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Roles and Requirements
If you can’t fill a role, the real requirements and job definition will change until the role can be filled, even if the desired outcome can’t be delivered by the new hire. It’s instructive to look at what’s happened to field engineering. When I started out in the mid nineties,…
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Silicon Valley Gets High On Its Own Supply
Picture a typical Monday morning catchup with Slack. “Great news,” says Bob, “I was experimenting this weekend and AI can automatically extract, maintain, and translate strings! Now we can finally do that localization project we’ve been ignoring for years!” Leadership chimes in with “LFG!” A few hours later, the rest…
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Always be Prepared for Hammertime
I’ve had a laptop stolen at a conference. I also remember poor designs that meant a liquid spill would instantly kill a laptop. I have also changed jobs plenty, usually voluntarily. I have developed some habits that I recommend no matter how careful you are with equipment or what shape…
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2025 Blogging Review
Posting 2025 was a busy year, and I didn’t get as much writing done as in prior years. My process hasn’t changed from that described here, but job, band, and fitness commitments have left me wrung dry. The weekly reminder to post something still goes off, but I have been…
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When to Build Reliability
Features win sales. Lack of sales kills the company. Everyone in leadership can be focused on that as the wolf currently at the door. Most developers and product managers can agree as well; obviously we have to sell the bits to pay the people. What surprises us is that the…
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Prioritizing Vulnerability Findings
Most shops are small. Small shops as a rule (there are exceptions!) do not dedicate resources to security, and that represents risks to big shops that depend on those small shops. Big shops don’t like risk, so we have compliance baselines. Big shops usually have lots of dedicated security people…
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My First Digital Mixer
My band has multiple people who have vocals and at least one, maybe two instruments. We played three gigs with a stack of practice amps and Scarletts and switcher pedals. This makes knowledgeable people pause a moment and say “huh, you did what now?” So here’s how it works… two…
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Observing System Failures
The system is down, and half a dozen teams join a Zoom call that stretches over a couple of days and a Slack channel that lasts for weeks. Vendors and integration partners are bridged in and out, executives pop by to see what’s going on, and the hours pass with…
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Product Management Interview Help
An interview is inherently stressful for a lot of folks, particularly early in career. It’s a short window to talk with a person about changing companies, changing roles, returning to the workforce, starting a career. You might not seal the deal in a given interview, but you can certainly close…
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SIEM’s not Dead, It’s Only Disrupted
The old SIEM vision was “put everything in one hot pile and index the hell out of it and then run out of the box content over it so you can pivot from known to unknown questions smoothly”… which sounds lovely until you have to pay for it. In that…
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