thoughts on security and the uselessness of house locks
reflecting on the moment I realized the utility of threat modeling aka my security "aha" moment...
How I Spent My Chrono L&D Stipend 2022
My 2nd fave corporate budget item after ~my salary~ is.....a personal L&D budget that refreshes annually. (L&D = learning and development ) Bonus points if there aren't prescriptive draconian policies litigating what is/isn't an acceptable learning purchase. For whatever reason, many folks leave this "free"...
Life Stack (as of 2022)
Taking a pa(i)ge from Lillian Karabaic's Life Stack post I figured I'd share the software that rules my world ✨ This is not #sponcon and I get 0 ad/affiliation bennies out of this - these are true recommendations from my laptop to yours 💻 ❤️ 🪢 Wrangling Chaos of Internet Browsing 🪢 as...
Call Me, Beep Me, If You Wanna Reach Me 📟
edit: polling the people ok so after writing this I was wondering if there was some pocket of tech that was continuing on with physical pagers and I put up a poll seeking some anecdata. so far "i carry a physical pager" is at 0% which kinda surprised me. huh! Back before I...
on-call onboarding: the bad
In the last post, on-call onboarding "the good" I mused about 🌈 the good 🦋 practices and processes I've experimented with for onboarding both new engineers and engineers new-to-the-org so keeping with the whole "the good, the bad, and the ugly" thing i've got going on in this mini-series...
Events vs Metrics (as I understood them circa 2017)
my entrypoint to the tech industry was a monitoring company. little did i know back then how lucky i was to "grow up" in an org where engineers had an above average expert level of operations and knowledge of how to monitor all of this containerized software i remember getting shown a blank...