John Allspaw

@allspaw

CTO, Etsy. Dad. Author. Guitarist. Student of sociotechnical systems, human factors, and cognitive systems engineering.

Brooklyn
kitchensoap.com
Joined February 2008
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  1. 3 hours ago

    Clippy is making a comeback in a utility I'm making for work 😜

    81 retweets 110 likes
  2. 32 minutes ago

    Immediately recognizing seemingly glaring accessibility bugs in UIs now that I didn’t see 6mos ago. Progress!

    1 retweet 3 likes
  3. Jul 30

    No big deal. Digable Planets are playing literally a 1.5 minute walk from my front door tonight. I do indeed love Brooklyn.

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  4. Jul 29

    same day as . Coincidence? I think not. Unix McBeard, move over.

    60 retweets 205 likes
  5. Jul 28

    them: hey can you dm me me: sure, be there in a sec them: wait wha- me (at their house): you enter the cavern them: um me: there are 3 ogres

    4,416 retweets 6,301 likes
  6. Jul 28

    If you don't believe everyone needs basic coverage, come spend a day with me in the ER.

    60 retweets 94 likes
  7. Jul 29

    This has happened to me many times, too!

    Going through my notes and highlights from "The ETTO Principle":
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  8. Jul 29

    Abstractions: can't live without 'em, can't understand 'em when you need to.

    5 retweets 12 likes
  9. Jul 28

    The amazing thing is not that your systems sometimes break down. It’s that they ever work at all.

    Safety-2 can be found inside Safety-1 debriefings.
    11 retweets 12 likes
  10. Jul 28

    "The social construction of risk at lower levels [shapes] the procedural response to a problem."

    7 retweets 7 likes
  11. Jul 26

    I'm only a chapter in and already "Effective DevOps" by and is one of the most important technical books I've read this year

    22 retweets 60 likes
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    Jul 26

    . related:

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  13. Jul 26

    The huge storm in NY last night filled our 3400 gallon water tank (for plant watering) in 50 mins

    23 retweets 76 likes
  14. Jul 25

    What do you know about Michelle cause she's fucking destroying you right now

    369 retweets 1,532 likes
  15. Jul 25

    It's talking about the history of the New View on Human Error and about what's next in Resilience Engineering.

    1 retweet 1 like
  16. Jul 25

    "breakfast is the most important maintenance window of the day" ~

    5 retweets 12 likes
  17. Jul 24 Bay View, Milwaukee

    Nice little example of how it’s hard, but the anger can stop with you.

    90 retweets 131 likes
  18. Jul 24

    That's like calling a rapist a "penis introducer".

    When journalists call white supremacists "alt-right" they are giving racists what they want.
    22 retweets 25 likes
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  20. Jul 23

    this is the best illustration ever of the concept

    Demonstration of "affordance"
    1 retweet 3 likes

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