🎶 Spinning Wheel – James Brown The Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Mr. Dynamite, Soul Brother No. 1, JB, and The Godfather of Soul, they are all James Brown. Everything about James Brown was big. He would boast that in a year he would... tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZMymy54i…

🎶 Diggin’ on James Brown – Tower of Power Tower of Power are a soul / jazz-funk band from Oakland California who have been performing since 1968. At least 60 musicians have toured or recorded with the band over their 52 year history. The... tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZNHNAlGe…

🎶 Fire – Mark Simmonds and The Freeboppers Australian tenor saxophonist and composer Mark Simmonds passed away this year in September, aged 65. His obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald begins by capturing what it was like to hear him live:... tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZNbz71ye…

🎶 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year I started posting one jazz track a day in a Slack channel at work on the 30th of March 2020 as my contribution to navigating Covid, lock down, isolation, working from home, supporting our collective... tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZOZmW3Wq…

🎶 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Ella Fitzgerald tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZOuMnfGq…

🎶 Cool Yule – Kurt Elling tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZPCzCwWi…

🎶 Zat You, Santa Claus? – Louis Armstrong tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZPXZUfaq…

🎶 Mary’s Boy Child – The Idea of North tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZPs9faaa…

🎶 God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen – Oscar Peterson tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZQAm8WSq…

🎶 Jingle Bells – Duke Ellington tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZQVNAF0a…

🎶 Little Drummer Boy – Count Basie Orchestra tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZQpz0Beu…

🎶 White Christmas – Charlie Parker tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZR8Z40Om…

🎶 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Wynton Marsalis tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZRT9XHay…

🎶 Silent Night – Béla Fleck and the Flecktones tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZRnlzRyy…

🎶 Joy to the World – Aretha Franklin Joy to the world! The Lord has come Let earth receive her King Let every heart prepare Him room And heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing And heaven, and heaven and nature sing Wishing you a... tmblr.co/ZG1DxUZS6MGvuy…

Reminding folks again that tech works *because* people are ready to step into the breach when it needs help. Those on-call this holiday season: I see you, and I thank you. ❤️

it's called SRE because "software engineering engineering" sounds silly

We made a new thing! Jeli's all about evolving the industry, but building a new post-incident process is...super hard. So we did it for you. Introducing📄✨ Howie: The Post- Incident Guide. 📄✨ Download it, print it, share it, frame it. Use it to evolve. jeli.io/howie-the-post…

Just remember, we're building the legacy systems of tomorrow, one best practice at a time. Read Simon's entire thread. It's a rich vein of thought that made me simultaneously laugh and cry.

When you choose to throw someone under the bus, be careful they don't grab hold of the web of deceit you tried to entangled them in, and drag you under with them