Peter Lord

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

Main Fediverse Account: @ptrlrd

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đź‘‹ Changing my main Fediverse account to @[email protected], feel free to shoot me a follow there. :)
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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
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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…

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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.
@brian oh we both know you’re great. LOL
Some people shouldn’t be allowed to use Slack or Discord.