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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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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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 …
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Read MoreI 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 …
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The weather's turning. It's one of those nice times of year when it's cold and mostly dry, but without a winter in front of us. Things are growing at home and we're seeing what pops up on our first spring in the new place.
So, on Valentine's day, I reminded …
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