managers, with Tiffany Conroy

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:01:56 +0000

It Shipped That Way - Coaching New Managers, with Tiffany Conroy

17 min mark - poor performance is one of the hardest transition points

How to get confident dealing with poor performance
Stay Interview - ?

Confidence in a when folks are able to say I don’t know because they aren’t worried it will negatively affect them.

Six Thinking Hats - interesting strategic thinking approach

It Shipped That Way - Coaching New Managers, with Tiffany Conroy

https://overcast.fm/+9k5oebaIQ https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/16

IPv6 Buzz 130 - Routing With Link-Local Addresses

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 22:29:28 +0000

IPv6 Buzz 130 - Routing With Link-Local Addresses

No notes recorded at the time

The Fat Pipe - IPv6 Buzz 130: Routing With Link-Local Addresses

https://overcast.fm/+KN3K19fqg
https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/ipv6-buzz/ipb130-routing-with-link-local-addresses/

The War on Cars - Paved Paradise with Henry Grabar

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 16:07:35 +0000

The War on Cars - Paved Paradise with Henry Grabar

No notes recorded

The War on Cars - Paved Paradise with Henry Grabar

https://overcast.fm/+O31p_Od3Q
https://thewaroncars.org/2023/05/23/105-paved-paradise-with-henry-grabar/

CBC Ideas - Man Up! The Masculinity Crisis

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:05:06 +0000

CBC Ideas - Man Up! The Masculinity Crisis

Part One

Before this I did not quite understand how much puritanical hatred of masturbation set the stage for the toxic masculinizing of society. Behind the Bastards has looked at the problematic origins of the fitness industry and Kellogg.

Part Two

Covers the overlap between hyper masculinity and hyper partisanship with McCarthyism. Why does the need for portraying something you disagree with non masculine features of the time matter so much?

It starts with the phrase and concept of man up.

The placement of “Promise Keepers” that I had to experience in my upbringing gave a lot of context for where and why it grew so much.

Part Three

The desire and need to decide masculinity helps explain the cult classic nature of fight club, acceptance of the drivel from Jordan Peterson, and the prevalence of red pill ideology with racist, misogynistic, and classist comfort to give meaning to predominantly young, white men without positive influences.

The engagement funnel on social media that draws them to extremist points of view from flat earth to Andrew Tate would create a self propagating cycle creating extremists from grifters.

The rhyming with self help grift is not part of it but the effectiveness is because it rhymes. One thing Scott Adams was good at noting in 2007 is that it’s easier to be successful at the merger of two skills. He’s still a MAGA piece of trash but he wasn’t wrong at items to build a brand or increase the odds of becoming known.

“Identity politics is full fledged on the right” - 33:08

“Anger is the only emotion men are allowed to express without tarnishing their masculinity” - 37:10

Ideas - Man Up! The Masculinity Crisis

Part One:
https://overcast.fm/+cT6nURc
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/man-up-masculinity-crisis-part-one-1.6844883

Part Two:
https://overcast.fm/+cR2NX5Y
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1.6862609

Part Three:
https://overcast.fm/+cQoMKJw
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1.6878166

Jumping Around with Vim

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 05:13:20 +0000

Jumping Around with Vim

A couple neat things I learned in Oct. 2023:

f and F will jump the character on the line that you enter. Shift F will go backwards.
t and T are similar but will put you one character in front of where you want go
gu and gU - and number for lines to make upper or lower case.

Firefox / Chrome Setting Management

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:48:38 +0000

Firefox / Chrome Setting Management

If you need to manage a configuration of a specific extension (eg. Add a website to the “Trusted Site” list on uBlock)

Firefox

Firefox’s extension config is put under a 3rdparty key that can be in a profile along all your other Firefox Settings

Profile:

<dict>
  <key>EnterprisePoliciesEnabled</key>
  <true />
  <key>3rdparty</key>
  <dict>
    <key>Extensions</key>
    <dict>
      <key>uBlock0@raymondhill.net</key>
      <dict>
        <key>toAdd</key>
        <dict>
          <key>trustedSiteDirectives</key>
          <array>
            <string>example.com</string>
            <string>example-two.com</string>
          </array>
        </dict>
      </dict>
    </dict>
  </dict>
  <key>PayloadDisplayName</key>
  <string>Firefox Config</string>
  <key>PayloadIdentifier</key>
  <string>some.identifier.here</string>
  <key>PayloadType</key>
  <string>org.mozilla.firefox</string>
  <key>PayloadUUID</key>
  <string>0CA00E46-3E4C-49CD-8DE3-40D08C20EB66</string>
  <key>PayloadVersion</key>
  <integer>1</integer>
</dict>

Chrome

Chrome’s extension configuration is a bit different in that it is actually a separate profile for different extensions. So you will create a profile called com.google.Chrome.EXTENSIONID.

Profile:

<dict>
    <key>toAdd</key>
    <dict>
      <key>trustedSiteDirectives</key>
      <array>
        <string>example.com</string>
        <string>example-two.com</string>
      </array>
    </dict>
    <key>PayloadDisplayName</key>
    <string>Chrome UBlock Config</string>
    <key>PayloadIdentifier</key>
    <string>some.identifier.here</string>
    <key>PayloadType</key>
    <string>com.google.Chrome.extensions.cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm</string>
    <key>PayloadUUID</key>
    <string>0C06F283-26C7-4BDA-86E9-D6506F025B30</string>
    <key>PayloadVersion</key>
    <integer>1</integer>
</dict>

Resources

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Deploying-uBlock-Origin:-configuration#trustedsitedirectives-1

THANK YOU MAC ADMINS Slack. Now if only it wasn’t a walled garden for this.

https://macadmins.slack.com/archives/C5ACP4TUZ/p1677592077914009
https://community.jamf.com/t5/jamf-pro/ublock-origin-trusted/m-p/295762#M262076

CBC Ideas - Injustice For All, Part One and Two

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:29:36 +0000

CBC Ideas - Injustice For All, Part One and Two

Part One

Part one plays again on the 9th. I guess I didn’t write the bits down about family law and self representation. Or the sheer amount of debt folks go into.

~ 5 min mark - as many as 80% are self represented represents the massive chasm we have in accessibility to a system that is DESIGNED to require experts on both sides.

How often is the system really just a way of punishing those who are poor? The stories in this episode - especially when it comes to family law underline this.

Part Two

1:20 - it may be working as anticipated but what if it is working as designed?

3:40 - this can not be lost on you that this not a criminal justice system that is responding to the need to keep all of us safe by actually applying the criminal code evenly or applying the criminal code in a neutral way.

12-13:00 - the retelling of how those without the ability to bail or funds for a lawyer will often plea guilty and get out with time served. This isn’t justice.

Having access to courts does not mean access to justice.

15:50 - Severe punitive policies does not actually sufficiently deter crime.

35 minute mark - a succinct summary that the lack of investment in legal aid is intentional. It’s not about fiscal conservatism but from a critical race standpoint this exists maintain certain types of inequality.

It’s more than $100,000 per prisoner to incarcerate them in Canada.

CBC Ideas - Injustice For All Part One

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2195592771631
https://overcast.fm/+cTxqBGo

CBC Ideas - Injustice For All Part Two

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2198057539716
https://overcast.fm/+cTeU0rg

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/canadian-court-system-lawyers-fairness-justice-1.6836073

CBC Ideas - Taken In - Exploring Credulity

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 02:42:32 +0000

CBC Ideas - Taken In - Exploring Credulity

No notes recorded

CBC Ideas - Taken In: Exploring Credulity

https://overcast.fm/+cRX9LOs
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15979631-taken-in-exploring-credulity

If Books Could Kill - The 5 Love Languages

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:05:53 +0000

If Books Could Kill - The 5 Love Languages

I’ve always wondered about the veracity of this book after it was over recommended when I got married. There’s lots of little bits that are true, but so many things just gave off generic Christian / male centric takes on things. I never appreciated when I first read this in the late 2000s. The podcast highlights just how… fabricated this entire book actually is. And given the history of who wrote it - it fits.

If Books Could Kill - The 5 Love Languages

https://overcast.fm/+9URLftHYg
https://www.reddit.com/r/IfBooksCouldKill/comments/12t001y/if_books_could_kill_episode_the_5_love_languages/

Screaming in the Cloud - Viewing Security through an Operational Lens with Jess Dodson

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 18:53:18 +0000

Screaming in the Cloud - Viewing Security through an Operational Lens with Jess Dodson

Nothing “new” but a great podcast to share with folks to help them understand security and what’s trying to be accomplished.

Fun note - the biggest insider threat actor blast radius is an exec’s EA. They accumulate access like crazy and always bespoke.

Screaming in the Cloud - Viewing Security through an Operational Lens with Jess Dodson

https://overcast.fm/+RWDXH1Zj8
https://sitc.transistor.fm/episodes/viewing-security-through-an-operational-lens-with-jess-dodson

O11ycast - Ep. 59 - Learning From Incidents with Laura Maguire of Jeli

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 17:19:57 +0000

O11ycast - Ep. 59 - Learning From Incidents with Laura Maguire of Jeli

Line of representation (1:45) - STELLA report to look at the below the line (software) and above the line (human)

Learning from Incidents (7:50) - learning from safety practitioners and other industries (health care, aviation, etc.) on how to support work.

LFI Conference and site - https://www.learningfromincidents.io/

Safety Science (10:30) does have a current dichotomy of folks looking at how to support work (meaning adaptability to unexpected events and surprises) versus a more traditional preventative approach to avoid all accidents.

Recognizing we can’t prevent all accidents is hard.

And in the response how do we support people under time pressure, ambiguous data, etc. the information is not coming in at an orderly rate.

There is an over simplified comparison that it is learning from incidents vs single root cause analysis.

You have to accept your system is broken - it’s a question of when and where you’ll learn it’s broken.

15:44 - “it’s amazing how insidious that world view that .. systems are always performing optimally, and that humans are always performing optimally, and that the world is not full of surprise, and is not messy and unstructured. It’s amazing how prevalent that is”

16:25 - “My experience of working in this worlds is that no plan survives first contact with the environment in which you’re trying to execute it. The world is messy, and it’s unstructured, and problems are often difficult to see”

The importance of sharing and looking at how to improve responses

Dashboards and wiki pages can jokingly be referred to as gravestones - they exist or get updated only after issues or incidents occur.

O11ycast - Ep. 59, Learning From Incidents with Laura Maguire of Jeli

https://overcast.fm/+0GHxsvyBQ
https://dev.to/o11ycast/ep-59-learning-from-incidents-with-laura-maguire-of-jeli

If Books Could Kill - Rich Dad Poor Dad

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:13:21 +0000

If Books Could Kill - Rich Dad Poor Dad

… I knew it was full of really bad details but wow. My memory didn’t remember this.

If Books Could Kill - Rich Dad Poor Dad

https://overcast.fm/+9URKMpPlc
https://www.reddit.com/r/IfBooksCouldKill/comments/12dg2r6/if_books_could_kill_rich_dad_poor_dad/

99% Invisible - De Fiets Is Niets

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 17:41:27 +0000

99% Invisible - De Fiets Is Niets

99% Invisible’s recap of how and why the Netherlands created their bicycle culture and how it has stagnated.

99% Invisible - 531- De Fiets Is Niets

https://overcast.fm/+yIOxANo9Q
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/de-fiets-is-niets/

Twenty Thousand Hertz - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 04:58:05 +0000

Twenty Thousand Hertz - Summary

Podcast Info

https://www.20k.org/

Thoughts

Podcast looking into the history and stories behind common sounds and other audio related technologies.

Ward Zero - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 04:55:30 +0000

Ward Zero - Summary

Podcast Info

https://livewirecalgary.com/category/ward-zero-podcast/

Thoughts

I’ve quite enjoyed the Ward Zero podcast but since it’s a current events podcast I’ve opted to not publish any of my starred episodes.

Pre-Accident Podcast - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 05:30:55 +0000

Pre-Accident Podcast - Summary

Podcast Info

https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/

Thoughts

This was first recommended by Jeff Lindsay (https://mas.to/@progrium) on Twitter quite a few years ago and I listened for a few years.

Todd Conklin does an excellent job looking at various items on how to better improve safety and how it overlaps with so many industries.

The overlap between IT, and safety specialists in their particular fields - wether it is medical, aerospace, or other is incredibly informational - especially when you look at the pre-accidental view.

I unfortunately had not saved/starred many of the really good episodes from the years I listened before dropping it to try and reduce the number of new episodes I was listening to.

Strong Towns - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 05:26:41 +0000

Strong Towns - Summary

Podcast Info

https://podcast.strongtowns.org/ http://upzoned.strongtowns.org/ https://strongtowns.org

Thoughts

A pragmatic view of how to make a strong, resilient, and sustainable strong town. It scales up nicely for cities and down for villages as well. We should not be playing Ponzi schemes with our cities anymore - we have for far too long.

Upzoned is an excellent podcast but is a higher volume than the main podcast and focuses more on individual stories.

CBC Quirks and Quarks - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 05:25:09 +0000

CBC Quirks and Quarks - Summary

Podcast Info

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks

Thoughts

Fantastic science current events podcast. I do enjoy having it part of my list of podcasts I listen to normally.

Escape Pod - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 05:24:01 +0000

Escape Pod - Summary

Podcast Info

https://escapepod.org/

Thoughts

Escape Pod is an amazing original Science Fiction podcast and highly recommended.

CBC Ideas - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 05:22:53 +0000

CBC Ideas - Summary

Podcast Info

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas

Thoughts

CBC Ideas - sometimes it has fantastic items, other times it’s incredibly academic. I do enjoy having it part of my list of podcasts I listen to normally.

Developing Leadership - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 05:03:24 +0000

Developing Leadership - Summary

Podcast Info

https://www.developingleadership.co/

Thoughts

Developing Leadership is a great podcast looking at leadership decisions, skills, and other challenges.

At it’s best it helps with looking at how to build at a team, while at it’s worst it does highlight the tradeoffs requested between a company and a team of workers within our current system.

Alberta Advantage - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 04:59:44 +0000

Alberta Advantage - Summary

Podcast Info

https://albertaadvantagepod.com/

Thoughts

At first it’s a left wing centric perspective on various Albertan and Canadian topics, but as it goes on it becomes incredibly important political education for what is truly left versus Neo-liberal, centrist, and conservative values.

While it is very Alberta and Canada centric, it is a fantastic resource for political education to better understand actual leftist ideas compared to what 2010/2020s society pretends is a leftist idea.

99% Invisible - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 04:58:49 +0000

99% Invisible - Summary

Podcast Info

https://99percentinvisible.org/

Thoughts

Very popular, but also an excellent podcast on a variety of topics.

Behind the Bastards - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 04:56:17 +0000

Behind the Bastards - Summary

Podcast Info

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/

Thoughts

Generally a fantastic look into the back story of different “bastards” and what they did and why they are characterized as a bastard.

Sprawlcast - Summary

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 04:54:56 +0000

Sprawlcast - Summary

Podcast Info

https://www.sprawlcalgary.com/sprawlcast

Thoughts

Sprawl Calgary’s series looking into various Calgary centric topics. Highly recommended.

Oddly Influenced - Resilience engineering with Lorin Hochstein

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:21:06 +0000

Oddly Influenced - Resilience engineering with Lorin Hochstein

Lots of examples of how to build resiliency and capacity to be able to handle when something goes wrong.

Beware the law of stretched systems. The excess capacity will get used.

Oddly Influenced - Resilience engineering with Lorin Hochstein

https://overcast.fm/+7G81vYJZ8
https://podcast.oddly-influenced.dev/episodes/resilience-engineering-with-lorin-hochstein

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 456 - Waiting, Complexity, and People - A Greatest Hits Podcast

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 23:16:39 +0000

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 456 - Waiting, Complexity, and People - A Greatest Hits Podcast

08:55 - if a process is complicated - simplify. Make the hard easy. But if the process is complex, add transparency.

A bit of an oversimplification because you need to figure out if a process is complicated or simply complex.

11 min mark - make the connections more transparent - eg. Raise your hand to speak makes transparency for switching who is speaking.

PreAccident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 456 - Waiting, Complexity, and Poeple - A Greatest Hits Podcast

https://overcast.fm/+tF0D6igEc
https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/e/papod-456-waiting-complexity-and-poeple-a-greatest-hits-podcast/

SpamSieve and Exclude My Address Issue

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 18:10:42 +0000

SpamSieve and Exclude My Address Issue

Source: https://forum.c-command.com/t/address-book-exclude-my-address-just-isnt-working/10879/7

Double check what addresses SpamSieve is getting from Contacts: Go to x-spamsieve://default?k=LogAddressBook&v=YES
Quit and reopen SpamSieve and open the Log
In my case it wasn’t seeing ANY of the emails from my contact card.

The fix?

https://c-command.com/spamsieve/help/exclude-my-addresses

defaults write com.c-command.SpamSieve ExtraAddressesToExclude -array a@b.com d@e.com

CBC Ideas - Mercury's In Retrograde - The Rise of Astrology

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:52:34 +0000

CBC Ideas - Mercury’s In Retrograde - The Rise of Astrology

I had not realized how much more popular astrology had become.

It’s a placebo at best, and ripe for abuse as the horoscopes push consumer behaviour. It does this under a veil of objectiveness that’s not based in reality. It might be better if it was pseudo-scientific instead of a mechanism that preys on a human’s ego.

The 20-25 minute mark hilight how folks are seduced by the vague descriptions.

Ideas - Mercury’s In Retrograde: The Rise of Astrology

https://overcast.fm/+cRNvX4Q
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2187650115725

Using Llama2 with VS Code

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 04:08:02 +0000

Using Llama2 with VS Code

Download and install Ollama
Have Ollama download and set up the codellama model: ollama run codellama
Download and install Continue for VS Code
Configure Continue to use Ollama - make sure you restart/reload VS Code and check Continue’s selected model in the extension pane.
Learn how to use Continue in VS Code

Using Continue

Open the Extension so it’s available as a pane. You can open it by using Command - M by default. (Which is not great)

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 227 - What-A-Burger, Fedex, and Capacity

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 04:52:56 +0000

Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast 227 - What-A-Burger, Fedex, and Capacity

No notes recorded - this is the episode we learn about FedEx running a capacity flight in each quadrant

PreAccident Investigation Podcast - PAPod 227 - What-A-Burger, Fedex, and Capacity

https://overcast.fm/+tF0Dykf8Q
https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/e/papod-227-what-a-burger-fedex-and-capacity/

Touch ID and sudo in macOS

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 23:38:28 +0000

Touch ID and sudo in macOS

Had been meaning to do this for ages and now in Sonoma (macOS 14+) it can stick!

Pre Sonoma

sudo sed -i '' '2a\
auth       sufficient     pam_tid.so\
' /etc/pam.d/sudo

Post Sonoma

sudo cp /etc/pam.d/sudo_local.template /etc/pam.d/sudo_local
sudo sed -i '' 's/#auth/auth/g' /etc/pam.d/sudo_local

Latest source I used: https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/08/in-macos-sonoma-touch-id-for-sudo-can-survive-updates/

Making a Password Hash for user add

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:08:49 +0000

Making a Password Hash for user add

HASH=$(mkpasswd -m sha-512)

useradd -mp "${HASH}" -G sudo username

You Are Not So Smart Book Podcasts

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 21:02:59 +0000

You Are Not So Smart Book Podcasts

I Never Thought of it that way - Monica Guzman
- https://youarenotsosmart.com/2023/03/06/yanss-254-how-to-have-productive-conversations-in-a-polarized-political-environment/
Good Arguments - Bo Seo
- https://youarenotsosmart.com/2023/03/19/yanss-255-how-to-improve-our-lives-and-the-world-by-improving-the-quality-of-our-disagreements/
The Persuaders - Anand Giriharadas
- https://youarenotsosmart.com/2023/04/02/yanss-256-anand-giridharadas-wants-americans-to-change-their-minds-about-their-ability-change-other-americans-minds/
How Minds Change - David McRaney

Monica Interview

I struggled with the bit of needing to talk to the other side when marginalized. Requiring the emotional labour from victims even if we are talking to those less oppositional feels big. Reinforcing that talking to everyone and not letting yourself fall into a bubble might be the bigger deal.

I part I loved is connecting to learn someone else’s experience. It requires listening.

Beyond your ken- beyond your experience. Came from beyond visible distance on the sea

Bo Interview

Physics of arguments Fact/Descriptive arguments Attitudinal/Normative arguments - moral? Should based/prescriptive Claims Conclusions Topic analysis

Are we still disagreeing about “x”? Fighting the dark arts - why do you believe what you believe? What are we disagreeing about? The art of being right - 38 ways to win an argument. How to deal with bad faith

Anand Interview

Anger and division means people care Dismissal and contempt is extremely toxic and fatal

The Russian “attack” on the 2016 election was about undermining discourse. It was about dismissal and contempt.

Anger gets things done

People having big feelings is the base material for political entrepreneurs. The right is better are weaponizing this

49:30 - good question (why should I offer anything empathetic when someone hates me) and answer (50:30). It’s hard. And it should be voluntary. Allies need to step up. Just because a trajectory is righteous it does not mean it will be easy.

systemd and DNS

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 04:21:54 +0000

systemd and DNS

For systemd < v239 (18.04 and earlier): systemd-resolve

For >= v239 (20.04 and later):

resolvectl

Set DNS

systemd-resolve --set-dns 1.1.1.1 --interface eno1
resolvectl dns eno1 1.1.1.1

Remove DNS entry

resolvectl dns eno1 ''

The Red Line - The Green Line Series

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 18:45:12 +0000

The Red Line - The Green Line Series

This was an excellent series looking at how various countries are preparing for the transition, its impacts, and climate.

Episode 3 about Water Wars and the last about the winners and losers were the ones I enjoyed the most. I only wrote down my notes from episode 5.

The Winners and Losers of the Energy Transition

Aka The Death of the Petrostate

What happens when we see oil prices start dropping because we pass peak oil demand?

The touching on “low carbon” and “low cost” oil and how the choices being made now are shaping who will be the last one standing for the last vestiges of oil demand in the next 20 years. If anything it hilights further how backwards and mind numbingly dumb Alberta’s decisions are right now. Pivoting to “ethical oil” may sound smart but that ship (and the sheer disingenuous nature of such a slogan) has sailed.

$30/bbl expectations by 2030 should be very concerning.

SSL Verification and Derivation Tips

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:24:13 +0000

SSL Verification and Derivation Tips

Verify a private key

openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in <private-key-file>

Verify the public cert

openssl x509 -noout -in <certificate-file> -text

Verifying they match

The modulus of both should match (easiest to verify by hashing)

openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in <cert> | openssl md5
openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in <privatekey> | openssl md5

Checking Dates

openssl x509 -noout -dates -in <certificate-file>

Derivation Tips

Apache (2.4+)

Concatenate the cert followed by intermediate cert(s).

Set SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile in the virtual host config

nginx

Concatenate the cert followed by intermediate cert(s)

haproxy

Concatenate the cert, private key, followed by intermediate certs, and then optionally a dhparam output.

Dhparam output can be created by running: dhparam -out dhparam.pem 2048

The entry in haproxy will then look like:

bind    :443 ssl crt /path/to/<cert+privkey+intermediate> alpn h2,http/1.1

(Check https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/ for the best settings)

Curtin Notes

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 03:58:42 +0000

Curtin Notes

Inheritance/multiple files

Choose a file to include:

{{inhert "file"}}

However the file being included will REPLACE your previous file’s contents without:

{{self.body}}

At the top of the file, and this needs to be repeated for each inherited file.

MAAS required commands

If you’re using Curtin with MAAS remember to ensure you have the following late command:

99-maas: [wget, '--no-proxy', {{node_disable_pxe_url|escape.json}}, '--post-data', {{node_disable_pxe_data|escape.json}}, '-O', '/dev/null']

As well as the following:

debconf_selections:
 maas: |
  {{for line in str(curtin_preseed).splitlines()}}
  {{line}}
  {{endfor}}

Using `echo`

Unlike wget or other commands, commands running in the shell’s environment need to have a shell process spun up in the target to get the correct path.

You will need to use sh -c in the command:

  18-deny-module-ipmi: ['curtin', 'in-target', '--', 'sh', '-c', "echo blacklist ipmi_si >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf"]
  18-deny-module-nouveau: ['curtin', 'in-target', '--', 'sh', '-c', "echo blacklist nouveau >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf"]

Netbox Snippets

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:50:37 +0000

Netbox Snippets

REST - basic cURL

curl -H "Authorization: Token TOKEN" \
-H "Accept: application/json; indent=4" \
"https://netbox/api/ipam/ip-addresses/?vrf_id=3"

https://demo.netbox.dev/static/docs/rest-api/authentication/

Note: This limits to 50 items by default. You can use &limit to change.

GraphQL

A GraphQL UI is available at /graphql on Netbox. GraphQL is a bit more work to use with cURL.

The same REST query above in graphQL:

query {
  ip_address_list (vrf_id: "3") {
    address
    dns_name
    description
  }
}

cURL

curl -g \
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Token TOKEN" \
-d '{"query":"query { ip_address_list (vrf_id: "3") { address dns_name description } }"}' \
https://netbox.example/graphql

Munging Netbox Data to CSV

| jq -r '.results | (map(keys) | add | unique) as $cols | map(. as $row | $cols | map($row[.])) as $rows | $cols, $rows[] | @csv'

JQ to CSV conversion one liner from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32965227

This does NOT work with multiple layers - so this will need tweaking each time to only select fields you want from .results. So use '.results[] | keys to get the keys you want, and then:

| jq -r '.results[] | ( if (.dns_name == "") then .dns_name = .description else . end  ) | { address, dns_name }' | jq -rs '(map(keys) | add | unique) as $cols | map(. as $row | $cols | map($row[.])) as $rows | $cols, $rows[] | @csv'

Merging Two Fields

If you have bad data entry (it wouldn’t be production without it) - how can we “merge” two fields. Eg. dns_name and description - set dns_name to description if dns_name is a blank string

.results[] | ( if (.dns_name == "") then .dns_name = .description else . end  ) | { address, dns_name }

CBC Ideas - Seduced by story - the dangers of narrative

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:43:47 +0000

CBC Ideas - Seduced by story - the dangers of narrative

The limitations of stories or how when we get so used to story, we can stop questioning if the story is fiction or not.

Ultimately narrative is an effective tool. It can be used for good and evil.

Ideas - Seduced by story: the dangers of narrative

https://overcast.fm/+cTGeZwA
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2179580483805

Developing Leadership - Placing Bets and Building Trust as an Engineering Leader

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:43:24 +0000

Developing Leadership - Placing Bets and Building Trust as an Engineering Leader

No notes recorded

Developing Leadership - Placing Bets & Building Trust as an Engineering Leader

https://overcast.fm/+xOJ28vAYI
https://www.developingleadership.co/episode/episode-30-placing-bets-building-trust-as-an-engineering-leader

The War on Cars - Feminist City with Leslie Kern

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 23:43:45 +0000

The War on Cars - Feminist City with Leslie Kern

No notes recorded

The War on Cars - Feminist City with Leslie Kern

https://overcast.fm/+O31pHecxI
https://thewaroncars.org/2023/03/07/feminist-city-with-leslie-kern/

Tech Lead Journal - 123 - The Empathetic Workplace: How to Handle Workplace Trauma - Katharine Manning

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 23:15:47 +0000

Tech Lead Journal - 123 - The Empathetic Workplace: How to Handle Workplace Trauma - Katharine Manning

The LASER method is good to have learnt

Tech Lead Journal - 123 - The Empathetic Workplace: How to Handle Workplace Trauma - Katharine Manning

https://overcast.fm/+fKlzRtCI4
https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/123/

Git Snippets

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 03:42:05 +0000

Git Snippets

Nuke all files not in the repo

git clean -df

-n is a dry run

Add files already deleted

git add -u .

Add files already deleted AND new files

git add -A

Switching default upstream repo

git pull <upstream>
git pull --set-upstream origin main

Updating a fork

git remote add upstream <upstream_url>
git fetch upstream
git merge <tag or branch name>

Python - Batteries included

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 04:50:15 +0000

Python - Batteries included

Unzip

python -m gzip --decompress file.gz

Web Server

python -m http.server

Base64

python -m base64

JSON

python -m json.tool My favourite reason to use it - exits 1 if invalid

Cool Other Lists

Simon Willison used ripgrep to search Python: https://til.simonwillison.net/python/stdlib-cli-tools

The Messy City Podcast - Ali Quinlan will leave you with no excuses

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 01:27:47 +0000

The Messy City Podcast - Ali Quinlan will leave you with no excuses

45 min mark - A great push back against the thinking that leads to: “here is this slot, here are the expectations and the needs of this slot and if you as a cog can not fit in this slot then I will find another cog”

50 min mark - they have a 3 strike miserable rule to fire a client because life is too short

50:48 - “We try to always return all this policy wonky, housing type conversations back to people. Because what we’re building is the framework for people to live in. To live their lives. To have their kids. To fall in love. To watch someone they love die. We’re building the environment and framework for life but it’s about life and it’s about people”

51:32 - “The more we can legalize life, the better we are doing. We are living in this environment where we have this very narrow definition - we are building housing for nuclear families that don’t exist anymore - in the majority.

So, we’re limiting people’s ability to create these relationships, to make choices that make sense for them financially. We are limiting people’s lives and they don’t get to get those back.

It can’t take us 40 years to fix this because we’ve lost an entire generation of lives.”

The Messy City Podcast - Ali Quinlan will leave you with no excuses

https://overcast.fm/+_vUs4PUk4
https://kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/p/ali-quinlan-will-leave-you-with-no#details

Upzoned - We're Getting Worse at Construction Despite Technology Advances

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:07:46 +0000

Upzoned - We’re Getting Worse at Construction Despite Technology Advances

5 minute mark - the discussion on complexity vs complicated.

Complexity can mean a resilient system that can react, where as complicated can mean fragile. Complicated can mean

Upzoned - We’re Getting Worse at Construction Despite Technology Advances

https://overcast.fm/+qpp_VYM2s
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/2/15/were-getting-worse-at-construction-despite-technology-advances

Performance Mantras

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 31 May 2023 17:23:05 +0000

Performance Mantras

Craig Hanson and Pat Crain’s performance mantras:

Don’t do it
Do it, but don’t do it again
Do it less
Do it later
Do it when they’re not looking
Do it concurrently
Do it cheaper

Source: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2018-06-30/benchmarking-checklist.html

Throughline - When Things Fall Apart

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 30 May 2023 22:55:56 +0000

Throughline - When Things Fall Apart

No notes recorded

Throughline - When Things Fall Apart

https://overcast.fm/+Ys-ym66gg
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/24/1151023362/when-things-fall-apart

The Progress Report - The Alberta Model must be destroyed

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 29 May 2023 17:57:11 +0000

The Progress Report - The Alberta Model must be destroyed

Normally I mention what I like or learned. I really did not like learning just how much this model fails citizens.

The Progress Report - The Alberta Model must be destroyed

https://overcast.fm/+TDcWLU80E
https://www.theprogressreport.ca/pod_the_alberta_model_must_be_destroyed

Alberta Advantage Podcast - Clearing the Plains in 2023 - Alberta's Drug Poisoning Crisis

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 29 May 2023 14:56:50 +0000

Alberta Advantage Podcast - Clearing the Plains in 2023 - Alberta’s Drug Poisoning Crisis

The undercurrent that abstinence is the goal and only way to make it work.

“The 4 of us discussed quite at length - like, the notion - if you were to try and design a policy that would help extend the effects of residential schools, the 60s scoop, family separation, child removal, and incarceration really. Against this mentality that is growing in our country that we need address these past harms. Drug policy is really the number one way to do that.

23 minute mark - reminder we don’t have free drugs. It’s a prescription program.

Alberta Advantage Podcast - Clearing the Plains in 2023: Alberta’s Drug Poisoning Crisis

https://overcast.fm/+KvqrJ5AKY
https://albertaadvantagepod.com/2023/05/29/clearing-the-plains-in-2023-albertas-drug-poisoning-crisis/

CBC Ideas - Transforming Justice

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 28 May 2023 16:47:09 +0000

CBC Ideas - Transforming Justice

No notes recorded

Ideas - Transforming Justice, Part 2: Angela Davis, Fania Davis and Margaret Burnham

https://overcast.fm/+cQ4AFpo
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2164551235909

The War on Cars - Deconstructing Muscle Car City

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 13 May 2023 21:00:09 +0000

The War on Cars - Deconstructing Muscle Car City

A delightful look at muscle car culture:

Toxic masculinity
Lawlessness thrill/allure
Community
Energy
Using dead space (parking lots)
Consumption as status

The War on Cars - Deconstructing Muscle Car City

https://overcast.fm/+O31otiT_o
https://thewaroncars.org/2023/01/03/deconstructing-muscle-car-city/

Alberta Unbound - The Future of Food

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 02 May 2023 23:35:52 +0000

Alberta Unbound - The Future of Food

At the 30 minute mark the health found in the various berries and beaver population growth in Alberta was incredibly educational.

Alberta Unbound - S4 Episode 5: The Future of Food

https://overcast.fm/+a8TA9ghOM
https://senatorpaulasimons.podbean.com/e/s4-episode-5-the-future-of-food/

CBC Tapestry - Searching for connection - Third places may be the solution

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 01 May 2023 23:44:22 +0000

CBC Tapestry - Searching for connection - Third places may be the solution

27:40 - Summarizes the gotcha of how our North American individualistic drive with motor vehicles has created such of a debt in social fabric. This has helped cultivate and nurturing the loneliness issues we have now and the extremism that feeds off of it.

37:25 - Small but powerful and tangible way to revert the angsty energy young people have. We can make a difference locally. Those are the little steps we need to make better spaces.

Tapestry from CBC Radio - Searching for connection? Third places may be the solution

https://overcast.fm/+gKDCa9k
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2141230659865

CBC Ideas - In Defence of Democracy - Naheed Nenshi

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 01 May 2023 22:56:54 +0000

CBC Ideas - In Defence of Democracy - Naheed Nenshi

I’ve always really enjoyed hearing Nenshi speak and his insatiable optimism for the best in Calgary. Hearing his worries, and what he sees is still possible is both exciting but also worrying if we don’t fight to keep democracy alive.

Ideas - In Defence of Democracy: Naheed Nenshi

https://overcast.fm/+cTH7jVg
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2139442755896

99% Invisible - The Divided Dial

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 01:37:31 +0000

99% Invisible - The Divided Dial

A look into the road America took into creating and fostering extremism on radio waves and how it completely got efficiently taken over by one perspective.

99% Invisible - The Divided Dial

https://overcast.fm/+yIOyqkXwQ
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-divided-dial/

Sprawlcast - The Confluence - As Long As The Rivers Flow

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:30:37 +0000

Sprawlcast - The Confluence - As Long As The Rivers Flow

A great touch on how much of the space Calgary resides on has been lost and the many names that have existed for this area.

Sprawlcast - The Confluence: As Long As The Rivers Flow

https://overcast.fm/+MdplOzc6k
https://www.sprawlcalgary.com/as-long-as-the-rivers-flow-treaty-7

MySQL INSERT Syntax

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:05:13 +0000

MySQL INSERT Syntax

INSERT INTO table_name (column_1,column_2,column_3) VALUES (value_1,value_2,value_3);

CBC Ideas - Getting Past Polarization with Anand Giridharadas

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 04:12:33 +0000

CBC Ideas - Getting Past Polarization with Anand Giridharadas

21:08 - pro democracy ignores the emotions and psychology. And that’s to it’s detriment to letting misinformation take root. Wanting simple answers and not wanting to be a dupe.

Ideas - Getting Past Polarization: Anand Giridharadas

https://overcast.fm/+cQjZtLw
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2121869891640

CBC Ideas - Maria Ressa - Last two minutes of Democracy

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 18:22:43 +0000

CBC Ideas - Maria Ressa - Last two minutes of Democracy

Inspiration can spread as fast as hate

Autocracy Inc.

Ideas - Maria Ressa: ‘Last two minutes of Democracy’

https://overcast.fm/+cSIEa3M
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2106356803841

CBC Ideas - Scene on Radio's The Land That Never Has Been Yet

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 18:17:10 +0000

CBC Ideas - Scene on Radio’s The Land That Never Has Been Yet

No notes recorded

Ideas - IDEAS presents Scene on Radio’s The Land That Never Has Been Yet

Part One: https://overcast.fm/+cSthzfo
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2104106051850
Part Two: https://overcast.fm/+cQcUnm0
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2105084483697

O11ycast - Ep. 56 - Opinions on Opinions with Kris Nova

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:37:52 +0000

O11ycast - Ep. 56 - Opinions on Opinions with Kris Nova

3 min in hits things about Kubernetes (and OpenStack) so well. Its super flexible and so will not automatically solve your problems. It’s a glue - it’s the vehicle to get something together.

Around the 10:51 mark, Charity has a great summary of the topic of coming to an opinion:

This is a Rule of Thumb that you should follow unless you have a reason to break this. Choose boring technology. I think that was so brilliant because it should be the default choice. You have a limited number of innovation tokens. You can’t spend many of them because you’ll doom your business. So how are you going to spend them wisely and how are you going to rely on the most boring technology possible?

Around the 13 minute mark the book Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt is recommended.

Around the 15:30 minute mark holds some awesome advice from Kris:

Start small
Start turning things on

Accepting that you need to get 60-70% of the way there, turn it on, and focus more on not letting the debt pile up, and the fires to pile up. Some decision is better than no decision.

Getting a cluster online is actually the easy part of the journey. It’s keeping it online, and keeping it healthy and keeping it upgraded and not getting completely buried in dirt and technical debt. That’s the hard part in my opinion and experience in operating Kube at scale.

O11ycast - Ep. 56, Opinions on Opinions with Kris Nóva

https://overcast.fm/+0GHyZXgds
https://dev.to/o11ycast/ep-56-opinions-on-opinions-with-kris-nova

tcpdump snippets

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:53:11 +0000

tcpdump snippets

Watch IPv6 RAs

tcpdump -vvvv -ttt icmp6 and 'ip6[40] = 134'

All the v6 traffic

tcpdump -i <interface> -vv ip6

Livable Low Carbon City - 05 - An ARPA for Climate Adaptive Urbanism

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 15:46:10 +0000

Livable Low Carbon City - 05 - An ARPA for Climate Adaptive Urbanism

The future is here it’s just not even evenly distributed

Livable Low-carbon City - 05: An ARPA for Climate Adaptive Urbanism

https://overcast.fm/+8PvlkoCRk
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2051515/11505841-05-an-arpa-for-climate-adaptive-urbanism

Hidden Brain - Did I Really Do That?

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 15:48:55 +0000

Hidden Brain - Did I Really Do That?

Confessions are incredibly problematic. Leading questions can manipulate memory.

Ask open ended questions, don’t communicate details/info someone might not already know. That’s how you avoid

Hidden Brain - Did I Really Do That?

https://overcast.fm/+1WhON0Cb8
https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/did-i-really-do-that/

Pip / Virtual Environment Basics

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 02:31:27 +0000

Pip / Virtual Environment Basics

Setup

Install Command Line Tools for macOS and Homebrew
brew install virtualenv

Why

Because Python packaging is a pain and different dependencies conflict. Using virtual environments separates your repos so you don’t need to worry about introducing a conflict unintentionally.

Create and Use a virtual environment

cd ~/src/folder
<!-- #virtualenv venv -->
python3 -m venv venv
echo venv >> .gitignore
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

venv for the folder name is an arbitrary but consistent name used.

Find out which requirements can be updated

pip list --outdated

Update all dependencies

One liner to update all

pip3 list -o | cut -f1 -d' ' | tr " " "\n" | awk '{if(NR>=3)print}' | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs -n1 pip3 install -U

After confirming the updates are fine

pip freeze > requirements.txt

And compare the changes.

Sprawlcast - The Hollowing Of The Calgary Herald

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:53:17 +0000

Sprawlcast - The Hollowing Of The Calgary Herald

No notes recorded

Sprawlcast - The Hollowing Of The Calgary Herald

https://overcast.fm/+MdpmUIssg
https://www.sprawlcalgary.com/calgary-herald-long-decline

Go Module Handling

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 07:01:58 +0000

Go Module Handling

Starting from Scratch

go mod init <name of your app>
go mod download <dependency>
go mod tidy

Updating

https://go.dev/doc/modules/managing-dependencies#discovering_updates

go list -m -u all

go get -d -u -t ./...

go mod tidy

Removing

go get example.com/theirmodule@none

Or remove from your files and run

go mod tidy

go-soda Notes

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 05:44:32 +0000

go-soda Notes

https://github.com/SebastiaanKlippert/go-soda

Basic

Get a resource URL and just check it’s fields and last modified date

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/SebastiaanKlippert/go-soda"
)

func main() {
  sodareq := soda.NewGetRequest("https://data.calgary.ca/resource/35ra-9556", "")

	modified, err := sodareq.Modified()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fields, err := sodareq.Fields()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Println("Modified: ", modified)
	fmt.Println("Fields: ", fields)
}

SoSQL and Filtering

The SODA API also has a more featurful query syntax: http://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries.html / https://github.com/SebastiaanKlippert/go-soda/blob/master/soda.go#L203

In main above you can add the following at the bottom:

  // Specify format (json, csv, etc.) - https://dev.socrata.com/docs/formats/
	sodareq.Format = "json"

  // SimpleFilters - https://dev.socrata.com/docs/filtering.html
	sodareq.Filters["description"] = "Stalled"

  // SoQL - https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/
  // Query is the SoSQL struct at https://github.com/SebastiaanKlippert/go-soda/blob/master/soda.go#L203
	// Only grab fields we want
  sodareq.Query.Select = []string{"incident_info", "description", "start_dt", "modified_dt", "longitude", "latitude", "id"}
  // Search for pedestrian
	sodareq.Query.Q = "pedestrian"
	// Sort by a column - easier to use AddOrder
  sodareq.AddOrder("start_dt", true)
  // Only the last 5
	sodareq.Query.Limit = 5

Mastodon Client Introduction

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 06:49:54 +0000

Mastodon Client Introduction

General

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/

Golang

https://github.com/mattn/go-mastodon
RegisterApp is used to register an application
NewClient is used to make your client
- Either put your ID, secret, and authtoken into your Mastodon Config object OR
- Use Authenticate if using username/password
- Use AuthenticateApp if using client creds

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/mattn/go-mastodon"
)

func main() {
	c := mastodon.NewClient(&mastodon.Config{
		Server: "https://example.com",
		AccessToken: "ACCESS_TOKEN",
	})

	// Print mastodon version
	mastodonVersion, err := c.GetInstance(context.Background())
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(mastodonVersion.Version)

	//Toot and delete
	information, err := c.PostStatus(context.Background(), &mastodon.Toot{
		Status: "API Test",
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(information)

	err = c.DeleteStatus(context.Background(), information.ID)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

Python

pip install Mastodon.py

create_app is used to register an application and save creds
The credentials file is:

client_id/key
client_secret
URL
Name of APP

log_in can then be used to get an access token (and save to a file)

If you have an access token (eg. created an app on the web UI) - you can initialize with the access token.

from mastodon import Mastodon

mastodon = Mastodon(
    api_base_url = 'https://example.com',
    access_token = 'ACCESS_TOKEN'
)

print ('Mastodon version: ' + mastodon.retrieve_mastodon_version())

information = mastodon.status_post(
    status = "Status via the API",
)

print (information)

mastodon.status_delete(
    id = information['id']
)

CBC Ideas - The New World Disorder - The End of America

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:04:46 +0000

CBC Ideas - The New World Disorder - The End of America

On one hand the entire episode can be summed in a sentence or two of how the US is slowly dying with a slow continual acceptance of new normals. Canada and other democracies need to bolster their institutions.

One of the interviewees mentions so starting at the 38-40 minute mark.

I really liked the end - where the utopian view is looking at the most local.

Ideas - The New World Disorder | The End of America

https://overcast.fm/+cQMturE
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15939377-the-new-world-disorder-or-the-end-america

Livable Low Carbon City - 02 - Missing Mid-rise

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 01:30:45 +0000

Livable Low Carbon City - 02 - Missing Mid-rise

I’m a huge fan of quality mid-rise to create the sustainable density and community.

“The issue with the focus on the missing middle is that it largely ignores; a) how the economics of missing middle in cities with systemic housing shortages no longer work because land and construction costs are too high. And b) the overwhelming land area in most of our cities is devoted to detached houses. The scale and speed in which we need to be adding houses to US cities, especially affordable housing will be incredibly difficult if not impossible to achieve with this outsized focus on small scale homes. It also doesn’t address the lack of walkability or accessibility in most of these neighbourhoods. Nor does it address the egregious policy of limiting affordable and social housing to our most toxic streets“

Livable Low-carbon City - 02: Missing Mid-rise

https://overcast.fm/+8PvlSOmz8
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2051515/11362566-02-missing-mid-rise

CBC Ideas - Ideas from the Trenches - The Conspiracy Practice

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:55:43 +0000

CBC Ideas - Ideas from the Trenches - The Conspiracy Practice

A fascinating look into just how easily people slip into embracing, alternate realities, roughly halfway through. There’s a fantastic short segment on the concept of micro fascism, and how the Internet has allowed little bit of micro fascism to start congregating together to turn into whatever this new version of Asha Smith

Ideas - IDEAS from the Trenches: The Conspiracy Practice

https://overcast.fm/+cSZBe28
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15937929-ideas-trenches-the-conspiracy-practice

Tech Lead Journal - 105 - Coaching for Technical Leaders - Bob Galen

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 22:14:20 +0000

Tech Lead Journal - 105 - Coaching for Technical Leaders - Bob Galen

The summary is that technical leaders need to be aware they need to hone their coaching skills/competencies

The book/interview looks at something called the agile coaching growth wheel (a superset of professional coaching). Which is more about stances or coaching skills to look for needing to do:

Professional coaching - asking questions, especially open ended questions
Mentoring - partnering/apprenticeship
Training/Teaching - directing with knowledge
Guided Learning
Facilitating
Advising / Consulting / Directing

There’s a time for questions there’s a time for mentorship there’s a time for direction.

Reminder that the posture change of what can we do to help and listen makes a meaningful difference.

Powerful Questions are great but there are so many. The Coaching Habit simplifies it to 7.

“What’s on your mind?”
“And what else?”
“What’s the real challenge here for you?”
“What do you (really) want (from me)?”
“How can I help?”
“If you’re saying yes to this, what are you saying no to?”
“What was most useful for you?”

How is “Powerful Listening” different than “Active Listening”?

Nothing mentioned seems to say if they’re different or if it is a different term for the same thing - listening to truly learn.

Create your own percent rule - you should help your team more than direct/provide a solution. Something I am bad at.

Tech Lead Journal - 105 - Coaching for Technical Leaders - Bob Galen

https://overcast.fm/+fKlw8V8-Q
https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/105/

MacDevOpsYVR - Remote distributed workflows for video editing with Seth Goldin

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:52:59 +0000

MacDevOpsYVR - Remote distributed workflows for video editing with Seth Goldin

Missing link from show notes - David Kong’s post on what codec to choose

Otherwise an enjoyable look at workflows thinking about remote.

MacDevOpsYVR podcast - Remote distributed workflows for video editing with Seth Goldin

https://overcast.fm/+Yg7LBMfRM
https://mdopod.com/remote-distributed-workflows-for-video-editing-with-seth-goldin/

Volts - Charles Marohn on unsustainable suburbs

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 15:54:13 +0000

Volts - Charles Marohn on unsustainable suburbs

8:30 - Calling suburbs a Ponzi scheme isn’t saying it’s explicitly malicious. It’s human psychology. 13 min - goes into more about human psychology - why does a 30 min - the asymmetry of engagement 34 min - decisions to be made at the lowest level that they can be made 37 min - looking at how to do work that generates a culture versus a master plan or top down network planning. Bottom up is harder. 48 min - a failing suburb is a dangerous recipe. Isolation plus poverty is not a good recipe. 67 min - do we think we can get climate action without centralized top down action? (Which goes to the point at the 37 min mark) Invcentivitizing cultural answers. People want good urbanism - incentivize that instead of dictating it.

Volts - Charles Marohn on unsustainable suburbs

https://overcast.fm/+oT_l7Fh8s
https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-charles-marohn-on-unsustainable#details

Bellwether

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 01:57:07 +0000

Bellwether

Fantastic cross between speculative journalism and journalism of:

Automated Driving
The doublespeak and attack or DIY spaces
The effects of SOSTA/FESTA

Bellwether

https://overcast.fm/+S_KRvRwh4 https://overcast.fm/+S_KQu4AYE https://overcast.fm/+S_KTYkxnU

Note: https://bellwether.show now 404s.

Energy vs Climate - Transition in Alberta from The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 01:49:37 +0000

Energy vs Climate - Transition in Alberta from The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder

Especially from the 35 min mark - an excellent recap of how oil and gas has struggled to grow despite lots of public subsidization. Doesn’t need to sensationalize to point out we have massive public liabilities in the present regardless of a transition.

Alberta is the wind and solar capital of Canada.

Energy vs Climate - BONUS | Transition in Alberta from The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder

https://overcast.fm/+2kHVaMjVE
https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-180-transition-in-alberta/

Recipes for Switch

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 07:21:16 +0000

Recipes for Switch

The advantage is you can use immersion AND pour through as you want.

If you replace the cone with a V60 03 (bigger cone), you can do a larger amount.

Current Daily Driver

Uses a Mugen instead of a V60, steals a bit from Tetsu’s 4:6 and his super hybrid method.

30g coffee
400g water

Preheat Mugen and grind coffee
Start with Switch closed
Pour 60g water, open the switch, let draw down and/or 30 seconds. Whichever is longer.
Slowly pour 140g water (200g total). Let draw down
Slowly pour 100g water (300g total). Let draw down.
Close switch - add ~150mL of cold or room temperature water to kettle to cool the existing water. Swirl in kettle to help cool it down to ~70C
Pour 100g water. Let sit 1 minute
Open

Hario

(Included in manual)

16g coffee
50g water, bloom for 30 seconds
210g water (240 total)
Let immerse 2 min. Hit switch at 2:30 and drain

Eight Ounce Coffee

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XXwrrGWOINQ

20g coffee
60g water, let steep 1 minute
Drain
Close, 40g water (100g total), open
Close, 50g water (150g total), open
Close, 50g water (200g total), open
Close, 100g water (300g total), open

Total brew time is 4-5 minutes.

Tale’s Stall the Fall

https://youtu.be/4wMyaw0FoZs

Boil water
Rinse filter and heat Switch
Close Switch
Pour 260g water (just off boil)
Add 20g coffee (very fine grind)
40 sec clockwise stir with chopstick (vigorous to start, gentle after all grounds are wet)
Open Switch
5 sec vigorous clockwise stir
Total brew time should be 1:30-1:40 (max 2:00)

Hoffmann

https://youtu.be/QjIvN8mlK9Y

Tetsu Kasuya - “God/Devil Method”

https://outpostcoffee.com/blogs/brew-at-home/tetsu-kasuyas-hario-switch-recipe-for-perfect-coffee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC8K40kZ_6E&t=1028s

20g coffee
280g water (93 C)
Using 13 on an Encore (normally use 15 for V60)

Leave Switch Open

Pour 60g water
Wait 30 seconds
Pour second 60g water (120g total)
Cool down to 70C
At 01:15 - close
Pour to 280g
30 seconds later (01:45) - open
Remove at 03:00 - if too much water left over - try a more coarse grind

References the 4:6 method he also came up with.

Tetsu Super Hybrid Recipe

The God/Devil/Hybrid recipe was updated Jan. 11, 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FeUp_zNiiY
https://roastaroma.com/2025/01/tetsu-kasayas-evolved-hybrid-recipe-v2-super-hybrid-sneaky-recipe/

20g coffee
300g water (90 C and 70-80 C)
Using 13 on an Encore (normally use 15 for V60)

Start with Switch closed

Pour 40-50g water (90 C)
Wait 40 seconds
Open the switch and pour to 120g total
Pour again at 1:30 to 200g total
Cool down to 70 - 80 C
Close the switch, and top up to 300 g at the ~2:10 mark
Wait 45 seconds, and open the switch (2:55 mark). Should finish around the 3:30 mark.

4:6 Method (Tetsu Kasuya)

40g coffee
600g water

(00:00) Bloom with 100g, wait 45 seconds
(00:45) Add next pulse (140g), wait 45 seconds
(01:30) Add next pulse (120g), wait 45 seconds
(02:15) Add next pulse (120g), wait 45 seconds
(03:00) Add next pulse (120g), wait 45 seconds
(03:30) Remove

The advantage is you can use immersion AND pour through as you want and has become my daily driver at home - especially using a mix of immersion and pour over / pulse

Generic

16g coffee
50g water, bloom for 30 seconds
210g water (240 total)
Let immerse 2 min. Hit switch at 2:30 and drain

If you replace the cone with a V60 03 (bigger cone), you can do a larger amount.

Sherry Hsu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCNxPYyGWoo

16g coffee
90C water
50 g water, bloom for 30 seconds
Circular pour to 150g
At 1:00, close switch, pour to 240g
At 1:30, open switch and let drain
Total time should be 1:45-2:00

Lance Hedrick - Gong Fu Recipe

https://youtube.com/watch?v=blQsogeBG7M

This approach leverages a cooler bloom, pouring over a spoon (like a melodrip) to reduce agitation, and lots of immersion.

The cooler bloom is also called the Samo bloom after Dr. Samo Smrke - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVF7DOxOUFA

15g medium-coarse coffee 250g water

Simple version is: First pour is 50g / 75 C. Let sit 90 seconds Second pour is 100g / 90 C. Let sit 75 seconds Third pour is 100g / 90 C. Let sit 75 seconds

0:00 - close valve, and pour 50g of 75 C water into the brewer. 0:00 - Add coffee grounds, tare your scale, stir, and start timer 1:30 - Open the valve and let it drain fully 1:40 - Close valve. Pour 100g water at 90 C over a spoon onto the coffee bed 1:55 - Gently excavate/stir the coffee bed 3:00 - Open the valve and let it drain fully 3:15 - Close valve, pour to 100g water at 90 C over a spon onto the coffee bed. 3:30 - gently excavate the bed 4:30 - gentle swirl, open and let drain.

Emi Fukahori

https://europeancoffeetrip.com/easy-hario-switch-recipe-emi-fukahor/

14g coffee - medium coarse 200g water

Close valve
50 grams of water
Open valve after 30 seconds
150 grams single continuous pour to the center of the coffee bed
Should be done pouring by 1:10
Should have a 2:20 brew time

Iced Version

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/comments/nnfs3d/iced_coffee_using_hario_switch/

23g coffee (finer than normal)
375g total liquid - 125g of ice into your brewing vessel, 250g hot water

Alt for the cubes at home.
33g coffee
540g liquid = 180g ice, 360 hot water

Rinse filter + preheat switch over the sink.

Bloom with 45-50g water for 45 second. Switch up.
Add rest of liquid (~200 grams to reach total of 250 grams)
Stir / Rao swirl
Let sit till 3 minute mark. Drop switch
Swirl vessel after full drawn down.

Mix of Immersion and Pour Over

30g coffee
50 g water, bloom for 30 seconds
210g water (240 total)
Let brew for 90 seconds, hit switch
Pour slowly the next 260g as normal for a v60

CoffeeChronicler https://coffeechronicler.com/hario-switch/

1:15 ratio
20g coffee
300g water

Pour 150g with switch open At 00:45 - Close switch, and pour rest of water Wait until 02:00 and then open.

For a sweeter version - close at 00:25

Should take 02:45-03:15 total

Switch with Mugen Hack

Background

I learned about using the Hario Mugen instead of the standard V60 cone with the Hario Switch from CoffeeGeek.

The tl;dr for why, is that with a no-bypass brewer, it can be a lot easier to do things consistently when you can’t or won’t give pour over the attention you should.

Testing

20g coffee
240g water

Pour 40g. Wait 30 seconds to draw down and bloom
Close. Pour remaining 200g water.
Wait 60 seconds.
Open and let draw down.

Reddit Recipes

https://new.reddit.com/r/pourover/comments/zzpc4y/hario_switch_base_with_mugen_cone_best_setup_for/

14g coffee (1:14)
Standard V60 grind
200g water

Preheat and rinse paper
Close Switch
Bloom with 50g
Swirl
Add remaining 150g
Let steep 2 minutes
Swirl
At 02:15 - open

CoffeeGeek Recipe

https://coffeegeek.com/guides/howtos/hario-mugen-switch-brewer-hack-how-to/

1:20 ratio
15g coffee
300g water

Preheat/saturate filter
Close switch
Pour 150mL quickly
Stir for 3-4 seconds
Wait 60 seconds and open switch
Pour last 150 mL slowly (~5g/s)
Let draw down

Total time around 4 minutes

Charity Cheung (Hario Booklet)

https://global.hario.com/MUSD%20Recipe%20%26%20Interview.pdf / https://global.hario.com/product/new/mugen_x_switch_dripper.html

1:13.5 ratio 14g coffee (medium) 190g water (93C)

With the Switch valve closed, pour 70g of water.
At 0:45 pour again, up to a total of 190g of water.
Open the Switch valve at 2:30.
Remove the dripper at 3:00.

Weihong Zhang Competition (Hario Booklet)

https://global.hario.com/MUSD%20Recipe%20%26%20Interview.pdf / https://global.hario.com/product/new/mugen_x_switch_dripper.html

1:13.3 ratio 15g coffee (medium) 200g water (80C and 92C)

With the Switch valve open, pour 50g of water at 80°C.
At 0:40, close the Switch valve, pour another 150g, this time at 92°C.
Open the Switch valve at 2:10.
Remove the dripper at 3:00.

Weihong Zhang Everyday (Hario Booklet)

https://global.hario.com/MUSD%20Recipe%20%26%20Interview.pdf / https://global.hario.com/product/new/mugen_x_switch_dripper.html

1:13.3 ratio 16g coffee (medium) 240g water (92C)

With the Switch valve open, pour 50g of water
At 0:40, close the Switch valve, pour up to a total of 240g of water
Open the Switch valve at 2:00.
Remove the dripper at 3:40.

Kunie Inaba (Hario Booklet)

https://global.hario.com/MUSD%20Recipe%20%26%20Interview.pdf / https://global.hario.com/product/new/mugen_x_switch_dripper.html

Note: Canadian Brewers Cup Champion in 2024

1:15 ratio 13g coffee (medium) 200g water (92C and 75C)

With the Switch valve closed, pour 40g of water at 92°C.
Open the Switch valve at 0:40 and pour up to a total of 100g of water, with a circular motion.
Close the Switch valve at 1:20 and pour up to a total of 200g of water, this time using 75°C water.
Open the Switch valve at 2:20.
Remove the dripper at 2:30.

Other

Coffee Chronicler recommends same recipe as regular switch set up. Maybe a touch coarser grind?

COMMONS - CRUDE 7 - The Billionaire Plot to Destroy Alberta's Economy is Totally Real

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:13 +0000

COMMONS - CRUDE 7 - The Billionaire Plot to Destroy Alberta’s Economy is Totally Real

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COMMONS - CRUDE 7 - The Billionaire Plot to Destroy Alberta’s Economy is Totally Real!

https://overcast.fm/+7ppckF5Is
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/crude-7-the-billionaire-plot-to-destroy-albertas-economy-is-totally-real/

COMMONS - CRUDE 10 - The Apocalypse is Now

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:12 +0000

COMMONS - CRUDE 10 - The Apocalypse is Now

No notes recorded

COMMONS - CRUDE 10 - The Apocalypse is Now

https://overcast.fm/+7ppeG7Ee4
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/crude-10-the-apocalypse-is-now/

COMMONS - MINING 4 - The Westray Disaster

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:12 +0000

COMMONS - MINING 4 - The Westray Disaster

No notes recorded

COMMONS - MINING 4 - The Westray Disaster

https://overcast.fm/+7ppfui-7c
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/mining-4-the-westray-disaster/

COMMONS - REAL ESTATE 4 - City of Glass

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:12 +0000

COMMONS - REAL ESTATE 4 - City of Glass

No notes recorded

COMMONS - REAL ESTATE 4 - City of Glass

https://overcast.fm/+7ppfcN1dE
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/real-estate-4-city-of-glass/

COMMONS - THE POLICE 2 - The Secret History of the RCMP

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:12 +0000

COMMONS - THE POLICE 2 - The Secret History of the RCMP

No notes recorded

COMMONS - THE POLICE 2 - The Secret History of the RCMP

https://overcast.fm/+7ppdnmMSQ
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/the-police-2-the-secret-history-of-the-rcmp/

It Could Happen Here - Antiwork Part 1: The Great Resignation

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:12 +0000

It Could Happen Here - Antiwork Part 1: The Great Resignation

No notes recorded

It Could Happen Here - Antiwork Part 1: The Great Resignation

https://overcast.fm/+4c0JFmuVQ
https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/antiwork-part-1-the-great-resignation

It Could Happen Here - Canadian Fascism Eh?

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:12 +0000

It Could Happen Here - Canadian Fascism Eh?

A fantastic look at the state of the rise of the Canadian fascist elements as of Oct. 2021. This predated the Ottawa occupation by the Freedom Convoy that would come the following February. Unsurprisingly, many of the factions mentioned in these two podcast were involved in the Freedom Convoy. Some just as cover to make them more acceptable, others to see if they could overthrow the government.

It Could Happen Here - Canadian Fascism Eh? Part 1

Part 1: https://overcast.fm/+4c0Ic2ZtY
https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/canadian-fascism-eh-part-1 https://overcast.fm/+4c0IM-nNI
https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/canadian-fascism-eh-part-2

It Could Happen Here - The Efficiency Paradox

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:12 +0000

It Could Happen Here - The Efficiency Paradox

No notes recorded

It Could Happen Here - The Efficiency Paradox

https://overcast.fm/+4c0K5T50k
https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/the-efficiency-paradox

Behind the Bastards - Behind the Police: How The Police Defeated Lynching Via Torture

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:11 +0000

Behind the Bastards - Behind the Police: How The Police Defeated Lynching Via Torture

No notes recorded

Behind the Bastards - Behind the Police: How The Police Defeated Lynching Via Torture

https://overcast.fm/+4cUO44_dA https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/behind-the-police-how-the-police-defeated-lynching

Behind the Bastards - How The First Police Went From Gangsters, To An Army For The Rich

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:11 +0000

Behind the Bastards - How The First Police Went From Gangsters, To An Army For The Rich

Clip lost to Twitter post Musk: https://twitter.com/Chealion/status/1304829288907067392

~~@bastardspod~~’s episode on the history behind American policing gives a ton of clarity on many systemic undercurrents.

32:30 - “One of the most popular methods use today even, to justify the violence of the police is the supposed criminality or deviance of the people that the police are victimizing. It’s interesting to me that you can draw a direct line between the delegated vigilantism that started in the 1800s and the right wing reaction to the murder of Trayvon Martin” (Batman references not quoted because I’m too lazy to transcribe it completely)

Behind the Bastards - How The First Police Went From Gangsters, To An Army For The Rich

https://overcast.fm/+4cUNNo914
https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/how-the-first-police-went-from-gangsters-to-an-arm

Behind the Bastards - Slavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:11 +0000

Behind the Bastards - Slavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing

No notes recorded

Behind the Bastards - Slavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing

https://overcast.fm/+4cUOXx7h4 https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/slavery-mass-murder-and-the-birth-of-american-poli

It Could Happen Here - An Interview with Author Cory Doctorow

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:11 +0000

It Could Happen Here - An Interview with Author Cory Doctorow

No notes recorded

It Could Happen Here - An Interview with Author Cory Doctorow

https://overcast.fm/+4c0KaCCJM
https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/an-interview-with-author-cory-doctorow

It Could Happen Here - Canadian 'Freedom Convoy': Origins of the Occupation

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:11 +0000

It Could Happen Here - Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’: Origins of the Occupation

Two parter with an excellent deep dive into who and how this came to happen.

It goes along very well with the previous two parter from Oct. 2021 about Canadian Facism: Canadian Facism Eh?

It Could Happen Here - Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ - Origins of the Occupation

Part 1: https://overcast.fm/+4c0JVGkis
https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/canadian-freedom-convoy-part-1-origins-of-the-occu

Part 2: https://overcast.fm/+4c0KIh9mo
https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/canadian-freedom-convoy-part-2-border-blockades-po

It Could Happen Here - Neoliberalism Part 4: This is What Democracy Looks Like

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:11 +0000

It Could Happen Here - Neoliberalism Part 4: This is What Democracy Looks Like

No notes recorded

It Could Happen Here - Neoliberalism Part 4: This is What Democracy Looks Like

https://overcast.fm/+4c0JDHIPQ
https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/neoliberalism-part-4-this-is-what-democracy-looks

It Could Happen Here - The War on Trans People: Part 1, Evangelicals & Gay Marriage

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:11 +0000

It Could Happen Here - The War on Trans People: Part 1, Evangelicals & Gay Marriage

No notes recorded

It Could Happen Here - The War on Trans People: Part 1, Evangelicals & Gay Marriage

https://overcast.fm/+4c0LMQJj8
https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/the-war-on-trans-people-part-1-evangelicals-gay-ma

Behind the Bastards - It Could Happen Here - Welcome to the Crumbles

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:10 +0000

Behind the Bastards - It Could Happen Here - Welcome to the Crumbles

Clip lost to Twitter post Musk: https://twitter.com/Chealion/status/1455213404046594050

TIL of the term “weaponized unreality” to describe what weaponized misinformation fosters and creates. A pretty dark, yet inspiring episode of ~~@bastardspod~~ covering climate change and mutual aid

Behind the Bastards - It Could Happen Here: Season 2: Episode 1: Welcome to the Crumbles

https://overcast.fm/+4cUM6tjqc
https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/it-could-happen-here-season-2-episode-1-welcome-to

Behind the Bastards - Part Two: How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:10 +0000

Behind the Bastards - Part Two: How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible

Clip lost to Twitter post Musk: https://twitter.com/Chealion/status/1340763448884379648

62:43 - “It is not the fascist’s decision to let the fascict’s win. They don’t make the final call. We do. They only win if we consent to their victory. As millions of decent people consented to the victory of the Nazis.”

Behind the Bastards - Part Two: How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible

https://overcast.fm/+4cUMXyTYg
https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-two-how-nice-normal-people-made-the-holocaust

Behind the Bastards - The Birth of the Manosphere

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:10 +0000

Behind the Bastards - The Birth of the Manosphere

No notes recorded

Behind the Bastards - Part One: The Birth of the Manosphere

https://overcast.fm/+4cUOFFPvc https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-one-the-birth-of-the-manosphere

Behind the Bastards - The Ivermectin Episodes

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:10 +0000

Behind the Bastards - The Ivermectin Episodes

No notes recorded

Behind the Bastards - Part One: The Ivermectin Episode

Part 1:
https://overcast.fm/+4cUPQRti4
https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-one-the-ivermectin-episode

Part 2: https://overcast.fm/+4cUPg5F6w
https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-two-the-ivermectin-episode

Behind the Bastards - The Nesara Cult and Qanon's Origins

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:10 +0000

Behind the Bastards - The Nesara Cult and Qanon’s Origins

No notes recorded but holy crap. Everything is a remix can’t touch the reuse and grift in conspiracy theories.

Behind the Bastards - The Nesara Cult and Qanon’s Origins

https://overcast.fm/+4cUM3hLiw https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/the-nesara-cult-and-qanons-origins

LeVar Burton Reads - A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets by Kevin Brockmeier

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:09 +0000

LeVar Burton Reads - A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets by Kevin Brockmeier

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LeVar Burton Reads - “A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets” by Kevin Brockmeier

https://overcast.fm/+1zcJLC6nQ
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/levar-burton-reads

LeVar Burton Reads - Furry Night by Joan Aiken

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:09 +0000

LeVar Burton Reads - Furry Night by Joan Aiken

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LeVar Burton Reads - “Furry Night” by Joan Aiken

https://overcast.fm/+1zcJ6DfyQ
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/levar-burton-reads

LeVar Burton Reads - LIVE in Chicago: The Winds of Harmattan by Nnedi Okorafor

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:09 +0000

LeVar Burton Reads - LIVE in Chicago: The Winds of Harmattan by Nnedi Okorafor

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LeVar Burton Reads - LIVE! in Chicago: “The Winds of Harmattan” by Nnedi Okorafor

https://overcast.fm/+1zcIBDcmo
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/levar-burton-reads

LeVar Burton Reads - LIVE in Portland: The Fliers of Gy by Ursula K. Le Guin

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:09 +0000

LeVar Burton Reads - LIVE in Portland: The Fliers of Gy by Ursula K. Le Guin

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LeVar Burton Reads - LIVE! in Portland: “The Fliers of Gy” by Ursula K. Le Guin

https://overcast.fm/+1zcL6KIEY
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/levar-burton-reads

LeVar Burton Reads - The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:09 +0000

LeVar Burton Reads - The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

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LeVar Burton Reads - “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu

https://overcast.fm/+1zcJS-LY0
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/levar-burton-reads

LeVar Burton Reads - Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience TM by Rebecca Roanhorse

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:09 +0000

LeVar Burton Reads - Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience TM by Rebecca Roanhorse

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LeVar Burton Reads - “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience TM” by Rebecca Roanhorse

https://overcast.fm/+1zcJ8_mH8
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/levar-burton-reads

Hidden Brain - In The Heat Of The Moment

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:08 +0000

Hidden Brain - In The Heat Of The Moment

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Hidden Brain - In The Heat Of The Moment

https://overcast.fm/+1WhMsTIDQ
https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/in-the-heat-of-the-moment/

Hidden Brain - Screaming Into The Void

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:08 +0000

Hidden Brain - Screaming Into The Void

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Hidden Brain - Screaming Into The Void

https://overcast.fm/+1WhMKF9pU
https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/screaming-into-the-void/

LeVar Burton Reads - LIVE in Boston: Mono No Aware by Ken Liu

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:08 +0000

LeVar Burton Reads - LIVE in Boston: Mono No Aware by Ken Liu

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LeVar Burton Reads - LIVE! in Boston: “Mono No Aware” by Ken Liu

https://overcast.fm/+1zcI3_YwI
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/levar-burton-reads

LeVar Burton Reads - LIVE in Brooklyn: Playing Nice with God's Bowling Ball by N.K. Jemisin

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:08 +0000

LeVar Burton Reads - LIVE in Brooklyn: Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball by N.K. Jemisin

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LeVar Burton Reads - LIVE! in Brooklyn: “Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball” by N.K. Jemisin

https://overcast.fm/+1zcK85ERE
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/levar-burton-reads

LeVar Burton Reads - Room for Rent by Richie Narvaez

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:08 +0000

LeVar Burton Reads - Room for Rent by Richie Narvaez

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LeVar Burton Reads - “Room for Rent” by Richie Narvaez

https://overcast.fm/+1zcKjpkE0
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/levar-burton-reads

LeVar Burton Reads - Silver Door Diner by Bishop Garrison

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:08 +0000

LeVar Burton Reads - Silver Door Diner by Bishop Garrison

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LeVar Burton Reads - “Silver Door Diner” by Bishop Garrison

https://overcast.fm/+1zcLLQ1Wk
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/levar-burton-reads

LeVar Burton Reads - Singing on a Star by Ellen Klages

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:08 +0000

LeVar Burton Reads - Singing on a Star by Ellen Klages

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LeVar Burton Reads - “Singing on a Star” by Ellen Klages

https://overcast.fm/+1zcLk6ZeQ
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/levar-burton-reads

Hidden Brain - Changing Behavior, Not Beliefs

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:07 +0000

Hidden Brain - Changing Behavior, Not Beliefs

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Hidden Brain - Changing Behavior, Not Beliefs

https://overcast.fm/+1WhPrXgoI
https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/changing-behavior-not-beliefs/

Hidden Brain - Passion Isn't Enough

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:07 +0000

Hidden Brain - Passion Isn’t Enough

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Hidden Brain - Passion Isn’t Enough

https://overcast.fm/+1WhPtIxh0
https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/passion-isnt-enough/

Hidden Brain - Playing Favorites

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:07 +0000

Hidden Brain - Playing Favorites

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Hidden Brain - Playing Favorites

https://overcast.fm/+1WhOhOIgI
https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/playing-favorites/

Hidden Brain - This is Your Brain on Ads

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:07 +0000

Hidden Brain - This is Your Brain on Ads

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Hidden Brain - This is Your Brain on Ads

https://overcast.fm/+1WhNq-WsI
https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/this-is-your-brain-on-ads/

O11ycast - Ep. 21 - Learning Systems with Jessica Kerr

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:07 +0000

O11ycast - Ep. 21 - Learning Systems with Jessica Kerr

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O11ycast - Ep. 21, Learning Systems with Jessica Kerr

https://overcast.fm/+0GHwWt_6A
https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/o11ycast/ep-21-learning-systems-with-jessica-kerr/

O11ycast - Ep. 23 - Beyond Ops with Erwin van der Koogh of Linc

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:07 +0000

O11ycast - Ep. 23 - Beyond Ops with Erwin van der Koogh of Linc

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O11ycast - Ep. 23, Beyond Ops with Erwin van der Koogh of Linc

https://overcast.fm/+0GHwyUybw
https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/o11ycast/ep-23-beyond-ops-with-erwin-van-der-koogh-of-linc/

O11ycast - Ep. 24 - Beyond Code with Heidi Waterhouse of LaunchDarkly

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:55:07 +0000

O11ycast - Ep. 24 - Beyond Code with Heidi Waterhouse of LaunchDarkly

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