The weather turns and turns. We're well into the season where things spring out, and make you cut them back, or just be happy they're there. Our garden has rhubarb. Enough for a tiny put of jam, or perhaps a Mr. Kipling's style rhubarb tartlet or two.
It also is …
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Further to the Reddit AMA I was involved in a few years back (I am /u/sre_pointyhair) - "The Guy" showed up at my desk last week.
Alas, I was away, and he had to make do with doing the unspeakable things we do to keep servers running from my desk …
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I finally got my grubby mitts on an actual dead-tree copy of the SRE book. I've wanted this to exist for many years, and it's finally out there. I wrote a chapter on working with teams with high interrupt loads where the team consists of humans. It's a paraphrase of …
Category: Log Tagged: log writing
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Back from a few days in Prague and beyond, at Border War. This was a very decent one - and I ended up not being as wrecked as I thought (due to the previously mentioned unfitness). Did about 45km of hiking over the 3 days of the event, which is a …
Category: Log Tagged: log airsoft
Read MoreSo, case in point (since we love examples).
A couple of years ago, when I first started fiddling with Pelican, one of the first things in the docs was 'okay, set up virtualenv and do such a thing'. My initial reaction, as an old-skool sysadmin weenie who hasn't had to …
Category: Meta Tagged: meta writing brains
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