Dave Dustin

@dustin.nz

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Semi competent Principal Engineer based in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Ex-Microsoft SQL Server MVP. Hobbies include cooking, photography, and woodworking.

Four panel comic lablelled "The 4 stages of eating cheese" by @findchaffy Panel 1: A little white rabbit is happily eating from a platter of mixed cheeses - Caption: Eating cheese Panel 2: A little white rabbit is happily eating from a platter of mixed cheeses - Caption: Still eating cheese Panel 3: The little white rabbit has his tongue sticking out and looks like he's going to be sick. - Caption: Ate too much cheese Panel 4: A little white rabbit is happily eating from a platter of mixed cheeses - Caption: Bit more cheese
Screengrab from Babylon 5 S04E10 - Racing Mars It shows two characters, Marcus Cole and Stephen Franklin laughing together while in a dark dingy space.
Screengrab of Michael Garibaldi looking towards camera with the text "To Be Continued..." overlaid.
Photograph of the wrapper for a slab of chololate Whittaker's Limited Edition Gumdrop Block 28% cocoa White chocolate combined with bubble gum flavour and chewy gumdrops. 250g
My ducks are not in a row. Some are missing, one's on fire, and I'm pretty sure one's a pigeon.
A photograph of a container holding a bottle of 12 year old Glenfiddich whisky
A photograph of a sausage roll maker
Photograph of a small shelf of books. From left to right - A blink of the Screen; collected short stories by Terry Pratchett - Greatest Hits by Harlon Ellison - Red Sonja Consumed by Gail Simone - The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi - Starter Villain by John Scalzi - When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi - Old Man's War by John Scalzi - The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi - The Last Colony by John Scalzi - Zoë's Tale by John Scalzi - The Human Division by John Scalzi - The End of All Things by John Scalzi - The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
tightly framed photograph of a cat focusing/staring at a ladybug on the end of a leaf, as if planning to pounce
A cartoon showing two people in front of an exhibit labeled "Museum of Meaningless Metrics" There are four exhibits. The guide is pointing at exhibit #4. #1 - Lines of code, accompanied by a very large pile of printer paper. #2 - Story Points, with 7 index cards with 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 printed on them #3 - Pull Requests, with a model that looks like a complex molecular structure, nodes and branches all over the place #4 - Tokens Spent - A tower of dots, and at the bottom a digital counter showing 9,876,543,210
Photograph of a sack of sawdust and wood shavings.
A large red button with NO! printed on it. When you push the button a prerecorded voice says "no", "noooooo", "for the last time, no" or "n-o"
A sign on a wall stating "Please do not flush anything except toilet paper"
Screenshot of a Slack conversation. Dave Dustin posted "Different database. DRE DB is for RDS. DBA DB is for EC2" Under that is quoted text "It's all rather confusing really - Neddy Seagoon"
A photograph of a pizza base with pizza sauce. With 2 breakfast sausages, a rasher of bacon, sliced tomato, baked beans, sliced mushrooms and two fried eggs as toppings.
Top down photograph of a cup of coffee. The crema (foam) on top is very light brown and a near perfect match to the inside glaze of the cup.
*Overview* What are you changing: <thing> What are you doing: Making <thing> work Why are you doing it: <thing> is broken *Implementation* Inplementation Plan: Delete <thing>, recreate <thing> from source control Backout Plan: None, <thing> is already broken, can't make it worse Pre-Implementation Testing: Worked when I tested on my machine Impact: <thing> will-no longer be broken