@simonw So it has a... niche account?
Archive for November 2019
You know what #FrozenII was good! Was it Scorsese good? Is Scorsese good? It was good for those girls dressed like Elsa coming out of the theater, it was good for my daughter.
#FrozenII poked fun at the first film, and had an 80s power ballad, and ended with an orchestra-metal version of the “breakout” song.
Was it objectively good? I don’t think there is such a thing. But it did what it was designed to do, and then some!
RT @shawnfreebern: @steveivy @mathowie Compared to Eve & Wemo, the Lutron kit has been more reliable, responsive, faster. If you have excel…
@mathowie Why are the WiFi switches and dinners so much cheaper than the Lutron caseta devices? Is the Lutron way better or just overpriced I wonder...
The actual requirement usually reads something like "track when an asset was purchased and how it was disposed of", but there is now a python client in front of a SOAP API in front of a batch process in front of a database table in front of a stored procedure...
Year end, been thinking about my 5 years (and counting) working for a large enterprise, and am trying to put down some of the things I've learned into words.
Large companies, especially in regulated industries, have business requirements that can be hard to tease out, because they are hidden behind processes that were put in place many years ago to meet a regulatory requirement.
So the ask that comes in is: "Automate putting this spreadsheet in this share for this person". Pushing for more info, the required spreadsheet goes to a batch process that used to be a form in some other system.
And that form - you might guess - used to be a paper form. That form existed so that auditors would have a (literal) paper trail to follow to establish that the organization was meeting regulatory requirements.
in an Oracle database beneath a vendor's 20-year old product.
And each person involved each layer of that process acted in good faith to meet the need presented to them at the time.
So I've learned to ask questions, but avoid judging. Large companies are large, man.
Once more because I'm a dork, and in celebration of movies both old and new on Disney+ https://t.co/1Wg75MxYcf
@pixel Oh, I've also wished that a shortcut could do text-to-speech without "your shortcut says... 'thing'"
@pixel yeah, I've tried it with scripted timers which sort of works, but (inexplicably) there's no "send notification" script action.
@vvuksan out with friends at dinner
BEEP BEEP... BEEP BEEP
"Sorry, excuse me, my pager went off. Kids left the back door cracked again"
Current most frustrating #smarthome problem: I've been testing a door sensor (Elgato Eve) and cannot find a solution to "notify me if this door left open for x seconds". HomeKit doesn't quite support the automation, and the sensors are too simple to track time-open themselves.
Got myself a couple of Wemo outlets as an early Christmas present; now looking for property to mortgage so I can replace every electrical item in the house #smarthomedumbowner