New episode is live with one of my role models, @kelseyhightower.com. This is a great chat about the impact of AI on our industry. Check it out!

If you've built an Android app in the last decade, you've almost certainly shipped Jesse Wilson's code to your users. 🎙️Our newest Beyond the Noise episode with @swank.ca just dropped – tracing the open-source decisions that shaped modern Android! 🎧 Listen today:

Yay new @bitdrift.io Beyond the Noise episode with @p-y.wtf. You will not want to miss this one!

Hi everyone! Today we are thrilled to launch or revamped free tier for @bitdrift.io. For too long crash reporting has been synonymous with mobile observability, which is unfortunate because 99.9% of sessions are crash free. blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

Today @bitdrift.io we are super duper excited to launch when of the coolest features we have ever released: workflow debugging. Our workflows (finite state machines sent dynamically to mobile devices) are extremely powerful but also hard to debug. blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

Guess what? I started a podcast! I'm not going to lie: I like being a podcast host. 😂 Check out the first two episodes on your platform of choice and there is a lot more to come!

Big turnout in Boise.

Not going to lie that I'm lazy and much less inclined to go to a protest than I was in my 20s, but the "I hate America" BS is getting me off my ass and then some. See you out there tomorrow!

As we work with more and more customers @bitdrift.io, one of the biggest usability problems that customers face that is inherent in real-time observability ...

New blog from me: @bitdrift.io recently turned 2 and I wrote a short retrospective of some of the things we have learned along the way. Check it out and let me know what you think! blog.bitdrift.io/post/bitdrif...

It's been an absolutely epic summer here in Idaho. Sad that it's coming to a close but also starting to get excited for winter!

Super excited to ship fully custom dashboards in @bitdrift.io Capture. Real-time dynamic observability is also about operational agility. 🎉 blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

Very excited to announce SLO alerting within @bitdrift.io Capture. Because "mobile observability that doesn't suck" should also enable modern SRE best practices. Come and get it! 📈 blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

Friday treat: coming soon to @bitdrift.io Capture: fully custom dashboards! Because mobile observability can be both awesome and beautiful at the same time. Amazing, right? 🎉

Super excited to launch a small yet mighty addition to the @bitdrift.io Capture workflow engine: timeout actions. This feature allows you to observe things that do *not* happen, something that traditional observability tools simply cannot do. 🚀 blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

As part of our crash reporting launch we refreshed the @bitdrift.io website, and if I do say so myself, it looks amazing. "Because mobile observability shouldn't suck" pretty much says it all. Check it out! bitdrift.io

Today we are thrilled to launch built-in app crash reporting capabilities inside @bitdriftio Capture! 🚀 You can read more about it in the linked blog, but a short 🧵 on why this launch makes existing mobile observability tools obsolete. 🌶️ blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

This is an important reminder that the red/blue state maps that everyone likes to show are a ridiculous simplification of the people that live all throughout the US. Boise is a fantastic city. Come and visit!

Do you know what this teaser is? It's first party crash reporting support in @bitdrift.io Capture. Do you know what that means? Legacy mobile observability tools are about to be obsolete. So, so excited to ship this. Watch this space! 🚀

Spoke w @mattklein123.dev, Co-founder & CTO of @bitdrift.io, about how hard mobile observability is compared to server-side observability. We discuss privacy control's impact on data collection, the cultural divide between mobile & backend engineers, & @opentelemetry.io. redmonk.com/blog/2025/06...

New from me. Will the Apple payments decision be the turning point for mobile observability? 💰 📈 blog.bitdrift.io/post/payment...

Very excited to announce some great new charting features in @bitdrift.io Capture including unique device tracking, multiple group by, and table charts. Blog link in the comments! 📈 📊 blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

All too often beautiful UI is an afterthought in infrastructure tooling. This is a miscalculation as users of these tools are drawn to exceptional design just as much as users of consumer products.

New post from me on the complexity and importance of metric backfill in mobile observability. Backfill is typically an afterthought in traditional server-centric TSDBs, and it is anything but in the mobile world. Enjoy! blog.bitdrift.io/post/mobile-...

Great post on Android internals. Check it out!

Very, very excited to announce mobile tracing done right for @bitdrift.io Capture. blog.bitdrift.io/post/introdu...

Coming soon to @bitdrift.io real-time dynamic observability: session span views! Let me tell you why I am so excited for this feature. 🧵

Very excited to announce one of our most requested features for @bitdrift.io Capture: alerting! 🎉 blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

New @bitdrift.io Capture feature shipping shortly: the ability to measure the time between 2 logs using a dynamically defined workflow. These are effectively dynamic spans.

New 🌶️ take from me. Why move to observability 2.0 when you can go straight to 3.0 with @bitdrift.io Capture? blog.bitdrift.io/post/observa...

New post from me: a deep dive on the bitdrift backend - the systems that drive real-time observability at scale. Check it out and enjoy! blog.bitdrift.io/post/dont-bu...

Today we are excited to launch bitdrift Capture for Electron! In the video below, the Capture SDK has been integrated into VS Code, and includes session replay. The future of observability for desktop is here! 🚀

Spicy Tuesday take from me: blog.bitdrift.io/post/reality...

Early prototype of bitdrift Capture running in the browser, including session replay. This is our Rust core compiled to WASM and executed. Still a lot to do, but very promising. Real-time dynamic observability coming to a browser near you. Get in touch if this sounds interesting. 😉

Hacking on WASM for a real reason and not just pretending that it's a useful technology. 😂

Friday afternoon release: we now have first class support for GraphQL in Capture. Dynamic real-time observability just got even better. Come and get it! blog.bitdrift.io/post/gql-net...

No? Leave me alone?

For almost 15 years I have used a Google groups as a shared email with my wife, and in Google's infinite wisdom it is now being banned as spam (?). Any service recommendations for email groups? groups.io? Something else?

My almost 7yo wants to learn how to program (motivation is Minecraft mods). His reading and writing skills are basic but probably sufficient to do something real. Any platforms or resources anyone can recommend?

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

It's been a day.

Pretty sunset.

This pretty well summarizes my engineering career to date. (Explanation in alt text.)

TIL about regex101.com. So good! Especially for someone regex challenged like me.

At my parents' house making bagels and the mixer started smoking, so I had to knead the dough by hand. I will never take my powerful mixer for granted again! 😂 🥯

I was giving a new grad career advice last week. My biggest piece of advice will always be to experience variety in the first 5-10 years. This person was saying "isn't coding just coding?" While it's true that for the most part "coding is just coding" what you do with code can be vastly different.

Amazing how much time has gone into IPv6, and there is a 0% chance IPv4 will ever go away. Meanwhile, port exhaustion is still a real issue that must be dealt with. I wish some of those bytes and effort had gone towards a larger port allocation!

🧵 1/4 Build a comparison view while reusing your existing chart component. Problem 1: Sync tooltip position between two separate charts. Solution: Wrap in a context to track the tooltip position (when it is displayed), reading the position back into the other chart. #react

I made it very far into my career without understanding the difference between JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN, and CROSS JOIN. I am in the dark no longer, for better or worse. 😂

Pre 🦃 week real-time observability treat. Early look at @bitdrift.io time over time comparisons on workflow driven synthetic metrics. Keep in mind that all of this data is delivered on demand and can be altered or disabled in real-time. App version over app version comparisons coming soon.