Explaining robust-yet-fragile in a community of HSE practitioners and contrasting it with Hollnagel's RAG. Boy! This is way outside my competence envelope.

This could be us, but you won’t let me shift your paradigm. #KuhnianJokes

A lot less guilty using harvested rainwater for garden, instead of from waternet network. #SimpleWins

Just learned that the operational resilience minimum standards at my current workplace is built on Eric Hollnagel's #Resilience Assessment Grid. I just got jet engines under my wings!

Humans naturally adapt and compensate for broken designs and component failures. Well adapted cognitive work masks difficulties that people face to get their job done - from themselves and from others. That's the law of fluency. I didn't make it up.

Ever wondered what powers FOSDEM media boxes? Checkout this talk.

Beyond just the language setting ourselves up for failure, "root cause" have deeper issues. For me it triggers anxiety everytime i hear it. @allspaw.bsky.social has articulated it very well the issues here. Recommended material for SRE-201: github.com/readme/guide...

@mccricardo.bsky.social just spoke about incident response at #FOSDEM. It's a new dawn of SRE and related crafts at #FOSDEM beyond tools and framework. Folks in the resilience engineering community, let's go with devroom proposal for FOSDEM 2026. @resilienceinsoftware.org

The 9th edition of Monitoring and Observability Devroom at #FOSDEM Here we go🚀 #OTel

End of #FOSDEM 2025, day 1 Oh these are well designed doors, I think. Doesn't fit into Norman door category.

Front row seat at an almost packed Janson auditorium at ULB. 14 years of #systemd

Good news! The sound issues in the #FOSDEM Free Java Devroom has just been fixed. Thanks to the volunteers that worked on this problem since the morning 💕

Folks visiting #FOSDEM, specifically #SRE and adjacent roles, want to talk about the state of incident postmortems, human factors, what you learned from incidents etc? Let's do an unofficial #BoF #LFI

You have seen #FOSDEM full. Have you seen the longass #FOSDEM queue to the containers devroom?

Folks swiping through YouTube shorts at full volume in a Business Class lounge is the living proof that money doesn't buy common civic sense. #fail

As an Engineering Manager/peer engineer do you put on a poker face while #interviewing a potential candidate? I've been just me in all of my interviews but today I went to the other side of the table and faces stone cold poker faces. 🫠

Next Monday, 24-Nov-24 is the third anniversary of the infamous #log4shell vulnerability disclosure. Remember the scramble to identify what in your estate has the dependency & are exploitable? How did your discovery & governance game improved since then?

Someone shared it on LinkedIN. #KevlinHenney in the wild. @kevlin.bsky.social

#Caturday in our pillowfort.