Web Excursions 2021-06-11
Always be quitting - jmmv.dev
So what does it mean to always be quitting? The key lies in NOT being indispensable.
If you are, you’ll be stuck at your specific job for as long as that job is relevant with little chance to disconnect (no vacations, no growth).
And when (not if) the job becomes unnecessary, so will your position.
Paradoxically, by being disposable, you free yourself. You make it easier for yourself to grow into a higher-level role and you make it easier for yourself to change the projects you work on.
10 specific things you can do:
Document your knowledge.
Document your long-term plans.
Document your meetings
Bring others to meetings.
Train people around you.
Identify and train your replacement.
Give power to the people
Do not make yourself the point of contact.
Delegate
Always be learning.
Note that nothing here implies abdicating responsibility.
You still have to be responsible for all the projects and teams you own, and
you have to be for as long as you are in your role.
2021.06.08 Certificate Lifetime Incident (valid for an extra one second) - Incidents - Let's Encrypt Community Support
Let’s Encrypt is well-known for issuing certificates that are valid for only 90 days.
Since the very first certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt’s infrastructure, those certificates have been given a 90 day validity period by our CA software
by taking the issuance time and adding exactly 2,160 hours
to yield the certificate’s “not after” date.
However, RFC 5280 defines the validity period of a certificate as being the duration between the “not before” and the “not after” timestamps, inclusive.
This inclusivity means that Let’s Encrypt’s certificates have all been actually valid for 90 days plus 1 second.