Dawn of the final night

John Oliver on Prediction Markets is a treat.

If you’re a programmer and struggle with hand pain, I am happy to talk to you about your options re: hands-free coding setups. It’s possible to code entirely hands-free. It’s a steep learning curve but you can do it. There’s also good hybrid setups to reduce the load on your hands DM me any time 🫶

Powerful statement earlier today from @lookitup.baby in support of a pause in evictions for Minneapolis families in this time of crisis. www.youtube.com/live/vpRmCJE...

We hear of "nine nines" of uptime as a goal for a system, but today @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to be joined by the @oxide.computer team to talk about a subsystem that had that uptime -- and how it wasn't nearly enough. Join us for a wild, multi-year debugging tale! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Stared at a CFP for a bit today and nothing is hitting that spark for me. I've spent a lot of time in weird spaces this last year and the last few months bootstrapping Rust at work for everyone has been a joy but a talk it does not make.

I now join the chorus of folks looking for a job. I’ve got some software and systems engineering expertise, some AI/ML expertise, and I’ve been in a business seat for the past few years, meaning I know a lot more about how GTM, sales, etc works than I did. Let me know if you’d like to talk.

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

@imdanielholt.bsky.social Good luck today!! Sad we're missing it

Charity Majors is back with “Meh-trics” Reloaded! 📊 Honeycomb is banking on metrics done right, balancing infrastructure metrics with rich, contextual event data for faster debugging and AI-ready observability. Read more 👉 buff.ly/T6VsQJG #honeycomb #observability #HoneycombIntelligence #AI

Ikoria is still one of my favorite Magic sets and that explains a lot I think 😂.

ICYMI: it's possible in @kubernetes.io 1.33+ to update pod resource limits in-place without recreating the pod! kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/c... This *dramatically* lowers the amount of effort it takes to do load testing and capacity planning. You can just take away resources until breakage occurs.

Got our tickets to Richmond DLC. ❤️

Got second at the sealed tournament today for Lorcana. Another tournament tomorrow to end the release week.

Driving home from Milwaukee DLC this morning on 3 hours of sleep 😪. Went 4-3 (not 5-3 that I told @imdanielholt.bsky.social sorry 😂 and it was great to meet you!) at the main tournament with dogs 🧡 💚. Didn't make day 2 but I did better than I expected and didn't get my last loss til the end.

Went 4-3 yesterday, but was a pretty good run with the dogs.

Already seen so many pro players I am giddy.

Got offered a full set of duals from Damaged but playable to Moderate played. Having a hard time deciding if I want to pull that trigger or not.

String => Sum Type Your logs are most definitely a finite set of types that they boil down to. They're now an attribute on the span.

Good public incident write-up from UptimeLabs. Quick notes: * A patch-level dependency update unexpectedly changed behavior. * Failure mode: saturation * The role of health checks (a tool to improve availability!) in enabling this incident. uptimelabs.io/when-fast-fl...

Hit up over 10 local game stores while in Colorado so far in 2 days and it's an absolute joy to just go to each of these.

Hear me out. This but with LLMs

Worth a read!

I'm back on my bullshit of wondering if I can convince and gather a bunch of you to join me here for a conference across spectrums of interest.

Probably a lukewarm take, but I think many of us in the space around systems, especially those socio-technical systems and observability have quite a good outlook with how much "less than great" things look to be coming our way.

New post up, with a bunch of thoughts on what drives me personally, and my own 40-year career (h/t @lethain.com). I have a pretty unusual life story. But one of the reasons I love the tech industry so much is how common unusual stories like mine have historically been. charity.wtf/2025/07/09/t...

Vibe Reliability Engineer

Best friend got bit by two mosquitoes last night and the allergic reaction is real strong still. 😭

Draft night with friends tonight

~How to run a million-board chess MMO in a single process~ An essay and video about how One Million Chessboards works: essay: eieio.games/blog/a-milli... video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF1E...

If you’ve ever felt like asking for help would cost too much, this one’s for you.

Here's the launch blog: www.honeycomb.io/blog/introdu...

Out at the distillery a few hours away today. Beautiful outside at the ridge.

Adoption anniversary day for this dude

I'm off for the next month and have no clue what I should be doing which is exactly why I'm taking the time off.

Absolute blast of a night

This is a fantastic read, I didn’t know _any_ of this existed.

Upgrading the IPA cube tonight with some foils I got while at a LGS travelling

I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back. My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs. Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."

Dates are just not lining up this year for me and speaking 😔. Hitting each time I'm out of the country or on vacation.

My husband won 2 Lorcana set champs this weekend so I'm not going to stop hearing about it for at least another week.

Careless People is such a treat to read. @charity.wtf turned me onto it and I can't put it down.

Quick market trip

Got second at a set championship yesterday for Lorcana. Felt pretty good to get near the top again.

We're hiring for a US remote role on our Observability team. Jack Henry provides financial services to small banks and credit unions to help them succeed. We're big Honeycomb users as you'll get to work closely with our developers providing pipelines. careers.jackhenry.com/job/united-s...

Louder for those who were talking about their infra platform team 😡

Cleanse thy timeline with the smelliest of beast

I gave a talk recently about how source available is thriving and open source is dying. This is an example of one of the categories of problems I pointed out. Permissive licenses are *by convention* also a collaborative culture, but they are not *necessarily* so. The difference is crucial