colinbartlett

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Co-Founder of StatusGator: Status page aggregator with early outage alerts: https://statusgator.com

Also run: https://vimtricks.com and https://trackssl.com

Corporate site: https://nimbleindustries.io

Personal site: https://colinabartlett.com

my public key: https://keybase.io/cbartlett; my proof: https://keybase.io/cbartlett/sigs/NVWkHww8PUhCwgi4NeNE5ZPnno_HwJi9Z0beRohHR-0

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Comment · 2 months ago
this is why i use arch btw
Comment · 2 months ago
My question is if this power dynamic is different in organizations with strong unions?
Comment · 4 months ago
users of product and visitors to our site
Comment · 4 months ago
This app looks to be incorrectly parsing Slack and Auth0 official status page and showing incidents as ongoing that are not

And those are just the 2 that I checked.

To be fair, accurately scraping and normalizing data from status pages is really hard to to do consistently (my company has a team of 5 engineers to do it and it's a lot of work).

Comment · 4 months ago
Pretty cool visualization.

I've been building something like this for 12 years now.

One major difference is mine does not only rely on the "official" status page but also receive millions of reports from users about outages.

So your single pane of glass can show not just known outages but emerging ones that haven't been acknowledged yet by providers.

Also supports more than 8,000 services.

Comment · 5 months ago
I started scraping the Shopify status page every 5 minutes back in March of 2015 so I have more than 11 years of history.

This isn't the first outage and won't be the last but it's one of the most disruptive in recent memory.

Comment · 6 months ago
I was shocked to see that a "brand name" stethoscope is $100+ and even generic ones are $30.
Comment · 6 months ago
A single engineer should not get fired for an architectural decision that clearly had buy in from many people.
Comment · 7 months ago
Yes because if it helps keep devices in use longer it helps reduce waste and the planetary impacts of a culture of disposable products.
Comment · 7 months ago
The Apple status pages (both of them) are some of the worst of the big league offenders, perhaps second only to Microsoft.

Full disclosure, I operate a product that compares official outage acknowledgment to actual outage impact times. (Which I won't mention to avoid self-promotion.)

For this specific incident, I saw the alert come across my Slack at 19:02 UTC. We received over 100 reports of this outage before the official acknowledgement was posted by Apple on their status page at 21:37 UTC.

Shortly after their acknowledgment, the reports fizzled out and then Apple marked the incident as resolved about 20 minute later.

The whole outage lasted about 4 hours from first report to last and wasn't acknowledged by Apple until 3.5 hours into it.

Comment · 7 months ago
HyperCard was definitely my first taste of what would become my career in web software development.

I wasn't a Mac user at home, but school had them and I absolutely loved what I could create with HyperCard, there was nothing like it on Windows.

I also recall switching to SuperCard simply for the COLOR support, what a time.

Comment · 8 months ago
I thought so, too. I randomly found this on Reddit and it struck a chord with me, especially as an urban dweller that absolutely despises litter and litterers.
Comment · 9 months ago
Or any more than "full self driving" by 2017.

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