For what it's worth, I personally thoroughly enjoy reading your articles. I wouldn't consider myself adept at operations by any means, but your articles are extremely approachable and I always enjoy reading them.

I always click on the article when I see it's from you.

That's really a shame. Of all the colleagues I've had over the years, you still stand out as a beacon of competence, and I learned a ton from both working with you and reading your blog in the years since. Your haters have no idea what they're missing out on :-(

I appreciate your dedication to throwing pearls before swine.

Those intelligent and unbiased enough to learn something useful will do so. I agree with and/or have learned from almost everything you've posted. Some of those things mirror my own experiences.

I also didn't see any problem with tone, you were polite and helpful. It seems quite obvious the only problem with your "tone" is your gender. Not that you didn't know this already.

Thanks for your contributions. At least some of us appreciate them and find them valuable.

I hope you're joking about the domain name part. When I see your domain name I know to expect some really great tech content, and I'm pretty sure tons of other people are the same way.

HN is always very critical, you'll see it on every article.

Just in case the negativity gets tiring, I want to say that you're on my whitelist of domains I always read on HN (which is much smaller than the blacklist of domains I never read).

This being HN, A/B testing is necessary. I suggest 'rossbythebay'

Adding to the other comments, you're one of my favourite SRE war story (and cultural war story) blogs, so thank you for your writings.

Why? Are you not by The Bay anymore?