Check out this Mega Man 2 intro necktie I did.

Carb deniers, avert your eyes.

OH DIP. This one's a goodie. Go Go Go: google.smh.re/5LT- Come listen to our chat with Heather Adkins aka argv (or argvee or @argv.bsky.social ) because that's a rad name. Heather knows, I dunno, *everything and everyone* in Security? Also medieval history and, like, castles?

All prime, my goodman

vibecoding as a reliability advocate: > lets start a *new branch* called Mega Robustness.

Radiohead FOMO

It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...

California be like:

A new one: no espresso this morning because the machine got a software update overnight. (Should be ready in 10min).

Happy birthday to be best meme in existence. The earliest known posting of this genius image was 14 years ago today.

To this day, the Secret Cinema showing of Empire is one of my favo(u)rite, surreal memories. The Xwing, jeepers.

I can't be the only one who occasionally logs into the coffee shop's router via a default password to bump their DHCP pool and drop their TTL a few dozen hours. something something white hat.

This week on the Kubernetes podcast, we're thrilled to bring you a special crossover episode with the SRE Prodcast, featuring @stevemcghee.dev! We sat down with Ben Good to discuss the intricacies of Platform Engineering and its relationship with Kubernetes. kubernetespodcast.com/episode/257-...

TBD: To Be Dismissed.

5-D optical drive, you see.

feature request: mark all notifications as read. All of them, on the whole planet.

Speedrunning conferences - still exhausting.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.

Just googled "how old am i if i was born in october 1979" so that's how things are going today.

Hi it's me, I am in Hawaii and I visited the Volcano but it was during the 2d window where it was not glowy red and exciting.

Grant me the serentiy to accept failure, to know the dependency failures i cannot fix, to mitigate the ones i can, and to know the difference.

I recently read the paper "Towards Joint Activity Design Heuristics: Essentials for Human-Machine Teaming" which I loved so much I wanted to make it easier to share. To that end, I've excerpted the Ten Heuristics from the paper here: human-machine.team with anchors for each heuristic.

Merry Perihelion to those who celebrate.

happy new years friends

"Your year wrapped" or whatever on every app is just an annual reminder of your level of opt-in surveillance. (I have plenty, sigh)

BREAKFAST APPLE PIE 🎄🎅❄️

My one true nemisis.

if you have the means I highly recommend picking up the Charlie and Lola Christmas special.

Cool.

Tis the season for background Tolkien

Today is the last scheduled DORA Community discussion of the year. Join us at 12PM ET. I'll be kicking off the discussion with a look at A Decade of DORA. Then we'll open up the agenda to everyone in attendance. Join the mailing list at dora.community for more details. #DORA #GBGB #Community

When your SLO error budget is breached, what do you do? Immediately, indefinitely halt releases? What if it's a brand new budget that you don't have any confidence in? What if the team is undergoing so much strife that another beating will not improve morale? My point: don't be a zealot.

If your ability to respond quickly to a problem entirely relies on other’s ability to do the same, take another look at your plan.

Here's a good, concrete reliability story: sreally.com/alphabet-sou... 1) Was it an incident? What severity? 2) What was the time to detect / repair? 3) How does this compare to other incidents? Statistical jargon goes here. Answers: None of these make sense in this context, they don't help.

Severity is vibes not science.

Come have a listen to our latest episode with John Allspaw and Casey Rosenthal on Safety, Resilience, and maybe a little Chaos. www.youtube.com/shorts/kMMqg... Check out the whole Season (and previous ones!) here: sre.google/prodcast/

If a member of SRE/staff pushes a bad configuration and you lose 10% of revenue generating traffic for a few minutes, before the engineer fixes it, what do you do as their manager?

Good morning from December in America.

Spotify Wrapped? Don’t even have to look. All interstellar all the time.

I just moved this account handle thingy to a custom domain, what could possibly go wrong.

Corn Chex is best Chex. I will not be taking questions at this time.

New favorite metaphor for emergence: rainbows.

If you want to learn about opsec, watch Patriot. Also it’s great. www.google.com/gasearch?q=p...

Xmas lights are up! Mostly!

Suggestion: this might be a perfect day for a hurkle durkle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.scotsman.com/news/scotlan...

Odie would like you to know that it’s time for breakfast.

Maybe this year I’ll get more than 2 days of advent of code.

I keep reading it as bskyb and shuddering.