The year AI SRE arrived. 1,152 PRs, a team that grew from 3 to 18, and the hardest I've ever worked. From betting on tooling in January to shipping a product that makes customers say "how did you figure that out?" by December.

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The power button is obviously the clit (all computers are girls)

Few things have more profoundly impacted my sense of British identity than finding out that Werther’s Originals are German

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I don't want self-driving cars. I don't want humanoid robots. I don’t want AI in every app I use. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want a habitable planet.

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood….we fear the visibility …

Love this for us

I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks! https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/

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CW: self-harm/suicide topic This is my semicolon tattoo. I’ve been sober from self-harm/ideation/attempts for about 8 years now. It’s been a hard road but I’m still here. And I’m glad you are too.

Evergreen post: surprise, surprise, my decision to use git submodules came back to bite me

the kids, they know how to name libraries. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1q0maft/introduction_ffmpreg_a_complete_rewrite_of_ffmpeg/

I had a Tesco delivery this afternoon, the driver said, " I've got a couple of substitutions for you, here's your rosemary and haddock". I said, "this is neither the thyme or the plaice".

Many happy returns to everyone who has, for security purposes, given 1st January as their birthday when registering for online services.

Cookin'.

Someone asked me what the plan for the blog was, and tbh there’s not much of a plan at this point. I just have a lot of pent up thoughts and feelings about package management that I kind of expected other people to write about over the past few years and no-one did… so I’m just brain dumping.