Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

me explaining how Linux used to have a 3D cube desktop and your workspaces could be on any face of the cube and you could spin it around with the mouse

My new LL just emailed me today to renew my office space lease at >250% of our current rent, effective tomorrow. 🤯

GitHub Actions billing bug top score challenge, can anyone beat $127.8MM?

Matt Greensmith GitHub Sorry about that. Working on it githubstatus.com/incidents/vxvy…

That slowly dawning horror about your age as you realize that the torn and ragged quiksilver t-shirt from 2003 that the teenage barista is wearing is certainly considered a chic vintage piece.

It's me, this is what I do. Implement commodity software over bespoke solutions. Find the highest-level abstractions that you can afford. Write minimal tooling to glue it together and smooth the rough edges. Less is more.

Read these 3 pages. I post them every so often because I think it is some of the tightest, wisdom-packed writing on managing complex systems ever. And almost every system is a complex system today, which is why cascading failures are swirling around us. researchgate.net/publication/22…

I'm looking for my next role! 14+ years as an engineer and leader in technical infrastructure, cloud systems architecture, software delivery, and developer tooling. I'd love to find an early or growth-stage startup looking for foundational infra vision and implementation. 💚TY

Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub Martin Fowler Here's a slide from one of my lectures. I always love to pill up the SAFe diagram and ask "where is the work done". This is the resulting slide.