It's November! That most wonderful time of the year when your brain and being need a little more maintenance.
Part of my maintenance schedule is taking the worsening weather as a prompt to feel less guilty about not going outside and doing outside things -- i.e. getting to coding and …
Category: Log Tagged: log tech coding projects
Read MoreI spent a number of days at SRECon 2022 in Amsterdam, and gave a talk that I'd had rattling around in my head for a wee while - roughtly based on a paper I left at Google when I left.
Laura was good enough to suggest it as a ;login: article …
Category: Writing Tagged: log writing oncall sre
Read More2021 was a year. I've seen the receipts.
In summing it up, I guess I'll preface it by saying that this, more than any previous year, was one where the shared experience of being the connected human was a more closely bonded one than ever. The shared experience definitely had …
Read MoreI'm allowed one cheat blog post, as a treat.
The twitter thread I posted a while back seems to have gotten some attention. It's reproduced on threadreader but that too shall pass (and I auto-delete my tweets after 90 days), so here's a reproduction.
After being asked by a work colleague to say words about OKRs and if they're a good thing to adopt, I realised I had more words than fit in an email or short doc -- so, here's a slightly longer doc on my view of OKRs, tempered by 15 years or …
Category: Writing Tagged: writing okrs
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