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Steve McGhee
@stevemcghee.dev
Former athlete, reliability wonk.
California be like:
November 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A new one: no espresso this morning because the machine got a software update overnight. (Should be ready in 10min).
October 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Steve McGhee
Happy birthday to be best meme in existence. The earliest known posting of this genius image was 14 years ago today.
October 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
To this day, the Secret Cinema showing of Empire is one of my favo(u)rite, surreal memories.

The Xwing, jeepers.
September 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I can't be the only one who occasionally logs into the coffee shop's router via a default password to bump their DHCP pool and drop their TTL a few dozen hours. something something white hat.
September 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Reposted by Steve McGhee
This week on the Kubernetes podcast, we're thrilled to bring you a special crossover episode with the SRE Prodcast, featuring @stevemcghee.dev! We sat down with Ben Good to discuss the intricacies of Platform Engineering and its relationship with Kubernetes. kubernetespodcast.com/episode/257-...
August 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
TBD: To Be Dismissed.
June 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
5-D optical drive, you see.
May 31, 2025 at 4:45 AM
feature request:

mark all notifications as read. All of them, on the whole planet.
May 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Speedrunning conferences - still exhausting.
April 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
April 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just googled "how old am i if i was born in october 1979" so that's how things are going today.
April 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Hi it's me, I am in Hawaii and I visited the Volcano but it was during the 2d window where it was not glowy red and exciting.
a black and white cartoon of stitch crying in the rain
ALT: a black and white cartoon of stitch crying in the rain
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March 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Grant me the serentiy to accept failure, to know the dependency failures i cannot fix, to mitigate the ones i can, and to know the difference.
March 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Reposted by Steve McGhee
I recently read the paper "Towards Joint Activity Design Heuristics: Essentials for Human-Machine Teaming" which I loved so much I wanted to make it easier to share. To that end, I've excerpted the Ten Heuristics from the paper here: human-machine.team with anchors for each heuristic.
Ten Machine Requirements To Satisfy Essentials Of Joint Activity
human-machine.team
March 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Merry Perihelion to those who celebrate.
January 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
happy new years friends
January 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"Your year wrapped" or whatever on every app is just an annual reminder of your level of opt-in surveillance. (I have plenty, sigh)
December 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM
BREAKFAST APPLE PIE
🎄🎅❄️
December 29, 2024 at 6:21 PM
My one true nemisis.
December 26, 2024 at 11:52 PM
if you have the means I highly recommend picking up the Charlie and Lola Christmas special.
December 24, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Cool.
December 23, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Tis the season for background Tolkien
December 17, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Reposted by Steve McGhee
Today is the last scheduled DORA Community discussion of the year. Join us at 12PM ET.

I'll be kicking off the discussion with a look at A Decade of DORA. Then we'll open up the agenda to everyone in attendance.

Join the mailing list at dora.community for more details.

#DORA #GBGB #Community
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December 12, 2024 at 2:41 PM