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On my blog, you’ll find lots of helpful articles that complement my DevOps/SRE online courses.
Don’t push harder. Reduce friction.
In my work as a CTO, I’m thinking about friction a lot. I’m using this physics term as an analogue for everything that reduces team efficiency. This kind of friction can have substantial financial and human cost, which is why I find it important to notice and mitigate it when ever I can. In mechanical…
Always update the BIOS first
Today, I spent hours trying to install Bluefin on an older laptop. The process always failed with Failed to write boot loader configuration. I tried vanilla Fedora Silverblue and ended up with the same disappointing result. Following a tip I found on the Bluefin Discord, I finally tried installing Fedora Workstation, and was able to…
A rocky but encouraging start with Rails credentials
For the biggest part of this week, I’ve been working on upgrading the Rails versions of our managed hosting dashboard application. I started with Rails 6.0, and now I’m at Rails 7.1. Today, I struggled for a long time with deploying to the staging instance on Heroku. At the centre of my issues was that…