rodlette

Disclaimer: I've worked in SRE.

My position is that early SRE solved the hard parts, before I was involved. Services and platforms became reliable. The field is mature. SREs still point to risks, but execs have called their bluff.

The takeaway is to make sure you are actually creating value. Maybe Twitter's SREs were not actually improving reliability much.

A fair conclusion.

SREs predicated Twitter would crumble when Twitter's SRE team was laid off. It had some hiccups, but seems stable now.

I suppose the next line of defence is that it takes a while for architecture to crumble.

Time will tell whether that's accurate, or a No True Scotsman.

I'll look into it. I think I acquired frugality from reading a few books that made me frugal.

I'd like other traits too.

Those are easy to see, but there are few people who clean their dishes for fun/leisure.

> This is described well in Atomic Habits. Train yourself to think “I am just not the kind of person who does x.”

Is this just basically willpower?

Or perhaps I should read the book to find out.

> And in relation to emissions in particular, just look at the way the present government fought [...]. That was in August 2023, and a leopard doesn't change its spots.

The article and topic aren't overtly political, no need to make it.

Looks great, but my partner needs something more convenient.

It needs to be web based and work on desktop/mobile.

Nice. I've been looking for something like this to self-host, to avoid my partner uploading sensitive documents to random PDF manipulation websites.

Any better alternatives I should be considering?

The meat of the article:

> the billionaires behind the steering wheel have mistaken cautionary tales and entertainments for a road map, and we’re trapped in the passenger seat. Let’s hope there isn’t a cliff in front of us.

I think the (well esteemed) author is overestimating the marginal impact of science fiction, and has mistaken correlation for causation.

Humans expanding their habitats is just plain old humanity doing its thing.

+1. I moved from Sourcehut when it announced IRS change of TOS. I realised I would prefer to support less discriminatory forges.

I also have no interest in crytocurrency.

> Obviously, for that last several years, things have been quiet around here. This has always been a one programmer show, and for everything, there is a season. The season for me is changing.

2000s: web scalability was an emerging field.

2010s: web scalability was a maturing field.

Scalability feels mature now. Maybe we'll see shifts: CRDTs, global SQL DBs?

Growth/investment seems to be in AI.