June 10, 2026
Resumes and AI-generated code are louder than ever. The signal is in the engineering judgment underneath the work.
June 8, 2026
By Matt McGowan Founder @ NullorNaN · Reliability Lounge · Co-Founder @OUR+'R Testing Qwen3 in LM Studio with Cursor showed local inference is slower but usable—and Cursor Pro already gives you room for both without cutting API spend entirely.
June 5, 2026
By Matt McGowan Founder @ NullorNaN · Reliability Lounge · Co-Founder @OUR+'R Reliability Lounge chose CC BY 4.0 so evergreen content can be reused broadly, breathe, and outlive the project.
June 4, 2026
By Matt McGowan Founder @ NullorNaN · Reliability Lounge · Co-Founder @OUR+'R Burnout often comes from never unplugging. A simple monthly disconnect—phone off, no performance—helped reset stress, mood, and productivity.
June 2, 2026
By Matt McGowan Founder @ NullorNaN · Reliability Lounge · Co-Founder @OUR+'R Early-stage companies still need architecture, roadmaps, and reliable implementation—but ownership, ambiguity, and risk tolerance change what the work feels like day to day.
May 11, 2026
By Matt McGowan Founder @ NullorNaN · Reliability Lounge · Co-Founder @OUR+'R A technically sound SOP can still hide a broken on-call model. Volunteer coverage and missing escalation paths are gaps worth fixing before an outage finds them.
May 3, 2026
By Matt McGowan Founder @ NullorNaN · Reliability Lounge · Co-Founder @OUR+'R Dont wait for the perfect product or time
May 1, 2026
By Matt McGowan Founder @ NullorNaN · Reliability Lounge · Co-Founder @OUR+'R In practice, most outages come down to DNS or something physical—not complex failures.
April 3, 2026
By Matt McGowan Founder @ NullorNaN · Reliability Lounge · Co-Founder @OUR+'R Growth fails when infrastructure isn't built for it—not just servers, but the whole environment. A 90-day sequence for decisions, validation, and controlled hardening.
April 3, 2026
By Matt McGowan Founder @ NullorNaN · Reliability Lounge · Co-Founder @OUR+'R True leadership is not only speed—it is reading the room, matching cadence to the org, and knowing when to move fast, slow, or step out early.
