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Tory McKeag

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Software developer for the power grid. Drums, metal and other food for the soul. Contributor at https://trolie.energy when I can.

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I agree with the criticisms though, and wonder if we really need a new tool that blows our minds as much as Git did?

28.12.2025 03:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The cool thing for me about GitOps is all the problems it solves bringing k8s into regulated environments. It appeases the change management and inventory trolls. Iโ€™ve had pretty good experience combining with Helm (Iโ€™m not cool enough for cdk8s yet).

28.12.2025 03:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Live from "war ravaged" Portland

27.09.2025 21:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 11525 ๐Ÿ” 3761 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 518 ๐Ÿ“Œ 382

I feel strange learning vocabulary from my 10 year old.

"Dad, where's my ombre cup?"

Me: "WTF is an hombre cup, and this whole thing sounds questionable"

20.07.2025 04:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you this is really good. I never thought much about the effectiveness of women's groups in tech, so the perspective is appreciated.

I always believed my best path to being an ally is to champion anyone not being heard or considered in general spaces. Sounds like your article agrees?

16.07.2025 17:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My daughter and I having a little taco truck and sitting on the Skykomish river. The world can still be a good place

04.07.2025 01:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Being a parent sure changes your perspective on this doesn't it? I lost a few friends deployed to Iraq when I was younger. However, I had all the feelings this weekend and had to call my mom to rant about how people are going to lose their fucking kids.

26.06.2025 01:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Meeting the challenge of FERC Order 881: Why open source matters for AAR implementation With ambient-adjusted ratings compliance deadlines set for mid-July, TROLIE offers an open, vendor-neutral standard for the secure, efficient exchange of transmission line rating data.

The folks at @linuxfoundation.org , specifically LF Energy, helped me write an article on the TROLIE project!
www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-or...

15.06.2025 21:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Listen to Napalm Death.

07.06.2025 03:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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03.06.2025 05:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 86 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Corporate welfare anyone?

22.05.2025 18:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Was listening to Cattle Decapitation while mowing the lawn today. Trippy moment when I realized the double kick parts were in synchronized tempo with the lawn mower blades.

22.05.2025 04:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've worked on projects where we had 4 9s expectations, but the customer had a team of 3-5 people doing the infrastructure and monitoring, and we were given about three weeks in the project plan to work on availability. I really wish more people understood what these numbers cost

18.05.2025 17:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Building software is a team sport" is the great truth. I was just on a flight and sat next to a recruiter. She's worried about AI taking her job. That may happen, but not for companies that are smart. Some companies that try that are going to FAFO.

13.05.2025 00:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good form!

07.05.2025 15:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love the term "slopsquatting". Some cyber security researcher nailed that one.

Also, agents have their uses, but just read a little, just a little about supply chain attacks before you let an LLM add dependencies to your code without vetting them. Come on.

29.04.2025 16:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This post is stupid enough to make me laugh. Thank you Jerry.

06.04.2025 05:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh. My. God. These guys really aren't listening to anybody who knows what they're doing.

28.03.2025 02:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Upcoming Seattle storms aside, I am working for the first time in 2025 on my back deck instead of my office with a ๐Ÿ”ฅ pit, some good music and some spring smells instead of the office, and I. Am. Here. For. It.

How tech work should be done if you want to stay sane

26.03.2025 03:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The tension between copyright and LLMs can never be resolved in a traditional matter, because the training process can't keep any correlation between the model's behaviors and the source data.

The only accurate source to site for a prompt response would be the entire training set.

25.03.2025 07:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Audio engineering really forced this lesson on me. You don't have to be able to recreate the math behind a compressor or EQ. However, if you don't understand at a high level what the tools are doing, your chance of success is pretty bad.

25.03.2025 07:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Broken PostgreSQL replication, which of course didn't get noticed until the poor PV filled up with sad, sad WAL files.

Honestly, it did have the fortunate effect of educating a lot of people, including me on said replication, and making a nice investment in observability on the subject.

20.03.2025 03:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've been watching the Sopranos, only a few decades late. The problem is that these days, i feel Tony's chronic anxiety in my bones.

19.03.2025 05:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It will be the most social media ever socialed! Way better than IBM. You'll be glad to pay $10000 per-core for your socials, pays for itself as long as you never upgrade a server. Rights reserved to jack up annual maintenance fees without notice.

19.03.2025 02:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I can't count how many times I have forgotten and relearned that bad connections, usually cables or jacks, are the source of 95% of all audio problems

19.03.2025 01:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - trolie/java-client-sdk: TROLIE Java Client SDK TROLIE Java Client SDK. Contribute to trolie/java-client-sdk development by creating an account on GitHub.

We released version 1.0.0 of a new Java Client SDK for exchanging ambient-adjusted line ratings with TROLIE servers. I'm pretty excited about it.

github.com/trolie/java-...

17.03.2025 00:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well. This is gross

26.02.2025 03:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I really hope they don't get gutted. I've met a couple people from CISA at conferences who are really smart and passionate and are working their asses off to try to make a dent in some really scary problems

20.02.2025 16:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I just came into possession of a 30" gong made by a company called Dobani. Never heard of them, and can't really find anything online. Can anyone tell me anything about this gong? Sounds nice to me, but I'm a rock/metal drummer and can't say I would know better. #drums #percussion

16.02.2025 18:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0