1 pointby jongi_ct7 hours ago1 comment
  • jongi_ct7 hours ago
    I’m a DevOps engineer in Cape Town. I started a CCTV/monitoring biz thinking it was "infrastructure as hardware." I was wrong.

    I’ve been bleeding money on a school project due to:

    Voltage drop/PoE limits over 100m.

    Bad labor: No "git revert" for a hole drilled in the wrong place.

    Workmanship: My "clean code" mindset is failing in the "meatspace" of messy cabling.

    To those who moved from software to physical infrastructure:

    How do you enforce "clean" workmanship with manual labor?

    What are your must-have tools for the physical layer?

    How do you stop "scope creep" when you're 10 meters up a ladder?