Founder, Little’s Law Appreciation Society. I have opinions on your hyperspatial key-value store.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined December 2008
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Matt Smillie retweeted
Certain roles tend to just fall into playing canaries in your organizational coal mine (often unexpectedly... sometimes unwilingly).
Folks like dev rel, build/release engineers, incident analysts (if you even have them), QA.
Who else am I missing?
Matt Smillie retweeted
Everyone has access to information about COVID evolution and ongoing impacts of the pandemic. It is not necessary to wait for word from public health officials or whomever the media interviews (more often than not, minimizers). Here is a list of resources you can check out. 🧵
Matt Smillie retweeted
Hello @GovCanHealth, where is vax for our littlest ones? We’re heading into the worst wave — BA5. No pop immunity, no fourth doses for adults, no isolation requirements (5days isn’t evidence based), no indoor air quality standards, no strategic testing, no public communication.
Matt Smillie retweeted
#NEW: People aged 12+ who feel they have "unique circumstances" will be able to call and request a 4th COVID-19 dose provided their last dose was 6+ months ago.
Dr. Ballem says province's campaign will strongly encourage people to wait til the fall.
@CapitalDailyVic #COVID19BC
One would normally look askance at a blog post about someone else’s outage while it’s ongoing, but this time I will make an exception, since getting anything useful out of @Rogers is… unlikely.
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For all my incident response friends, a case study.
- outage is nationwide (as far as I can discern)
- total outage, no phone service at all
- this was the first public comms
- posted 8 hours into the incident (measuring from when I first noticed no service on my phone)
Update #3 from @Rogers, they will contact you to reschedule service appointments 🤣
Only on Twitter, too, not the forum thread 😵 linked from on their own site.
nitter.gq/RogersHelps/status/154…
The @rogers chatbot, anthropomorphized as “Anna,” is where you’re directed to go to check for information about outages.
It’s been down all night with the most dispiriting message I have seen in ages.
ALT Anna the chatbot’s error message: “I’m sorry, it looks like something went wrong. Let me get a Live Chat agent to help you.”
Matt Smillie retweeted
So just for context
Wuhan strain 👉🏼 R0 of 3.3
Delta strain 👉🏼R0 of 5.1
Omicron BA.1 👉🏼R0 of 9.5
BA.2 👉🏼 R0 of approx 13.3
BA.4/5 👉🏼R0 of 18.6
We still don’t know for sure what it is for BA.2.75.
The game has changed, make wise decisions and #WearAMask
Matt Smillie retweeted
By indicating that cruise ship passengers can get 4th vaxx she acknowledges it increases safety but only for those with privelege.
By not allowing others access to that vaxx she reveals intentions that are worse than questionable. How do @jjhorgan and @adriandix allow this?
