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My wonderful friends at
@hypergiant
have started a GFM to help in addition to all the ways they’ve been supporting me. As it turns out, cancer is expensive :(
Thank you all for your love and support and I love you all (even the wackos)
So I guess there’s no easy way to say this but… I have been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. It’s very advanced, inoperable, and we can’t do radiation.
I really don’t know what else to say other than I love you all and I’m gonna fight like hell.
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So I guess there’s no easy way to say this but… I have been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. It’s very advanced, inoperable, and we can’t do radiation.
I really don’t know what else to say other than I love you all and I’m gonna fight like hell.
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"this is never meant for prod" is like the express lane for going to prod
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My favorite part of AWS is how easy it is to accidentally spend $10,000 on something and have no idea you did it until it's way too late
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"Let's start a company" is really just the grown-up nerdy version of "we should totally start a band"
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I’m currently in chemo and my hair is already falling out so I decided to go for the shave. Here’s the progress from full head to my locks of love haircut to it thinning out to me just going all in
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I’ve been a professional sysadmin for over a decade and I can say with great confidence that these people saying “running your own infrastructure is easy” are either idiots or liars.
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oh it's simple. you write the app, then you write the dockerfile. then you write the helm chart. then you write the deployment to describe the helm chart which describes the deployment for the containerized app. In this simple tutorial, we will launch a hello world app.. 1/496
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Doctors won’t give me a timeline on my life expectancy either. My case is so unusual and the cause is completely unknown. I could be gone by the end of this year, I could make it 10 more years. We truly have no idea. 33 year olds just don’t get this disease. We are all baffled.
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Imagine if 8.8.8.8 suddenly started dropping ICMP for a day. Utter chaos.
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The algorithm provides
What is the programming equivalent of a kid touching a hot pan?
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I had an ER doc tell me to go home and die because that was all I had left. Y’all the prognosis ain’t good. My chest x-ray and CT is horrifying. I’ll post it eventually.
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Boss: "Help me figure out how to hire for a DevSecOps person. What do I look for?"
Me: "Imagine a sysadmin, but angrier."
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Next Q: vaccinated? Fuck yeah I’m vaccinated. Love vaccines. They’re the only reason your dumb ass lived long enough to ask me that question.
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Some details: the tumors are ALL OVER both sides of my lungs and it’s so diffuse and the tumors are so large that we cannot do radiation. Surgery is also out of the question because of how diffuse it is
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Also, AMA about the diagnosis and treatment and I’ll do the best I can. I’ll go ahead and let you know that I don’t put up with Covid vaccine conspiracies and your “alternative medicine” suggestions won’t make it far with me.
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I’m going through lots and lots of tests and procedures, but man I’m so tired. I’ve already spent 3 straight weeks admitted to the hospital and I don’t want to go back. I was in the ICU twice and we thought I was a goner at a couple points.
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Most of them are “small” (7-13cm) but I have one I nicknamed “Larry” that’s about the size of a loaf of bread that’s pressing against my airway on the left side. He’s the one that’s got me down.
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@IanColdwater
Before kubernetes: I had lots of fires.
After kubernetes: I had horizontally autoscaling fires
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The ventilator talk is scary. When they start talking about “a bridge to the other side to get you stable” and “sometimes there is no other side” you know you’re in deep shit.
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My daughter is doing lessons on and yelling "WHY DON'T YOU WORK?!" and "WHY IS THIS BROKEN" every other minute or so and I don't know if I've ever been more proud of her.
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@arnold5508
@no_identd
@urbanthoughts11
@avelezig
I accidentally discovered this when playing Cities: Skylines
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Next Q: have you tried [insert diet here]
A: I need 3000 kcal a day and about 150g of protein. It’s about weight management right now. I’ve got stage 4 cancer. Ginger root and acai berries aren’t fixing this.
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@IanColdwater
The first day I took Adderall, I sat down and rewrote a program I have been working on for three years. In six hours, I had completely rewritten it and saved several hundred lines of code.
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Uh… i definitely just expected that tweet to make it around my local twitter community definitely not to escape orbit like that. Thanks for all the support and love.
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The outpouring of love and support from all over the world has me in literal tears and thank you all for your encouragement. Having so many people in my corner means everything to me.
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OK folks I’m getting so many replies and stuff that it’s getting a bit overwhelming. I’m going to pause for the day and maybe catch up tomorrow. I love you all and knock it off with the ivermectin bullshit. The alternative here isn’t death, you’re just an idiot for suggesting it.
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99% of you have been awesome and even for the 1% of shitty people, you deserve love as much as anyone else. Practice empathy, listen before speaking, and bear in mind that nobody has the full context.
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Me, talking to other engineers: tests are good, complexity is bad
Me, coding alone on a friday night: nested for loop go brrrrrr
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Coworker learning k8s: It's just a box inside a box inside another box that has side effects on another box. How do you do this?
Me: We're all dead inside.
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@VicVijayakumar
Love you, Vic. Hopefully we’ll get the chance to meet. I’ve been looking forward to buying you a coffee for years now.
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I’ve got a great oncology team and I’m aggressively pursuing both immunotherapy and genetic therapy, but waiting on some tests to come back. It’s not hopeless but it’s bleak. I WILL win this fight and I WILL kick this cancer’s ass.
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Tumors are MELTING! After just three rounds of chemo, Larry is almost an inch smaller and several other tumors have disappeared entirely!
Left: today
Right: July 7th
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Getting way too used to this. Biopsy round 2 let’s goooooo! Helpfully they don’t pop my lung like last time.
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"Infrastructure as code is magic."
"If tears are magic, I suppose, then yes."
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Okay anyone who suggests ivermectin or spouts bullshit about big pharma is either getting immediately blocked or put on blast for people to ridicule. Your pick. But don’t come up in my replies with that shit.
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Great news from the doctors. Will post updates soon. tldr; I’m beating cancer!
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Closure means forgiveness and it also means telling shitty people to fuck off forever. You are in the latter group. You’re a disgusting person and I hope you find a better way in life. I’m sorry for how you are.
@0xfraq
I guess you should’ve eaten some of that “horse paste” you made fun of your family over instead of maxvaxxing and boosting. Shame.
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First question: have you looked into ivermectin?
A: no because I’m a human with cancer, not a horse with worms
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Maybe I just start blocking people who make that idiotic “the cloud is just someone else’s computer” joke like we haven’t all heard it a million times
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This spontaneous rage thread is sponsored by Moxie’s blog post and all the cryptobros corncobbing all over themselves saying “no no it’s not like that.” How many servers have you managed, brent.eth?
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@LadyBowser
@EmmaCaterineDSA
We don’t talk about this enough. The war started when I was in fifth grade. The people I enlisted with are halfway to retirement now and deploying to the same theaters over and over.
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🧵 Okay, lots of new followers since yesterday so I figure I’ll give an abbreviated bio in a thread
- you probably saw the lung cancer tweet. Yes it’s inoperable and we can’t do radiation because of how diffuse it is. This doesn’t mean I’m out of treatment options.
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@hypergiant
And with whatever time I have left, I want you all to know that I love you, and encourage you all to love radically and sacrificially. You truly never know when you’ll write the last chapter of your story. It looks like mine may be soon. I hope it’s a good one.
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The difference in engagement between these two tweets about the same job opening is pretty telling
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I wonder how much your perception of the person behind this account would change if I removed the GAN-generated female avi and put my real face back on here. Maybe you wouldn't assume the worst about my understanding of networking then.
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Government: “Why can’t we hire qualified people to work in IT?”
Also government: “We can offer you half of what you make in the private sector and no remote work.”
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Go use Heroku or Netlify and give yourself a break. There is no such thing as infrastructure martyrdom. Spend that time putting your toes in the grass and enjoying sunshine or something. Software sucks. Infrastructure sucks.
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I don’t wanna jinx anything but I’m having one heck of a recovery over here. Six weeks ago I had just gotten out of the ICU, had almost died, and the plan was to discharge me straight to hospice. Wednesday I was cleared for exercise by my oncologist. How about that?
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I appreciate the sentiment behind people telling me to turn to Jesus but I’m not really interested in being proselytized. Been there, done that, used to be that guy. If you want to talk philosophy of religion, I’m game. But please, let’s hold off on the evangelism.
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If you want to learn system administration, go for it. There’s no better way to learn than to host a public service with live users on it who complain about getting something for free.
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@bigendiansmalls
I can’t ctrl + f a video. Unless they’re transcribed and indexed, videos are not really searchable by an engine either.
Something on YouTube? If it’s public. That internal training? Forget it.
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Quite literally the whole reason I have a job is because hosting, managing, updating, and securing the platforms we use to run our software is a tedious job that nearly everyone loathes, including sysadmins.
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Procedure went well. I have a new hole in my chest and and an even more profound respect for anesthesiology now.
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welcome to DevSecOps, where we spend all our time thinking REAL HARD about stuff you'll never notice
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Jesus twitter REALLY doesn’t like a vocal apostate who is dying of cancer and not shy about either. Hate to tell you guys but the more you press on this, the louder I’m going to get and you won’t like it. ❤️ let me live out my final time in heathen peace, please
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Call screening
Boomers: just pick up and talk for hours
Gen X: answering machines
Millennials: just don't answer. Ever. For any reason.
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Not having a great day today emotionally. The reality of things hit a little hard and I’m really struggling to deal with it. I’m trying to cope and joke and be cheery but that’s just not where I am today. Cancer sucks.
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24 hour lag to get cost info in the dashboard? hope you didn't do anything dumb
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this is the end i guess. Maybe I’ll write a blog post about it later. Probably not, because in 30 minutes I’ll forget about this and I owe y’all nothing.
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It’s 1800 on 18 September 2024, and here’s a reminder: I love you all.
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The outpouring of love is more than I can handle. Thank you all so much. You’ve all been so kind and the donations to the GoFundMe are exceeding my wildest expectations. I truly don’t deserve how kind you are all being. Thank you again so much.
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Sitting outside with my wife in PERFECT weather, playing HackTheBox on my iPad, and sipping on a cold drink. I promise I’m having more fun at chemo than you are at work.
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But is that really how you wanna run your blog? You really think you’re doing something better by hosting it on your RPi in your office at home? You really love wading through maintenance and patching just to be able to push a 400 word article nobody will ever read?
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Security peeps: If you could offer some tweet-length security hygiene advice for developers, what would you tell them to do? Can apply to workflows, features, tools, or anything else. What's important that you want them to know?
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A friend, fellow hacker, and cancer fighter is going in for an intense procedure on Tuesday that will take him out for a few days. I’d love it if everyone who saw this left him some kind words, memes, jokes, and inspiration in the thread below! Let’s show him some love!
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I ran an IRC server for years. I went through phases with ansible, puppet, docker, docker-compose, swarm, Heroku, kubernetes, and probably other stuff I’m forgetting. It’s all bad.
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@PeterGirr
Prior to cancer that can make a lot of difference but one you develop a diagnosis (especially an advanced one like mine), your focus has to shift to raw calories and macro nutrients. I need almost 3000 cal/day and >150g protein. Obs avoid junk food and stuff
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Oh my goodness this has really reached escape velocity. I’m going to mute this know but know that I love all of you (even the Ivermectin wackos). I’ll keep posting updates.
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Next Q: immunotherapy or genetic therapy?
I’m aggressively pursuing both but my first biopsy was inconclusive. Had a second one today and hopefully we got enough living tissue to complete the full battery of tests. Optimistic about both.
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Wasn’t feeling good so I went to the ER. Docs saw a brain bleed on a CT scan, so I’m being admitted to the neuro ICU at Emory.
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After all, what is pentesting but an alternative method of code review?
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Writing a Kubernetes training deck at work and just realized I don't have any honks, goose pictures, and haven't made a single goose pun. I'm really failing at my job here.
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I’ve been in and out of the hospital so much lately that I’ve stopped updating. At one point I even lost the energy to open twitter. At any rate, I’m home, alive, and recovering. I’ve been beat up by several procedures and the side effects of lying in a hospital bed.
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Profile pic experiment conclusion: life on Twitter sure is a lot quieter now that my avi is a cartoon frog and not a woman. New followers have dropped to a trickle. No more reply guys. No more creepy DMs.
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