Nice! Yea, start nice and slow :)

Fantastic. Hope it works well for you!

Read my full review and notes here: www.ybrikman.com/blog/2025/11...

That said, a few of the essays are memorable gems. I especially enjoyed the essay that introduced the idea of "third things": those items that couples look at and experience together (art, travel, kids). So much of the joy in life is sharing third things with someone you love.

The writing throughout is beautiful, even moving at times, and most of the topics are interesting. The only problem is that the stories are all fairly short and disconnected, and even just a few days after finishing the book, many of them have already faded from memory.

A Comprehensive Guide to Desk Treadmills. Topics include:

💪 Benefits of a desk treadmill
⌨️ Working and typing while walking
🏃 Walking speed
🚀 Impact on productivity, creativity, mood
💰 What to buy and costs
🔧 Maintenance
🔀 Alternatives

www.ybrikman.com/blog/2025/10...

Share your horror stories with the tag #AdrenalineOps for a chance to win a free copy of the book and a GoLand license!

I didn’t get fired that day. I did learn a lot about testing, CI/CD, rollbacks, data storage, and monitoring. I've captured these lessons, and many others, in "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery." www.fundamentals-of-devops.com

It turns out my code was calling a function that, under the hood, made 2 DB queries. During sort comparisons.

It takes roughly N log N sort comparisons to sort N items.

Paris has N = ~2,000 hotels.

So each time this sort was used, it was making ~40,000 calls to the DB. 😅

It never finished loading. He refreshed and tried again. Same issue.

At this point, I was sweating profusely, and positive I was going to be fired my first week on the job.

That's when the alerts started to go off 🚨

My first task at TripAdvisor was to add a new sort option to the hotels page. Easy! I got it done & deployed in my 1st week. I then had my first 1:1 with my manager. He opened the hotels page for Paris, picked my new sort option, and waited. And waited. And waited...

5 steps to get out of DevOps bankruptcy:

1. Quantify the drag
2. Eliminate single points of knowledge
3. Budget for the cleanup
4. Automate the routine
5. Focus on outcomes, not motion

www.gruntwork.io/blog/5-steps...

I get my audiobooks from Audible, Hoopla, and Libby. Just about all use professional narrators. I do check before starting to listen, but with those providers, it’s very rare to get a crappy narrator.

Def worth it!

I only listen to audiobooks from professional narrators. There are many amazing ones: Jim Dale, Simon Vance, Scott Brick, Ray Porter, Kate Reading, R.C. Bray, Michael Kramer, Frank Muller, Amy Landon, Stephen Fry, Wil Wheaton, Jefferson Mays, Julia Whelan, and many others.

Here are my recommendations for Chapter 9: bsky.app/profile/brik...