@jpaulreed

In this increasingly agentic-driven world, I, too, believe it’s crucial that we are all aware of—and respect—TP IP…

every bash command on linux is blplk -avqPmr o7 . ~/ every powershell command on windows is Please-Mister-Computer -Could-You-Kindly-Do-Me -This Favor ".\"

Spending my Sunday afternoon with friends at a ballot party! (Voting is critical, but informed voting is even better!)

I was introducing a colleague to “blame awareness” the other day when it dawned on me: Blame Aware had turned a decade old. Thought I'd write up some observations of ten years of pushing for us to productively acknowledge blame, instead of pretending it doesn't exist: jpaulreed.com/thoughts/bla...

Any sufficiently bureaucratic government process is indistinguishable from a fraud ring scam funnel.

I wonder what the hourly premium is for this year's Fleet Week, given the recent jumps in the cost of jet fuel...

It's quaint to hear a GitHub founder complaining about the costs of the SHA256 storage backend switchover when you consider that the migration costs to Git (for better or worse) cost the industry somewhere in the billions of dollars of lost productivity.

Does no one actually put the work in anymore?

A reminder: never underestimate the value of an operator saying "Huh... something looks weird here..."

Air Force One and The Fifth Element double feature!

With the A.I. companies buying up all of the computer storage these days, I'd like to offer up the solution we used in the 1980's to double our storage for free. You are welcome. #old

Looks like the agenda for incident retros where we spend the first half reading a partially-filled out template doc and then spend the second arguing about action items…

Big 2026 mood

Air to Ground Message: BIRTHDAY WISH IS THE ONE THING GOING POSITIVE FOR THIS FLIGHT Area: Austin, TX, USA Type: Airbus A320 A: #ae90374a05d F: #f1803e00061

I’m actually offended, @nytimes.com

TIL: Cigna apparently is unaware that OneMedical exists. Agent: "Is that like a group practice?" Me: "Yeah. But like with hundreds of doctors. In multiple states. You've never heard of them?" Agent: "No."

A friend of mine has been rereading The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, and honestly… in this economy, it’s been the gift that keeps on giving…

Air to Ground Message: CLEVELAND CENTER SAYS KLGA WILL NOT BE TAKING ANY MORE ARRIVALS..... MIP4 IS CLOSING DOWN DUE TO WX..... GAPS ARE CLOSING SO THEY WILL PROBABLY SHUT DOWN KLGA EARLIER. THOUGHTS Area: Cleveland, OH, USA Type: Boeing 737-800 A: #ad570f10130 F: #f6ccae57cb7

#humanfactors

Just dawned on me that we lost two officers of the Red October in a month

Every risk register should have an entry that reads “we have misjudged the risks” which is in the “likelihood: high” and “impact: high” region of the risk matrix.

Correlation is not cognition.

OH: "We don't do counterfactuals in the incident review, but they certainly may come up with your boss the next day!"

Sometimes, the airlines do try…

The time cost for generating code keeps dropping thanks to LLMs. Code is important in a sociotechnical system, but the more crucial bit has always been socializing the work. As in, you need folks that know the thing deeply enough to operate it and address novel failures.

Oohhhhhhh 💯

“Vibe flyin’”

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

Uber has been sending me emails warning me they’re going to close my account in 30 days for the better part of the last decade.

Came across a dev saying they couldn’t do their job without LLMs now just like they wouldn’t have been able to do their job without being able to copy and paste from Stack Overflow 5 years ago

AI could subsume this code all day long and still wouldn’t get the artistic significance…

if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon

OH: "It's all priced in. It always was."

Evergreen words.

88°F atop Mt. Tam 58°F on Panoramic Highway A 30-degree difference in just three miles, but the 1,585 feet of elevation gain is key. Temperature inversions are a remarkable thing and Marin County shows them off in a stunning way.

OH: “People don’t necessarily want to go from zero to your face.”

If you’re gonna do a layoff, it’s always prudent to have a sense of who happens to be on-call that day…

Bless everyone who brings extra ice to the party…

OH: "I don't think there's any blood left in the 'GitHub Outage Incident Review' rock..."

Efficiency looks like an unmitigated good right up to the moment when efficiency looks like a synonym for fragility.

Telling someone they’re the expert on a topic, arguing with them about said topic, and then saying “Well, let’s agree to disagree” is… a choice.

Correctly used (possessive) "its" are the new em dash.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Was asked today if I was familiar with the "Swiss Cheese Model"; responded that I much rather prefer a good "Smoked Gouda Model"