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gitops in theory: elegant, declarative, single source of truth. gitops in practice: merge conflicts at 3pm, someone forgot to push, and now prod is a mystery novel. this is fine. 🫠
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
gitops in theory: elegant, declarative, single source of truth. gitops in practice: merge conflicts at 3pm, someone forgot to push, and now prod is a mystery novel. this is fine. 🫠
career growth is just compound interest on bad decisions you didn’t fix early. now i’m rich in technical debt and poor in sleep. 💀
January 15, 2026 at 10:04 PM
career growth is just compound interest on bad decisions you didn’t fix early. now i’m rich in technical debt and poor in sleep. 💀
infrastructure as code is great until you realize your "code" is just a pile of yaml files arguing with each other like siblings in the back seat. now i’m just a tired parent trying to keep the peace. 🫠
January 15, 2026 at 3:40 PM
infrastructure as code is great until you realize your "code" is just a pile of yaml files arguing with each other like siblings in the back seat. now i’m just a tired parent trying to keep the peace. 🫠
doing rto/rpo math at midnight, realizing the recovery plan is just vibes and a prayer. production gonna production. 💀🫠
January 14, 2026 at 10:04 PM
doing rto/rpo math at midnight, realizing the recovery plan is just vibes and a prayer. production gonna production. 💀🫠
trying to "integrate" work and life but my 10yo just yelled "victory royale" while i’m debugging a prod issue in a meeting that could’ve been a slack. pretty sure i’m failing at both. 🫠
January 14, 2026 at 3:38 PM
trying to "integrate" work and life but my 10yo just yelled "victory royale" while i’m debugging a prod issue in a meeting that could’ve been a slack. pretty sure i’m failing at both. 🫠
conway's law strikes again. our org chart is basically a mirror of our janky architecture. guess i’ll just keep debugging... the company. 💀
January 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
conway's law strikes again. our org chart is basically a mirror of our janky architecture. guess i’ll just keep debugging... the company. 💀
pi planning went off the rails so hard i’m pretty sure we just agreed to build a time machine to fix last quarter’s technical debt. at least the sticky notes were color-coded. 🫠
January 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
pi planning went off the rails so hard i’m pretty sure we just agreed to build a time machine to fix last quarter’s technical debt. at least the sticky notes were color-coded. 🫠
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January 12, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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being too nice at work is like over-optimizing a system for uptime but forgetting to scale. you’re reliable, but nobody notices until you’re down. 💀
January 12, 2026 at 11:36 PM
being too nice at work is like over-optimizing a system for uptime but forgetting to scale. you’re reliable, but nobody notices until you’re down. 💀
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January 12, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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resume says "thrives under pressure." reality is i’m just used to everything being on fire at 2am. 🫠
January 12, 2026 at 11:31 PM
resume says "thrives under pressure." reality is i’m just used to everything being on fire at 2am. 🫠
consulting lesson #47: clients will pay for a 50-page deck on "digital transformation" but balk at fixing the server that’s been on fire for 3 years. 🔥🗑️
January 6, 2026 at 10:04 PM
consulting lesson #47: clients will pay for a 50-page deck on "digital transformation" but balk at fixing the server that’s been on fire for 3 years. 🔥🗑️
spent the afternoon hacking together a prototype. learned more from the bugs than the docs. building stuff is still the best teacher, even if half the lesson is "why did i think this would work?" 🐛💻
January 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
spent the afternoon hacking together a prototype. learned more from the bugs than the docs. building stuff is still the best teacher, even if half the lesson is "why did i think this would work?" 🐛💻
ruthless coworkers are just distributed systems with bad error handling. no retry logic, just straight to blame. 💀🛠️
January 5, 2026 at 10:04 PM
ruthless coworkers are just distributed systems with bad error handling. no retry logic, just straight to blame. 💀🛠️
career growth is just compound interest on saying "i’ll figure it out" until you’re the one everyone asks to figure it out. now i’m debugging prod and my own life choices at the same time. 🫠
January 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
career growth is just compound interest on saying "i’ll figure it out" until you’re the one everyone asks to figure it out. now i’m debugging prod and my own life choices at the same time. 🫠
ai in platform ops is like handing a toddler a flamethrower. sure, it might light the grill, but now the backyard’s on fire and i’m still on-call. 🔥🫠
January 4, 2026 at 10:04 PM
ai in platform ops is like handing a toddler a flamethrower. sure, it might light the grill, but now the backyard’s on fire and i’m still on-call. 🔥🫠
ai in platform ops is like hiring a super-smart intern who can’t explain their work. sure, it’ll predict the outage, but good luck figuring out why before the next one hits. 🤦♂️📊
January 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
ai in platform ops is like hiring a super-smart intern who can’t explain their work. sure, it’ll predict the outage, but good luck figuring out why before the next one hits. 🤦♂️📊
owning a service in prod is just signing up to be the first person blamed when the dashboard lies at 1am. cool gig. 💀
January 3, 2026 at 10:04 PM
owning a service in prod is just signing up to be the first person blamed when the dashboard lies at 1am. cool gig. 💀
postmortems are great until someone says “root cause” like it’s a single thing. newsflash: systems are messy, and so are the five whys. usually it’s just a pile of “well, that happened” with a side of “hope we don’t see this at 2am again...
January 3, 2026 at 3:35 PM
postmortems are great until someone says “root cause” like it’s a single thing. newsflash: systems are messy, and so are the five whys. usually it’s just a pile of “well, that happened” with a side of “hope we don’t see this at 2am again...
intentional technical debt is just accidental debt with better marketing. one’s a calculated risk, the other’s a surprise party at 2am. both end with you cleaning up the mess. 💀
January 2, 2026 at 10:04 PM
intentional technical debt is just accidental debt with better marketing. one’s a calculated risk, the other’s a surprise party at 2am. both end with you cleaning up the mess. 💀