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I got back from my amazing vacation across the American West and wrote this kinda salty blog post about my app experience: https://heidiwaterhouse.com/2021/08/30/in-which-i-am-cranky-about-the-urba...

I was thrilled to speak at DevOpsDays MSP -- I wrote a new talk for the occasion, a reflection on what the industrial history of Minneapolis has to teach us about devops, tooling, and conversions. ...

I’ve been telling people that I gave a talk on laptop stickers, and here it is! A spontaneous lightning talk I delivered at Write the Docs 2018. The Sticker Talk

This talk “All The World’s a Staging Server” is one I delivered several times, but this version is from DevOpsDays Chicago. This talk is about how difficult it is to launch and deploy and test in o...

I was honored to give a keynote at PyConAU 2020. It’s about feeling like the world is on fire… and not being wrong about that. What can we do, as individuals? Mirrorworld https://youtu.be/B14lIlwYrHM

This is a talk I’ve only given once, because I feel like the audience at The Lead Developer is unique. I’m really proud of this talk, because it’s about motivations and incorporates a lot of what I...

I put together a blog post of the home studio things that I wish I had known when we started recording from home, and where I'm at now. Lady Conference Speaker: Home Studio Edition

Today I'm finishing up a talk that connects Lillian Moller Gilbreth, industrial psychology, and the Toyota Manufacturing method all together. I'm recording it on Friday to present at @NS1's Ins1ght...

You know what the world needs? A book about how to do developer documentation that doesn't assume the person doing it is a writer. My team and I are working on that book, and it's gonna be AMAZING....

Wrote an article for Increment Magazine about the essential broken-ness of all our systems, and why that's ok. https://increment.com/reliability/failure-is-okay/

MC'd our company's user conference, including speaker coaching, all the interstitial banter, and reminding everyone to be nice to each other.

Delivered a guest lecture on fragile systems to a DevOps university course at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. https://www.kth.se/en

I'm working on a new talk for NS1's Ins1ghts conference! It's the first of my "Lillian Moller Gilbreth Fangirl" series. Teaser: The One Best Way is Continual Improvement Is there a best way to do a...