babe are you ok you’ve barely touched your dashboard you specifically asked me to spend a week building
@pokateo I laughed that pain-laugh that's almost a scream.
@pokateo i feel this as real and sharply in my bones as my hatred for what i am become: a YAML engineer
@pokateo "can you email a link to the dashboard every week so i can look at it?"
@pokateo Dashboard? here's a badly cropped screenshot of it, pasted in a powerpoint presentation, saved as greyscale PDF, and emailed to the executive team.
@pokateo "we build a super cool dashboard for you! Customer: can I have an Excel export?"
@hellpat and this is why half the time I just build the dashboard out in excel in the first place

@pokateo I would like you to know that six people on a group chat reacted instantly with various expressions of intense dismay upon seeing this post

Well played

@pokateo yep. this is basically enterprise software in a nutshell. those dashboards aren't for the engineers, they're for the investors who want to see blinking lights, basically.
@ariadne @pokateo this is how you sell leadership on argocd at any company. the dashboard gets them every time. even if you just end up using the applicationset CR in the end.
@ariadne @pokateo do we get bonus points if it plays some canonical computer music?
@ariadne @pokateo wow, search results for “canonical computer music” are even less helpful than I expected, I’m remembering it from a video of a talk (maybe a TED talk) about computer-generated music where the presenter used that phrase to describe what sounded like the sound of computing in old sci-fi movies
@pokateo this is a personal attack lmfao stop looking at my sprint board
@pokateo my only solace is the frequency with which I can answer questions with “have you checked the dashboard?”
@pokateo My bosses won't like that you said that…