June 12 2016

Sun 12 June 2016

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I was away last week with work to an offsite at the Club Med, which as far as I can gather is one of those soviet-era collective holiday camps for people who weren't in a soviet. I bet the soviets never had nespresso on demand.

Bizarrely, the weather in Ireland …

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June 05 2016

Sun 05 June 2016

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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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May 25 2016

Wed 25 May 2016

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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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Imperfect Machines

Thu 19 May 2016

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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 …

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April 30 2016

Sat 30 April 2016

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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 …

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