April 09, 2019 Alice Goldfuss Reading time ~18 minutes I’ve been giving talks and ranting in tweets for several years now, and the same question crops up again and again: “How do I get into SRE? How d
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If you organize your life with OmniFocus or OmniOutliner (or anything else from The Omni Group), you can take control of your data by syncing to your own WebDAV server. Docker makes it easy and we’ll
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