Month: June 2025

  • Not Completely Terrible

    Not Completely Terrible

    The expectations are still so low…

  • King Kong Who?

    King Kong Who?

    Not that going to New York is a guarantee that you’re going to meet King Kong, or the Ninja Turtles, etc.

  • Troll Fluff

    Troll Fluff

    Basically verbatim kid logic, here.

  • They Lied To Me?

    They Lied To Me?

    All changes can be suspect, not just the ones we make on the platform side, you know?

  • Suspiciously Good Sleep

    Suspiciously Good Sleep

    So someone at work started saying how they had slept the whole night without any incidents while they were on-call, and everyone present immediately knew where they were going: the instant concern that there were actually incidents but they had missed the notifications.

  • Still Kicking

    Still Kicking

    I’m not sure that I’ve ever been mad at my spouse for something they’ve done in a dream, but I have been confused at least once.

  • Sour Don’t

    Sour Don’t

    In my defense, I stopped baking as much when I found out that one of my kids is allergic to gluten, and that’s why I had wheat flour just sitting around for a really long time.

  • Like Winning The Lottery

    Like Winning The Lottery

    One of the problems with having a really big service is that, after a point, million-to-one odd occurrences start to happen pretty frequently.

  • Just Add More Threads

    Just Add More Threads

    Hence why the real fix for “we’re running out of threads” is not always just “increase the thread pool.”