I work at #Grafana and persuaded my marketing team to sponsor #emfcamp ... I was speaking to #Antithesis and also persuaded them to sponsor EMF Camp.
Result... EMF Camp have a load of money, and I have more tickets than I need = a good problem.
Antithesis have given me 2 tickets and 1 car park pass to EMF Camp to give away, for free, with zero expectation of anything... also I have maybe 1 spare Grafana sponsor ticket... but how to do this?
Well here's Antithesis https://antithesis.com/ just for FYI, it's like a simulation testing fuzzer... runs your containers and fuzzes them amongst other things. Grafana you already know. That's the entire marketing pitch for both.
Anyone who both boosts and likes this post by 12:00 UTC on Thursday 7th May... those people will be entered into a random draw and I will give those people tickets. If someone does not reply within an hour of me notifying them, I'll move on to the next person, etc until all the tickets I hold are gone.
Yay to EMF Camp https://www.emfcamp.org/ which is July 16th– 19th 2026 in Eastnor, UK.
@0xabad1dea @mhoye @at the more I look at that picture the less convinced I am. None of those holds have any chalk on them, they’ve basically never been used (or they got people out to strip the wall, clean all the holds, then set some shit routes for the photo shoot I guess).
@0xabad1dea @mhoye @at if the climbing walls are anything to go by I can only assume they don’t *do* any of the various activities they’ve built into that house because why would you have four walls of the most beginner beginner routes in your house if you actually climbed seriously?
@pikesley I enjoyed the recent blog post on this where they got down on their knees and basically went “usage is way up and all the tech debt we’ve been accruing while we shove Copilot in every orifice has caught up with us” as if that’s somehow a good excuse.
I really have to stop having ideas because now this ADHD is medicated I also have the ability to execute on them and my life is way too full already.
Why must everything be YAML now? I’ve been playing with ESPHome recently, the device support/build pipeline is amazing but I really hate that it’s all built around a precarious stack of YAML with embedded C++ (no, that’s not a typo).
There’s all sorts of clever pre-processor hacks and extension points to make the YAML somewhat composable but please, just use a real programming language.
Can’t work out whether I have a migraine or the chip on my glasses lens is having much more impact than I’d expect on my ability to see. Either way I’m going to feel sorry for myself on the internet here.
Pitch
Three-way, split-screen film
James Bond, George Smiley and Jackson Lamb all given the same task to achieve separately - perhaps in different decades.
Each played by Gary Oldman, who also plays the villain.
💗 Schengen
“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/borders-are-a-construct-but-this-swing-isnt
Stand back everyone, I’m writing C. ESPHome doesn’t have a functioning display driver for the little e-paper display thing I bought a while ago. I’m going to attempt to port the example one into an ESPHome component, which I’m sure will result in no swearing at all.
Well on the upside the phone support guy was very sympathetic. On the downside I have to go to Sainsbury’s later to buy barbecue food rather than my previous plan for the day of kicking back and doing very little.
It finally happened, I forgot about an online grocery delivery slot I’d put a placeholder in for and then didn’t update it. Really hoping I can cancel the £60 worth of Soleros that are on their way.
@hacks4pancakes mostly for me it’s a chronic inability to focus on anything that doesn’t excite me, and invariably the things required to become filthy rich don’t even slightly excite me.
@tdp_org [monkey’s paw closes, every news story about a network breach is illustrated by a catgirl on a heavily stickered Thinkpad]
@pikesley I am in fact watching more Atwood. I liked Handmaid’s Tale more when I couldn’t see a straight line from here to there for the US.
Someone at work (a company which specialises in gathering/reporting on energy usage and indoor air quality data) showed up in the main channel and basically went “who has opinions on Home Assistant”.
May as well have posted “everyone take the rest of the day off”, the impact on company productivity would be similar.
This is cyberpunk as fuck.
https://techhub.social/users/rayckeith/statuses/116439195184878052
I had a hideous nightmare last night, there was a student retro club which advertised playing 00s music. Then I woke and had the even more hideous realisation that that’s probably a real thing somewhere what with the 00s being outside the living memory of university students.
@jmtd it’s deeply unserious software that’s been foisted in so many people because it comes free with Office 365 licenses. See also: Sharepoint and Teams. (Which coincidentally are intertwined with OneDrive in utterly impenetrable ways where you can kind of use all of them in all the other clients except when you can’t, at which point you’ll have no idea why)
