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Programming – the act of sitting down at a computer and typing in commands to make it do things – has been a big part of my life for a very long time.

I hate things I have to do every five years.

In June of 2016 I thought I was interviewing for a python gig at a small chat company.

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve written on software or systems topics.

Originally published at https://medium.com/@betz.mark/so-you-want-windows-to-show-24-hour-time-eeac41062b73 I spend a large part of every day shelled into cloud servers, viewing logs, checking alerts in slack channels, looking at pages on my phone, glanci…

Originally published at https://medium.com/@betz.mark/the-day-a-chat-message-blew-up-prod-2c30941db07a I don’t often write “in the trenches” stories about production issues, although I enjoy reading them.

Originally published at https://medium.com/@betz.mark/the-cost-of-tailing-logs-in-kubernetes-aca2bfc6fe43 Logging is one of those plumbing things that often gets attention only when it’s broken.

Originally published at https://medium.com/@betz.mark/behind-the-front-lines-of-the-pandemic-dedaef9fcffd I’m a software engineer and so I usually fill this space with software and systems engineering topics.

Originally published at https://medium.com/@betz.mark/pulling-shared-docker-tags-is-bad-5aea48e079c6 Last night we migrated a key service to a new environment.

Originally published at https://medium.com/@betz.mark/after-my-disk-crashed-e4f6d1c29d93.