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Paul Armstrong

@psa@masto.ai
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Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley.

I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer).

Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

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Joined November 07, 2022
Hobbies:
Diving, cooking, reading, climbing, fitness, programming, travel
Founder:
https://www.divecoaching.com.au
Diving Preferences:
Sidemount, backplate, technical
Consulting:
Available for IT or SCUBA diving consulting

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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · May 20, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @pjf@cloudisland.nz
@pjf@cloudisland.nz This is one of my main concerns with left leaning politics: failure to understand that imperfect allies are still allies. We can even vehemently disagree about substantive things, but when we work together on the things we agree on then, there's hope for maybe finding understanding in the middle for the things we don't.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · May 17, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @pojntfx@mastodon.social
@pojntfx@mastodon.social @mitchellh@hachyderm.io I had read some piece from Github talking about how much extra load they were under due to the percent of commits from LLMs. However, reading through https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-availability-report-april-2026/ shows outages largely driven by logic bugs rather than scaling issues. There's definitely an interesting paper in there somewhere.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · May 07, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @averagehousewife@beige.party
@averagehousewife Which industry are you moving to? I went from big tech to SCUBA diving (but had to bounce back to tech due to an illness).
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · May 06, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @averagehousewife@beige.party
@averagehousewife Oh yeah, and then some. Then, after getting employed comes the "I used to know how to do this, WTF!?!?!?" Huge hugs and well wishes. I hope you find a position that's well suited to your new self.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · May 06, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai

If you use jq a lot (or otherwise work with JSON and YAML), then jless is almost certainly a tool you're interested in https://github.com/PaulJuliusMartinez/jless/

#sysadmin #SRE #DevOps #DevSecOps #TooManyNamesForSysadmin

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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · May 05, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
@beep @elizayer What do you see as wrong with automated repeatable solutions? From my perspective (as someone who has been operationally focused his entire career), automated repeatable solutions are the cornerstone of a stable system. Also, it's much more satisfying to build a tool that gets it right every time rather than manually update a field and click a button (potentially making errors) a thousand times. One of my biggest issues with LLMs is the non-determinism. I want repeatable.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · May 04, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @nini@oldbytes.space
@nini @elizayer @hyc Oh my goodness, the contractors. It's not just the lack of institutional knowledge, it's also that many people don't seem to know how to write technical contracts. So, we end up with software projects which are unmaintainable in various ways. From not having any monitoring to requiring a large extra payments (and possibly contract adjustments) to make operational changes.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · May 04, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @elizayer@mastodon.social
@elizayer And, in many cases, the best (or only) way to get a raise or have your pay come close to inflation is to hop jobs. In many places it's considered good practice to change jobs every 2-4 years just for pay reasons.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · May 04, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @ajft@aus.social
@ajft@aus.social This is, unfortunately, the default in Brisbane. Most of the "bike lanes" are "shared" with parking. In practice, this means the only "safe" place to cycle in much of Brisbane is in the centre of the "car" lane.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Apr 27, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @urbanfuzzy@aus.social
@urbanfuzzy@aus.social Nah, it's a loss leader. $30 to install. $300/hr to fix it when it inevitably breaks. $3,000 to uninstall it and put something useful on the disk.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Apr 25, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @target@infosec.exchange
@target I happen to agree, but some people will insist on giving it a whirl just to see what all the fuss is about. They should at least put on a condom before they fuck themselves.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Apr 24, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai

RE: @andrewnez@mastodon.social

If you're contemplating OpenClaw, please be very careful about what you give it access to. 2.1 CVEs/day on average is no joke.

If you really need/want to run it, best to sandbox it on separate hardware and a separate network.

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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Apr 22, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai

No matter how low your expectations of how bad things are in Azure, prepare to have them reset quite a bit lower: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion

This isn't just neglect, it's willful abandonment of basic security and stability standards my senior and middle management. Given the number of major breakins they've had in the last few years, there's little wonder as to what's behind that.

#Microsoft #Azure

isolveproblems.substack.com

How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.

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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Apr 20, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai

For those interested in Climate Week and reaching netzero in a timely manner, https://luma.com/b5ya948h

#ClimateWeek #ClimateChange

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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Apr 19, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
@argv_minus_one @b0rk_reruns As Julia pointed out in her comic, some people don't understand that DNS may switch to TCP mode if the packet gets too big (or if the client simply chooses it). Even big networking professionals used to get this wrong. Both Cisco PIX and Firewall 1 permitted only UDP 53 at 512 bytes or smaller for a very long time. They eventually added flags, which defaulted to off, then they eventually fixed it. Took ages though.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Apr 19, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @b0rk_reruns@social.jvns.ca
@b0rk_reruns Sigh. I've been having this argument for about 30 years. Don't block TCP port 53! 😠 Also, UDP 53 must allow packets of more than 512 bytes! EDNS0/EDNS(0) is a thing!
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Apr 18, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai

How Australians are feeling about wage theft and other dark business practices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZsdP2trO0

#WageTheft #BadBusiness #Corporations #aus

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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Apr 16, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @marlies@tacobelllabs.net
@marlies Ouch, that sucks. I hope your backups are in good order. And yes, my home stuff also suffers from the shoemakers children problem. 😞 An idea for cheap variance which has saved me before: get different batches. Just buying from different shops or the same shop a month apart is sufficient in my experience.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Apr 12, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @lyda@mastodon.ie
@lyda@mastodon.ie Ugh, I hear you. People sometimes ask why I continue to engage with the right wing bigots and I have to point out that they have a persuadable audience. Here's to being able to stop doing this work, for the right reasons.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Apr 01, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @82mhz@mastodon.bsd.cafe
@82mhz Ruben's blog and his retro computing section seem to match what you're after: https://rubenerd.com/ Also @rubenerd
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Mar 09, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @trib@aus.social
@trib In the NT, diesel hit $3.99/liter pretty much instantly. There are numerous reports throughout Aus of diesel being restricted to farmers, contract customers and emergency vehicles only (and some to only emergency vehicles).
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Feb 19, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com
@notjustbikes Thank you for the delightful stroll through Nantes. I also really enjoyed the metro system video and agree that metros are an excellent place for public art.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Jan 22, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @SpiritLady@mas.to
@SpiritLady @scalzi By being so rich and pervasive that governments don't enforce the laws. Also, in many (most?) places, as long as it's in public it's fine. If they detect whether it's in a building or not and only pervasively record outside, then they might be on legal high ground.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Jan 14, 2026
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe Sometimes, it's important to fire the customer. Don't forget to take detailed contemporaneous notes, just in case they do actually employ a lawyer dumb enough to look at this and decide they can get away with suing you.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Nov 30, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Boosted by Greg Bell @ferrix@mastodon.online
Cervical cancer is on track to be eliminated in Australia by 2035. In 2021, there were no cases of cervical cancer in women under 25, an outstanding achievement, and cancer rates continue to be extremely low Australia wide. Unfortunately, the anti-vaccination trend kicked off by the Trump regime has had an impact in Australia too, with lowered vaccination rates in the last few years. We are so close to eliminating cervical cancer. Get vaccinated! https://report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au/
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Nov 12, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @jhavard@mastodon.social
@jhavard @eamon @depereo @fluffy @jk Between Systemd and NetworkManager, it really does feel like the worst of Windows is being shoved into Linux.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Oct 17, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @mhoye@mastodon.social
@mhoye This is extremely astute and thoughtful. Thank you for taking the time, not just to write it up, but to share it with the rest of us.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Oct 16, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @tbh@stranger.social
@tbh@stranger.social @fribbledom@mastodon.social Yes, of course, before describing it to a friend/coworker, describe it to a rubber duck. Have edited to add.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Oct 15, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @fribbledom@mastodon.social

@fribbledom@mastodon.social Absolutely.

Best debugging tips:

  • Take a shower
  • Go for a walk
  • Eat/drink something healthy (no, sugar won't help)
  • Chat with a rubber duck about it
  • Chat with a friend/coworker about it
  • Take a nap
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Oct 03, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @wonshu@mastodon.social
@wonshu@mastodon.social @JustinDerrick@mstdn.ca @hedders@mas.to I recall getting a lot of work early in my career setting up squid proxies (or adding empty entries in BIND) to block doubleclick.net et al.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Oct 03, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @JustinDerrick@mstdn.ca
@JustinDerrick@mstdn.ca @wonshu@mastodon.social @hedders@mas.to For those who don't quite get how much an IP was part of identity back then, it was common to see an IP or netblock written on a conference badge.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Sep 09, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @santi@gone.lema.org
@santi@gone.lema.org @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Cause if you're going to have mindless use of LLMs screw up anything, your brand should absolutely be at the top of the list...
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Aug 19, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net
@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net Right, so trillion dollar company decides that because someone won't provide them a library to support the feature required by the standard for free the standard should change so they can save a trivial amount of money. And, as a side effect, it lines up podcasting for capture in ways we've seen before when open protocols were muffled.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Jul 30, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

masto.ai
Replying to @chaslinux@techhub.social
@chaslinux@techhub.social @Edent@mastodon.social If you're up for self hosting and it meets your other requirements, I've had relatively decent experiences with Mattermost.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Jul 18, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

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Replying to @Ihazchaos@chaos.social
@Ihazchaos@chaos.social @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk I can think of a solid example for ticking each and every one of those 😠
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Jun 26, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

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Replying to @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt It'd be a real shame if these became storm names.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Jun 12, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

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Replying to @libramoon@mastodon.social
@libramoon@mastodon.social That's awful. Gives you a very clear picture of how much your friends didn't actually care about you. Being hard rejected when in need is cruel. I hope you have since made real friends who you could ask for important help from, even if doing so is now somewhat harder emotionally.
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Paul Armstrong @psa@masto.ai · Feb 04, 2025
Paul Armstrong
@psa@masto.ai

Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley. I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about anything), reading (non-fiction, science-fiction and fantasy), running, cycling and games (board and computer). Spent a lot of time working in technical infrastructure: systems administration, SRE, systems engineering, DevOps, whatever you want to call it this week.

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Replying to @zoozoo@mastodon.social
@zoozoo @aspensmonster @jwz @claudius @mathowie Unfortunately, for all but die hard users, the UI is the most important part of access. I used to scoff at UI gloss as unimportant too, but got schooled on it through years of interaction with non-technical users.
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