I met @therubyrep.bsky.social when she worked on the On-Call Me Maybe podcast. I have such an appreciation of all the work that she did for us behind the scenes, & I’m excited to have her in front of the mic in this week’s episode of @geekingoutpod.bsky.social. 🎧: buff.ly/IO6SHIW 📺: buff.ly/SZUT84a

The only consistent thing in tech

OMG Emily Chen and I pulled off a half virtual (with Emily in Paris - no joke)/half in-person talk at the cTENcf Toronto meetup in which we talked about our adventures with Block’s Codename Goose. Thanks to everyone who attended, and thanks for putting up with my Star Trek references! 🤣🤣

People of a certain age will never understand the struggle of having to fit filenames into 8 characters with no spaces. Even after Windows started allowing spaces and long file names, it took a long time before I felt comfortable enough to move past my 8-character conditioning.

Quick reminder about that OTel in Practice session we've been on about. Dakota's covering some practical optimization techniques that sound pretty useful. The kind of stuff you bookmark for when you actually need it. 📅 Sept 24 | 10:00 PDT / 17:00 CEST Don't forget to register: buff.ly/Q0a2Hvk

Interviewed @scott.hanselman.com on @geekingoutpod.bsky.social today, and geek out we did! Can’t wait for this episode to drop!

Happy Friday! Enjoy this fun GIF I made for an upcoming talk with @joshleecreates.bsky.social. Bonus points of you can name the characters. Yes, they all belong to me (except the MLP - borrowed that one from my kiddo).

🚨 Reminder: The OTel Collector follow-up survey is still open! If you haven’t shared your thoughts yet, please take a few minutes to do that. Your feedback is important.

Dammit, I forgot how much I love @argoproj.bsky.social. 😁

After breaking for the summer, @geekingoutpod.bsky.social is back with the amazing @kat.lol! Catch her episode out NOW! 🎧: buff.ly/x0B5wIb 📺: buff.ly/tXgKx3u

Now that I’ve had a chance to play with AI to do some vibe-ish coding, it feels to me like the equivalent of giving the same instructions to different junior devs who interpret my instructions differently. Tell me I’m wrong.

Possibly unpopular opinion: Miro boards break my brain. Too much noise for me.

Sitting in the car and my daughter suddenly says to my husband and me: “I’ve been looking at toupée videos. They seem like a really good option if you go bald.” Things I never imagined my kid would say.

Adriana: 2 Dev containers: 0 ‘Twas a good day indeed.

Today I learned more about using keyrings in #devcontainers than I wouldn've wanted. 💀

When I'm troubleshooting an issue, I swear I spend more than half my time trying to figure out the correct question to ask so that I can actually solve the problem that I'm working on.

I've been having fun working with @joshleecreates.bsky.social on our KCD Warsaw talk, which includes coming up with fun graphics. Here's one we came up with yesterday. If you're Canadian, you'll get this take on the "No Name" brand using #OTel. If you're not, look up "No Name brand". It's a hoot.

Staying active and fit your 40s is punishable by various body parts deciding to hurt at any given time for no good reason. 🫠

🌶️🌶️🌶️ Spicy thought of the day: for those who think you don't need to learn how to code properly anymore because of vibe coding, it's like saying that you don't need to learn how to think anymore. Without base skills, no AI can save your ass. Thank you, and good day. 🌈

@therubyrep.bsky.social keeps it real about being a working mom. 💜

Happy Lefty Day to all my fellow lefties!! May you continue to be delightfully quirky with your creative pencil holding techniques in this righty dominated world. 😁🤘

@mauilion.dev wore the perfect t-shirt to record an episode of @geekingoutpod.bsky.social, if I do say so myself. 😁

I'm back after 2 weeks of vacation, and you know what I learned? I don't like swimming in seaweed. (Time off is time off, and I didn't think about work once.) Happy Tuesday!

Hey kids! Did you know that you can use the @dynatrace.com #MCP Server to query #OpenTelemetry data using natural language? 🤯 'Tis true! Learn how, in my latest video in the series, "Dynatrace Can Do THAT with OpenTelemetry?" Watch now: dt-url.net/hm4305l

“A boundary is something I tell someone I will do, and it requires the other person to do NOTHING.” If you say you're not responding to work messages while we’re away, but then check your messages, respond to them, and complain that others are bugging us during your vacation, it’s 👏 on 👏 YOU. 👏

HOW HAVE I NOT HAD @techtalkingmom.bsky.social ON @geekingoutpod.bsky.social YET? This has been rectified. We recorded an episode today! 🎉

Self-promotion can feel a little weirdly narcissistic and cringey... But at the end of the day, people won’t know about the cool shit that you’re doing unless you tell them about it. Only you can advocate for yourself, so go out and promote the crap out of yourself, because YOU DESERVE IT!!

Seeing people who look like us inspires us to do great things. Monika Rajput is a CNCF Ambassador, meetup organizer, mentor, data engineer, and overall badass. She's been in tech for 6 years, and look at all that she's accomplished! Want to learn more? Her episode will drop this fall. Stay tuned!

ERMAHGERD I feel like I finally joined the cool kids' club. 😁 Can't wait to chat with @virtualized6ix.wtf, @usrbinkat.io, and @nedinthecloud.com about my dabblings with #MCP servers and keepin' it real on some AI talk this Friday. JOIN US!! www.linkedin.com/events/lives...

How can Microsoft mess up dark mode in Office365 so badly? My eyes are burning!!

As seen in real life

It started with this skeet, and that's how @kat.lol got to be on @geekingoutpod.bsky.social. Episode drops in the fall. Stay tuned!!

I love that my family in Brazil sends me pics of capivaras whenever they spot one near where they live.

Spent 3 hours recording a video for work. Realized I hated it. Walked away, got 🧋, and re-recorded a new one in way less time. Don’t fall in love with your first iteration. It’s probably crap, and that’s okay. 🌈

May I just say that I love my podcast guests? 😁

ADHD means skipping meals and ignoring your butt screaming at you for sitting too long because you "have" to finish writing that blog post, OR ELSE! Well, at least I have the blog post to show for!

Do we really need another Superman movie? Can’t we just all agree that Superman 1 and 2 with Christopher Reeve are the only ones that count, and move on??

I have a new term: airline math. It refers to stupid extra hidden fees that get added when you change/book your flights and you have no idea how a $300 flight suddenly costs almost $1000.

I play a daily game of chicken with my laptop when the battery level runs down below 10%.

Today is turning out to be a sidequest kind of day.

Catch me talking about my favourite things: #Observability, and of course, #OpenTelemetry on MOBIA's Solving for Change podcast. ⬇️ youtu.be/DaP0aESniwM?...

The latest episode of my series, "Dynatrace Can Do THAT With OpenTelemetry" is out, in which @grabnerandi.bsky.social teaches me how to use the SLOs app with #OpenTelemetry data from the OTel Demo is ingested into Dynatrace via the OTel Collector. Watch the episode now: buff.ly/YIQy9Fq

Join @hrexed.bsky.social and me for a @dynatrace.com AMA on July 10th at 11:00 EDT (17:00 CEST) to talk all things Cool #OTel Collector configs and what to do with your OTel data in #Dynatrace. Bring your questions!! www.linkedin.com/events/fromd...

Snagged some maple leaf pins to wear on my next overseas trip. 😁😁

Anyone know of any good k8s chatbots out there?

Can I just say that envsubst is a very underrated tool and makes it so much easier to write tutorial repos.

Hello from the Toronto Intuit office at Toronto Tech Week! Hanging with fellow Carioca, Renata Rocha, as we get ready for our panel. Also stoked to hang with fellow CNCF Ambassadors, @virtualized6ix.wtf and @lisamarienamphy.bsky.social. 🤘

Finally found a good use for ChatGPT: creating regular expressions for me. Achievement unlocked. ✨

Hey Toronto tech folks! I'll be moderating an AI panel on June 24th at the Intuit office at The Well for Toronto Tech Week. Featuring panelists Renata Rocha, @virtualized6ix.wtf, Alfredo Garo, and Nisten Tahiraj. Details below. Hope to see you there! lu.ma/ifizyhiv

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