Tagged “life”

A Book That Changed How I Think About Systems

The Book That Made Me Stop Drawing Boxes and Start Drawing Loops

How to Move House Without Losing the Homelab

A Weekend Where Nobody Paged Me

The Sci-Fi Film I Was Sure I'd Hate

The Bug I Solved Halfway Up a Hill

Working From Home, the Honest Version

the film i was sure i'd hate

i found my old film camera and it found my weekends

the book that taught me to stop blaming the operator

working from home, the bits nobody puts in the LinkedIn post

working from home, with the gloss taken off

another drive, another episode i didn't mean to finish

five hours of motorway and the back catalogue of a podcast i'd been ignoring

four hours of motorway and one very good podcast

a weekend with the pager switched off

the slow joy of reading on paper again

a weekend where my phone was just a phone

picking up the film camera again after a decade in the cupboard

i found my film cameras again, and i'm glad i did

the book that taught me to look for the constraint

four hours of motorway and a head full of someone else's ideas

i solved it on the bike, not at the desk

a sitcom that knew where the bodies are buried

the grinder rabbit hole

four hours of motorway and a podcast that earned it

a tv show that nailed what the job actually feels like

the homelab moved house and so did i

how a bag of beans led me into the grinder rabbit hole

rediscovering an old hobby

i went in cynical and came out quiet

moving house when you own a small datacentre

the bug i solved by leaving the keyboard

a weekend where nothing paged me, and what i did with it

the book that rewired how i see systems

the film i went into expecting to hate

how a cup of coffee cost me three hundred quid

the bug i fixed without touching the keyboard

a long drive and a good podcast

the book that ruined "it's working fine" for me

i went in to be polite and stayed for the whole thing

the bug that needed an hour on the bike

the book that taught me to leave slack in the system

i went in cynical and came out quiet

the bug i fixed forty miles from my keyboard

coffee, and the rabbit hole of grinders

the one television show that gets the on-call dread right

the film i went in resenting and came out quiet

i went in to be polite and came out genuinely moved

i picked up the film camera again, and it slowed me right down

four hours of motorway and one very good podcast

four hours of motorway and a podcast i didn't want to end

four hours of motorway and one good episode

a weekend the pager stayed quiet

working from home, three years in and no rose tint

coffee, and the rabbit hole of grinders

four hours of motorway and one very good episode

the bug i fixed forty minutes after closing the laptop

the slim book i keep pressing on people

the bug i solved twelve miles from my desk

i went in to be polite and stayed for the whole thing

four hours of motorway and one episode that stuck

working from home, minus the linkedin gloss

the show that made my on-call flashbacks worse

the joy of a quiet weekend with no oncall

the sitcom that got working in it uncomfortably right

the book that taught me to look for the loops

the bicycle that had been gathering dust

the quiet weekend

four hours of motorway and one very good podcast

i went in to mock it and came out quiet

the sysadmin sitcom that hit too close

i thought i had a coffee problem, turns out i had a grinder problem

i picked up the pencils again

picking up a thing i'd quietly put down

moving house when you've a homelab to carry

working from home, the honest version

the grinder matters more than the machine

the hobby i'd quietly put down

the show that understood the on-call pager

three hundred miles and an episode i didn't want to end

a weekend where the phone stayed quiet

the safety book that made me kinder about outages

the fix was waiting for me at the top of the hill

a year of working from home, with the gloss removed

working from home, the honest version

the records came back down from the loft

moving house with a homelab in the boot

the book that rewired how I look at every system I touch

it was never the beans, it was the grinder

i picked up the soldering iron again, and the smell took me straight back

the bicycle that's been hanging in the shed for six years

a long drive and a good podcast

working from home, the honest version

a weekend with the pager switched off

the book that taught me how organisations fail before software does

i went in cynical and came out quiet

the bug i fixed twelve miles from my desk

the last long drive before christmas

i started developing film again

three hours of motorway and a decent feed

the book that made me stop trusting my own dashboards

i went in cynical and came out won over

i went in expecting nonsense and came out quiet

a weekend where nothing paged me

four hours of motorway and a podcast that earned its keep

the grinder mattered more than the machine

the grinder mattered more than the machine

it turns out the grinder was the whole thing

a weekend with the pager handed to someone else

how a cafetiere turned into a grinder obsession

four hours of motorway and a podcast that actually held up

the show that knew exactly what an on-call evening looks like

the book that taught me failure is normal, not exceptional

four hours of motorway and a podcast that earned the trip

the underrated luxury of a phone that stays silent

four hours of motorway and an episode that earned them

the war film that turned out to be about silence

the it crowd was a documentary and i refuse to discuss it

i went in cynical and came out quiet

the homelab survived the move, mostly

moving house when one of the boxes is a rack

the removal van does not care about your uptime

the slow film i nearly switched off

a film i fully expected to dislike

four hours of motorway and a back catalogue to burn through

the it crowd is a documentary and i won't hear otherwise

how a £40 burr grinder became a small obsession

a book that quietly rewired how i think about systems

the book that taught me queues are everywhere

six hours of road and a queue i finally cleared

how i moved a homelab without losing my mind (mostly)

the rack goes in the van last

thinking in stocks and flows, thanks to a slim green book

the bug i fixed forty minutes after leaving my desk

the bug i fixed by leaving the keyboard

a long drive and a good podcast

the joy of a quiet weekend with no oncall

the bug fixed itself somewhere around mile eight

the book that taught me to stop blaming the operator

the bug i fixed by leaving my desk

the one tv show that gets the on-call dread right

i only wanted a nicer cup of coffee

the book that rewired how i see failures

four hours of motorway and one very good podcast

how a bag of beans became a grinder obsession

the bug i fixed by leaving the keyboard

a weekend where the pager stayed quiet

a weekend where the pager stayed quiet

a weekend with the pager switched off