I just found this precious little jewel on the internet. The HumanOps-mantra I’m re-posting here as I strongly believe in every single point made in it. HumanOps Mantra Humans build and fix systems. Humans get tired and stressed, they feel happy and sad. Systems don’t have feelings yet. They only have SLAs. Humans need to switch off and on again. The wellbeing of human operators impacts the reliability of systems. Alert Fatigue == Human Fatigue Automate as much as possible, escalate to a human as a last resort. Document everything. Train everyone. Save time. Kill the shame game. Human issues are system issues. Human health impacts business health. Humans > systems

I had a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack) or as people know it, Brain Stroke on August 9. After 2 months of recovery, I’m back to normal and I feel great :) It seems it had to do with an issue with my blood coagulation and my heart health… It disturbed my vision and motricity… but I’m ok now. Needless to say, it was a very scary experience. I got a bit depressed and sometimes anxious when I was recovering, but I stuck with a strict diet and exercise regime which helped enormously and helped with the mood changes. Now that I’m much better, I’m here reflecting the on how the last 2 months of my life have passed. ...

Lately, our company started growing so I had to start interviewing frontend engineers, UI/UX designers and other developers who focus on the UI aspect of web development At first, my expectation was that the process wouldn’t involve anything else but talking to a person. I was caught off guard about the fact that a lot these amazing developers shared with me their portfolios, websites or even demos. It was surprising and inspiring to see some of the creative ways people standout. ...

Disclaimer: I’m not being paid to promote anything here. I just received an email containing the badge from acclaim.com. It made me look back on how much things have changed for the better since I made this exam, so I thought of making a blog post on how things went for me. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate was issued by Amazon Web Services Training and Certification to Oscar Chavez ...

Before going into the post carefully documenting my process in setting up everything, here’s what this post is about in short: Installed PiHole on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and connected it to my network to have DNS level ad blocking. It was reasonably fast to complete and works well. Here’s how it looks before and after: Now, for whomever wants to understand why and how to build this, carry on… ...