I decide to fast today, so of course everything breaks and I spend 3 hours on incident management calls. Couldn’t even make tea. I would really like to actually succeed this time. I tried last week and lasted about 20 minutes before eating cookies.

Why don’t humans have subtitles?

Here’s what a monopoly is. If your corporation is a monopoly (or part of a duopoly, or a triopoly, or whatever), you can fire all your best staff, let your services degrade to hell, and you’ll still keep all your customers (and all their money) because there’s nowhere else to go. I don’t really care that all the big cloud providers are corporations beholden to the USA. I care that there’s 3–4 of them. It wouldn’t matter where they were based if there were 100.

Isn’t it fun how “DNS failure” means “we put the wrong value in DNS”? I shall refer to all screw-ups as “Kubernetes failures” henceforth, as this seems to be the protocol.

Did you know that there are more grains of sand on Bondi Beach than there are atoms in the universe?