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Steve McGhee

@stevemcghee.dev
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Former athlete, reliability wonk.

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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 19/07/2026
SBP -> SFO -> FRA -> BLQ begins. #airportbar are we still doing this?
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Goh_billy @gohbilly.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Check out this Mega Man 2 intro necktie I did.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 21/01/2026
Carb deniers, avert your eyes.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 14/01/2026
OH DIP. This one's a goodie. Go Go Go: google.smh.re/5LT- Come listen to our chat with Heather Adkins aka argv (or argvee or @argv.bsky.social ) because that's a rad name. Heather knows, I dunno, *everything and everyone* in Security? Also medieval history and, like, castles?
google.smh.re
The Prodcast, featuring Heather Adkins, Google's Cybersecurity Resilience Officer
Join us on The Prodcast as we host Heather Adkins, leader of Google’s Office of Cybersecurity Resilience, for a critical look at the future of digital defenses. We explore the intersection of SRE and ...
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 06/12/2025
All prime, my goodman
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 04/12/2025
vibecoding as a reliability advocate: > lets start a *new branch* called Mega Robustness.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 25/11/2025
Radiohead FOMO
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Whitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
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Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident
YouTube video by andrew867
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 03/11/2025
California be like:
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 07/10/2025
A new one: no espresso this morning because the machine got a software update overnight. (Should be ready in 10min).
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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 02/10/2025
Happy birthday to be best meme in existence. The earliest known posting of this genius image was 14 years ago today.
A picture of a black dog. A hand is holding up an old school phone handset to the dog’s mouth and ear, like it is talking on the phone. The dog has a big smile on its face and the caption reads “Hello, yes this is dog.”
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 22/09/2025
To this day, the Secret Cinema showing of Empire is one of my favo(u)rite, surreal memories. The Xwing, jeepers.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 19/09/2025
I can't be the only one who occasionally logs into the coffee shop's router via a default password to bump their DHCP pool and drop their TTL a few dozen hours. something something white hat.
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kubernetespodcast.com @kubernetespodcast.com · 06/08/2025
This week on the Kubernetes podcast, we're thrilled to bring you a special crossover episode with the SRE Prodcast, featuring @stevemcghee.dev! We sat down with Ben Good to discuss the intricacies of Platform Engineering and its relationship with Kubernetes. kubernetespodcast.com/episode/257-...
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 10/06/2025
TBD: To Be Dismissed.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 31/05/2025
5-D optical drive, you see.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 30/05/2025
feature request: mark all notifications as read. All of them, on the whole planet.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 19/04/2025
www.justgiving.com/page/carolin...
justgiving.com
Frankau family fundraiser for St Christopher's Hospice
Help Caroline Frankau raise money to support St Christopher's Hospice
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 11/04/2025
Speedrunning conferences - still exhausting.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 07/04/2025
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 03/04/2025
Just googled "how old am i if i was born in october 1979" so that's how things are going today.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 26/03/2025
Hi it's me, I am in Hawaii and I visited the Volcano but it was during the 2d window where it was not glowy red and exciting.
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a black and white cartoon of stitch crying in the rain
ALT: a black and white cartoon of stitch crying in the rain
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 08/03/2025
Grant me the serentiy to accept failure, to know the dependency failures i cannot fix, to mitigate the ones i can, and to know the difference.
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Erika Rowland @erikareads.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I recently read the paper "Towards Joint Activity Design Heuristics: Essentials for Human-Machine Teaming" which I loved so much I wanted to make it easier to share. To that end, I've excerpted the Ten Heuristics from the paper here: human-machine.team with anchors for each heuristic.
human-machine.team
Ten Machine Requirements To Satisfy Essentials Of Joint Activity
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 03/01/2025
Merry Perihelion to those who celebrate.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 01/01/2025
happy new years friends
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 30/12/2024
"Your year wrapped" or whatever on every app is just an annual reminder of your level of opt-in surveillance. (I have plenty, sigh)
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 29/12/2024
BREAKFAST APPLE PIE 🎄🎅❄️
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 26/12/2024
My one true nemisis.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 24/12/2024
if you have the means I highly recommend picking up the Charlie and Lola Christmas special.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 23/12/2024
Cool.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 17/12/2024
Tis the season for background Tolkien
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Nathen Harvey @nathenharvey.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Today is the last scheduled DORA Community discussion of the year. Join us at 12PM ET. I'll be kicking off the discussion with a look at A Decade of DORA. Then we'll open up the agenda to everyone in attendance. Join the mailing list at dora.community for more details. #DORA #GBGB #Community
dora.community
DORA Community of Practice
The DORA Community provides opportunities to learn, discuss, and collaborate on software delivery and operational performance. Enabling a culture of continuous improvement.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 11/12/2024
When your SLO error budget is breached, what do you do? Immediately, indefinitely halt releases? What if it's a brand new budget that you don't have any confidence in? What if the team is undergoing so much strife that another beating will not improve morale? My point: don't be a zealot.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 06/12/2024
If your ability to respond quickly to a problem entirely relies on other’s ability to do the same, take another look at your plan.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 06/12/2024
Here's a good, concrete reliability story: sreally.com/alphabet-sou... 1) Was it an incident? What severity? 2) What was the time to detect / repair? 3) How does this compare to other incidents? Statistical jargon goes here. Answers: None of these make sense in this context, they don't help.
sreally.com
Alphabet Soup: Gmails Out of Space!
A story about the time that Gmail nearly ran out of storage space days before Christmas of 2007 and the heroic efforts that were taken to keep Gmail running.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 05/12/2024
Severity is vibes not science.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 05/12/2024
Come have a listen to our latest episode with John Allspaw and Casey Rosenthal on Safety, Resilience, and maybe a little Chaos. www.youtube.com/shorts/kMMqg... Check out the whole Season (and previous ones!) here: sre.google/prodcast/
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Human Factors in Complex Systems with Casey Rosenthal and John Allspaw
YouTube video by Google SRE Prodcast
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 05/12/2024
If a member of SRE/staff pushes a bad configuration and you lose 10% of revenue generating traffic for a few minutes, before the engineer fixes it, what do you do as their manager?
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 04/12/2024
Good morning from December in America.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 04/12/2024
Spotify Wrapped? Don’t even have to look. All interstellar all the time.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 03/12/2024
I just moved this account handle thingy to a custom domain, what could possibly go wrong.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 03/12/2024
Corn Chex is best Chex. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 02/12/2024
New favorite metaphor for emergence: rainbows.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 02/12/2024
If you want to learn about opsec, watch Patriot. Also it’s great. www.google.com/gasearch?q=p...
google.com
patriot show - Google Search
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 02/12/2024
Xmas lights are up! Mostly!
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 30/11/2024
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 30/11/2024
Suggestion: this might be a perfect day for a hurkle durkle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.scotsman.com/news/scotlan...
scotsman.com
Do you hurkle-durkle? What you should know about the Scots word for lying in bed
If you’re active on social media, there’s a good chance that you’ve seen this Scots word floating around.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 30/11/2024
Odie would like you to know that it’s time for breakfast.
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Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 30/11/2024
Maybe this year I’ll get more than 2 days of advent of code.
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