When it comes to computers, it’s not Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, it’s Retry, Reboot, Reprovision Automation exists. A great secret, I know. When it comes to automation the focus is typically on how y...

Do you always look at it encoded? Well you have to. There’s way too much information to decode the laundry. You get used to it. I don’t even see the symbols. All I see is wash cold, air dry, tumble...

Quit whingeing, and put on the damn seat belt. Seat belts are nothing short of a miracle. They save countless lives each and every year. They’ve become a silent background in our lives. As automa...

Defaults matter, and don’t be cute Never underestimate the power of defaults. It’s true that customization is important. The ability to change things prevents small incompatibilities from making ...

Standards are like pizza. Even when they’re bad, they’re still pretty good. Standards are wonderful. They avoid ambiguity and conflict, they simplify interactions between systems and people. But ...

Has functional programming gone too far? This is a brief discussion of a snippet of code from a more junior member of my team that perplexed me when I first read it. I’m sharing it in part becaus...

Macs have the best, and worst, defaults I use a Mac because it offers an unbeatable laptop experience, and with the ARM64 hardware is now powerful enough I just dock it instead of using a desktop...

Digital erosion is equally pernicious The world is beset on all sides by bad documentation. It’s hard to overstate the scale of the issue. How much human effort is squandered every day stumbling ...

Why use many host when few host do trick? Right now, there’s something wrong at your job. An obvious gap, an inefficiency, a lesser of evils. Often they arise as the lack of integration between d...

If your code doesn’t work, no one cares how quickly it doesn’t work Proper instrumentation is the only way to up the number of 9’s in your reliability, understand your customers, and reduce the m...