Reposted by Thai WoodYvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This is about hiking apps, but I think it applies to a lot of software-mediated information spaces: 4103
Reposted by Thai WoodAlexis "Horgix" Chotard @horgix.fr · 23/03/2026The #PlatformEngineeringDay greatness at the #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon doesn't stop: now we got @hazelweakly.me talking about building extensible platforms! Things usually go this way: Strong components → system → complexity → components → ... Is the cycle unavoidable? 1104
Reposted by Thai Woods. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/03/2026Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.calmatters.orgLake Tahoe isn’t sure where it’s power will come from after the next ski seasonThe area’s longtime power supplier, NV Energy, will cut off the region next year. It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand. 2731981612
Reposted by Thai WoodLorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 23/10/2025EVERYBODY GO READ THE AWS INCIDENT WRITE-UP! aws.amazon.com/message/1019...aws.amazon.comSummary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region 1618864
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 10/06/2025"Agenda-less meetings for one" sounds like the worst how-to or cookbook title ever. 120
Reposted by Thai WoodFred Hebert @ferd.ca · 03/06/2025Reading yet another post asserting all you need is a human doing careful continuous supervision of the automation and it’s gonna be perfectly fine, as I grind my own teeth into dust while 40+ years of research and industry reports flash through my mind like war footage in a ptsd movie scene 413230
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 25/05/2025Already posted it in the other thread I'd seen on this, but it bears repeating: bsky.app/profile/thai... 000
Reposted by Thai WoodTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 18/05/2025My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books 895392955
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 24/05/2025Basic research reveals that various assumptions/stereotypes/poorly controlled findings do not turn out to be true. Just 1 example psycnet.apa.org/record/1990-... > When measures of index finger and thumb thickness were used as covariate, all significant sex differences in performance disappeared.psycnet.apa.orgAPA PsycNet 0121
Reposted by Thai WoodJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I sent another email 563653374
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 24/05/2025"tincture is typically an extract of plant or animal material dissolved in ethanol" Lemon drops (cocktail) are tinctures. So begins "is X a tincture?" Platonic dialogues. 120
Reposted by Thai WoodLorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 17/05/2025The identification of root causes in hindsight will continue until the foresight improves. 1239
Reposted by Thai WoodFischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 11/05/2025oh hell yes. I am curious specifically if anyone has ever made the comparison between wizards of the coast and a central bank trying to manage a currency price 011
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 11/05/2025Not sure what aspects you'd be interested in, but you might like these: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419... www.researchgate.net/publication/... www.academia.edu/36369099/Mar... Older, but updated years later it seems: www.jstor.org/stable/25046...econstor.euExploring markets: Magic the gathering - a trading card gameEconStor is a publication server for scholarly economic literature, provided as a non-commercial public service by the ZBW. 120
Reposted by Thai WoodLorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 11/05/2025The harder something is to change, the less likely it is to change, even if the status quo is hurting us. This is so banal as to almost be tautological, and yet we run into it over and over again. 1123
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 21/04/2025I mostly see it as a label on microcontroller board products, not a term that gets used conversationally. 010
Reposted by Thai WoodLorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 13/04/2025Root cause: unsecured penguin www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comUnsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South AfricaPilot lost control after bird in cardboard box slid off a passenger's knee and knocked controls, aviation authority finds. 2153
Reposted by Thai WoodCorey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 09/04/2025Exciting bug in my dive computer just dropped. This could kill someone. 8476
Reposted by Thai WoodLorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 23/03/2025Using MTTR tends to evaluate if your incident response is improving is like using stock price trends to evaluate if your software development productivity is improving. Sure, it’s an input, but hoo-boy are there a bunch of other factors that move those numbers! 2184
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 30/03/2025REA has launched the 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗜. 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱, dedicated to supporting young and emerging talents in our field, carrying forward the mentorship Richard so generously gave. www.resilience-engineering-association.org/the-richard-...resilience-engineering-association.orgThe Richard Cook Fund - Resilience Engineering AssociationThe late Richard Cook was one of the forces that launched and grew Resilience Engineering for safety in complex risk-critical worlds since the original 2004 Symposium. (read […] 053
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 12/12/2024I'm glad it's not just me. The very first thing I thought of was rice cookers. 000
Reposted by Thai WoodSean Klein @seanklein.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Y'all, I think I just figured this out! The reason that we keep having Incidents is because we're just not taxonomizing them hard enough! We must redouble our taxonomization efforts immediately! 041
Reposted by Thai WoodJonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 05/12/2024This has been in my hotel the entire time I’ve been on this work trip and I kind of love it. 7584
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 04/12/2024I know nothing about camera gear, but based on the name, I have to assume that most of the time it won't work and you'll have to bypass all the "features" to use it. 000
Reposted by Thai WoodFred Hebert @ferd.ca · 18/11/2024The SRE-not-sorry one also got turned into sew-on team badges with the emote we used when killing hosts or containers :) 47011
Reposted by Thai WoodSteve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev · 20/11/2024The last episode of season 3 of the Prodcast is up! Please have a listen to Christina and Laura talk through how we deal with complex systems using our silly meat brains. Search your podcatcher for “SRE Prodcast”. Here’s one: overcast.fm/+AA4f5M3Qf3Qovercast.fmEmbracing Complexity with Christina Schulman & Dr. Laura Maguire — Google SRE ProdcastIn this episode of the Prodcast, we are joined by guests Christina Schulman (Staff SRE, Google) and Dr. Laura Maguire PhD (Principal Engineer, Trace Cognitive Engineering). They emphasize the human el... 252
Reposted by Thai WoodColin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 19/11/2024i was subpoenaed to testify against my former employer in a labor rights case (NLRB v Google) and explained the "behold my field of fucks, look upon it and see that it is barren" meme to the court, profanity and all. 18878113
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 17/11/2024I'm much less familiar with wikitionary norms, but a quick reading of the docs says that I did the thing OK. 110
Reposted by Thai WoodQ. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 24/03/2024Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote. 7988133529
Reposted by Thai WoodAlyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 09/09/2024Ran across another friend who didn't get Paxlovid bc it was hundreds of dollars so here's this link again. You have to have a prescription to enroll and will need to educate the pharmacist but it works. No one should pay hundreds of dollars for Paxlovid! Privatization sucks! wapo.st/47hF7aOwapo.stOpinion | Here’s how to get free Paxlovid as many times as you need itThere’s a terrific new program for free Paxlovid, but many people don’t know about it. 49975741
Reposted by Thai WoodRyan AKA Ben Graven @bengraven.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Since Twitter died, I wanted to post my most popular one. Something like 120k likes. 127311666195
Reposted by Thai WoodFred Hebert @ferd.ca · 09/11/2024me going back to bed as soon as the system is "stable" 07716
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io · 31/10/2024I shouldn't have been surprised, but I still was a bit when I was asked this at passport control at AMS. 010
Reposted by Thai WoodJoshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 25/07/2024Nobody could have seen this coming except every single person who has ever read The Ironies of Automation 163
Reposted by Thai WoodBruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 03/04/2024The U.N. says more than 180 humanitarian workers have been killed in the war: “This is nearly three times the death toll recorded in any single conflict in a year.”apnews.comWith famine looming, aid group halts food delivery in Gaza after Israeli strike kills 7 workersAn Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen who were trying to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. 07348
Reposted by Thai WoodIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/03/2024I want to go back to 1996, when Microsoft first introduced Clippy, and tell people that one day they're going to make a slightly better version of this and immediately start asking it to read brain scans and act as a therapist 352342680
Reposted by Thai WoodPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/01/2024America did a lot of terrible stuff to Dr. King, like jailing and abusing him and trying to get him to kill himself and killing him, but probably nothing so obscene as reinventing him in popular memory as some milquetoast whose primary concern was not hurting white people’s feelings. 293139867
Reposted by Thai WoodCan*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 10/01/2024Indigenous students with an interest in space! The Canadian Space Agency wants you for summer internships! Applications open until January 22nd. www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/jobs/sea...asc-csa.gc.caCanadian Space Agency internships and student jobsEach semester, the Canadian Space Agency provides various co-op work terms / internships that will allow you to gain experience in the space industry. 0814
Reposted by Thai WoodMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/01/2024This line from the New York Times makes me think about the extreme tension built into the American system. We have a free press, which allows truthful stories about problems to be reported on, but we have no real way of changing anything that’s broken. That gives you lines like this. 48320
Reposted by Thai Woodmatty stratton @matty.wtf · 04/01/2024It's been ten years of my tech podcast, Arrested DevOps! We recorded our ten year anniversary episode with some history, stories, and other silliness (and very little tech/devops content LOL) Plus at the end, a supercut of every episode cold open ever :) www.arresteddevops.com/ten-years-of...arresteddevops.comIt's Been Ten Years of ADO, Charlie BrownIt's been ten years of Arrested DevOps! Joe, Matty, Bridget, Jess, and Trevor spend some time (quite a lot of time!) reminiscing over stories and history of the podcast. 164
Reposted by Thai WoodJustin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 15/11/2023This is the most accurate image AI has ever generated 5624841097
Reposted by Thai WoodRoxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 08/07/2023Struggle with sleep? Here are some useful tips: • Turn your phone off early • Have a relaxing bath • Open the window • Help a raccoon climb through the window so you can watch NetFlix together • This is a sleepover now • Make popcorn for the raccoon • Avoid caffeine 251395337
Reposted by Thai WoodDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/11/2023A whiteboard in a Gaza hospital, which usually tracks upcoming surgeries, is wiped clean and instead now displays this message: WHOEVER STAYS UNTIL THE END WILL TELL THE STORY WE DID WHAT WE COULD *REMEMBER US* (Source: Doctors Without Borders) 181610730
