Thu 19 May 2016

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

Sat 30 April 2016

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

Sat 16 April 2016

So, 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

Sat 16 April 2016

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

Mon 11 April 2016

I almost signed up for a medium account. A brief moment of madness before I realised that the likes of medium accounts are also transient. Reminded, again, by my recent de-facto abandonment of G+ as a thing to publish things on. I am not a crackpot, our outlets for writing …

Category: Log Tagged: log meta sre writing