All of the health anxiety of early internet adopters traced back to WebMD’s self diagnosis. Some sysadmin’s on-call nightmares came from a different part of the site.

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Featuring:

Rich Burroughs – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Links of the week

Interview

Rich Burroughs on Bluesky and LinkedIn

Continuous Conversation

Hey moved CI to dev machines with a bash script

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

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How WebMD ran in the year 2000