Jeff Smith
VP of Cloud Operations at Basis Technologies. Author of Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions. Husband and father of 2. Lover of Star Trek, D&D and video games. Chicago. Go Cubs!
- My Hospital Gaming Rig: allthingsdork.com/2025/07/04/my-hospi…
- Back in the hospital. Can’t seem to catch a break. This time it’s (most likely) Shingles. SHINGLES!?!? Some of the doctors aren’t convinced it is though. We’ll see how the biopsy goes. I’m starting to look like a wild man.
- Virtual Tabletop Gaming is Better Than Not Gaming: allthingsdork.com/2025/07/01/virtual-…
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - I'm not sold: allthingsdork.com/2025/06/30/clair-ob…
- Steroid Timing is Getting Better: allthingsdork.com/2025/06/29/steroid-…
- It’s also amazing just how annoyed I am by different charging ports now. Having the majority of my stuff be USB-C is a game changer. But now I’m looking at these AirPod Pros with great distain because they’re lightening. Do I really want to drop $250 just for USB-C? (Yes. The answers is yes)
- Hard part with the current health schedule is managing steroids and its insomnia impact. Weird waking hours, which I think is mostly dependent on when I’m remembering to take them. Tonight seemed to go a little better though. If I don’t get sleepy soon I’ll just have to fire up Expedition 33.
- How Quickly Things Change -- Health Update: allthingsdork.com/2025/06/27/how-quic…
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- My wife came by the hospital today and gave me a haircut, helped me shower, and gave me a mini spa treatment. When you look better, you feel better. 😀
- Health Update: allthingsdork.com/2025/05/20/health-u…
- Oooh I crushed it today! Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Cubs #258 “7th Year Stretch” 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com
- Sinners, 2025 - ★★★★: allthingsdork.com/2025/05/14/sinners.html
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- New game I discovered from a fellow micro.blog user Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Cubs #254 “Happy Moms Day!” 🟡🟡🟢🟢 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com
- Ready Player One, 2018 - ★★★★★ (contains spoilers): allthingsdork.com/2025/05/11/ready-pl…
- We’re both a little under the weather so my son and I are playing a “friendly” game of Memoir 44.
- Chatbots and the Danger to Children: allthingsdork.com/2025/05/10/chatbots…
- Recently learned that our neighborhood school is the most overcrowded school in the CPS school district. Capacity is at 154%. So that’s nice. www.illinoispolicy.org/policy-sh…
- The Met Gala always looks like they sent out the invitations but randomized the details of the dress code on each of them.
- My plan to see Sinners failed spectacularly. I totally spaced that I had Cubs tickets tonight. But on the plus side, they won. Took Xander and his friend from school, which was also fun and special to watch. I’ll try my hand at Sinners again sometime this week.
- Went with Ella to the new Harry Potter store in Chicago. She was in absolute heaven.
- Bluesky doesn’t like the embed shortcuts from Hugo. youtu.be/V6EZINgkv8I?...
- Murder Mystery 2, 2023 - ★★: allthingsdork.com/2025/05/03/murder-m…
- Finished reading: Dialogue by Robert McKee 📚 This was an extremely helpful read that I’m sure I’ll be referencing over the years. It had a bend towards screenwriting, which has to put an inordinate amount of weight on ... allthingsdork.com/2025/05/03/finished…
- One of my favorite parts of using VIM is spending hours researching and fixing compiler errors for a plugin.
- I’m still minimizing exposure to indoor crowds. But because I’ve got a dope job with flexibility and work life balance, coupled with The Davis Theater being in the neighborhood, I’m gonna slip out for a matinee of Sinners on Monday! First movie in FOREVER!
- Went to the Harry Potter Shop here in Chicago. Videos to follow. 2x - Butter Beers 1x - Hedwig Cupcake Price? $40. Straight up larceny.
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- This came in today and I’m about to change my son’s life FOR. EVER. It should only take a month or so to get through all the rules….
- My cancer tree rings are almost gone on one hand. Compared to a few months ago.
- I’ve been using Zettlekasten as a note taking methodology for a little over a year I think. This post is a great post-mortem on someone’s ZK setup and what failed for them. medium.com/@nori.par…
- Season 4 of Lost is when there’s an unreasonable number of people keeping secrets, and an equally unreasonable number of people not getting shot for keeping those secrets. Benjamin Linus should have been killed 12 times by now.
- First game of the season with the whole family. Go CUBS!!
- I still subscribe to a physical copy of the Chicago Sun Times on Sundays. One of my favorite things is watching my son read the comics in the morning, in his robe, like an old man.
- A new rule for Oscar voting. "When the Academy announced that, starting next year, Oscar voters will actually have to watch all the movies in a category before making their final-round picks" If you’re like me, you’re probably surprised this wasn’t a rule already. www.npr.org/2025/04/2…
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- Enjoying some local shopping with my daughter. And Independent Book Store Day. No car Lincoln Square is kinda nice. Not like you ever get parking anyways.
- The problem I keep running into with battling cancer. Even when things are going GREAT, you do a little bit of research on a small symptom and you become instantly overwhelmed by the number of things that can go wrong in your fight.
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- For the children y’all.
- A Rogers Park elementary school needs help replacing its auditorium’s failing sound system. buff.ly/n6zQ3sl
- Mixed day. Started with a stressful meeting in the morning. Got a bit of work done. Cubs game was on a long rain delay but finally got started around 3:30pm. Went with my buddy Shawn so it was cool for it to just be us so we could catch up. Bout to make some popcorn and watch Lost.
- A $5000 baby bonus sounds like the worst pay day loan ever. abcnews.go.com/Politics/…
- Nice night for a ball game.
- Pete Hegseth’s departing Chief of Staff. Only the brightest. No DEI/woke shit here. "During that meeting, “he turned [and] he goes, ‘Can I just tell everyone around this table that I just took an enormous shit right befor... allthingsdork.com/2025/04/23/pete-heg…
- Finished reading: The Box by Marc Levinson 📚 Good read if you’re curious about the global shipping economy and how global commerce got started. Great primer for the book How the World Ran Out of Everything too. Events from The Box have a direct impact on shipping during the pandemic.
- I’m always torn between PC gaming and couch gaming in the living room. (Sometimes with a PC hooked up to the TV) The biggest difference is Dolby Atmos. Headphones just can’t compete with a true Atmos setup IMO. The sound difference is insane.
