Eric Mann @ericmann@tekton.network

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My furnace is on its last legs. Every now and then the thermostat turns it on (or thinks it does) and sits there expecting the house to warm up, only for us to come home to everything below 40 degrees.

It's not the best situation. Especially with a little one in the house.

Finally bought a Nest. I can program a lambda to check it every minute or so and restart the furnace if it fails to kick on. Win-win for my geeky self.

Except the Google setup for Nest? Sucks. Majorly. Worst onboarding ever

Last month I got to visit the team behind System76 and the new Thelio line of desktops. It was a blast. Y'all should read up on the experience: https://ttmm.io/tech/system76-superfan/

Then go see if they have a rig to suit your needs ;-)

Debating whether I should spin up a server (or 4) for this project, or go serverless with AWS...

What kind of work are you and your team doing with #asynchronous programming? Tell me a story - the good, the bad, the horrifying - and I'll try to work it into some upcoming conference talks.

@SarahPressler Welcome!

Tootdon shut down. Installed Tusky instead. Yep. This was a good change.

Read about the PHP implementation of the Merssene Twister on @phparch => https://www.phparch.com/2019/11/security-corner-twist-and-shout/?utm_source=ericmann&utm_medium=twitter

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#Informal Poll:

If there were a service available to help you proactively track, prevent, and combat fraud (i.e. companies selling your personal information), would you use it? Assuming so, how much would you be willing to pay for such a service?

Years ago, I attended a presentation where the slide deck was presented via a terminal. And attendees could connect to it to follow along. Any idea what took provides features like that these days?

Just when I'd finally gotten people to use WhatsApp. Time to switch to Signal. Or perhaps roll my own... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-28/facebook-whatsapp-will-have-to-share-messages-with-u-k-police

It's on days like today when I hit my step goal before my first cup of coffee that I know I'll be insanely productive...

I have no idea how this ended up in my YouTube feed ... but it's fascinating! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPb-slJH9Vs

It's still September, right? Why are the Christmas ornaments already out?!?

Started my day by reading the news. That was a mistake.

On the other hand, I'm very awake now.

Have been in a funk since Friday. Anyone got a word of encouragement (or two) they can share?

Sites that make you verify your phone/email before letting you actually do anything are annoying. still waiting for either a text or email to go through ...

Literally all I'm trying to do is schedule a haircut :-(