Archives

2025

June

Gary Klein

Jun 23, 2025 — 2 minute read

January

Make devcontainers work on Fedora with SELinux / rootless podman

Jan 24, 2025 — 1 minute read

2024

November

List only the most recent SemVer version number per major.minor branch

Nov 20, 2024 — 1 minute read

Generating random data with OpenSSL

Nov 16, 2024 — 1 minute read

July

Saving docker container image contents to local directory

Jul 3, 2024 — 2 minute read

April

Prospective Hindsight

Apr 29, 2024 — 1 minute read

March

Hyrum’s Law

Mar 10, 2024 — 1 minute read

Resetting USB devices on Linux

Mar 10, 2024 — 1 minute read

February

Using hardware security tokens (Yubikeys) to log in to Azure AD with Firefox on Linux

Feb 8, 2024 — 2 minute read

Google Chrome web USB serial socket permissions issues

Feb 4, 2024 — 1 minute read

January

Intune on Fedora 39

Jan 12, 2024 — 2 minute read

Intune on Fedora 40

Jan 12, 2024 — 2 minute read

2023

November

SELinux troubleshooting

Nov 13, 2023 — 2 minute read

September

Project retrospective template

Sep 13, 2023 — 2 minute read

August

Intune on Fedora 38

Aug 22, 2023 — 1 minute read

Go format flags

Aug 13, 2023 — 5 minute read

June

Fixing the 1password for Linux URL scheme handler

Jun 26, 2023 — 2 minute read

Python developer mode

Jun 17, 2023 — 1 minute read

May

Azure Service Principals

May 25, 2023 — 1 minute read

systemd-resolved

May 9, 2023 — 4 minute read

April

Process over outcome

Apr 3, 2023 — 1 minute read

March

HiDPI on Linux

Mar 31, 2023 — 2 minute read

Crockford’s Base32

Mar 19, 2023 — 2 minute read

February

Detecting a Python virtual environment

Feb 25, 2023 — 1 minute read

Starlite

Feb 4, 2023 — 1 minute read

Architecture Decision Records

Feb 2, 2023 — 1 minute read

January

Troubleshooting Podman

Jan 16, 2023 — 1 minute read

2022

December

Default user directories on various operating systems

Dec 19, 2022 — 1 minute read

The characters ä and ä may look the same, but in fact they’re not

Dec 2, 2022 — 3 minute read

November

20221123-1230 - HangOps conversation discussing some of the origins of Google SRE

Nov 23, 2022 — 26 minute read

October

The phrase ‘You build it, you run it’ is often misused and misunderstood

Oct 29, 2022 — 2 minute read

Werner Vogels - you build it, you run it

Oct 29, 2022 — 1 minute read

Break Free of the Template: Incident Writeups They Want to Read

Oct 26, 2022 — 3 minute read

SRE as She Is Spoke

Oct 25, 2022 — 2 minute read

Knowledge and Power: A Sociotechnical Systems Discussion on the Future of SRE

Oct 25, 2022 — 2 minute read

Market Data: Applying SRE Techniques to Legacy Designs

Oct 25, 2022 — 1 minute read

The Biases Confronting SREs

Oct 25, 2022 — 1 minute read

Building Dynamic Configuration into Terraform

Oct 25, 2022 — 1 minute read

Crayon Drawing Is a Vital Engineering Skill

Oct 25, 2022 — 2 minute read

Financial Regulators Worldwide Are Getting the Legal Right to Regulate the Operational Resilience of Big Cloud Service Providers

Oct 25, 2022 — 3 minute read

Oncall: An Equal Opportunity Waste of Time

Oct 25, 2022 — 2 minute read

Virtiofs

Oct 2, 2022 — 1 minute read

September

SREcon22 EMEA

Sep 7, 2022 — 3 minute read

August

Missing package hashes in poetry lockfiles following PyPI warehouse change

Aug 23, 2022 — 2 minute read

July

A good strategy cannot be proven ahead of time

Jul 30, 2022 — 1 minute read

Failure Anticipation Review

Jul 13, 2022 — 4 minute read

May

Podman docker compatibility

May 18, 2022 — 1 minute read

Upgrade Python packages to their latest version when using poetry

May 8, 2022 — 1 minute read

April

The 4 types of technical documentation

Apr 3, 2022 — 1 minute read

March

The “python” command and associated interpreter versions

Mar 23, 2022 — 1 minute read

People care more about the fairness of the process than they care about the actual outcome

Mar 1, 2022 — 1 minute read

February

AsciiDoc

Feb 20, 2022 — 1 minute read

reStructuredText

Feb 20, 2022 — 1 minute read

Markedly Structured Text (MyST)

Feb 20, 2022 — 1 minute read

GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM)

Feb 20, 2022 — 1 minute read

CommonMark

Feb 20, 2022 — 1 minute read

Markdown

Feb 20, 2022 — 2 minute read

Sphinx

Feb 20, 2022 — 1 minute read

SSH authorized_keys permission denied on Fedora until SELinux labels were reloaded

Feb 14, 2022 — 1 minute read

January

Making Earthly work with Podman

Jan 27, 2022 — 1 minute read

Podman

Jan 25, 2022 — 1 minute read

Earthly

Jan 25, 2022 — 1 minute read

Book notes on ‘Extreme Ownership - How US Navy Seals Lead and Win’

Jan 21, 2022 — 33 minute read

Click here is not a good link text

Jan 17, 2022 — 1 minute read

High-quality commits

Jan 16, 2022 — 4 minute read

Rhai

Jan 9, 2022 — 1 minute read

Raku

Jan 9, 2022 — 1 minute read

PHP (Programming Language)

Jan 9, 2022 — 1 minute read

Perl

Jan 9, 2022 — 1 minute read

Larry Wall

Jan 9, 2022 — 1 minute read

Waterbed theory

Jan 9, 2022 — 1 minute read

Action Bias

Jan 6, 2022 — 3 minute read

Async-first problem-solving template

Jan 5, 2022 — 2 minute read

Screen readers skip images with empty alt attributes

Jan 5, 2022 — 1 minute read

Meditations

Jan 2, 2022 — 2 minute read

Notes on ‘Lessons in Stoicism’

Jan 2, 2022 — 11 minute read

2021

December

The Daily Stoic

Dec 31, 2021 — 1 minute read

Stoicism

Dec 31, 2021 — 2 minute read

Epictetus

Dec 31, 2021 — 1 minute read

Marcus Aurelius

Dec 31, 2021 — 1 minute read

Seneca

Dec 31, 2021 — 1 minute read

Helvidius Priscus

Dec 31, 2021 — 1 minute read

Musonius Rufus

Dec 31, 2021 — 1 minute read

John Sellars

Dec 28, 2021 — 2 minute read

Lessons in Stoicism

Dec 28, 2021 — 2 minute read

Maker’s schedule and manager’s schedule

Dec 18, 2021 — 1 minute read

Multitasking does not make you more productive

Dec 18, 2021 — 1 minute read

Six early predictors of burnout in the workplace

Dec 15, 2021 — 5 minute read

Toil in Customer Support

Dec 15, 2021 — 3 minute read

Too much reliability

Dec 14, 2021 — 2 minute read

Don’t blindly rollback

Dec 6, 2021 — 2 minute read

Postforward

Dec 3, 2021 — 1 minute read

November

On keeping or discarding fleeting notes

Nov 14, 2021 — 1 minute read

Excalidraw

Nov 14, 2021 — 1 minute read

Canary Releases

Nov 14, 2021 — 1 minute read

The difference between a deployment and a release

Nov 14, 2021 — 1 minute read

Instituut Fysieke Veiligheid (IFV)

Nov 11, 2021 — 1 minute read

Whiteboarding and live-coding exercises in tech interviews are counterproductive

Nov 9, 2021 — 3 minute read

Stop using PGP

Nov 8, 2021 — 2 minute read

October

Applicability of the GDPR

Oct 31, 2021 — 1 minute read

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Oct 31, 2021 — 1 minute read

Python type annotations on classes

Oct 23, 2021 — 2 minute read

Python’s Global Interpreter Lock

Oct 16, 2021 — 1 minute read

pipx

Oct 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Python Packaging Authority

Oct 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Go programming language

Oct 12, 2021 — 1 minute read

SREcon21

Oct 12, 2021 — 23 minute read

Architecture Patterns with Python

Oct 10, 2021 — 1 minute read

Mark Smith

Oct 10, 2021 — 1 minute read

Comparison between Restic and Borg backup

Oct 10, 2021 — 1 minute read

Grandfather-father-son backup scheme

Oct 10, 2021 — 1 minute read

Risk aversion and fear of the unknown are direct symptoms of a lack of context, and are the polar opposites of audacity

Oct 10, 2021 — 1 minute read

ZFS

Oct 10, 2021 — 1 minute read

Prometheus

Oct 9, 2021 — 1 minute read

Xonsh

Oct 9, 2021 — 1 minute read

John Allspaw on collecting MTTx metrics versus stories about incidents

Oct 2, 2021 — 1 minute read

PLOWS After Action Review

Oct 2, 2021 — 1 minute read

The “Chainsaw” After Action Review format

Oct 2, 2021 — 1 minute read

September

After Action Review Template

Sep 29, 2021 — 2 minute read

Conducting an After Action Review

Sep 29, 2021 — 5 minute read

Box Breathing

Sep 27, 2021 — 2 minute read

I don’t trust the MBTI

Sep 27, 2021 — 1 minute read

HangOps Community

Sep 26, 2021 — 1 minute read

After Action Review Learning Resources

Sep 26, 2021 — 1 minute read

In a study with waiters, mirroring resulted in 70% higher tips compared to positive reinforcement

Sep 21, 2021 — 1 minute read

After Action Review

Sep 18, 2021 — 1 minute read

Amygdala Hijack

Sep 18, 2021 — 1 minute read

Instead of asking why, ask “what made you decide?”

Sep 18, 2021 — 1 minute read

Leader’s Intent

Sep 18, 2021 — 1 minute read

National Wildfire Coordinating Group

Sep 18, 2021 — 1 minute read

Never Split the Difference

Sep 17, 2021 — 1 minute read

Switching obsidian-export to CalVer

Sep 12, 2021 — 3 minute read

Python

Sep 9, 2021 — 1 minute read

Python assignment expressions

Sep 9, 2021 — 1 minute read

Using Asyncio in Python

Sep 9, 2021 — 2 minute read

Team Canvas

Sep 7, 2021 — 1 minute read

Team Canvas preparation hints

Sep 7, 2021 — 5 minute read

Python asyncio resources

Sep 6, 2021 — 1 minute read

August

Extreme Ownership

Aug 30, 2021 — 1 minute read

Castor

Aug 29, 2021 — 1 minute read

Ansible

Aug 29, 2021 — 1 minute read

Ansible return Values

Aug 29, 2021 — 5 minute read

Ansible variables quick reference

Aug 29, 2021 — 5 minute read

Lorin Hochstein

Aug 29, 2021 — 1 minute read

Lorin Hochstein’s reading lists

Aug 29, 2021 — 1 minute read

In one study, open workspaces reduced face-to-face interaction by as much as 70%

Aug 25, 2021 — 1 minute read

Psychological safety at Google

Aug 22, 2021 — 1 minute read

Predictable Network Interface Names in systemd

Aug 18, 2021 — 1 minute read

Red Cross Districts

Aug 15, 2021 — 0 minute read

Rode Kruis Noodhulp Teams

Aug 15, 2021 — 2 minute read

Jocko Willink

Aug 15, 2021 — 2 minute read

Leif Babin

Aug 15, 2021 — 1 minute read

Effectively asking for help

Aug 14, 2021 — 4 minute read

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF)

Aug 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Feedback

Aug 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

My core values

Aug 13, 2021 — 3 minute read

What I’m doing now

Aug 13, 2021 — 2 minute read

Nick’s personal manual

Aug 12, 2021 — 11 minute read

Analyzing coredumps on Linux

Aug 2, 2021 — 2 minute read

Hindsight Bias

Aug 1, 2021 — 1 minute read

July

Ego

Jul 27, 2021 — 1 minute read

Exponential backoff

Jul 26, 2021 — 2 minute read

Transient failure

Jul 26, 2021 — 1 minute read

Extreme Ownership

Jul 24, 2021 — 3 minute read

Should you pursue a multi-cloud strategy?

Jul 21, 2021 — 1 minute read

Don’t take ownership over tasks you don’t agree with

Jul 7, 2021 — 2 minute read

June

Grootschalige Geneeskundige Bijstand

Jun 26, 2021 — 1 minute read

Ziekenhuis Rampen Opvang Plan

Jun 26, 2021 — 1 minute read

systemd timers

Jun 21, 2021 — 1 minute read

Express system availability as a ratio of events

Jun 8, 2021 — 2 minute read

Uptime is a bad proxy for availability

Jun 8, 2021 — 1 minute read

May

The “thundering herd” problem

May 14, 2021 — 1 minute read

The generation effect

May 12, 2021 — 1 minute read

systemd user instances

May 12, 2021 — 2 minute read

Defining systemd units

May 11, 2021 — 2 minute read

Inspecting and controlling systemd state

May 11, 2021 — 3 minute read

Limiting system resources with systemd

May 11, 2021 — 1 minute read

systemd targets

May 11, 2021 — 1 minute read

systemd timers don’t overlap

May 11, 2021 — 1 minute read

systemd units

May 11, 2021 — 2 minute read

The systemd journal

May 11, 2021 — 1 minute read

Recursively copy files in Rust

May 8, 2021 — 1 minute read

Trapping signals in shell scripts

May 7, 2021 — 1 minute read

Ubuntu does not change package versions within a release

May 5, 2021 — 2 minute read

What values are allowed in syslog tag or app names?

May 5, 2021 — 3 minute read

Building CLI scripts with Elixir

May 3, 2021 — 2 minute read

April

Using the Read trait in Rust instead of taking a file path

Apr 26, 2021 — 1 minute read

Get the root commit hash (“initial commit”) in git

Apr 22, 2021 — 1 minute read

De Geneeskundige Hulpverleningsorganisatie in de Regio (GHOR)

Apr 18, 2021 — 1 minute read

Safety regions in The Nederlands

Apr 18, 2021 — 1 minute read

March

Verbal communication accounts for more than just 7%

Mar 28, 2021 — 3 minute read

Cognitive load

Mar 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Extraneous Cognitive Load

Mar 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Germane Cognitive Load

Mar 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Intrinsic Cognitive Load

Mar 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Schema

Mar 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

The Rust programming language

Mar 9, 2021 — 2 minute read

Servo

Mar 9, 2021 — 1 minute read

The origins of Rust

Mar 9, 2021 — 1 minute read

Feedforward

Mar 7, 2021 — 2 minute read

February

Bad rules help suppress minorities and vulnerable people

Feb 28, 2021 — 1 minute read

Before you break a rule, first seek to understand what caused that rule to be created

Feb 28, 2021 — 2 minute read

Diane Vaughan

Feb 28, 2021 — 1 minute read

Normalization of deviance

Feb 28, 2021 — 1 minute read

Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)

Feb 28, 2021 — 1 minute read

Rules and procedures are often used to legitimize scapegoats

Feb 28, 2021 — 2 minute read

Social normalization of deviance means that people within the organization become so much accustomed to a deviation that they don’t consider it as deviant

Feb 28, 2021 — 1 minute read

SolarWinds hack

Feb 28, 2021 — 1 minute read

Sidney Dekker describing the Old View on human error in his book, the field guide to human error

Feb 24, 2021 — 1 minute read

Sidney Dekker describing the New View of human error in his book, the field guide to human error

Feb 23, 2021 — 1 minute read

Human error

Feb 22, 2021 — 1 minute read

John Allspaw

Feb 22, 2021 — 1 minute read

The old and new view on human error

Feb 22, 2021 — 3 minute read

Hugo

Feb 21, 2021 — 1 minute read

Relative linking in Hugo

Feb 21, 2021 — 1 minute read

Don’t send links without context

Feb 17, 2021 — 2 minute read

A good user story is written from the perspective of an individual

Feb 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Henry Ford never made that quote about faster horses

Feb 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses

Feb 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own

Feb 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Placing the user at the center helps us become emotionally invested

Feb 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

User stories should describe the user or persona before anything else

Feb 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Niklas Luhmann

Feb 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Zettelkasten notes are atomic

Feb 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Zettelkasten promotes reuse

Feb 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

My digital garden is for me

Feb 12, 2021 — 1 minute read

Stepping down as CISO

Feb 10, 2021 — 4 minute read

Reactive system

Feb 7, 2021 — 1 minute read

Reflective system

Feb 7, 2021 — 1 minute read

Digital Garden notes may be incomplete

Feb 6, 2021 — 1 minute read

Digital Gardens

Feb 6, 2021 — 1 minute read

Digital Gardens are non-hierarchical

Feb 6, 2021 — 1 minute read

Digital Gardens are tightly interwoven

Feb 6, 2021 — 1 minute read

Order emerges when multiple notes on a similar topic are collected and grouped together

Feb 6, 2021 — 1 minute read

January

David Provan

Jan 30, 2021 — 1 minute read

Drew Rae

Jan 30, 2021 — 1 minute read

Risk assessments are subjective and arbitrary

Jan 30, 2021 — 11 minute read

Risk matrix

Jan 30, 2021 — 1 minute read

Safety of Work (podcast)

Jan 30, 2021 — 1 minute read

What you’re representing on the matrix is less information than you started with

Jan 30, 2021 — 1 minute read

Flaxseed meal egg replacement

Jan 30, 2021 — 1 minute read

Digital Gardens may be public or private

Jan 29, 2021 — 1 minute read

A Digital Garden is like a personal wiki

Jan 29, 2021 — 1 minute read

Perform a post-incident review instead of a postmortem

Jan 24, 2021 — 1 minute read

Post-incident review

Jan 24, 2021 — 1 minute read

Creatine

Jan 23, 2021 — 1 minute read

Creatine is a safe and effective supplement

Jan 23, 2021 — 1 minute read

A 99.9% monthly SLO is a 99.5% weekly SLO

Jan 19, 2021 — 1 minute read

Complex systems

Jan 16, 2021 — 1 minute read

Complex systems are composed of many different interacting components

Jan 16, 2021 — 1 minute read

Complex systems display emergent behavior

Jan 16, 2021 — 1 minute read

Socio-technical systems are complex systems

Jan 16, 2021 — 1 minute read

The behavior of complex systems cannot easily be modeled or represented as a whole

Jan 16, 2021 — 1 minute read

Impostor syndrome among men and women

Jan 15, 2021 — 3 minute read

Anti-ronselbeding in Dutch law

Jan 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

Non-compete in Dutch law

Jan 13, 2021 — 2 minute read

Relatiebeding in Dutch law

Jan 13, 2021 — 1 minute read

The negative effects of non-competes

Jan 13, 2021 — 4 minute read

Abuse Cases

Jan 11, 2021 — 2 minute read

User Stories

Jan 11, 2021 — 2 minute read

Obsidian Export

Jan 10, 2021 — 1 minute read

Causes of cognitive dissonance

Jan 8, 2021 — 3 minute read

Cognitive Dissonance

Jan 8, 2021 — 1 minute read

Free spaces

Jan 8, 2021 — 1 minute read

Mere Exposure Effect

Jan 8, 2021 — 1 minute read

Negative Punishment

Jan 8, 2021 — 1 minute read

Negative Reinforcement

Jan 8, 2021 — 1 minute read

Operant Conditioning

Jan 8, 2021 — 1 minute read

Positive Punishment

Jan 8, 2021 — 1 minute read

Positive reinforcement

Jan 8, 2021 — 2 minute read

Bystander Effect

Jan 7, 2021 — 2 minute read

Spread of obesity through social networks

Jan 7, 2021 — 1 minute read

jq

Jan 7, 2021 — 1 minute read

JSON logs

Jan 7, 2021 — 1 minute read

Logfmt

Jan 7, 2021 — 1 minute read

Haddon Matrix

Jan 6, 2021 — 1 minute read

The Checklist Manifesto

Jan 6, 2021 — 2 minute read

Common Cognitive Biases

Jan 6, 2021 — 1 minute read

Confirmation Bias

Jan 6, 2021 — 2 minute read

Conformity Bias

Jan 6, 2021 — 1 minute read

Fundamental Attribution Error

Jan 6, 2021 — 1 minute read

Overconfidence Bias

Jan 6, 2021 — 1 minute read

Decision making: The consequences and identity models

Jan 3, 2021 — 1 minute read

James March

Jan 3, 2021 — 1 minute read

Shrink the change

Jan 3, 2021 — 1 minute read

The Endowed Progress Effect

Jan 3, 2021 — 1 minute read

2020

December

When people push for change and it doesn’t happen, they often chalk it up to a lack of understanding

Dec 31, 2020 — 1 minute read

Focus on the bright spots

Dec 19, 2020 — 2 minute read

Malnutrition in Vietnam

Dec 18, 2020 — 3 minute read

Postmortems

Dec 18, 2020 — 1 minute read

Solutions-focused (brief) therapy

Dec 18, 2020 — 1 minute read

Solutions-focused brief therapy methodology

Dec 18, 2020 — 1 minute read

True, but useless

Dec 18, 2020 — 1 minute read

Humans have both a rational and an emotional system in their brains

Dec 18, 2020 — 1 minute read

The Elephant and the Rider (from The Happiness Hypothesis)

Dec 18, 2020 — 1 minute read

Why I don’t like the concept of a root cause

Dec 8, 2020 — 2 minute read

Clippy not reporting errors until compiled targets are removed

Dec 7, 2020 — 1 minute read

Ensure EOL on files with Rust

Dec 7, 2020 — 1 minute read

Rust

Dec 5, 2020 — 1 minute read

Upgrading Fedora from the CLI

Dec 1, 2020 — 1 minute read

October

Pitfalls of graphing topk queries from Prometheus or Loki within Grafana

Oct 29, 2020 — 1 minute read

Linux memory management

Oct 21, 2020 — 1 minute read

Employee voice

Oct 20, 2020 — 1 minute read

LogQL

Oct 15, 2020 — 7 minute read

LogQL filter expressions

Oct 15, 2020 — 1 minute read

LogQL metric queries

Oct 15, 2020 — 6 minute read

LogQL stream selectors

Oct 15, 2020 — 1 minute read

Loki

Oct 15, 2020 — 1 minute read

Laura Maguire on admitting when you don’t know something

Oct 13, 2020 — 1 minute read

Costs of coordination

Oct 13, 2020 — 1 minute read

Every page is page one

Oct 11, 2020 — 2 minute read

One sentence per line

Oct 10, 2020 — 1 minute read

Emergent Behavior

Oct 10, 2020 — 1 minute read

Socio-technical systems

Oct 10, 2020 — 1 minute read

Systems thinking

Oct 10, 2020 — 1 minute read

Tell people what to do instead of what not to do

Oct 10, 2020 — 1 minute read

What is a socio-technical system?

Oct 10, 2020 — 1 minute read

LED flickering on camera

Oct 8, 2020 — 1 minute read

Full Service Ownership

Oct 6, 2020 — 1 minute read

Service responsibility with Full Service Ownership

Oct 6, 2020 — 2 minute read

What is Full Service Ownership

Oct 6, 2020 — 1 minute read

Research into the effects of on-call work

Oct 5, 2020 — 11 minute read

September

Elixir in Healthcare

Sep 30, 2020 — 1 minute read

Project Waterpark

Sep 30, 2020 — 2 minute read

Site Reliability Engineering

Sep 27, 2020 — 1 minute read

Toil

Sep 27, 2020 — 2 minute read

What is Site Reliability Engineering?

Sep 27, 2020 — 2 minute read

What you call root cause is simply the place where you stop looking any further

Sep 22, 2020 — 1 minute read

Effects of Fatigue

Sep 22, 2020 — 2 minute read

Commitment and Consistency Bias

Sep 20, 2020 — 1 minute read

Local Rationality

Sep 19, 2020 — 1 minute read

Effectiveness of Active Recall

Sep 19, 2020 — 2 minute read

Active Recall

Sep 19, 2020 — 1 minute read

Commander’s Intent

Sep 18, 2020 — 2 minute read

Decision Fatigue

Sep 18, 2020 — 2 minute read

Rust Path vs PathBuf

Sep 6, 2020 — 2 minute read

AsciiDoc(tor) syntax reference and tricks

Sep 6, 2020 — 1 minute read

If you want people to do the right thing - Save them the guilt trip

Sep 6, 2020 — 3 minute read

Publishing Python software to PyPI

Sep 4, 2020 — 1 minute read

August

Analysis of 18 months of decisionmaking at a German technology firm

Aug 23, 2020 — 1 minute read

Chip Heath

Aug 23, 2020 — 1 minute read

Dan Heath

Aug 23, 2020 — 1 minute read

Opportunity Cost

Aug 23, 2020 — 1 minute read

Switch

Aug 23, 2020 — 5 minute read

Amos Tversky

Aug 12, 2020 — 1 minute read

Backfire effect

Aug 12, 2020 — 1 minute read

Cognitive Biases

Aug 12, 2020 — 1 minute read

Integrative thinking

Aug 3, 2020 — 1 minute read

July

Timelines in incident investigations

Jul 24, 2020 — 2 minute read

The power of saying no

Jul 24, 2020 — 1 minute read

Tips and techniques to gracefully say no to requests

Jul 24, 2020 — 5 minute read

Warren Buffett - Very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything

Jul 24, 2020 — 1 minute read

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact

Jul 23, 2020 — 1 minute read

Elixir

Jul 23, 2020 — 1 minute read

Tips for effective use of Telemetry in Elixir

Jul 23, 2020 — 1 minute read

Erik Hollnagel

Jul 17, 2020 — 1 minute read

ETTO: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off

Jul 17, 2020 — 2 minute read

Nancy Leveson

Jul 17, 2020 — 1 minute read

Charity Major’s definition of observability

Jul 7, 2020 — 1 minute read

Sidney Dekker

Jul 6, 2020 — 1 minute read

Companies using Elixir

Jul 4, 2020 — 3 minute read

Impostor syndrome

Jul 4, 2020 — 2 minute read

Psychological safety

Jul 4, 2020 — 1 minute read

Daniel Kahneman

Jul 3, 2020 — 1 minute read

Shane Parrish

Jul 3, 2020 — 1 minute read

June

Rename GitHub default branch from CLI

Jun 29, 2020 — 1 minute read

The limit of remembering only 4 things at once

Jun 24, 2020 — 1 minute read

Convert SSH public key to fingerprint hash

Jun 23, 2020 — 1 minute read

Clean up unused build files created by cargo

Jun 22, 2020 — 1 minute read

Capitalize a string in Rust

Jun 19, 2020 — 1 minute read

Replacing cronjobs with systemd timers

Jun 12, 2020 — 1 minute read

Zettelkasten

Jun 12, 2020 — 1 minute read

Obsidian

Jun 10, 2020 — 1 minute read

Ansible host patterns

Jun 1, 2020 — 1 minute read

HAProxy codes

Jun 1, 2020 — 5 minute read

Research and recommendations on modern password policies

Jun 1, 2020 — 4 minute read

SREcon19 EMEA

Jun 1, 2020 — 9 minute read

Substitute environment variables in files

Jun 1, 2020 — 1 minute read

systemd

Jun 1, 2020 — 2 minute read

Wayland screen-sharing

Jun 1, 2020 — 1 minute read

May

Rust: Structuring and handling errors in 2020

May 13, 2020 — 15 minute read

2018

October

Top-10 talks of SREcon18 Europe

Oct 2, 2018 — 10 minute read

2017

June

True seamless reloads coming in HAProxy 1.8

Jun 30, 2017 — 1 minute read

January

Plugins in Go 1.8

Jan 9, 2017 — 5 minute read

2016

January

Dotfiles showcase: Git

Jan 28, 2016 — 2 minute read

Dotfiles showcase

Jan 28, 2016 — 1 minute read

2015

March

Introducing docker-image-updater

Mar 2, 2015 — 2 minute read

2014

June

It’s coming back!

Jun 4, 2014 — 2 minute read

May

Goodbye logstripper

May 27, 2014 — 2 minute read

January

Screen is not a process control system

Jan 20, 2014 — 3 minute read

2013

November

Fixing the Broadcom BCM4331 wireless drivers on Ubuntu 13.10

Nov 9, 2013 — 4 minute read

October

Nginx, Safari and TLS: worker process 12345 exited on signal 11

Oct 23, 2013 — 2 minute read

August

Birds, Amsterdam and spreading wings

Aug 7, 2013 — 2 minute read

March

Getting (g)it

Mar 28, 2013 — 8 minute read

SPF records, you’re doing them wrong

Mar 20, 2013 — 3 minute read

Use Puppet to install Err directly from Git into a Python virtualenv

Mar 11, 2013 — 4 minute read

Lets talk about logging

Mar 9, 2013 — 1 minute read

February

Easily archive gmail/general IMAP mailboxes with imap-archiver

Feb 12, 2013 — 1 minute read

Acceptable use of SSL MITM attack by Nokia?

Feb 9, 2013 — 2 minute read

January

Pcregrep to the rescue

Jan 31, 2013 — 2 minute read

Hello world!

Jan 27, 2013 — 1 minute read