Like, Nextcloud runs background tasks as a cron job which is something I’ve never seen with other hosted services.

Drupal also uses crons to run repeated tasks. By default, Drupal cron cleans out stale database records for a few tables and breaks old caches. It can be extended by the developer, though.

It’s probably a holdover from before containerised applications were ubiquitous but honestly it comes off as jank.

PHP is pre-container and pre-virtualization, so I guess you can think of it as a hack way of getting garbage collection. To be honest, the cron’s translate pretty well to k8s cronjobs. You just use the same image as the app and override the command with the cronjob command.

We will have so much winning […] that you may get bored with the winning. Believe me, I agree, you’ll never get bored with winning.

One of them post birth ones?

But have you thought of the benefit? Free club soda!

You got your laptop from Tim Apple, right?

It’s why I hate Christmas music now. They start playing that shit in October and end in January.

eye twitch

May dragon mommy Astilabor bless them with wealth.

Make sure it has the right branding. Trumpflation.

“at least he’s going to end the war in Ukraine”

You should casually mention he said he would do that on day one. What’s taking so long?

He did say that all their offshore money will be untaxed, unlike the plebs.

You should have replied, “I thought he was hanged on January 6th.”

Sailing the high seas

These “Christians” would already have shipped Jesus to gitmo.

Something something bootstraps.

Robbing hood

The training program is da bomb!

I saw some video about this kind of stuff. I want to say it was John Oliver.

Anyway, these shipping companies basically hop on this Craigslist circa 2002 looking website and hire truckers off it. So, they likely did just get the cheapest guy.

Yeah. Since he was a subcontractor, he wanted all his scripts to be the same, no matter who the customer was.

I was like jesus christ, I’m lazy too and want to automate everything, but edit your stupid scripts to use env vars.

We resolved it by making him use pipeline vars for his scripts. Like we told him to do in the beginning.

He fought it because he wanted his scripts the same for all projects. Including hard coded usernames and passwords. So, it was mostly his fault.

The production database gets down-synced to the lower environments on demand, so they can test on actual production datasets. That would require us to manually remake this user account every time a dev down-syncs the database to a lower environment.

The customer is paranoid, as the project is their public facing website, so they want testing against the actual prod environment.

We don’t mange the SSO, as that is controlled by the customer. The only local (application specific) account is this account for testing.

He had to do admin functionality regression tests before prod releases to make sure nothing broke.

The system uses SSO for logins for everything else.

He is a subcontractor who was using scripts for all his projects. I told him he really needs to use env vars for creds.