Eric Dobbs

It was pitch black. I was eaten by a grue. (he/him)
aka @[email protected]

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

Resilience Engineering claims a system can manage brittleness trade-offs by reflecting on how well it is adapted, adapted to what, and environmental changes underway. With this knowledge, managers can target investment to increase resilience. https://t.co/rRumjBCEN9

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

Today I came here specifically to tweet some public applause to DigitalOcean 'cos they did something fantastic. But Twitter swallowed the messages. "Interact with tweets more so we know you're human. Then we'll let you @-message others." Hmm. Prolly won't try again. (shakes head)

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

@digitalocean @github Hey, @digitalocean Do you have a presence on mastodon anywhere? I'd like to give you another trophy over in that community.

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

@digitalocean sent me a FANTASTIC email explaining just the right amount of context for why I got a different email from @github. Fantastic work! Here's a trophy! 🏆

[Ray Myers @lambdapocalypse]

Last year @dobbse wrote a short piece on the definition of Resilience for an internal blog that greatly influenced my thinking and learning path.

I'm pleased he's now released a public version. Give it a read!

https://t.co/L0NWqpCmnJ

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

合氣道 Aikido for a Hijacked Retro https://t.co/Clt47P6zFv

Practice is the only path to skill.
Elephant in the room is Fear.

Similar to what I shared about aikido and incident facilitation at #LFIConf23 (it was in the incident stories track and therefore wasn't recorded).

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

Y'all. It's been (mostly) fun hanging around with you here. Today Twitter showed me two offensive tweets "I might like"—too close to that can't unsee territory. I'm not gonna stick around to see it get worse.

[Tanner (𐐓𐐰𐑌𐐲𐑉) Lund @101010Lund]

@dobbse @ri_cook @allspaw I've also heard it as "lecturing birds on how to fly"

[@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause]

@dobbse @allspaw @ri_cook An old joke my dad likes to tell: guy walks in to a Navy recruitment office in order to enlist. The Naval recruiter asks: “do you know how to swim?” The guy responds “I know the theory”.

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

The Care Work at Work—Resilience in Software panel discussion at #lficonf23 was not recorded. Keep your eyes out for brilliant threads like this one from @v_hue_g.

A lot of dudes who look like me have some skills to develop. Care work is software engineering.

[Vanessa Huerta Granda @v_hue_g]

Coming out of the #LFIConf23 I feel energized! I got to participate in 2 panels and since those were not recorded I wanted to share thoughts on the success or failures of LFI and being a woman in resilience.
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[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

"You do not learn how to ice skate by reading a book about ice skating." — @ri_cook
(shared by @allspaw in his closing keynote 25m43s https://t.co/S7tzF5WOMl)

[Nora Jones @nora_js]

“Practice is the only path to skill” - @dobbse & @spamaps #LFIConf23

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

Prevention is not the only benefit we get from incident retros. Insight about faster recovery or improved collaboration is hugely beneficial even when we identify areas where the complexity defies prevention.

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

I genuinely hated my high school typing class, also on mechanical keyboards. But it was one of the most valuable things I learned.

[@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause]

Took typing in high school, on a mechanical keyboard.

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

Prediction: someday we're going to have a shared incident between our companies. The relationships we are nurturing now with intention and care will be the key to our successful adaptation.

[Jeli.io @jeli_io]

We are proud to have Indeed as a partner from Day 1!

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

"But my experience with build systems (not just Javascript build systems!), is that if you have a 5-year-old site, often it’s a huge pain to get the site built again."

My experience too. Tools, esp. build tools, also frequently conceal important knowledge about their ecosystems.

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

writing javascript without a build system https://t.co/TPTyUm9a8H

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

@brent_chapman, @grtcrcl thank you so much for ensuring we can preserve and share what we've learned this week. Cannot overstate what a gift that is to history.

[Brent Chapman @brent_chapman]

Proud that my firm, Great Circle Associates @grtcrcl, is sponsoring all the recordings at the first Learning From Incidents Conference, next week in Denver! Plan is to share the recordings on YouTube shortly afterwards. You can still join us! https://t.co/Mu6maTKqCJ #LFIConf23

[Alex Elman (he/him) @_pkill]

Communities of Practice help build competence and foster learning. Pirmin Schürmann reminds us that we are the resilience and we are the resistance #LFIConf23

[Jessica DeVita @UberGeekGirl]

Does anyone local to downtown #Denver need a #corsirosenthalbox ? We have 6 of the 2 sided wedge versions from @LFISoftware conference to give away. We need them picked up by today at the Curtis hotel. Please reply asap. Thank you! https://t.co/5b7VlYO91g

[Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1]

Day 2 #LFIConf23

[Eric Dobbs @dobbse]

In case any of my followers are also in the Denver area and can use an air filter from #lficonf23.
https://t.co/CIL1TYiTV6