- Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 | The Cloudflare Blog - Cloudflare experienced another outage less than a month after their previous one after attempting to roll out some changes to mitigate a security vulnerability in React Server Components
- You’ll never see attrition referenced in an RCA | Surfing Complexity (November 2025) - Public post mortems aim to reassure users that something is being done to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future. As such they will focus primarily on technical details rather than systemic issues or business decisions
- Human Error is not a Root Cause | North Standard (October 2025) - Human error is not a sufficient root cause. When someone makes a mistake it’s important to understand why they did it. By understanding the factors that lead to this error you can then be better placed to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future
- What’s changing for under 16s and parents on YouTube in Australia | Google Australia Blog (December 2025) - Australia’s social media ban for users under 16 will take effect on December 10. Google outlines what changes users can expect, as well as how these changes will inadvertently impact other parental controls on the platform
- A (kind of) farewell to the web | John Allsopp (November 2025) - After around 20 years the founder of Web Directions has run what may be his last front end engineering-focused conference. In this post he reflects on the developments in the native web platform, the framework monoculture and its impact on what the web could be, and why he’s optimistic about the future of AI in software engineering