Tinker Tinker
16-06-2014People generally laugh when I tell them that what I do for work on a daily basis is automate everything I do on a daily basis so I have less work to do. This is an inherent task that any Dev Op/SRE guy worth his salt will do. The phrase 'If you can do it exactly the same way manually two times in a row automate that shit!' is something of a Creed amongst tech heads.
Basically it means we are a lazy shower of bastards and spend most of our time working on the non-important stuff because we are safe in the knowledge that a script somewhere is doing our job.
Or not....but that is another person's problem
This is something that has transferred into my home-tech life as well. From the get go The Bauble has mainly been an excuse for me to keep trying out new code in a project I actually care about. Add in a Twitter feed or pull images from Instagram. You know things that nobody else actually will give a crap about. But while the code for it and other sites I look after has also been kept up to date with feature-creep, the content never has.
Mainly because I am one lazy mother at the end of the day and having to log into two separate locations seemed to be some mental block for me
Well over the weekend that all changed. I decided that since I finally got a book written and out there in the real world I should start to rant/blog again. Particularly on my writing website. But I didn't want to just abandon The Bauble to the digital wastelands because, let's face it, it's been around for eight years at this stage. So using the Dev Ops laziness I merged the two sites together, kind of.
Basically what I have done is connected the backends of both and rejigged the code of the writing site. What this means is that I can post an entry here and then, if it is actually a writing entry, click a button and push it to the other site as well. Same goes for editing entries on that site, handling the comments, all that good stuff.
Of course I say all this now with great big ideas in my head but I give it about a week before I post nothing again
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