DeployTarot.com – Tarot card reading for deployments

(deploytarot.com)

203 points | by rembish a day ago ago

66 comments

  • fraywing a day 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 a day ago ago

      Sounds like the code of OpenClaw haha

  • dgrin91 a day 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.

    • kimos 13 hours ago ago

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

    • rembish a day ago ago

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

    • rembish a day ago ago

      Shuffle animation speed was addressed :)

  • rembish a day 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 a day 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 20 hours ago ago

        Fascinating that the skeptical nature stops short of the tarot itself

        • PaulHoule 18 hours 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 8 hours 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.

    • mcmoor a day ago ago

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

      • dijksterhuis a day 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 a day ago ago

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

    • danpalmer a day ago ago

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

      • sillysaurusx a day ago ago

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

      • skvmb a day ago ago

        office crybaby

  • cm2012 a day 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 a day ago ago

      Copperplate and cursive together is the new em dash

      • hatthew a day ago ago

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

  • rembish a day 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

  • kyrofa a day 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 a day ago ago

      Has anyone got the hang of Thursdays yet?

      • Avicebron a day ago ago

        have you tried salt and muscle relaxants?

    • rembish a day ago ago

      Oh! My tarot table is in Europe. Will fix

    • hatthew a day ago ago

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

      • kyrofa a day ago ago

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

    • dijksterhuis a day ago ago

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

    • rembish a day ago ago

      Should be fixed

    • roygbiv2 a day ago ago

      Not in Australia!

  • starkparker a day 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 a day ago ago

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

    • kabdib a day ago ago

      I intend to :-)

  • onion2k a day ago ago

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

  • rembish 16 hours 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.

  • sxp a day ago ago

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

  • amikaeel a day ago ago

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

  • Muromec a day ago ago

    Everything about this is great.

    • nine_k a day 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 a day 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 a day ago ago

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

    • rembish a day ago ago

      Thank you!

  • Brajeshwar a day 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 a day 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.

  • _kulang a day ago ago

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

  • atomicnumber3 a day 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 a day 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.

  • _rousbound a day ago ago

    I see a KRAZAM video idea here

  • simonreiff a day ago ago

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

  • losthobbies a day ago ago

    Really good

  • analog8374 a day ago ago

    Ooh, all major arcana. Going for max drama

  • password4321 16 hours ago ago
  • acombandrew a day ago ago

    Excellent

  • slillibri a day ago ago

    > The cards observe it is Friday.

    Um, where I am it's still Thursday.

    • par a day ago ago

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

    • rembish a day ago ago

      Fixed, a tarot table will know your tz now

  • throwaway290 a day ago ago

    Sloppy...

  • r2ob a day ago ago

    I can't say its bs

  • fraywing a day ago ago

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