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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 24/03/2026

My tolerance for the public transit option taking longer and being full of people has gone up in proportion with the time I've spent in the back of questionable ride shares.

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LFCNev @thenorthsace.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 01/12/2025

Measuring your organization's reliability by counting incidents or averaging their length is like measuring your company's value by how many emails the sales team sends, and how many words on average they contain. #resilience #NoMTTR

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Brian Moon @perigean.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

If you are developing any system, listen to this. Today. Learn about the Messy 9 from @ddwoods.bsky.social www.thisisfinepod.com/the-pod @colettecello.bsky.social @spamaps.org

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The Pod — This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/10/2025

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 19/10/2025

#NoKings Hundreds of us in Burbank joined millions showing up for our democracy today. So proud to be an American (and proud of my son Oliver for showing up to protest with me!). 🇺🇸📣🚫👑

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 06/10/2025

Has anyone like, checked in on what the president's algorithm is showing him? Like, "Portland is literally burning to the ground" -- is that a lie to justify intimidating liberal cities... Or is he watching AI generated content of.. Portland burning to the ground?

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 01/10/2025

I don't know what we do with the Senate, but why is she not House Minority Leader already (I know why, you don't have to tell me) This is showing the fuck up for your job and showing the fuck up for your community, which, when you are a politician, *IS YOUR FUCKING JOB*

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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

With kindness, because Gergely says a lot of smart things, I disagree. This is classic hindsight bias. Telling someone "if only you had done this, everything would've been fine!" is ignoring all of the work a team does otherwise. That doesn't help you be more robust or more resilient.

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 10/06/2025

Let my 574 day Duolingo streak go today.

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 15/05/2025

I think of an incident retro as akin to meeting with customer to discuss their needs. Spending that time discussing how you’ll build a solution is not a good use of the limited time you have with them. Instead, we should use that time to understand their problems and context. Solutions come later.

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 14/05/2025

I'm more and more convinced that Idiocracy is about the singularity.

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 13/04/2025

Oh look, new automation creating new types of work.

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 13/04/2025

If you can’t see the constraints and tradeoffs that people face, you won’t be able to make sense of their behavior.

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 05/04/2025

I picked a hell of a week to roll over that old 401k. Kinda ruined the feeling of adult accomplishment when they sell your shares on the worst day in market history.

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This is Fine! @thisisfinepod.com · 13/03/2025

Well we did it, we finished a "Season". Watch as we wrap up season 1 and kick off season 2. More resilience, more questions, and, oh, yeah, come find us at #SREcon North America. We want to chat with you about resilience! youtu.be/l_I2-NOCKOo

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Teaser Episode - Season 2

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 12/03/2025

So you like solving puzzles that involve TTLs, queues, transactions, etc eh? Do you find joy in refactoring APIs so that they only work the right way? Do state machines cower in your presence? I've got a job for you! www.hashicorp.com/en/career/63...

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Senior Platform Engineer, United States - Careers at HashiCorp

Join our team and help us build industry-leading products that are redefining how enterprises are running their IT infrastructure.

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 07/03/2025

Yes! Get those walkable neighborhoods humming. We don't want 400 flat mega apartments that span multiple blocks. Just build 6 floors of apartments wherever 2 floor duplexes are being replaced. laist.com/news/housing...

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Fewer staircases in new LA buildings? Why experts say it could unlock more housing

A new Los Angeles City Council proposal aims to allow single-staircase buildings, a change advocates say would make room for more apartments, including bigger units for young families.

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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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This is Fine! @thisisfinepod.com · 25/02/2025

@allspaw.bsky.social joined us last week to help contrast ITIL's approach of "Counting and tabulating incidents" with the resilience engineering way of looking directly at the messy reality underneath them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimc...

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Episode 10 - When They go Full ITIL on You w/special guest John Allspaw

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Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

How many 9s do you need, and how do you get there? @spamaps.org has some advice over on the @resilienceinsoftware.org blog. resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1148335

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a woman is talking on a cell phone and says nine times ?

ALT: a woman is talking on a cell phone and says nine times ?

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Public News Service @publicnewsservice.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created a rule capping account overdraft fees at $5, which the agency estimates could save people nationwide $5 billion. But a bill coming up for a vote in the U.S. House this week would repeal it, allowing banks to charge up to $35 for these fees.

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NYers brace for effects of higher bank fees, dismantling CFPB

Some New York members of Congress are trying to repeal bank overdraft fee regulations. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created a rule capping account overdraft fees at $5, which the agency ...

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 14/02/2025

I've been thinking a lot lately about "uptime" and "nines" and how easy it is to forget the human components. medium.com/@Spamaps/you...

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You Can’t Build More Nines

More nines are achievable… whether we consciously know this or not, we didn’t do it just by building software.

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This is Fine! @thisisfinepod.com · 12/02/2025

We're back! Alex Elman joined us to chat about Learning From Incidents, which apparently is just like eating your vegetables. So is listening to our podcast, so, go eat your resilience vegetables! youtu.be/MwpBTBMHNMg

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Episode 9 Learning from Incidents with special guest Alex Elman

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 27/01/2025

I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less. Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.

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Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you're attending #SREcon Americas in March, please consider submitting a Lightning Talk! www.usenix.org/conference/s.... If you've never seen a Lightning Talk, allow me to introduce you to one of my all time favorites by @jpaulreed.com : youtu.be/pavDzPLGVrY?...

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SREcon24 Americas - Lightning Talks

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 23/01/2025

Can you slap around CloudFormation? Do you long to implement AWS optimizations at scale? (seek therapy) Do you want to work fully remote? Consider The Duckbill Group! $175K a year. Details here. (I’m hiring for multiple roles under this description) careers.duckbillgroup.com/apply/CcljKG...

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FinOps Engineer (Full Time) - The Duckbill Group - Career Page

Apply to FinOps Engineer (Full Time) at The Duckbill Group in Remote.

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Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This might be my fav new Podcast, and not just because they asked me to be on it. 🤣

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/01/2025

Dear members of the press, Can one of you, PLEASE just ONE: When Trump says we deleted all the evidence, please for the love of God, push back. The evidence is all here: www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...

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Select January 6th Committee Final Report and Supporting Materials Collection

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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 02/01/2025

Here’s to another year of spending my time oscillating between “these are known patterns that keep reoccurring” and “the specifics are actually critical and cannot be dismissed”

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 24/12/2024

#Factorio SpaceAge added so many ways that the factory can work, and break. Import from space, or make local? Speed modules or quality? Laser or bullets? It's like working in any other complex system, but without any external consequences. I still find myself defending the system against failure.

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 12/12/2024

"have peace, make money" -- The SRE mission.

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 12/12/2024

I'm so ready for the rest of the world to realize GitHub doesn't; really scale beyond teams of 7-10 devs.

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Colette Alexander @colettecello.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"just sprinkle some more AI on it, Fred!" will, I'm sure, go down as one of my greatest lines...

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Jorge Castro 🇵🇷 🦖 @castrojo.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In many ways we're staring over here on bluesky, if you're got a CNCF project posting on here tag me directly, let's get the word out on whatever you're working on!

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Sarah Butt @sarahbutt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I just excitedly exclaimed to someone I barely know at work “oh I’m a huge Safety-II nerd!!” and now that I’ve had a moment to process my statement: 1) wow, I am *really* a nerd. 2) I chose to wear this enthusiasm proudly

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This is Fine! @thisisfinepod.com · 05/12/2024

Well hello there, Bluesky. We dropped episode 3 of the podcast today. A really interesting conversation about metrics, incident reports, and driving the narrative around them. Have a watch/listen on Youtube, Spotify, or your favorite RSS driven podcast software: www.youtube.com/watch?v=948v...

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Episode 3 Lions, Tigers and Metrics, oh my! With special guest Vanessa Huerta Granda

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 01/12/2024

How does a SQL database transaction work? Wrong answers only.

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 27/11/2024

OH: "Is that a load-bearing quota?"

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John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Meaningful learning from incidents requires expertise that most organizations do not have — but these skills can be learned! We're getting a head start on 2025 with a workshop series on Incident Analysis. www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/incident-ana...

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Incident Analysis Workshop Series

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

How many of these do we have?

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 16/11/2024

There's a reason boxing is dying. There are many more compelling sports. No amount of hype will make it more interesting. We've moved on.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 11/11/2024

if there are any spotify employees reading this, I will provide free technical consultancy for porting your native client to aarch64 desktop linux. please. it's 2024.

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 11/11/2024

Do you have leadership coming into your incident response space? I've got a little blog post to follow-up on the stuff we talked about on This is Fine!. Enjoy! medium.com/@Spamaps/the...

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These two tricks will keep your incident response calls clean and efficient!

Recently on the very first episode of the podcast “This is Fine!”, Colette Alexander and I discussed how to politely ask senior leadership…

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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 10/11/2024

Well, here we go again building a community together. I post jokes, techie stuff, and sometimes politics. Lately I've been working on the podcast I just started with Colette Alexander www.thisisfinepod.com , and random stuff on Medium: medium.com/@Spamaps.

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Clint Byrum – Medium

Read writing from Clint Byrum on Medium. I’ve been getting paid to play with computers for 25+ years. Now I read code and design distributed systems when I’m not swinging the word hammer.

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