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I left my full time role right at the beginning of the pandemic due to burnout.

I was planning to take time off before applying to full time roles, but then ended up doing part time contract work at a few startups instead and it was the best thing for my mental health. I was able to more concretely separate work from life since when I was on the clock I was billing for it and when I was not I never felt bad as if if I wasn't "doing enough".

My contracts all came through my personal and professional network though, so it's interesting to see a job board focused on part time and contract roles.


Were those contracts you got ever listed or advertised more publicly as jobs? Or were these more opportunistic finds for these companies when they got connected to you?


More opportunistic.

The companies had similar full time roles posted they were trying to hire for and but were willing to adapt hire me part time after discussing what I felt I could bring to the table.


Hi! Author here!

My (somewhat silly) use case for the tiny container was trying to cram 10,000 pods onto a k8s cluster without breaking the bank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y2nRNexRVk


Hi, author here!

Thanks for the kind words. I didn't know about UPX.

I should add an update to the end with this trick!


Hi, author of the article here!

I figured there were a bunch of ways to shrink that one, and I had a C based image that was in between my GO and ASM images, but decided to cut them for the sake of brevity!


stealing vexu's routez: https://github.com/Vexu/routez

gives you a multiprocess http server in 612K uncompressed if you compile -Drelease-small


K1GSFJF0 is a random password generated here:

https://github.com/Firemoon777/sql-battleships/blob/87770216...

It then queries every second looking for a session in the postgres_log for a query that matches that password and stores the session id into a table named ks_id.

Once it knows the session_id it can then listen for any input associated to that session.


Ha! I attempted this a while back but never came up with a good solution for handling user inputs so it was just the computer playing itself...

https://github.com/sidpalas/battleship-sql

This is next level!


Looks like they are getting the user input from the postgres log: https://github.com/Firemoon777/sql-battleships/blob/master/k...


Yeah -- Using the second session for grabbing inputs is clever!


Thanks for the response -- that is what I assumed by wanted to see if I was missing something.


How have you got you account properties and views set up?

The main view you use for GA reporting will have the bot filterer turned on.

You do have the standard three view per property setup.

You need to look at the unfiltered view.

I must admit I haven't really looked at our cloud flare -

I am the bus factor guy who gets to stand-in for our main GA/GTM person - Large Multinational 50+ properties in one account, nearly 100 Containers.

Oh a final thought check your GA reports are not being sampled - you can get discrepancies.


Haha - We have it too easy these days and can just spin up a VM with Virtual Box (or similar) to test stuff like this.


I think you could build on this action https://github.com/actions/github-script/ which provides a JS client for the GitHub API.

It looks like it supports all of the API routes you would need including:

https://github.com/actions/github-script/blob/b507739f17c210...

To actually perform the release update.


it's strange to me this isn't a first class feature

Thanks for the tip. I don't really know JS so I may dig into this if it becomes a major burden. For the time being I'll just manually delete the prerelease between pushes


Haha, good point... I have another 5 months to fully forget that I ever set this up.

The name of the action does get included in the email notification so hopefully I'll be able to decypher it, even after some NYE celebration champagne!


You could set up a weekly failing job that reminds you ;)


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