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Solved: I made an x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)
A brilliant x86 CPU emulator in pure CSS is a cautionary tale. Discover why clever hacks become a production nightmare and why boring tech is better. Continue reading
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Solved: Is the SRE title officially a trap?
Is your SRE title just a fancy name for a burnt-out SysAdmin? Learn why the role can be a trap and get actionable tips to fix the culture or escape. Continue reading
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Solved: Automate PagerDuty Shift Handoff Notes to Email
Save hours each week by automating PagerDuty shift handoff notes. Learn how to build a Python script that emails a summary of on-call events to your t Continue reading
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Solved: Do you have a good “work-life balance” working in marketing?
Struggling with DevOps burnout and constant on-call alerts? Learn actionable strategies to escape hero culture and reclaim your engineering work-life Continue reading
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Solved: Maniacs doing 12hr+ 7 days a week long-term, what’s your secret?
Working 80-hour weeks isn’t a secret; it’s a system problem. Learn how to escape the cycle of firefighting, fix the root cause, and prevent burnout. Continue reading
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Solved: Are we as advertisers slowly forgetting that there are actual human beings like us on the other side of the ads we put out?
Tired of useless pager alerts? A DevOps engineer explains how to end alert fatigue by building monitoring systems that serve people, not just metrics. Continue reading
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Solved: What happened to the activity in the Notion subreddit?
A service has gone silent? Discover why monitoring and logging data disappears and learn the DevOps triage steps to bring your observability back onli Continue reading
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Solved: Quality of engineers is really going down
Are engineers getting worse? A senior dev explains why “it’s the network” is usually a firewall issue and how to debug it before a 2 AM PagerDuty call Continue reading
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Solved: Company is starting on-call soon. What should I request from management? Money? Separate phone? etc…
Starting an on-call rotation? A senior engineer shares the non-negotiables for fair compensation, equipment, and boundaries to protect your sanity. Continue reading
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Solved: Do y’all not tier support support staff anymore?
Stop getting paged for simple support tasks. Learn to fix broken escalation paths, empower your support staff, and give your engineers their nights ba Continue reading