--- 02:26UTC So, only have 1/10th of the usual employees in the office,
and getting the music downpat, I can claim the day was alright.
But? Tomorrow I work from home. Probably Friday as well. So, I
can't complain. And, Friday, I'll probably get out early too. So,
I've got that going for me. That's the one part of the company culture
that hasn't changed (Thankfully).
But, that gets me back to one of my biggest gripes as of late. I used
to love working at my employer. Now, it's a chore, as they slowly chip
away at the culture that was there 5 years ago. Each team had their own
identity, and it built comaraderie. And, every team knew every team's
"identity". It worked. Now, it feels like they are trying to make
all teams cookie-cutter in their identity, even though my job is vastly
different than a software developer's job. I work on plumbing. I don't
make paintings. The plumbing ensures the painter can paint effectivley.
How I work, and how a developer works are two wholly different jobs (Get
the fuck out of here with that devops shit. It's never done right.),
but yet, they are trying to force us into the developer way of working.
No, I don't need to "collaborate" for 3/4 of my day: I get tasks, and
I complete tasks. I get specs, and design the infra to support those
specs. I don't generally need to bullshit with people for 45 minutes to
decide how to do the same plumbing job I've done the past 8 years. Yes,
every project differs. But every project needs RAM, disk, networking,
and CPU cores. It's a unique snowflake, like every other snowflake.
But, onto another day! A remote one!
--- 12:26UTC Spent a few hours last night reading through user's feels
entries here. This is some of the most heartfelt writing I've come
across. Then, started digging through the websites, going down the list,
one by one.
There are some hidden gems here, and I feel like I want to archive them
all, and ensure they remain forever. However, mid-archive, I came across
some "hidden" stuff, that was linked publicly via a circuitous route.
Archiving that feels "wrong" to me. So, I killed the crawler, and purged
the archive dir.
tilde.town is a real town. And, each person's ~ is their home.
Amazingly, in this town, everyone's home is open to all visitors,
24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I haven't poked too much, but I'm
going to bet nobody has chgrp'd their files, to keep them locked away.
Because there is an implicit trust among members, nay residents here.
It definitley gives me the same feelins as when I joined my first
few BBSes. My first one was called Animal Farm BBS, and it was out
of Rochester (Don't ask me how I afforded the long distance phone
calls hehe). It was a great community there as well, but not nearly
as home-like as here. Maybe it's because it was still new, and people
all had different ideas of how to act? Maybe it was because it ran on
top of a BBS platform, so the only things possible were the things the
software designers envisioned.
My next BBS was BlueMoon BBS. It was ok, but I didn't really joing that
one until late in the BBS game, and it was on it's way down (Still lots
of life left, but it was decommisioned about 5 years after I joined).
However, I also had an account with BlueMoon ISP, which provided a shell
account as well as a PPP/SLIP connection (For those who don't know,
this is how you used to get into the internet, via a phone).
In this shell account, you had this tool called "irc". Type it in, and
magically, had access to a bunch of people across the globe! Don't even
remember the network (I think it was DALNet), but I do remember the
channel I hung out in a lot: #DarkTower. It was a MUSH, basically,
set in a bar. Everyone role played their favorite character from books.
Any genre was allowed. I spent hours there, getting to know the people
there. Many became friends for a number of years.
And newsgroups! There were local-only newsgroups, which was our "forum".
But, also had access to the entrie tree of public ones.
