I've been following Simon Travaglia since the 1980s.
I don't know if he still has his old site up, but he also had a bunch of amusing views on Kiwi culture.
The Bastard Operator from Hell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37881524 - Oct 2023 (2 comments)
The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29590667 - Dec 2021 (98 comments)
The Bastard Operator From Hell (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21903668 - Dec 2019 (94 comments)
Probably a better archive somewhere besides Reddit, but this is another Usenet classic
Https://www.reddit.com/r/ems/comments/1pnao9/the_collected_magical_world_of_tae_the_paramedic/
I've reread all three volumes quite a few times over the years, currently on Volume I, year 2000 #24 again, since I mainly read a few stories every time I'm on my 30 minute (lunch) break at work.
If Simon reads this, thank you for your work amusing your readers, me among them.
(Open an episode in a new tab/window to escape the IFRAME viewport.)
No wonder we all turned cynical.
Been there 10 years.
oh yeah got it.
@DEVOPS_BORAT.
check him out. hilarious.
last i checked, a while ago, he had stopped tweeting, but there are many previous tweets of his anyway, which should still be accessible.
Edit:
In the context of this current hn thread, this is a gem of a tweet from him:
@DEVOPS_BORAT · Mar 30, 2011 Confuse of Dev or Ops? Simple rule: if you are praise for Web site success, you are Dev; if you are blame when Web site down, you are Ops.
having been on both sides of the fence, I can resonate with that.
Ah, refreshing.
Not because I would, or think anyone should, just because it's funny as hell.
"Well, the answer is, we do nothing FOR users. We do things TO users. It's a fine distinction, but an important one all the same."
https://www.chinet.com/html/bofh/lastbofh.html