- bobbydreamer parentLife is short. Don't try to change people. Try understanding them taking a step back, just observing. It's better than a movie.
- For my site using Gatsby https://www.bobbydreamer.com
- My dad passed away in April, it was a sudden one. That night looking at his body at home. I started typing all the thoughts i had about him in One note, few were like revelations, if i had thought that before i would have behaved differently with him.
After his retirement, he was totally at home. He was my best friend now kinda i feel alone. I do have friends, mom and sister but he is the one who company's me to all places, we go to theatre to watch movies. I have only one audio recording of him which was accidentally recorded in his phone which is like 7mins. I would play it to hear his voice.
Actually as per Hindu Mythology, people pass on their knowledge, learnings in their death bed moment. But not sure how many follow it now.
Below is the famous one
https://www.indiatvnews.com/amp/news/india/know-the-teaching...
- I had collected all these
https://bobbydreamer.com/things-that-my-new-site-should-have
Later went with Gatsby starter template.
- https://bobbydreamer.com/
Rebuilt my site during COVID March 2020. Continuing to add content usually tech, finance, books, notes, cooking....
Using Gatsby starter template
- Why people want to move from firebase? Any reasons. It's a good db
- Oh yeah. They would be already thinking about it and would have plans by now
- Yep. The same approach my org uses as well. There is a team, who deals with all orgs docs maintain it. There is a internal portal to submit and you start getting mails 2 months before expiry.
Respective team meetings, it's a agenda to talk about what needs to be updated, after updating a draft will be sent and later uploaded in the portal.
- Read or listen to book by Dale, How to stop worrying and start living.
- Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- I got my list here https://bobbydreamer.com/irevere
- So true
- Developers eventually go on to make their own site and paste the same content there.
That will be the end game.
Not sure how much they earn behind the wall.
- I have one file called Worknotes.txt been using that for last 10yrs. All my notes are there inbetween I tried keeping separate notes for separate projects but it's hard to remember in folder and where. So got back to one file itself. It's easy for searching back. I keep date format consistent so it's easy.
Top of the file has all zoom/ mobile numbers of people i need to contact during emergency or support in production.
EoD marked by 20-30 hyphens next line start with date.
I wish i had learnt mark down 10yrs back. Thinking again what's the point. This serves the purpose.
- Some common lines you hear from mainframers.
Deprecation is a new term in mainframe.
Don't fix what's not broken
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It's a common saying that mainframers don't try to learn new tech. Well that saying goes two ways, person saying has really tried to learning mainframe and work on it for a month. Actually there isn't much to learn other than couple of languages COBOL, REXX, JCL and SAS. Other than that it's just ISPF interfaces.
Mainframers actually have to learn tech once and then go on to learn business logics and business domain. Isnt that actually good when comparing to always learning new tech and writing migrating programs to support existing interface in new Lang but not too much about business you are working on.
On the other hand mainframers do spend on learning and upskilling but in mainframe itself. There are lots of IBM Usergroups like IDUG for instance which is related to Db2, being a DBA that's a very useful training programme for me.
COBOL codes are highly modularized to do one or couple of functions to my knowledge and there are definitely coding standards each shop maintains.
Having a bunch of nodeJs cloud functions i get an email from Google saying that I need to migrate my NodeJs or it will stop functioning and while trying to migrate i find couple of modules are not longer supported and I need recode. Here I am not adding any new features just trying to make it work as before with new library which I have to find, learn, test and analyse does it suit then recode. All this costs time which you don't have to do in mainframe. You can say why not run in a VM, then what's the point running in cloud.
Mainframe is not a legacy system. IBM introduces a new machine every 3-4 years and send their sales team to visit corps and run presentations :) . Currently IBM has changed their billing style, it's not flat or peak hour, it's custom. It's the smallest footprint in your data center.
What mainframe actually did is, job separation. So in a career a person will sort of become an expert in their line or software. He will know all the ins and outs. For example a RACF security person will not know about Db2 and how it functions only part he knows is what interfaces with RACF. Same with CICS, MQ.... From application/dev team they get to know business like in a requirement meeting when business talks devs will be mapping business with program modules they had to make a change.
In mainframe people get to specialize.
- They should have started the trailer with the voice Mr.Anderson...
- Double Dragon, Wikku wakku, King of fighters
- It also had Tez which was rebranded
- They should add Google Search Pre-2015. That's was really good.
- My favs are here https://bobbydreamer.com/irevere
- I got a site. Most of my visitors are bots. 30 visitors per month. 25 bots, remaining 5 times I visited knowing from analytics.
Don't overthink. You see there are many one post sites out there. If you can manage it regularly do it.
- I got two 1TB harddrives Western digital and iOmega. WD scarred me, I had all my family photos in it, childhood, sister'marriage. WD usb pin socket is sort of weak, one time when i pulled the wire, the holder came with it. It was a scary situation. Finally repaired it.
Moved it to cloud. That's also scary. Anybody knowing your email can lock you.
- A good recap for me. Thanks. Haven't used CTE in 3yrs. I used to use this to find parent child relationship between tables in Db2 z/OS
- Stock analysis program. I scrape a stock site using Java and load the data to mySQL database in my computer. I have cloud functions to scape any new announcements and send mail to me. The site I had built is pretty much scalable meaning announcements are stored in Firebase and bootstrap 4 website logins are handled by Firebase as well and each user can track the stocks, get announcements related to their stocks and see all the financials and see the reports as well.
The roadblocks been, the source site from I scrape they change their site design often due to which I loose data or had to rework which some times takes couple of months. Data is sometimes disconnected like if the stock is part of a index the main page is updated with main items like revenue and net profit but the details pages are not updated and they might be updated within next 5days. So scraping takes lots of time in my home computer amd insertion takes time as well. Initally I was generating around 50 reports, after site upgrades due to change in data presented data, currently have around 35 reports. Since I am not seeing that many reports currently I am going to drop more reports.
Scraping part is the part I would like to move to cloud but currently I don't have enough time but 3yrs back I was working like a machine 9hrs office. 5-7hrs each day on this. Tech stack all of it I had to learn Scraping : Java, Python (introduced a year back); Analysis : Java & SQL queries . Currently trying to add pandas; Realtime scraping : NodeJs, Firebase in GCP; UI : initially generated reports using Java velocity, Js datagrids in bootstrap. Later developed a full fledged bootstrap 4 web application;.
Spent RIDICULOUS amount of time on this. Worse thing is when I started there wasnt much of apps did what I tried to do in report perspective. Now there are apps which does almost 50% of analysis what I do.
Now the thought process is do I want to proceed ? No. I am trying to continue the scraping part but sort of minimize all the UI stuff and when some analysis is required write a query to get the data and subscribe & pay the app which solves 50% of my work.
Due to this I didn't focus on any other areas in life which right now is lot frustrating. Sacrifices I used to be a marathon runner, not anymore. Used to workout regularly 5days a week in gym, not anymore. Used to have social life, not anymore.
Another interesting thing, it's a stock webapp which I was building, I was soo into the programming in bringing this up actually I didn't actually get time to review the reports. I did miss a lots of Market Ups....
- No. DevOps will stay and there will be SREs as well and there will be a hybrid of this combination as well
DevOps actually didn't break the barriers at all. It just created more roles inbetween Developers, testers and operations and brought in more tools. So people in operations are asked to use the Devops tools as organization has already bought it.
- Teacher is totally right. I used to be a movie buff, I started with the best movies and drilled down like. If I like a movie, I will check director or hero/heroine and start watching their flims. This started in 2004 beginning of torrents. I almost all movies, I ever liked in a 2tb hard disk. Nowadays I just re-download for better print but even I am not sure why I am doing I do it. When it started to hitt downturn is, at a point I was watching movies just to understand what the director is trying to tell as someone has produced this movie. I slowly started to cut back like I don't watch movies if it's more than 130mins and started cutting down the time.
If is say what's my best its mostly the ones between 1980 to 2005. Everything after that was too much CGI or it was like okay movie.
Like comedies I liked were Encino man, son in law, first few parts of police academy, jury duty.
Action movies Conair, lost in space, broken Arrow, specialist, assassins. Desperado.
- Now a days forceful version migration can also be considered a technical debt
- Tiktok stands out. Their algorithm is the best, it basically hooks you. YouTube shorts or fb reels most times a copied video from tiktok. One of them should buy tiktok or stand aside...
- By the time this article is released, the scraped is stale.
LinkedIn is self advertising portal for newer better opportunities and that data is actually in public view and someone is selling it to get me better opportunities it sort of sounds fine..
What would be informational is if so called hacker comes and says how he used the data or the tech stack used.
- From this weekend. Jenkins, Groovy and BitBucket