Retale

Have you been in a retail store lately? They aren’t even trying to compete. Most of them have jack shit, and the jack they have is shit.

I buy most everything except groceries and some clothes online these days because I could spend three days driving around finding nothing I need, or I could spend 15 minutes online and wait two days for it to get here.

The Structure

Some infrastructure that I set up was recently praised as “smooth, seamless and it just works.” We infrastructure folks rarely receive praise; most people only notice us if something is broken.

This infra been operating for a year and a half with — get this — 0 minutes of unplanned down time. Yep, so far, 100% uptime.

Not bad for only costing about $1200 a month (this might seem like a lot in the consumer space, but it’s absolute peanuts in the enterprise space).

Futurity

Every time I am forced to use the new, “improved” Firefox, I am shocked that a browser built in 2018 can feel like something from the mid-1990s. Sure, it’s fast, but it’s the kind of fast that’s also useless.

I am glad to see that they and their shit product are failing. The truly deserve it.