Toots from 2026-04-16

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Steph is tremendous

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Steph is tremendous

Tags: #nbaplayoffs

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“For example, I’ve written in the past about how I see incidents and outages as worthy learni…

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“For example, I’ve written in the past about how I see incidents and outages as worthy learning opportunities to orient organizations; this framing necessarily perceives SRE as doing important work you wouldn’t want to ignore. The vision behind AI SREs is the opposite.”

https://ferd.ca/the-picture-they-paint-of-you.html

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“And as a rule, it seems impossible to get nonprogrammers to successfully encode things in form…

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“And as a rule, it seems impossible to get nonprogrammers to successfully encode things in formal languages. Cucumber was a failed attempt to make business people write formal specs.”

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/a-sufficiently-comprehensive-spec-is-not/

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“Larry included the idea that they would be programs other people find useful, and this is a vi…

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“Larry included the idea that they would be programs other people find useful, and this is a vital clue in how to think about the changing craft of software engineering.”

https://www.adamhjk.com/blog/laziness-impatience-hubris/

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“That compounding effect is the real argument for building the machine. Not that the first PR i…

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“That compounding effect is the real argument for building the machine. Not that the first PR is better, it might not be, honestly. It’s that the five hundredth PR is dramatically better because the process learned from the first four hundred and ninety-nine.”

https://stack72.dev/the-vibes-dont-scale/

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“Understanding the return on your product and engineering investments isn’t a calculation you…

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“Understanding the return on your product and engineering investments isn’t a calculation you perform. It’s a set of behaviors you practice, continuously, over time, that happen to involve some measurement.”

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-416-investment-stewardship-as

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“You also need to have a culture where strong disagreement doesn’t lead to punishment or ostr…

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“You also need to have a culture where strong disagreement doesn’t lead to punishment or ostracism. This can be surprisingly challenging.”

https://staysaasy.com/startups/2026/04/15/high-amplitude-disagreeableness.html

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