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Today, I’ll share the best organizational approach I’ve found to improving reliability. It is effective at organizations that focus on shipping, and struggle to prioritize reliability work. With this approach, you can enjoy the benefit of rare, artisanally curated incidents, instead of repeating the same boring incidents you’ve experienced before. This approach is called “Don’t Repeat Incidents” work. Or, DRI work. The origin of Don’t Repeat Incidents We developed this …

Today we have the final two poses of Toxic Zombies from Zombicide: Toxic City Mall! Two different sets of male Zombies in puffer jackets. While the blog hasn’t had consistent updates over the last couple of months, I was still doing some painting during that period, even if I was not actively posting. So with two more sculpt types left to complete the Toxic Zombies, I managed to knuckle down …

If you’re a fan of citrus flavors, you’ll love this yuzu curd. Yuzu is a unique fruit that brings a tangy and slightly floral taste that’s perfectly balanced by the creaminess of the curd. This delicious yuzu curd can be spread on toast, used as a filling for pastries, added to yoghurt and desserts, or ... The post Japanese Yuzu Curd appeared first on Chopstick Chronicles.

This past spring I was visiting San Diego to meet up with family and on the drive down that way lucked into finding a delightful little bookstore, Artifact Books (not to be confused with Artifacts bookstore in Hood River, OR). I poked around a bit, found a small horror section, and then found the long boxes of bagged vintage paperbacks, various genres, but mostly fantasy and horror. Unfortunately

TidyTuesday 2024/32It's the Olympics for this week's #TidyTuesday. From 1896 to 2016, there have been more U.S. male athletes named John than U.S. female athletes in any single sport, except athletics.Code on GitHub

Garth Ennis sends up fantasy? Sounds like fun.

IntroductionHi everyone! Do y'all still remember me? I seriously doubt it. It's been so long since my last post, but I'm BACK for an arc review of this amazing book!Do you ever stumble upon a book so electrifying that you forget the world around you? That's exactly what happened to me with Jane Buckingham's A Lie for a Lie. This novel is not just a page-turner; it’s a white-knuckle ride …

Overview The Skilhunt MiX-7 (affiliate link) is a flashlight with seven LEDs and five colors of light output: white, red, green, blue, and ultraviolet. It runs on an 18350 battery, which is usually associated with small, pocket-friendly lights, but the wide head required for all those LEDs and their individual reflectors means that the MiX-7 is a wide flashlight best suited to carry in a bag or jacket pocket. When …

I’d been to Lochnagar, Càrn a’ Choire Bhòidheach, Càrn an t-Sagairt Mòr, Cairn Bannoch, and Broad Cairn several times over the years, but I hadn’t yet visited them all in one continuous circuit. Since I had the free time last week, and the weather wasn’t horrendous, I went and ran & hiked this classic Aberdeenshire round. It’s a good day out. Something worth repeating in a different season. I started …

The workshop, it is painted! At last! Brick red can look pretty exotic in the sunshine you know.

It's time for some personal and professional news!TL;DR: I started a podcast with James, I'm stable on antidepressants, I'm giving a P99 CONF about my Rust/io_uring/HTTP work, I'm trying on "they/them" as pronouns, I'm open-sourcing merde_json, rubicon and others, I got a divorce in 2023, I found a new business model.

I’m looking for work. My experience doesn't neatly fit standard job titles or sectors, and I've got an eclectic set of criteria for what I want to do, so maybe you can help me find a job which brings them together. I've got a broad set of management, tech and sustainability skills. I've experience with products, operations, organisations; with open stuff and non-profit stuff and systems engineering and shared infrastructure …

5/5 golden merles “Goo Goo” is Sacramento-based noise punk with cutting phrasing and instrumental hooks concerning the crimes of Johnson & Johnson. How can a culture appropriately reply to grievous wrongdoing committed that effectively goes unpunished? In spitting their own legalese and cowardice back at the bastards, BLOUS3 gives it a worthy attempt. Conveying your contempt is a valuable and worthy endeavor in art as well as in life, especially …

Maps are fascinating things that show us a world that is both deeply personal and excitingly unfamiliar. As professional cartographers, we understand the joy of browsing parts of the world where you’ve never been before, but we also know that the first thing people usually do when they see a map is to find their own house. One of the often-overlooked aspects of maps that give this feeling of familiarity …

Olympic Silver Medal Finally Awarded to Tim Koleto Today, my friend Tim Koleto was awarded the Olympic Silver Medal with the Japan figure skating team in Paris at the Victory Ceremony near the Eiffel Tower and the River Seine. His mother, his constant cheerleader, was there to see it. Olympic Victory Ceremony The “Victory… Bill Petro, your friendly neighborhood historian billpetro.com Subscribe to have future articles delivered to your email. …