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 …
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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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Some of the gear that's being shipped to Czech Republic (or Czechia if you don't please) for Border War next week. I and 20-odd other tubby nerd militia follow it all next week. This will be my third time in as many years, and probably the unfittest I've been in …
Category: Log Tagged: log airsoft fitness
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