DeployTarot.com – Tarot card reading for deployments (deploytarot.com)

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[−] fraywing 50d ago

> The technical debt so deep and so normalized that the team has stopped seeing it as debt at all. It's just "how the system works." The chains have become comfortable. You are about to add more.

This one hurt.

[−] lta 50d ago
Sounds like the code of OpenClaw haha
[−] dgrin91 50d ago
Absolutely fantastic. I actually laughed out loud a few times.

My only suggestion is make the shuffle animation shorter. At first I thought you were actually doing some server work when I clicked it and got concerned.

Also if you sell these in real life I would buy them.

[−] rembish 50d ago
Speaking about cards purchase. Gimme some time, I will do my best.
[−] kimos 49d ago
I had just assumed the slow animation was buying time to call out to an LLM.
[−] rembish 50d ago
Shuffle animation speed was addressed :)
[−] rembish 50d ago
Can our office lady deploy a new feature on Friday? What if our CEO will do rebranding? Our intern is about to bugfix production, is it fine? Cards will answer. Totally silly webpage with reasonable, fully deterministic results. GHA, GCP, one silly idea and a lot of will to make it funny.
[−] PaulHoule 50d ago
People in my tarot group are skeptical that you get can good readings with LLMs but I’d say Copilot mostly comes to the same conclusions that I do. I am actually a little embarrassed that Copilot can interpret the I Ching primarily based on the names of the hexagrams and makes it look a lot easier than I make it look no matter if I use my pocket Wilhelm or my cheesy new age translation or my fashionable Bronze Age translation.
[−] btreecat 50d ago
Fascinating that the skeptical nature stops short of the tarot itself
[−] PaulHoule 50d ago
It can be justified rationally through thermodynamics and/or game theory (Bronze age I Ching.)

If there was a club for therianthropes who don't have atrocious taste in art or one for practicing cantrips that somebody unethical could use for taking things without paying [1] I might join that but what I can find is the onmyoji guild.

[1] ... which I don't do. When it goes too far by accident and the spell breaks on my end I always go back and pay. I need to keep practicing though to stay in good standing with the Trickster's union

[−] btreecat 49d ago
That's a lot of words to explain people sharing psychosis rather than solutions to their questions in life, conflating motion with action.
[−] cindyllm 50d ago
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[−] mcmoor 50d ago
Wait, deterministic? I thought it shuffled random cards and then have LLM construct narrative out of that?
[−] dijksterhuis 50d ago

> The verdict you receive — Ship It, Tread Carefully, or Abort Mission — is derived from a deterministic hash of your role, intent, and the current date. It is, in technical terms, a seeded pseudo-random number dressed in a cloak.

https://deploytarot.com/disclaimer

[−] mcmoor 50d ago
Ah thanks I missed that part. So it IS deterministic and (pseudo-)random.
[−] danpalmer 50d ago
"office lady"? Maybe you want to re-word that?
[−] sillysaurusx 50d ago
What’s wrong with office lady? (Or milk man?)
[−] danpalmer 49d ago
If you're asking this truly legitimately, then I don't think I can help you here. If you're asking this to make a point then I'm certainly not going to change your mind.
[−] skvmb 50d ago
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[−] cm2012 50d ago
I had a similar idea! https://actuarialfortunetelling.com/

Actuarial fortune telling that uses your info to give you a real predictions about your life. Its powered by real actuarial data in the back end. Also built in replit.

Lol that replit designed it the same exact way for both of us!

[−] cluckindan 50d ago
Copperplate and cursive together is the new em dash
[−] hatthew 50d ago
What I notice is tailwind-derived CSS with a very dark background and a wide palette of bright color accents.
[−] kyrofa 50d ago

> The cards observe it is Friday. They have not forgotten the Great Friday Deploy of 2021. They have not forgiven it either.

It's... it's Thursday.

[−] captaincrowbar 50d ago
Has anyone got the hang of Thursdays yet?
[−] rembish 50d ago
Oh! My tarot table is in Europe. Will fix
[−] hatthew 50d ago
Got the same, maybe it's looking at UTC time?
[−] dijksterhuis 50d ago
i would hold off on that deployment anyway, just in case
[−] roygbiv2 50d ago
Not in Australia!
[−] rembish 50d ago
Should be fixed
[−] starkparker 50d ago
my tongue is firmly in my cheek when I say: I know an engineer made this, because "cleaning lady" can be involved in the deployment, but "docs writer" isn't
[−] rembish 50d ago
Added
[−] rembish 50d ago
Folks, I've created a GH action: - uses: rembish/deploytarot-action@v1.2 https://github.com/rembish/deploytarot-action

That went waaaay far that it should :D

[−] cluckindan 50d ago
Start treating this as an infallible source of truth and use it to decline requests from management.
[−] kabdib 50d ago
I intend to :-)
[−] onion2k 50d ago
It needs a "shadow IT team vibe-coded app" deployed by "who knows!"
[−] sxp 50d ago
On a similar note, you can use https://tarotpunk.app/deck-1 when planning is your next startup.
[−] amikaeel 50d ago
I will absolutely be using this from now on for all my future deployments
[−] Muromec 50d ago
Everything about this is great.
[−] rembish 49d ago
FYI I've contacted a friend of mine - a designer - she will be fixing some issues with cards. When it will be done, I will be thinking to order a small amount of physical decks for selling. Stay tuned.
[−] Brajeshwar 50d ago
Nice. This is Cool.

Long, long ago, I knew a founder who would have us all sit down before going out to pitch Investors—the wife would read tarot cards to give us tips, and which Investors to Pitch.

[−] rembish 49d ago
Not sure if somebody still reading this, or it is gone - but https://deploytarot.com/cards - enjoy reading. Too be frank it is started to be way more truthful than it should.
[−] dijksterhuis 50d ago
the disclaimers page is really good too

> Any resemblance between a three-card Major Arcana spread and your actual production incident is either a remarkable coincidence or a sign that you should reconsider your change management process.

[−] atomicnumber3 50d ago
This is great and - something about programming has always felt adjacent to esotericism and the occult to me. Serial Experiments Lain is kind of in this vein too.
[−] _kulang 50d ago
I would very much like this on my CI/CD pipeline
[−] JohnMakin 50d ago
This is really good. Thank you. I got a lot of laughs. If this was built with AI - this is what I had hoped it’d bring the web.
[−] analog8374 50d ago
Ooh, all major arcana. Going for max drama
[−] _rousbound 50d ago
I see a KRAZAM video idea here
[−] azuremis 47d ago
This is epic and has brought me joy already
[−] simonreiff 50d ago
I don't even understand this but it's very nice
[−] losthobbies 50d ago
Really good
[−] acombandrew 50d ago
Excellent
[−] password4321 49d ago
[−] slillibri 50d ago

> The cards observe it is Friday.

Um, where I am it's still Thursday.

[−] throwaway290 50d ago
Sloppy...
[−] r2ob 50d ago
I can't say its bs
[−] themarogee 50d ago
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[−] fraywing 50d ago
Watch out, this is about to be banned in the Southern/Midwestern US /s