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The Greatest TV You’ve Never Seen: You’re the Worst

Or, the anti-Friends

Jun 8, 2024

The gang: Lyndsay, Jimmy, Gretchen and Edgar perched on a red car, empty beer cans at their feet.

Jun 8, 2024

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Operating Public Cloud: The Basic IT Ops Stuff that Time Forgot

Jun 5, 2024

Graphic design of a figure reading a book/manual

Jun 5, 2024

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30 Years of IT – Lessons Learned: 1, 1994

Origin Story

May 31, 2024

An Ingres Application by Forms (ABF) Form in a Terminal Emulator

May 31, 2024

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The Bin Fire of Tech Hiring: A Personal View

I spend a lot of time networking to try to get work on LinkedIn. In the bubble of my own field of IT/tech, there are three complains…

Jun 3, 2024

A view overhead of a river in The Dordoge, France, green trees and fields on its banks.

Jun 3, 2024

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The Real Skills Shortage in IT / Tech

The Death of Pragmatism and the Decline of Soft Skills

May 29, 2024

A CGI of a hamster in a wheel

May 29, 2024

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30 Years of IT – Lessons Learned – 1, 2001: A Luxembourg Odyssey

Downturn the first and a contracting near death experience

Jun 26, 2024

A graph with a trajectory going down from near the top of the Y axis, down to the X axis.

Jun 26, 2024

Friday Reflections, 21/7/24

(F word swear ahead, but FFS, I’m from Glasgow, it’s core vocabulary)

Jun 21, 2024

Homer Simpson meme where he walks backwards into a hedge, disappearing from view, with the caption, “RANT OVER’

Jun 21, 2024

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The Latest Hiring Nightmare: One Way Interviews

One of the most interesting, and alarming articles that I’ve read, here on Medium, is this one, in which I learned a lot more about a…

Jun 19, 2024

John Hurt as Winston Smith in the 1984 version of George Orwell’s novel 1984. He sits to the left of his ever-spying, one-way telescreen, writing in his secret diary.

Jun 19, 2024

UK Politics Interlude — Reform and Job Specs

I think the Reform party in the UK have hired the same person who writes hashtag#devops job adverts to write their manifesto, cough, sorry…

Jun 18, 2024

Black and white portrait photo of P. T. Barnum.

Jun 18, 2024

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Private Legacy, Public Cloud: Lift and Shit [sic]

Not transforming workloads just gives you public cloud hosted tech debt as a service and a big old cloud provider bill, better to be…

Jun 14, 2024

A picure of the synth pop due, The Pet Shop Boys in 1993, pictured in odd garb of red jumpsuits, with conical dunce type hats, sitting and shaking hands oddly.

Jun 14, 2024

Bob Thomson

Bob Thomson

Glaswegian, left for Dordogne at 50, Devops work, many likes outside work & STEM. Living w chronic illness since '07, Crohn's+chronic kidney disease c/o meds

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