Peter Lord

@ptrlrd
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Assoc. Platform Eng at Lucasfilm, Also known as Yitsy, Gamer, and Cat Dad

Main Fediverse Account: @ptrlrd

@[email protected]

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Main Fediverse account@[email protected]
đź‘‹ Changing my main Fediverse account to @[email protected], feel free to shoot me a follow there. :)
Please boost. I wanted to see just how much Star Trek was a part of the fediverse, so I left this very general on purpose. Do you like Star Trek at all? Note, "no" also includes "haven't seen it". #Poll #Polls #StarTrek
yes
80.3%
no
19.7%
Poll ended at .

For anyone in the New Milford CT area, I'm giving a talk about my career path to ILM at the public library tomorrow!

https://newmilford.libcal.com/event/12365425

A Lucasfilm Presentation: "From Dinos to Starships: My Journey to Industrial Light & Magic"

Get the inside scoop on the Star Wars franchise from Lucasfilm's Brian Jackson. Brian Jackson is a Platform Engineering Supervisor at Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic, whose...

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After 1,359 days since my last blog post, a lot has changed and I should've posted something a lot sooner. Since then I've transitioned from front-end development to platform engineering and joined the incredible team at Lucasfilm.

Additionally, my homelab upgrade journey provided valuable lessons about not storing your backups on your server (yes I know), using automation tools and more.. Feel free to read more at https://medium.com/@ptrlrd/peter-where-have-you-been-17544e0bf0bc

Peter, where have you been? - Peter Lord - Medium

Hey y’all — it’s been 1,359 days since my last blog post — feels like a lifetime ago! A lot has since changed. My wife and I welcomed a beautiful baby boy into our family, marking the beginning of an…

Medium

I've been so wrapped up in revamping my homelab. I love ansible so much -- basically using ansible + packer + terraform to control my server and keeping everything as code in my infra. :chefs_kiss:

Everything is deploying to my docker swarm now so I don't have to worry about stuff going down.

I am debating about buying more SSDs to do an NFS so I can just use that for all my storage 🤔

Ugh I had the weirdest dream that woke me up today. I had hard drive bays installed to my body and I was shoving hard drives into myself and I was yelling “I am the cloud”
Y’all — I love a good work week. I love that feeling of being fulfilled with work.
Some people shouldn’t be allowed to use Slack or Discord.
Sometimes it’s fun to check slack off hours and be hyped about the next day of work.
I’ve spent way too much time reading about configuring a VPN with docker containers. Where did my Saturday go.