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Pete Carstairs

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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Keen for this. The Heman themed power cable blog post lives rent free in my head.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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The Treachery of Postmortems | Resilience in Software Foundation | Resilience in Software Foundation
After an incident happens, what comes next? The answer to this depends a great deal on your team and/or organization, but most do tend to at least document what happened in the hopes of preventing it ...
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Congrats!
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Small to moderate. The alternative sounds monkey paw finite.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Is this for code libraries or something LLM related?
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Jaffles are sooo good.
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@jpaulreed @jpaulreed.com · 21/08/2025
One of the ironies of incident response is sometimes the most effective incident commanders APPEAR as if they're the most uninformed responder at the company...
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
1st watch no audio: ohh interesting 🧐 2nd watch w/ audio: 🤣
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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.
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Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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
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VOID Survey
The VOID is a community-contributed collection of software-related incident reports.
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 29/08/2025
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...
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The primitive tortureboard
Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Pickles is in Japan this weekend. Hope he makes it to Punk Doily.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Not saying I want to build a database… buuuut this does sound pretty cool.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Happy birthday 🥳
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
48k RAM 👌
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Truly, QoS is a cursed incantation.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Eurobeat intensifies
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a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open .
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Hugops to the slack team.
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 20/05/2025
New blog post: Not causal chains, but interactions and adaptations surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/05/19/n...
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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…
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Saturday morning started with ☕️ and a cool discussions with fellow @resilienceinsoftware.org members about incident response. Such a great community.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
♥️ Found the exact recording. This has made my day.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Controversial!
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is getting a play today. 🤘
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Great talk!
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
SRE or reliability is fundamentally, total organisation effectiveness. Trust and openness is key.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
That looks so good.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Curious now if this was referenced in Shift Happens books by @aresluna.org 🤔
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This is super cool.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
What is, a little bit gender?
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John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What a great podcast! Honored to be talking about Resilience Engineering with @colettecello.bsky.social and @spamaps.org!
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Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Resilience ≠ Reliability
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a man says " you keep using that word i do not think it means what you think it means . "
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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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?
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Erika Rowland @erikareads.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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
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Three Takes on Four Concepts for Resilience Engineering
Ed note: The first time I read Dr. David Woods' paper 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 ...
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resilienceinsoftware.org @resilienceinsoftware.org · 13/02/2025
"...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." —@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1142817
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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 the severity of the incident: ...
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Yes!!! The old books included a page on Manchester Encoding.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
John Harrington on packet pushers. Or maybe all those Juniper FPC issues and JTAC chats. Also doing OTN.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Are secondhand book stores in the bay area full of amazing business/ tech or anything but that?
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Is this like a milkybar snickers?
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victorards || comms are open! @victorards.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
hey you, stop scrolling and have a coffee <3 #pixelart
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This is the way.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 02/01/2025
No matter how good you think you are, you gotta be coachable if you want to get better.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 05/01/2025
This gear-by-gear breakdown of a mechanical watch (with date complication) by @bciechanowski.bsky.social is fantastic. ciechanow.ski/mechanical-w...
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Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Love this
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Feels
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Do it!
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a cartoon drawing of a person riding a pink motorcycle
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Does this mean less visits to punk doily?
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Pete Carstairs @network2501.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
If only debian had ports.
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