scubbo / datenight

Pronouns: He/Him

Professional History

After graduating with a degree in Mathematics and spending a year with a small web development company, I worked for 10 years with Amazon - 4 with Amazon Video in London, and 6 with Amazon Music in San Francisco, ending up as the Tech Lead for the Music Metrics and Data Platform organization. Upon recognizing the inevitable incipient burnout, I took 6 months off of work to recuperate. Since I'd been interested in resiliency and quality development practices while at Amazon (in my spare time I wrote the first version of what eventually became Amazon's Load Test coordination tool, and I led the Incident Analysis group in Music alongside my day job), I've moved into an SRE role at LegalZoom as of January 2023.

Personal Work

I run a homelab as a testbed for tinkering and learning, mostly with k8s-/GitOps-related tools. Currently I'm trying to figure out how to Crossplane-ify All The Things.

I blog about technology and other things here. The majority of my own code lives on my personal Gitea instance rather than on GitHub itself - this account is just for collaborating with others.

Contact and Socials

Mastodon is my main Social Media app nowadays. I'm reachable via email at [email protected].

datenight's Issues

Set temp cookie while signing up so you can come back if you're interrupted

Should store the already-completed values to repopulate

Set up standalone AWS account

All currently hosted on my own personal account, which has security, portability, and expense implications.

Address FOUT on Landing Page

Use WebFont Loader

Questionnaire queries

Should "Do you both drink alcohol" be freeform? Or radio (yes/one/no)?

Validation on Questionnaire

• Check that all radio buttons are filled in
• Check that at least one interest has been selected
• Check that all freetext is filled in (or, if it's not, we probably should rephrase it?)

Example issue

Everything is broken. Like, everything. Please fix all the things. Kthxbai.

• Fix the first thing
• Fix the second thing
• Fix all the other things

Add validation when re-editing an old section of the questionnaire

We have validation when clicking "Next", but no validation to check the user hasn't gone back and editing something to be blank.

Set ServerName directive in Apache config

Create a favicon

Handling for missing cookie on interests page

Make naming consistent

We've got DateNight, Datenight, and Date night all over the place. Let's standardize on DateNight (including on the landing page) until trademark issues force otherwise!

Remove "Thrill Seeker" from questionairre

This is already covered by "Adrenaline Junkie"

Add <title> tag on all pages

Validate input data on letsgetstarted page

Particularly, that dates should not be in the past!

Add question for "What's your name?"

SSL Domain with Cert

These links from the AWS Intro email may be useful:

Creating your first ELB:
A video introduction to ELB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEcEqN8PeeI&feature=youtu.be
Getting Started: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-getting-started.html
ELB Best Practices: http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1636185810492479
FAQ’s: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#elastic-load-balancing

A few How-Tos which will help you setup your ELB environment initially:
SSL Certificates: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/ssl-server-cert.html
Health Checks: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/ts-elb-healthcheck.html
Listener Configuration: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/using-elb-listenerconfig-quickref.html

After getting your ELB setup check out these other ELB features:
ELB access logs for detailed information for all requests made to your load balancer: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/access-log-collection.html
Monitoring your ELB with CloudWatch Metrics: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-cloudwatch-metrics.html
ELB features in detail: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-configure-load-balancer.html