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Practical advice for starting an IT career

Practical advice for starting an IT career

I read this a great post by Alice Goldfuss, about how to get into Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). While most of Alice’s post was specifically about planning to end up in an SRE role, I felt that a lot of her advice was applicable to IT jobs in general.

We care less about trends than we used to

We care less about trends than we used to

So according to this study, our global “attention span” has decreased, as the amount of information available to us has increased. I’m not convinced it’s a bad thing though - if there’s more information available, mightn’t these results also suggest that we’re more selective, and

Blogging from iOS to Jekyll using Ulysses

Blogging from iOS to Jekyll using Ulysses

This is a bit meta.. a blog post about using Jekyll with Ulysses, written on iOS using Ulysses, and posted onto a Jekyll blog. Anyway, someone geekier than me has documented the process really well - I’m just proving that it works with my own implementation. Quoted from A

Implicit 2TB limit breaks Instapaper for 31 hours

In Instapaper Outage Cause & Recovery – Making Instapaper – Medium, I read a painful reminder that not everything that fails is within your control: This is any web application developer’s worst nightmare. A filesystem-based limitation we weren’t aware of and had no visibility into rendered not only our production