Thoughts

This is a collection of some old blog posts or talks I have written, and hopefully, some new ones, too.

• Names

  Wednesday, 7 Apr 2021

  The Naming of Names I used to be called Igor. I’m not anymore. Some people change names. Trans people get to chose their names. I chose Mina. In trans circles, “Igor” would be my dead-name. But I’m a …

  • personal
  • trans

• Ops to Dev

  Wednesday, 6 Sep 2017

  What to bring and what to leave behind This is the write-up of a talk first given a DevOps London, 2017 A video recording of talk is online, too. Abstract As student Richard Feynman ⊕ It took me a whi…

  • DevOps
  • talk

• Software vs Automation

  Thursday, 3 Dec 2015

  As always, this started out as a presumptuous tweet: maintaining a million puppet modules has taught me one thing: not a single piece of software was written with automation in mind. — The Wrath of me…

  • DevOps
  • thoughtleadering