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Travis Shears
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New father, hobbyist, alpinist, software engineer, he/him, USA -> Munich, Germany

Back in the gym after a long pause. Forgot how sore I get after my Mike Mentzer program. 🏋️

#lifting

Luka for A.D.?!?

At least the last years of LeBron are interesting. 🙏 Dallas front office traded him because conditioning? They didn’t like he was enjoying beer after games. Here in Germany beer is considered an electrolyte drink and is served at all sport halls.

#nba

Chipped my Gyuto 😢.

First chip in ~3 years of hard steel Japanese knife ownership. Not bad.

#cooking

#knives

Watched Wong Kar Wai's 2046. They dreamy ascetic was nice, but it wasn't my thing. I've moved on from my Hollywood blockbuster Star Wars / Marvel roots, but maybe I'm not yet cultured enough for Wong Kar Wai.

#movie

Migrating complex systems has been my job for couple years it feels like. Good tips in this article.

https://kyle.cascade.family/posts/how-to-actually-migrate-complex-systems-in-infrastructure/

I'm sold on DataDog! Way smoother experience then Grafana. Loving my new dashboard, logs, and monitoring with alerting.

#datadog

Made it to the cinema for the first time since my daughter was born. Saw Joker: Folie à Deux. Maybe I was just really excited to see the big screen, but I didn’t think it was as bad as the reviews make it out to be. The musical aspects were good. Bit too much and not enough action. At least they tried something different them every other comic book movie.

#movie

#joker

Work from home dad life:

In a meeting 30min, daughter calmly plays with toys. Start presentation, she immediately poops and starts crying.

#dadlife

Saw a dad walking around with his ~8 year old daughter helping her do parkour today. Woh, some of the moves looked tricky. I didn’t know this is father daughter compatible?!? Looking forward to it!

#dadlife

Finally found a dumplings recipe that is easy enough for a weeknight dinner.

https://travisshears.com/cooking/notes/shumai

#cooking

Looking to reduce my server costs; right now I have a bunch of fly.io machines running, a VPC instance, and bunch of AWS stuff. Looking at self hosting on a raspberry pi. Was just going to do a simple docker compose with nginx over it and Let’s Encrypt, but dokku looks intriguing:

https://dokku.com/

#webdev

#tech

The Bear season one. It opened too chaotic for me but I stuck with it and enjoyed. Smile every time I see a cooking instrument I own, like: deli containers or micro plane.

Looking forward to season two.

#cooking

Working on backing up photos to my NAS today. Came across a nice tool to remove duplicates: jdupes, https://codeberg.org/jbruchon/jdupes

Run this to delete duplicates in the current folder:

jdupes -dN .

Curry ended France in style. What a way to cap off the Olympic Gold Medal run. U.S.A!

#basketball

#olympics

Sad to see Dennis, Franz, and the rest of the German team lose. Then team USA had me very nervous with the close win over Serbia.

#olympics

#basketball

I’m also a Bruno fan. Nice that it supports GraphQL. nostr:note1vzprswcv8g9tltt0mrthr340y2n3p9lenrpn2yvk9yqevxpk79lqp5nanr

Wetter Online App never fails me. Saw a storm this morning and used the app to figure out which direction it is going and how much time I have to get myself and by daughter, with the stroller, into cover.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id545993260