Today is fixing stuff day.
For one of the hats I wear I’m a university administrator. Over the past few years our admissions system has become something of a hydra. We have four different deployed applications for our admissions system and one for our student information system. I’m going to put them all together into a big mono repo today so it’s easier to manage and maintain them.
For my other hat I’m ostensibly the CEO of a furniture company, but because no one else on the staff knows how to terminate ethernet, that’s my job today. Needed to move a security camera a few meters one way in the factory. I made a standard straight through cable and it didn’t work! Powered up but no data to the NVR. So I looked at the source cable and I see it’s split! The installer decided to use 1 ethernet cable for two cameras (IP cameras use only pins 1, 2, 3, and 6 typically) so he wouldn’t need to run another cable (yay for laziness). Rather than re-terminate both ends of the extension I just cut one end and only put in the wires for 1, 2, 3, and 6 pins. Then it worked!
It doesn’t matter your title, if you are good at technical stuff it will always end up being your job.
