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Steve McGhee

@stevemcghee.dev

Former athlete, reliability wonk.

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Check out this Mega Man 2 intro necktie I did.

07.02.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 650 πŸ” 150 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 4

Why bread so good?

21.01.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Carb deniers, avert your eyes.

21.01.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Prodcast, featuring Heather Adkins, Google's Cybersecurity Resilience Officer Join us on The Prodcast as we host Heather Adkins, leader of Google’s Office of Cybersecurity Resilience, for a critical look at the future of digital defenses. We explore the intersection of SRE and ...

OH DIP. This one's a goodie. Go Go Go: google.smh.re/5LT-

Come listen to our chat with Heather Adkins aka argv (or argvee or @argv.bsky.social ) because that's a rad name. Heather knows, I dunno, *everything and everyone* in Security? Also medieval history and, like, castles?

14.01.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All prime, my goodman

06.12.2025 01:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, it appears the answer is Git Tags. Whoops. Will adjust.

05.12.2025 01:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I did feel bad about it, if that helps.

05.12.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Well I'm being weird because I'm leaving branches separate forever, as a learning aid. I suppose I could have like N different repos instead. Trying to show the progression of adding r9y to a baseline simple app.

05.12.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

arrange them by "nines" of availability (like 99.9%, 99.99%, etc). also consider changes to the app itself. can we run parallel, independent frontends, can we partition the database? heck, are we even doing retries with exponential backoff yet?

04.12.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In here we will introduce radical improvements to the system which might not be cost-effective for everyone. Make a new branch and come up with a plan that includes mulit-region, multi-database, multi-cloud mitigations.

04.12.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

vibecoding as a reliability advocate:

> lets start a *new branch* called Mega Robustness.

04.12.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Radiohead FOMO

25.11.2025 03:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident
Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident YouTube video by andrew867

It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion!

1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.

You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...

22.11.2025 18:37 πŸ‘ 593 πŸ” 259 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 31
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California be like:

03.11.2025 23:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A new one: no espresso this morning because the machine got a software update overnight. (Should be ready in 10min).

07.10.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of a black dog. A hand is holding up an old school phone handset to the dog’s mouth and ear, like it is talking on the phone. The dog has a big smile on its face and the caption reads β€œHello, yes this is dog.”

A picture of a black dog. A hand is holding up an old school phone handset to the dog’s mouth and ear, like it is talking on the phone. The dog has a big smile on its face and the caption reads β€œHello, yes this is dog.”

Happy birthday to be best meme in existence. The earliest known posting of this genius image was 14 years ago today.

02.10.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Han shot first. I saw it. I was there.

22.09.2025 03:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To this day, the Secret Cinema showing of Empire is one of my favo(u)rite, surreal memories.

The Xwing, jeepers.

22.09.2025 03:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you do, I don’t recommend telling them that you did it. Just bask.

19.09.2025 19:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can't be the only one who occasionally logs into the coffee shop's router via a default password to bump their DHCP pool and drop their TTL a few dozen hours. something something white hat.

19.09.2025 18:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This week on the Kubernetes podcast, we're thrilled to bring you a special crossover episode with the SRE Prodcast, featuring @stevemcghee.dev! We sat down with Ben Good to discuss the intricacies of Platform Engineering and its relationship with Kubernetes. kubernetespodcast.com/episode/257-...

06.08.2025 22:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

TBD: To Be Dismissed.

10.06.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

5-D optical drive, you see.

31.05.2025 04:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

feature request:

mark all notifications as read. All of them, on the whole planet.

30.05.2025 02:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Frankau family fundraiser for St Christopher's Hospice Help Caroline Frankau raise money to support St Christopher's Hospice

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19.04.2025 20:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Speedrunning conferences - still exhausting.

11.04.2025 00:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.

07.04.2025 16:04 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just googled "how old am i if i was born in october 1979" so that's how things are going today.

03.04.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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[V1cam] KΔ«lauea volcano, Hawaii (west HalemaΚ»umaΚ»u crater) YouTube video by USGS

www.youtube.com/live/oG5zz9S...

26.03.2025 19:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a black and white cartoon of stitch crying in the rain ALT: a black and white cartoon of stitch crying in the rain

Hi it's me, I am in Hawaii and I visited the Volcano but it was during the 2d window where it was not glowy red and exciting.

26.03.2025 19:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0