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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 4d

We're blame aware now, not blameless. So, we're aware that all the blame for lack of refreshments lies with Paul.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 7d

I'd normally agree with you, but I haven't seen his face since your birthday, so its not been giving me anything.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 9d

I wrote my most personal blog post to date.

It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community.

afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...

Stop Giving Harm a Microphone

afomera.dev

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 10d

It also might in some cases be, "a person working at this company worked on this report on company time and getting their logo on as a sponsor is how they made that happen."

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 10d

Happy to share what I know in any less public place! The early and mid periods of the devops movement were organic and weird and there's a lot a lot of oral history and you're totally write that somebody should collate it at some point.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 10d

Especially for Cat coming newer to this, there's also the whole schism that happened between the DORA folks and the Puppet folks that then resulted in two State of Devops reports with different goals (which iirc happened before DORA was purchased by Google?)

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Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social · 11d

Hey can y'all do me a favor? If you run across any post-incident write-ups from companies affected by the AWS outage, could you send those to me?Feel free to leave a link in the comments, or you can drop them here:

www.thevoid.community/submit-incid...

Thanks!

Submit an Incident Report

The VOID is a community-contributed collection of software-related incident reports.

www.thevoid.community

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 18d

My house is going to be the it house for Halloween this year.

A screenshot from a grocery app with the heading Halloween Candy 2025 and items listed that include cold medicine, immune support pills, lip ointment, and taco seasoning.

Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 19d

We can do that when we've decided we're done reinventing release engineering.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 19d

I feel like its not necessarily that we forgot the user, but that those of us that cared about and advocated for the user (yourself coming to mind) got drowned out by people who did not.

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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 19d

Any remote (US) volunteer/part-time paid opportunities in criminal justice reform/transformative justice? Particularly interested in counteracting the use of police surveillance tools. My background is in sociology, computer science, and public interest technology. #JobSearch #NonProfitJobs

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 19d

The last 5-10 years of devops have just been people reinventing what was done in the prior 10 years of tech but without having an understanding for the actual underlying context or design decisions that were made, and still thinking that they know and have done better.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 19d

I AM REPURPOSING AND SYNTHESIZING NEW CONTENT INTO THE GENERAL TOPIC LIKE A GOOD DEVOP

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 19d

MY NEXT CONFERENCE TALK WILL BE TITLED "DEVOPS ISN'T DEAD, I'M JUST SO TIRED OF HAVING THIS CONVERSATION WITH YOU, YOU AREN'T LISTENING"

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 19d

SOME OF THEM THINKS IT MEANS CI INSTEAD OF TERRAFORM. WHICH IS EXTRA DISTRESSING TO ME SINCE CI PREDATES DEVOPS BY QUITE A BIT.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 20d

Once there are fewer holes in the fence, you can also maybe put a lip on the exterior that will make it more difficult to climb over (depending on fence material).

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 23d

Yeah, I go back and forth on that. It often feels like if we dont use at least similar language, people will go out of their way to pretend its not at least a similar problem or has echoes of lessons of things we already know.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 23d

"We've learned and acknowledged that we have a lack of understanding of Black history and that racism has been structurally built into our society and belief system, but that couldn't possibly also be the case for this other group that's been oppressed for ~2k years."

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 26d

Yeah. Kinda frustrated with having bought my laptop from them now. Was really excited about the mission to make laptops more easily repairable and upgradable.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 27d

Can't say I was a fan.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 28d

Alternatively, I like the idea of a tattoo of your headshot with you holding the diet coke can.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 28d

Do you have a tattoo of a diet coke can on you yet?

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 28d

Them: But you can control how you feel about a situation.

Me: Sure, if I get a lobotomy.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 28d

I stopped using it after people told me to die because I didn't want to follow a hashtag to find new people. I really don't want to go back.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · Oct 3

I mean, I'm willing to believe in the role of CEO being something that should be considered an architect of a system (or at least part of a system), but its certainly not the system she thinks it is.

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