I'm getting my ducks are in a row. I'm putting my chickadees in a column. The squirrels are stored in SQLite. I'm getting my chipmunks in Redis. I've been getting my crows into Postgres. I'm storing my pigeons in Mongo. There are raccoons in YAML? Who put raccoons in YAML? We've got snakes in an OracleDB? Why do we have either of those? Legacy acquisition? We have cockroaches in... well at least that makes sense. You say they're load-bearing cockroaches? And... is this an FTP server for ants?
@mhoye oh god so many load-bearing cockroaches…

@mhoye Mike, it's Saturday. Put the databases full of creatures down, and go for a ride somewhere. You'll feel better, I promise.

(I know, I know, I didn’t walk enough this past week, either. But we gotta take care of ourselves; you know that. Hell, you **taught** me that, in large part.)

@mhoye I typed that all out, and then realised it's Friday, not Saturday. Wow, do I feel silly.
@mhoye (Something something working in the open something something making mistakes in public. Old habits die hard.)
@dubious_dragon the raccoons don’t know what day it is! Unless it’s garbage day I guess.
@mhoye Fair enough. Some days I do feel like three raccoons in a trenchcoat, etc etc.
@dubious_dragon @mhoye Um, you're not?!
I don't want to say that my image of you needs to be revised, but...

@mhoye

The Kubernetes cluster has been colonized by endangered bats and can no longer be shut down legally.

> “Who put raccoons in YAML?”

Ingy, OBVIOUSLY.

@mhoye

The raccoons have always been in YAML.

@suetanvil @mhoye omg someone beat me to this
@sif @suetanvil raccoons deserve better than to be associated with YAML. They scavenge in trash, sure, but unlike cloud engineers they don’t turn around and accept a dependency on it.

@mhoye @sif

I mean, it's not like they were forced in or anything. They just use their extra-dexterous fingers to forge your github credentials and then there they are, rummaging through your data looking for grease.

(tbh, I actually kind of like YAML. It's excellent as a robust data serialization language.)

@mhoye

AntHill Inside *

* RIP, Sir Pratchett

@mhoye gopher is still available if you're looking for another service.
@mhoye ...would you say you've found some bugs?
@mhoye
"I've got squirrels in a tree and they're in-dexed"
can be sung to the tune of "Spirits" ('guns in my head') by the Strumbellas
in case that helps
@mhoye my colleagues are chortling.
@mhoye Oh good, it -is- Friday as hell in here. I thought it was just me.
@chutten You're among friends here.

@mhoye

pretty sure they use ASN.1 to store cuckoos... ;)

@mhoye don’t even ask about the 🐝🌳s! (Btrees)

@mhoye

The <payload> is delivered as xlm.
It was SOAP.
Containing a single CDATA element.
Containing MIME.
Containing unsecaped CSV.
With some "colums" being multi-value delineated by semicolons.

It's been 14 years.
I hate that vendor.

I'd take incontinent squirrels in the windows registry over what they posted of as a same API.

@mhoye Why shouldn't there be raccoons in YAML? Every other damn thing is, or so says my friend from False, oops I mean "Norway"
@mhoye watch your queries to avoid triggering the geese in the data lake.
Frequent cache misses may be due to rodents nibbling away the foundation of your data warehouse.
@mhoye I'm sorry I wasn't there early enough in the project to repeatedly tell people to just use Postgres until the rare situation they outgrow it