Seán Stickle
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Seán Stickle
@seanstickle.net
Nonprofit IT director
Unapologetically autistic
I 💙 systems
https://languageofbirds.substack.com
Let’s add Solon and put together a dream team.
May 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Don't feel bad. After 2 days, they Holy Ghosted the Pope.
May 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
RACI matrixes. It’s a paperwork festival for little-to-no benefit.

We started identifying a Directly Responsible Individual and that worked way better.
March 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Noice.
March 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
192.168.0.x ....?
March 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
mount /dev/bread /toaster
chmod +x /dev/bread
./warmup.sh --temp=375
systemctl start toast.service
watch -n 30 /dev/bread
eject /dev/bread
notify-send "🍞 Done!"
March 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
One might even call it OpenPrt.
March 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Fun feature of PHP (among other languages), with numbers, you can put in underscores to make things easier to read.

E.g., `usleep(500_000);`
March 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Amusing side characters would include a Brad Leone sysadmin who is always talking about his Arch Linux setup and a Chris Morocco QA tester who can detect subtle bugs by glancing at the code.
March 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I don’t care where you work. I don’t care when you work. I don’t care how long you work.

If you deliver results, you win. Otherwise, no results, no job.

Everything else is a sideshow for people stuck in the past.
March 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM