1. MJAKKAPONG PROMTRAGOOL
Information acquired: 2023
I save admins and developers from themselves or fate on a regular basis. From solo devs in their home office to major corporations, I`ve spent over ten years now hearing every excuse why setting up a backup strategy was a great idea, but they didn`t have money or time to do it. As they spend weeks recovering from a major crash that took their data away. As you can imagine I`m a big fan of solid process, best practices, and preparation for the worst. As in, it`s not a backup until you`ve actually restored from it. I know, boring... until it`s your livelihood in jeopardy. I concoct recovery plans, find ways to patch over bad data. I find ways to do things that the software I support can`t do out of the box, but you CAN get there from here in almost every case. I don`t care what platform you`re on, but prefer MacOS myself, with a very strong fondness for Linux for all other things computational. If it`s Linux, it means either I can make it do what I want, or someone already has figured it out. I love Perl. Oddly enough, I like keeping my Perl code tightly formatted and consistent, but it rubs me the wrong way when a language (I`m looking at you, python!)decides what that means. My equal fondness for Javascript is for similar reasons. Love JQuery (and JQuery-UI) because between that and a good grease monkey manager (Tampermonkey is my current goto) I can make websites like SalesForce do my bidding. I mean, have you SEEN what their pages source looks like?! How can THEY keep it straight?? Ahem... But, I digress. There`s a whole lot more, but one of my issues is that it`s hard to describe what I do. I analyze more log data than most people can stand, and prefer to do mine with grep and awk. Not that I have anything against Splunk! I just like seeing the data. As corny as it sounds, I can see patterns just from watching megabytes scrolling by.
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