Was stuck in traffic for 1 hour and got so frustrated I devoured ½lt of terrible ice cream 😭 AMA

Hey #OpenTelemetry folks! We've released a #Prometheus mixin for the OpenTelemetry Collector! 🔭🎉 It's a set of predefined dashboards and alerts for monitoring your fleet of collectors using their internal metrics. So grab it, `make dashboards_out`, import into @grafana.bsky.social and voila!

I wrote something about respectability in dress over on Twitter. The topic is nuanced for me, so unfortunately the post had to be long. Since Bluesky (reasonably) has character limits, I can't easily import the text here. So I'm including screenshots, if you would like to read it.

Bruh

Kindness is punk as fuck.

That's one hell of a sci-fi term 🤯

Wrote about the feeling of living at a literal fever pitch for the last decade, and how every day things somehow get worse but stay the same. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/we-live-in...

My theory is that the world has so much momentum, no matter what happens, there's no changing it. So in the grand scheme of things, maybe govts, laws, news don't matter as much; what matters is being a good neighbor, friend and partner. Just be excellent to one another y'all, ffs 🫂🧡

Tired: trap music Wired: 80's narcocorridos

It's ~2006 in middle school and Prince of Persia WW is all the rage. We stumble upon a YouTube secrets montage with Holy Mountains from SOAD. I bring this up to my Armenian friend Alex, and he's visibly excited -- next day he comes to school with three burned CDs, and the rest is history.

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Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Best #LLM use case yet: Instant course/educational material, tailored to your needs. It's never perfect (not supposed to be), but models are at least up to par with any 101 Udemy courses you might pay for.

Not a great title, but a great concept of 'unpacking' your work

A little perspective apenwarr.ca/log/20250711

The real hierarchy of needs

Just narrowly escaped a big flooding 😱 realized just in time it was a couple centimeters of water. The saving grace was the gremlins refusing to go to bed in time, I can't fathom what would've been otherwise. Shit is scary.

And the category is: "responses you get from your IDE but not your kids"

My mind is absolutely blown whenever I learn something about the history and evolution of language!! 🤯 I wonder if the explanation the author gives about the cedilla is why languages like Hungarian/Polish have a lot of 'sz' #langsky

Is booze like make-up but for guys personality?

Dunbar's number at work

We held Elixir.Greece.thessaloniki/1 after Athens. We had three speakers, curious attendees, fresh pizzas, beers, and stickers. The Greek Elixir community is growing and most importantly having fun! Highlights: youtu.be/EdiQeKOnKyk #MyElixirStatus #GreeceElixir

Relying entirely on a single-maintainer project and your shit breaks? That is on YOU, not on the maintainer. Christ.

Rolling the ladder up behind us https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/

matduggan.com/what-would-a... Yes please

I had this old rotary phone, so I turned it into a meeting handset. I connect it to my computer via USB, I can hear and speak through the handset, dial numbers with the dialpad, and if I hang up, it exits the meeting. I like it.

Everywhere I work I end up sharing this article on RBAC from @apenwarr.ca tailscale.com/blog/rbac-li... every time.

I've still never gotten into `fzf` (and maybe I never will!) but I think it's really cool that you can use a fzf 1-liner to make things like this little UI for reviewing git commits jvns.ca/til/fzf-prev...

Taskmaster season 19 is *chef's kiss*

> In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act. Just love yourselves folks. And then go love your neighbor and your community. That's all.

[...] so this extensive 150-page research proves why you're work is going to be vital in enabling the torment nexus > Lol, you're/your, doofus, who cares

It's just words, detective. Nouns, adjectives. They.. just happen to be in a dope order! (Best K&P skit in existence)

⏱️ Time flies when you're building open source software! It's been a year since we launched Grafana Alloy, our #OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in #Prometheus pipelines. Look back at the work that's been done, and get a peek at what's still ahead.

Internet history disappearing in real time :((

What the actual fuck is this???

We gotta name the point in time where a company gets slightly too big to use #general in Slack for "good morning" messages.

Asking the important questions: how does that #eurovision hologram frame work??? Is it the same inside the arena or is it computer-generated just for the TV audience?

As a Grafanista I'm happy about how this was handled end-to-end; but especially how we now sponsor the projects that helped us here. Get value from OSS ⇒ give back to OSS, people!

Our investigation of the #GitHub workflow vulnerability wrapped up on May 12, and we've confirmed that there has been no code modification, unauthorized access to production systems, exposure of customer data, or access to personal information. Here's a summary of what happened and what's next.

Ian Lance Taylor deserves an award for the most patient person in Open Source. He also has an amazing ability to translate the clarity of his thinking into the written word. He has had such impact on the way people create software. I really hope he continues to contribute to Go.

If anyone can shoot an invite for ampcode.com let me know!

TIL about Cornelis Drebbel, one real-life steampunk inventor 🤯 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneli... news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4395...

Everyone, this is not funny, it's May, April Fool's was a whole month ago. 😭😭😭 yamlscript.org

interior crocodile alligator I drive a chevrolet movie theater

Some of this advice is very not good but I figure whatever, it’s just natural selection if someone really follows it

If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼

Always remember this:

I CAN’T BELIEVE I HAVE TO GO INTO A MEETING IN TEN MINUTES

Serving undersalted, cold pasta should be punishable by jail time

One of the best essays I've read this year 250bpm.substack.com/p/accountabi...