Matthew Sole

Reliability and Resilience Engineering.

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

some people who make programming easier

(who am I missing?)

[Matthew Sole @matthewsole]

@folding__space I find it funny that our intelligence actually makes these tests challenging, e.g. are they stairs or steps? There's a person obscuring them but I know they're still there...

[Matthew Sole @matthewsole]

@elonmusk @0xAlaric

[Adam Jacob @adamhjk]

My friends, it's finally time to talk about System Initiative. You can learn all about it at https://t.co/kmHqYAb1Ft, including a demo video with cats. https://t.co/r1QXqoM5eK

[bobbyrsec @bobbyrsec]

@_JohnHammond @ngriffin_uk @_JohnHammond

Here's a quick write-up:

https://t.co/wciJ6ixhYS

[Mara @m_ou_se]

"Nobody uses Rust in production", he emailed (with Thunderbird) from his laptop (running Windows) to a mailing list (on AWS, behind Cloudflare), which I then read (in Firefox) on my phone (running Android) after clicking a link (in Discord) to the list archive (served by Fastly).

[Satnam Singh @satnam6502]

I’m “really from” Scotland, even though I was not born there. If you don’t like that answer, you can resign too. I grew up with this hurtful question and still have to field it.

[Matthew Sole @matthewsole]

@norootcause But what do you call it if your "unsteady state" is your "steady state"? SNAFU?

[Matthew Sole @matthewsole]

@ReinH I hope, for the remaining engineers sake, that this "as imagined" representation of the architecture is accurate. If not, they'll have to try and reconceptualise it during an incident whilst also dealing with Elon being on the call.

[Matthew Sole @matthewsole]

@ReinH I assume it quickly descended into a high level architecture session once Elon started asking basic questions about the service a snippet of code was for, e.g. "what does this service do", and "do we need it?" etc.

[Kate @thingskatedid]

look at your javascript console

[Matthew Sole @matthewsole]

@jhscott @ctoddkicker1 @paulosman I thought reciprocity was our currency?

[Lorin Hochstein @norootcause]

Sounds like Twitter’s going to provide us with an object lesson in Rasmussen’s safety model. If you’re cutting costs and people are burning out, the system gets pushed towards the safety boundary. Outages coming?

[Matthew Sole @matthewsole]

@kelseyhightower You deserve this. Congratulations!

[naomi (forgetful functor) @fixedpointfae]

*in morning standup* uhhhh yea today im gonna balance a binary tree, reverse a linked list, find the longest common subsequence of two strings, enumerate all the paths thru a 2d grid, and find whether 2 numbers in a collection add up to a target value. no blockers

[Matthew Sole @matthewsole]

@Crobisaur I think choosing a known thing, e.g. show, song, or meal, is a common response when we're running out of negative capacity, i.e. the capacity to handle uncertainty. We're just protecting ourselves. I take this as a sign I'm running on empty and need to take care of myself.

[Matthew Sole @matthewsole]

@norootcause @norootcause, you're pushing your privilege. Thank you. :)

[Lorin Hochstein @norootcause]

The dirty secret of software engineering is that explicitly specifying requirements to an arbitrary level of detail is actually harder than writing code. That's why formal specification is so rare.

[Glenn F. Henriksen @henriksen]

When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public.

[Matthew Sole @matthewsole]

@theavalkyrie Good for you. :)