I think about this every time I go on the London Underground

I like how the first step of hanging out with all of my friends is clarifying what I meant by “I just threw some shit on and walked out the door”

Turns out touching grass was literally the answer all along

“why is there a Ribosome.hs in the reliability codebase” do not worry about it. it batches www.iankduncan.com/engineering/...

I regularly have people ask me about Mythos these days, so here are my thoughts: Finding bugs is never the hard part. Fixing them is. How’s your organizational alignment? Are your engineers burned out? How is your production resilience? Before you worry about the new shiny, focus on your basics

Women know a confidently wrong blowhard when they see one and are much less likely to fall for smarmy, insincere flattery

Some people would rather suffer if people they hate suffer more.

But Iran? Iran so far away

(Ok I know dyn isn’t supported here but this gif was too good to pass up)

I still remember the first time @mekka.mekka-tech.com pointed out to me that white conspiracy theories were conspiracy theories but Black conspiracy theories were just accurate historical accounts of things that actually happened It's lived in my head rent free ever since

sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)

This thinking has been influencing me and it's part of why I'm starting to try to write more explicitly about how we get to theory for software teams www.fightforthehuman.com/software-res...

#[allow(cursed_code)] rust!(“go process”)

More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a lot from over the years feel like they are speaking into a void, to the point where they are losing motivation to continue making content, which got me to write my first post on my site in over a year... www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell...

I'm at a conference right now and one of these bad studies with its bad estimates about human work choices has already come up. It's a fucking plague.

It’s wild that network connections are utterly unsolved in regulated environments. Everyone spends unfathomable amounts of money solving the same problems. It’s absurd If I could wave a magic wand, getting regulators and OSS foundations to cooperate on solving this would be a top wish of mine

This is one of the best write ups I’ve seen on the slew of recent Linux CVEs. If you haven’t read it, do so. It contains amazing explanations that are both technically accurate and intuitively useful to non technical people. I can’t stress enough how difficult it is to write this clearly. Read it!

...bad information. That requires people to do much more curation of their information sources than they have in the past. To me, that's the important part of the story, and it needs more attention. I wrote a bit about that, here: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc... (8/8)

I feel like we need an onion index for political stability: how long does it take for an onion post to become reality?

Honestly I think this might be possible to think about as an extension to the open cost project. Imagine this level of costing transparency for everything in your stack; that’d be neat (I get the difficulties. Pricing visibility is genuinely hard. But I think we should try anyway) opencost.io

the obvious answer is lupita nyong’o

Janelle Monáe as James Bond

I truly can’t get over the fact that we chose YAML-interpolated shell scripts as the default CI programming language. It’s so bad that we forgot how to handle untrusted inputs! (pull_request_target and issue_comment triggers should not be that unsafe! It’s just attacker controlled input.)

Public transit apps should come with an option note. Like “hey so the transfer is a 12 minute wait but if you think you can make it and you don’t walk like a lil bitch you can try to make the one in 4 minutes. Good luck have fun bestie”

Rust 🤝 Haskell “The type signatures and this research paper should be a good starting point for the documentation”

Perhaps you have thought to yourself, *I'm* on board the Psychology of Software Teams train, but how can I identify fellow POST fans in the wild?? Well if you find me at a 2026 conference or book reading you can get a TINY PROPAGANDA STICKER

I need this so bad so that I can do the ivy vines gothic witchy vibe web designs of my dreams (I’m waiting for Firefox and safari support first but then imma be all over this)

"Let define an incident so that customers feel we're being open — must include major issues they will notice — but ideally exclude all issues they won't notice, because they may think raw counts show how stable & safe we are overall"

This is precisely the political part, though :) What *is* an incident? 92 in 90 days is simultaneously a lot and also nowhere near the "real" number. But is the "real" number even relevant for the business? How would one calculate that anyways? What's the threshold? All deeply political questions!

Whenever I want to explain what I mean by "availability is political" and "uptime is a Noble Lie," I'm going to start by discussing these two pages: mrshu.github.io/github-statu... vs www.githubstatus.com Even the per-component uptimes are different! And the aggregate calculation is… interesting

I really like this framing. It also makes me realise that I do this constantly because I’m Deaf and take nothing that I hear for granted (But conversely I take the written word a bit too seriously)

I’m obsessed with this dress and I need one like it *so* badly

Found the new OpenTelemetry pride month logo 👀

The fact that this is (also) seemingly universal in every single industry which requires practitioners to develop deeply complex inner mental models is something I think about a lot I saw this described once as "having sufficient respect for the complexity of a problem". That resonated!

Falling in love with the Netherlands ❤️ (Featuring @mara.bsky.social)

I think everyone who thinks that it is no longer necessary to understand software engineering principles because of AI should spend a few minutes every day browsing /r/vibecoding. It's so so clear that technical skills are still worthwhile.

Happy First of May! And for those who need inspiration on how to celebrate it, have you considered… youtu.be/w1GD_T-3oLU

Gemma 4 runs best with liquid cooling

And so it begins

If you read this and think “a disturbingly large amount of these apply to me” or “a worryingly small amount of these apply to me” or maybe even both or something else? Its okay! It’s a constellation, not a roadmap *ahem* That said, we have more than 50 follows in common, you should read this…

Can't wait to read this -- our podcast episode on math learning barriers including math anxiety is one of the most popular ones we've ever done. This is a massively common experience! www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

I’m starting to notice some comments from people thanking me for things I haven’t done, videos I haven’t made, or articles I haven’t written. Is this happening to anyone else? It’s a bit odd… I’m not mad about it, I just don’t know where it’s coming from!

It's finally time to announce the opening talk of the RustWeek 2026 main track! 2026.rustweek.org/talks/taylor/ Don't forget to buy your tickets, before they run out!

Look, before you mock people for having their database deleted in 9 seconds by Claude, you should know that deleting a database that thoroughly used to take up to 90 minutes.

Here's my book!!! The Psychology of Software Teams, it's coming out in July, you can already pre-order it at some online retailers, and it has a WHOLE CHAPTER on "The Performance Paradox" to help you become a *resilient* high performer :) www.routledge.com/The-Psycholo...

Had fun at my first koningsdag!

New blog post about Erik Hollnagel's Safety-II model: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/04/26/t...

The most important thing about building a team in tech isn't whether you have a pile of top-tier rockstar developers. It's whether those people can communicate with each other, and with other orgs/management/customers.

This remains one of the highest visibility anti advertisements I’ve seen for Azure, combined with OpenAI quietly doing everything they can to not use it I’m sure the story is more complicated and nuanced internally, but the optics are excruciating nevertheless

I love how this and the other post I have where I restate this are now my top two posts of all time on here It gives me comfort every time I feel like tech is in a bad place. I mean, things are rough! But we do remember what’s truly important. At the end of the day, our communities are what remain