Neil Hanlon

if the pay range for your "SRE III" role at a bank with $3.7T AUM is $65,000 (about a 50% variance), and the other train is approaching at 75 kilometers per mm^2 from the east.... why does no one want to work anymore?

Swamp went public today. I've been running most of my business and homelab on it for a while now. The idea? Let models help *build* automation, then get them out of the driver's seat. Typed behaviors, deterministic execution, fewer 3 AM surprises. swamp-club.com

drop1.neilhanlon.me b. 24 Sep 2013 - d. 8 Oct 2026 Thirteen years. My IRC bouncer, a tor node, a graveyard of half-finished sites, and 906 days of uptime it never once asked me about. Cut over clean, nothing lost. Good box. You were a good whore. fuck you, DigitalOcean.

the dichotomy of man frfr

Me: I feel like my impulsiveness has gotten me some good things? Like I am where I am today because of it. My therapist: ... Therapy? Me: ...

my (handheld) oscilloscope froze and there's no way to cut the power. do I call a priest? or...

self-diagnosis without self-medication is just cowardice with extra steps

weeeeeeeeee

I want your most cursed password requirements. I'll go first: Password complexity requirements are evaluated only at the first N prime-numbered character positions in the password, where N is the smallest prime greater than the number of distinct characters in the password itself.

My favorite part about back to school is not being able to get my doctor prescribed amphetamines.

Banned Gatorade flavors

Eleven billion dollars and no one knows how to format a float?

my goal in life is to make people search "<weird abbreviation containing slashes> meaning tech 2026" each and every time they interact with me

packets go in. packets go out. you can't explain that.

Other apps: Yeah we are going to need... $500K in funding, so donate!! Padding Labs and Scan: a $5 dono to cover my coffee expenses will do, thanks, i love you

I feel like it can't be coincidence that the front console of my Chevy Bolt perfectly fits my 50W mobile radio...

NASA can talk to astronauts in space but we can't do Simplex comms to a boat 20m away. Thats RF in a nutshell.

Telia Carrier can change their name as many times as they want. I'll always be able to spot them fucking my overseas connections.

Sleep well, Earthlings 🌔 ⭐ Make we all wake into a world of respect and unity 🧡

so uh... does this affect the antenna SWR?

I swear I was talking about putting dates on jira tickets

It should be illegal to change your seat into an empty middle seat on a flight. Like come on.

shrug.pw

if you guys spent half as much time on code review as you do on harassing random open source maintainers with pure vitriol then any concern you have about security would be obviated.

DevOps can't be dead if it never existed to begin with.

and i'm self employed

triscuits are just savory shredded wheat you don't put milk on

Pro tip: Use GitHub for software development so you too can spend time reviewing a change for a client and then have GitHub lose all your pending comments because they don't know how to use computers.

ffs azure is such a piece of shit platform

Sup

Fosdem '26 is around the corner and the greatest thing is that we (the rockylinux community, heh) will be there, so come visit us, rumour says we have extra fun swag to give away this year to our dear visitors! See you in Brussels! fosdem.org/2026/