DeployTarot.com – Tarot card reading for deployments

(deploytarot.com)

205 points | by rembish 2 days ago ago

73 comments

  • fraywing 2 days ago 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 2 days ago ago

      Sounds like the code of OpenClaw haha

  • dgrin91 2 days ago 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 2 days ago ago

      Speaking about cards purchase. Gimme some time, I will do my best.

    • kimos a day ago ago

      I had just assumed the slow animation was buying time to call out to an LLM.

    • rembish 2 days ago ago

      Shuffle animation speed was addressed :)

  • rembish 2 days ago 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 2 days ago 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 2 days ago ago

        Fascinating that the skeptical nature stops short of the tarot itself

        • PaulHoule a day ago 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 a day ago 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 2 days ago ago

        [dead]

    • mcmoor 2 days ago ago

      Wait, deterministic? I thought it shuffled random cards and then have LLM construct narrative out of that?

      • dijksterhuis 2 days ago 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 2 days ago ago

          Ah thanks I missed that part. So it IS deterministic and (pseudo-)random.

    • danpalmer 2 days ago ago

      "office lady"? Maybe you want to re-word that?

      • sillysaurusx 2 days ago ago

        What’s wrong with office lady? (Or milk man?)

        • danpalmer 15 hours ago 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 2 days ago ago

        office crybaby

  • cm2012 2 days ago 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 2 days ago ago

      Copperplate and cursive together is the new em dash

      • hatthew 2 days ago ago

        What I notice is tailwind-derived CSS with a very dark background and a wide palette of bright color accents.

  • kyrofa 2 days ago 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 2 days ago ago

      Has anyone got the hang of Thursdays yet?

      • Avicebron 2 days ago ago

        have you tried salt and muscle relaxants?

    • rembish 2 days ago ago

      Oh! My tarot table is in Europe. Will fix

    • hatthew 2 days ago ago

      Got the same, maybe it's looking at UTC time?

      • kyrofa 2 days ago ago

        Heh, server time as opposed to client time at least.

    • dijksterhuis 2 days ago ago

      i would hold off on that deployment anyway, just in case

    • roygbiv2 2 days ago ago

      Not in Australia!

    • rembish 2 days ago ago

      Should be fixed

  • rembish 2 days ago 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

  • starkparker 2 days ago 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

  • cluckindan 2 days ago ago

    Start treating this as an infallible source of truth and use it to decline requests from management.

    • kabdib 2 days ago ago

      I intend to :-)

  • onion2k 2 days ago ago

    It needs a "shadow IT team vibe-coded app" deployed by "who knows!"

  • rembish 16 hours ago 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.

  • sxp 2 days ago ago

    On a similar note, you can use https://tarotpunk.app/deck-1 when planning is your next startup.

  • rembish a day ago 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.

  • amikaeel 2 days ago ago

    I will absolutely be using this from now on for all my future deployments

  • Muromec 2 days ago ago

    Everything about this is great.

    • nine_k 2 days ago ago

      Indeed very nice: the graphics, the colors, and of course the thoughtful texts. I like how the cards use poignant imagery without being sarcastic.

      • vntok 2 days ago ago

        > The deck acknowledges Receptionist. It would also like to acknowledge that it last spoke with a CISO asking about a very similar matter. The cards are not judgmental. They are, however, observant, and they find the timing of the role change worth a comment.

        It is a little bit sarcastic.

        • nine_k 2 days ago ago

          But only in a very dry way, not in-your-face way.

    • rembish 2 days ago ago

      Thank you!

  • Brajeshwar 2 days ago 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.

  • dijksterhuis 2 days ago 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.

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  • _kulang 2 days ago ago

    I would very much like this on my CI/CD pipeline

  • atomicnumber3 2 days ago 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.

  • JohnMakin 2 days ago 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 2 days ago ago

    Ooh, all major arcana. Going for max drama

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  • _rousbound 2 days ago ago

    I see a KRAZAM video idea here

  • simonreiff 2 days ago ago

    I don't even understand this but it's very nice

  • losthobbies 2 days ago ago

    Really good

  • password4321 a day ago ago
  • acombandrew 2 days ago ago

    Excellent

  • slillibri 2 days ago ago

    > The cards observe it is Friday.

    Um, where I am it's still Thursday.

    • par 2 days ago ago

      when you're deploying to prod it's always friday

    • rembish 2 days ago ago

      Fixed, a tarot table will know your tz now

  • throwaway290 2 days ago ago

    Sloppy...

  • r2ob 2 days ago ago

    I can't say its bs

  • themarogee 2 days ago ago

    [dead]

  • fraywing 2 days ago ago

    Watch out, this is about to be banned in the Southern/Midwestern US /s