Mike Ely
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Mike Ely
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Technologist, dad, author, ally if you want one. Writing site used to update weekly.

"The limits of what you are willing to imagine are an epitaph you wrote […]

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@ai6yr I'll do camping in snow ten times before I'll do camping in rain, and I've done plenty of both. Agreed on your broader point - there's just way too much "this thing right here" practical knowledge that you can't get any other way than for someone to show you.
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This came after I was already pissed at it for the way LLD macros can't be set as optional, so you have to write javascript preprocessing rules in order to seek out missing items from the data and create empty ones if they aren't there. Fucking piece of shit, front to back.

And don't get me […]
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November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Somebody at the listserv appears to have caught on and done the needful - the flood is over.
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It's actually funnier than it seems. Some asshat created a large mailinglist with a bunch of randos in it, then signed up for a service using the "get support" email address for that listserv... and one of the randos in the mailing list is yet another company's support desk.

So currently my […]
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November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
@ai6yr I saw that Daniel Swain post...
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
@ai6yr stay dry down there.
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 AM
@ai6yr of course you would know exactly where all this is, based on a couple exterior shots and "one Yucaipa neighborhood."

I hear tell you've handled tougher locations before...
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM