I’m a sex worker, the government got this wrong with its porn crackdown
Nachdem ich in den letzten beiden Nächten wegen Alarmen zu wenig geschlafen habe, liege ich jetzt für meine Verhältnisse ungewöhnlich früh im Bett. 🥱
If your alerts fire every day, they’re burnt toast 🍞🚨
Good alerts are rare, actionable, and tied to real user impact.
#SRE #AlertFatigue #OnCall
https://webdad.eu/2026/03/12/%f0%9f%9a%a8-alerts-are-smoke-alarms-not-screaming-toddlers/

Alert fatigue makes on-call miserable and dangerous. Learn why alerts should be rare, actionable, and tied to real user impact—using the simple metaphor of home smoke detectors and burnt toast.
On-call isn’t firefighting.
It’s babysitting a system that sometimes eats glue 👶💻
Stability first. Fix later.
#OnCall #SRE #IncidentResponse
https://webdad.eu/2026/03/05/%f0%9f%91%b6-on-call-is-babysitting-a-system-that-sometimes-eats-glue/
A client asked me to fulfil his fart fetish — the onion bhajis didn’t help
As a sex worker, people think they love me — they don’t know the truth
The Register: "New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails." #OnCall #TechFails
The incident started, as these things do, with a confident sentence: “It’s just a certificate.”
One hour later we had:
- a surprise dependency chain,
- three services that cached the old value forever,
- and a monitoring dashboard that proudly declared everything healthy while users screamed.
It was not “just a certificate.”
It was a distributed, time-sensitive trust exercise we had been ignoring.
#Production #OnCall #DevOps #SRE #IncidentResponse #EngineeringHumor #Reliability #ByernNotes
I’m almost 50 — as a sex worker, this is how I treat the 18-year-olds who book me