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@Xavier @tychotithonus @robertatcara

The reward of working in infrastructure is that the better we do our job, the more useless everyone thinks we are.

I suppose this means that your people did your jobs *very* well on that project.

1 January at 22:13 | Wall-to-wall | Open on kolektiva.social
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Also, I said "infrastructure", so drink I guess.

1 January at 22:20 | Open on kolektiva.social
oheso

@passenger @Xavier @tychotithonus @robertatcara

My friend taught me to think of my job as goalie. I'll only get attention when I've goobed.

2 January at 3:55 | Open on ieji.de
marnanel

@oheso @passenger @Xavier @tychotithonus @robertatcara I always thought of it as plumbing, for similar reasons. I like the goalie metaphor.

2 January at 12:45 | Open on queer.party
marnanel

@oheso @passenger @Xavier @tychotithonus @robertatcara The Society of Archbishop Justus— I have no particular connection with them— has been quietly running anglican dot org since 1994. Most people who use the domain don't even know it needs looking after, never mind who does it, and they like it that way.

I once wondered why they call themselves that, and discovered:

"We named our Society after the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury, good Archbishop Justus, because he is not very well known, yet historical records show good work that could only have been accomplished by him. He worked hard, did his job well, avoided publicity, and passed the torch to his successor, Archbishop Honorius."

justus.anglican.org/soaj.html

Which is a healthy attitude.

@oheso @passenger @Xavier @tychotithonus @robertatcara The Society of Archbishop Justus— I have no particular connection with them— has been quietly running anglican dot org since 1994. Most people who use the domain don't even know it needs looking after, never mind who does it, and they like it that way.

2 January at 12:51 | Open on queer.party
Walt Mankowski

@marnanel @oheso @passenger @Xavier @tychotithonus @robertatcara I was working at QVC in 1999. We had 6 digit dates throughout our system and had to change pretty much every single module we had. But it wasn't anything dramatic, mainly we'd planned it all well in advance. As I recall we might have had one or two obscure reports fail, but the show stayed on the air without a hitch.

3 January at 1:45 | Open on hachyderm.io
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Hendrik Mans 🚀

@passenger @Xavier @tychotithonus @robertatcara

Suddenly I understand why Americans celebrate firefighters as heroes but think that people who want to invest into infrastructure are communists

2 January at 11:22 | Open on norden.social
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