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Pete Carstairs

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My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

29.11.2025 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 15295    πŸ” 4143    πŸ’¬ 147    πŸ“Œ 106

1st watch no audio: ohh interesting 🧐
2nd watch w/ audio: 🀣

16.11.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

MTTR how quickly the bleeding stops
MTBF how many scars you’ll have in x years

Measuring process effectiveness, doesn’t measure risk or impact.

08.11.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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VOID Survey The VOID is a community-contributed collection of software-related incident reports.

Software incidents are painful, and we're trying to help change that. If you deal with incidents in your work, please help us help you!

Take the survey here: www.thevoid.community/survey

10.09.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The primitive tortureboard Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY

I just put online the chapter from my book that talks about all the myths and mysteries about QWERTY and Dvorak.

You can read it here: aresluna.org/the-primitiv...

29.08.2025 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 10

Pickles is in Japan this weekend. Hope he makes it to Punk Doily.

12.07.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not saying I want to build a database… buuuut this does sound pretty cool.

08.07.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy birthday πŸ₯³

08.07.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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48k RAM πŸ‘Œ

03.07.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Truly, QoS is a cursed incantation.

30.06.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open . ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open .

Eurobeat intensifies

22.06.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hugops to the slack team.

09.06.2025 07:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not causal chains, but interactions and adaptations I’ve been a bit of an anti-root-cause-analysis (RCA) tear lately. On LinkedIn, health and safety expert Vincent Theobald-Vega left a thoughtful, detailed comment on my last post. In his comme…

New blog post: Not causal chains, but interactions and adaptations

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/05/19/n...

20.05.2025 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Saturday morning started with β˜•οΈ and a cool discussions with fellow @resilienceinsoftware.org members about incident response. Such a great community.

17.05.2025 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β™₯️ Found the exact recording. This has made my day.

02.05.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Controversial!

14.04.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is getting a play today. 🀘

10.04.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great talk!

04.04.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

SRE or reliability is fundamentally, total organisation effectiveness. Trust and openness is key.

30.03.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That looks so good.

30.03.2025 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Curious now if this was referenced in Shift Happens books by @aresluna.org πŸ€”

26.03.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is super cool.

25.03.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What is, a little bit gender?

27.02.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What a great podcast! Honored to be talking about Resilience Engineering with @colettecello.bsky.social and @spamaps.org!

25.02.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Resilience β‰  Reliability

24.02.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I really love being able to say "this morning I was learning BASIC on my Apple II"... just as if it were 40 years ago!
BTW anyone guess what kind of shapes this code is going to draw?

23.02.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 390    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 2
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Three Takes on Four Concepts for Resilience Engineering Ed note: The first time I read Dr. David Woods' paperΒ Four Concepts for Resilience Engineering, I felt so many things click in my brain. While the field of Resilience Engineering is not new, those of ...

The Resilience in Software Foundation blog included notes I wrote for the paper "Four Concepts for Resilience Engineering" in their post today: resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1149720

21.02.2025 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You're Missing Your Near Misses (Originally posted at Surfing Complexity) FAA data shows 30 near-misses at Reagan Airport – NPR, Jan 30, 2025 The amount of attention an incident gets is proportional to theΒ severityΒ of the incident: ...

"...if we are serious about wanting to improve reliability, we should be treating our near misses as first-class entities, the way we do with incidents."
β€”@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com

resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1142817

13.02.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Yes!!! The old books included a page on Manchester Encoding.

13.02.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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