Steve McGhee
@stevemcghee.dev
Former athlete, reliability wonk.
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It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion!
1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident
YouTube video by andrew867
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion!
1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
A new one: no espresso this morning because the machine got a software update overnight. (Should be ready in 10min).
October 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A new one: no espresso this morning because the machine got a software update overnight. (Should be ready in 10min).
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Happy birthday to be best meme in existence. The earliest known posting of this genius image was 14 years ago today.
October 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Happy birthday to be best meme in existence. The earliest known posting of this genius image was 14 years ago today.
To this day, the Secret Cinema showing of Empire is one of my favo(u)rite, surreal memories.
The Xwing, jeepers.
The Xwing, jeepers.
September 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
To this day, the Secret Cinema showing of Empire is one of my favo(u)rite, surreal memories.
The Xwing, jeepers.
The Xwing, jeepers.
I can't be the only one who occasionally logs into the coffee shop's router via a default password to bump their DHCP pool and drop their TTL a few dozen hours. something something white hat.
September 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I can't be the only one who occasionally logs into the coffee shop's router via a default password to bump their DHCP pool and drop their TTL a few dozen hours. something something white hat.
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This week on the Kubernetes podcast, we're thrilled to bring you a special crossover episode with the SRE Prodcast, featuring @stevemcghee.dev! We sat down with Ben Good to discuss the intricacies of Platform Engineering and its relationship with Kubernetes. kubernetespodcast.com/episode/257-...
August 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This week on the Kubernetes podcast, we're thrilled to bring you a special crossover episode with the SRE Prodcast, featuring @stevemcghee.dev! We sat down with Ben Good to discuss the intricacies of Platform Engineering and its relationship with Kubernetes. kubernetespodcast.com/episode/257-...
5-D optical drive, you see.
May 31, 2025 at 4:45 AM
5-D optical drive, you see.
feature request:
mark all notifications as read. All of them, on the whole planet.
mark all notifications as read. All of them, on the whole planet.
May 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
feature request:
mark all notifications as read. All of them, on the whole planet.
mark all notifications as read. All of them, on the whole planet.
Speedrunning conferences - still exhausting.
April 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Speedrunning conferences - still exhausting.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
April 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
Just googled "how old am i if i was born in october 1979" so that's how things are going today.
April 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Just googled "how old am i if i was born in october 1979" so that's how things are going today.
Hi it's me, I am in Hawaii and I visited the Volcano but it was during the 2d window where it was not glowy red and exciting.
a black and white cartoon of stitch crying in the rain
ALT: a black and white cartoon of stitch crying in the rain
media.tenor.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Hi it's me, I am in Hawaii and I visited the Volcano but it was during the 2d window where it was not glowy red and exciting.
Grant me the serentiy to accept failure, to know the dependency failures i cannot fix, to mitigate the ones i can, and to know the difference.
March 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Grant me the serentiy to accept failure, to know the dependency failures i cannot fix, to mitigate the ones i can, and to know the difference.
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I recently read the paper "Towards Joint Activity Design Heuristics: Essentials for Human-Machine Teaming" which I loved so much I wanted to make it easier to share. To that end, I've excerpted the Ten Heuristics from the paper here: human-machine.team with anchors for each heuristic.
Ten Machine Requirements To Satisfy Essentials Of Joint Activity
human-machine.team
March 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I recently read the paper "Towards Joint Activity Design Heuristics: Essentials for Human-Machine Teaming" which I loved so much I wanted to make it easier to share. To that end, I've excerpted the Ten Heuristics from the paper here: human-machine.team with anchors for each heuristic.
Merry Perihelion to those who celebrate.
January 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Merry Perihelion to those who celebrate.
happy new years friends
January 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
happy new years friends
"Your year wrapped" or whatever on every app is just an annual reminder of your level of opt-in surveillance. (I have plenty, sigh)
December 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM
"Your year wrapped" or whatever on every app is just an annual reminder of your level of opt-in surveillance. (I have plenty, sigh)
BREAKFAST APPLE PIE
🎄🎅❄️
🎄🎅❄️
December 29, 2024 at 6:21 PM
BREAKFAST APPLE PIE
🎄🎅❄️
🎄🎅❄️
My one true nemisis.
December 26, 2024 at 11:52 PM
My one true nemisis.
if you have the means I highly recommend picking up the Charlie and Lola Christmas special.
December 24, 2024 at 1:38 AM
if you have the means I highly recommend picking up the Charlie and Lola Christmas special.
