@karostol.bsky.social
Tester turned SRE. Love all things observability, figuring stuff out, learning, collaborating, pairing. And 📚, all day, every day.
A reminder that there is a bloody brilliant adaptation of "The Dark is Rising", done by people who love the books, on the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
StoryGraph statistics for this users reads in November. 5 books, two of the three highest rated are from Agatha Christie.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
I met my reading goal of 40 books this year in November. I did wonder if I could read two Agatha Christie novels that month, but it was fabulous. No regrets.
#BookSky 💙📚 #TheStoryGraph
Nice! Weyward it's on my to be read pile. The others I don't know 😯 mute to add 😅
19.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Any genre you're looking for in particular? What would you recommend?
18.11.2025 20:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I liked from recent reads:
* Tech: Marianne Belotti: Kill it with fire.
* Memoir: Jacinda Ardern: A different kind of power
* Sci-fi: Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice
* Contemporary: Celeste Ng: Everything I never told you.
I'm also slowly reading myself through Agatha Christie's works 😁
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
28.10.2025 01:00 — 👍 2055 🔁 902 💬 43 📌 66
Have a read of this! An Exploration of Testers
https://leanpub.com/anexplorationoftesters
💙📚 #BookSky #Storygraph
05.10.2025 09:20 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some statistics on books read in September, provided by Storygraph. 4 books read, all fiction, highest rated was Agatha Christie: Peril at End House. Also shown: Nettle and Bone by Kingfisher and poems by Rose Ausländer. All Woman, all good.
Regular reading is doing me good. Always cheerish Agatha Christie, and found a nice fantasy with kingfishers Nettle and Bone. Also finished another bike with poems - which I read in breaks during my volunteering gig.
05.10.2025 09:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
For Jane.
RIP.
Storygraph visuals on books read in August. 5 books with an average rating of 4.45. 60% print, 40% digital, one non fiction. Pictured books are "Die Wand" by Marlen Haushofer, "Maus" by Art Spiegelman and "Everything I never told you" by Celeste Ng.
August was a great reading month, all books were 4 stars or more. I really enjoyed how the reflective voice of Marlen Haushofers "Die Wand" resonates, even though it took ages to get through the book!
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Enjoyed the different examples of SLIs types modelled here by @alexewerlof.com
#SRE #SLI
blog.alexewerlof.com/p/sli-compass
" ... monitoring is an absolutely essential component of doing the right thing in production. If you can’t monitor a service, you don’t know what’s happening, and if you’re blind to what’s happening, you can’t be reliable." 🤩!
#GoogleSREBook #SRE #Monitoring
sre.google/sre-book/par...
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05.08.2025 14:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
StoryGraphs Infografics on my read books July 2025. 4 books, 3 print, 1 digital. 3 fiction, 1 nonfiction. Mix of genres, 1,453 pages read, 4.25 AVG rating. Highest rated book is Ann Leckie Ancillary Justice.
In July I started to track my pages read in a bit more detail, and just essentially read more overall (deleted Instagram from my phone 😉). Finally finished @annleckie.com 's "Ancillary Justice" which is just so so good. Mind-blowing, highly recommend.
05.08.2025 14:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Liebs!
18.07.2025 19:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Wenn wir alle Tiere wären mit den ersten zwei Buchstaben von unserem Namen wärest du ein Karibu, ich eine Gazelle und Papa eine Antilope. Alles so Graser." ♥️
#KinderWeisheit #NieLangweilig #Phantasie #EinfachMalTräumen
Today is a great day!
The first article I ever wrote has been published in a professional magazine. "Software #accessibility includes #gender diversity" can be read in the "Testing Experience" magazine.
You can download it here: www.testingexperience.media (email address must be supplied) (1/2)
I ask myself this question far too often.
05.07.2025 19:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stats on books read in June. Only one, not a great rating at 3.0.
Only one book in June, a sequel, Caroline Wahl, Windstärke 17. Too much going on, hoping for a better reading month in July!
#BookSky #Storygraph 💙📚
StoryGraph wrap up of books read in May. Only two this time, not highly rated, all digital.
Two surprise reads - didn't quite enjoy "Yellowface" as much as reviews suggested, and enjoyed "22 Bahnen" more than I thought I would.
Also a bit disrupted reading, as I've started to lend ebooks from my public library, so switched books whenever something got available 😜
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The world needs more of this and less of most other things
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I keep very much enjoying reading Posts on the @honeycomb.io Blog.
The latest is a guide on debugging Kubernetes, nice foundational read: www.honeycomb.io/blog/kuberne...
Several graphics generated from the app "The Storygraph" show my reading history in April. Two fiction, one non-fiction books, with the non fiction book, "Kill it with fire" by Marianne Bellotti being rated highest with 5.0.
Not as many books, not as many pages as in the previous months, but all very enjoyable. Marianne Bellottis book "Kill it with fire" about managing aging computer systems was an absolute highlight. 💙📚
#StoryGraph #AprilReading #BookSky
Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
19.04.2025 02:34 — 👍 13307 🔁 3128 💬 155 📌 113Never underestimate the value of a good 'Readme.md' 🙏
16.04.2025 13:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Entropie. Ein Indikator für die Unordentlichkeit der Dinge" 🤩
Aus: Request for Comments: RFCE015: Crypto for the Masses - Grundlagen
Episode webpage: requestforcomments.de/archives/559
Media file: requestforcomments.de/podlove/file...
A visual from the storygraph app showing an overview of books read in March. 4 books with an average of 4.13 rating, a total of 1161 pages with an average time to finish of 5 days. Highest rated book was Agatha Christie: ABC murders.
March felt like a slower reading month. Lots of changes happening to keep me occupied elsewhere. I was happy whenever I could squeeze in books. Again, Agatha Christie is such a staple for me, glad she wrote enough to keep me company for years to come! 📚💙
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"Luxury always comes at someone else's expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn't have to generally see that, if one doesn't wish. You're free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience."
Lieutenant Skaaiat in Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice, p 63.
* a scythe
* an indonesian clothes stamp thing
* a joghurt maker. I used to love this joghurt!
* old guide books, some countries no longer existing
* a device to help pre-cut round cakes
* my grandmother's diary
* an old type writer
* dried up paint, pens, ink
* a children's book about ciphers
