"look up and stay present" .. by "collaborating with visual Meta AI prompts" projected between your eyes and the folks _in the real world you are notionally trying to stay present with_. I don't understand if they are trying to redefine what 'present' means or they are just too deep in this rubbish

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

I'm using lightmode in my IDE and ... my eyes haven't melted and i'm not disgusted with myself. Is it time to find a new career?

A public holiday in the US affecting when the rest of us get the next Alien Earth episode is imho profoundly unreasonable

Hey #jj folks, I am trying to write a idiomatic revset that finds the earliest change that diverged from main, so I can rebase a stack of changes onto the latest main when they diverge. The best I can do is: (::@ ~ ::main) & roots(::@ ~ ::main) Which strikes me as rather gnarly. Easier way?!

Considering quitting the whole "writing about tech" thing, and turning this into a Gaz Liddiard fan account 🤘 Probably the world could use more of the latter and less of the former

11pm on a Friday. “What are you doing Scott?” “Oh just reading this quickly then going to sleep” <opens article on implications of io_uring on rust’s borrow checker>

Last week I needed to check that the PoE network port for my night-vision doorbell was working, so I plugged a usb-c network adapter into my iphone and ran a speed test over it. What a world we live in!

> In response to a Daily Beast request for comment, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung called Wolff “a lying sack of shit.” 👷 Professional spokesman at work 👷

Spent _literally hours_ crimping and crimping again network cables trying to make my fancy doorbell work, only to realise I’d bought single mode fiber for the switch backhaul and that sorta kinda works with multimode transceivers but not like … good. Think I’ll stick to software

This is so cool

Great post about companies built on user-created data selling out for profit at the expense of the community that built around them. Shades of @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social 's techo-feudalism

Check out this new blog post outlining how profiling is becoming the fourth pillar of observability 🚀. www.datadoghq.com/blog/continu...

A fun part of working on cargo-pup, an architectural linting tool for #rust, is that I have to periodically fix things up to match changes in rustc's codebase. Little peaks behind the curtain into the compiler's internals.

I’ve been working on cargo-pup, a Rust tool for defining and enforcing architectural rules in your codebase - like ArchUnit for Java, or Clippy, but for project-specific architecture constraints rather than linting. Would love feedback from other rust folks! #rust #clippy #architecture

Did you know that you can use the OpenTelemetry Java APIs without setting up an export pipeline in your code? (I didn't) Add the opentelemetry-api dep, sprinkle @WithSpan on your important business-things, and let your auto-instrumentation wrapper - e.g. dd-trace-java - discover the OTel API usage!

Voxxed Days Luxembourg is proud to welcome Scott Gerring for the marvellous talk: "The Horrors That Lurk: Understanding the Linux Compiler Landscape for Developers"! Be sure to check the details on the schedule app: mobile.devoxx.com/events/voxxe... and favourite if you‘d like to see it! ⭐

I've been playing around with CodeQL as a tool to write project-specific lint rules. It's an amazing tool in general, but feels kinda tedious for this sort of project-specific thing, BUT it works! --> blog.scottgerring.com/posts/custom...

Unexpected new talking heads / psycho killer video is pretty pretty pretty good m.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ54...

On Thursday the 19th of June, I'll be at @lu.voxxeddays.com talking about the terrible things you can find if you look below the happy easy friendly world of Java - into the linuxy bits underneath. _I_ think this stuff is interesting, and now I hope to make it interesting - perhaps even useful!

Imagine a world where the entshitifcation of all content on the internet by GenAI slop and SEO fuckery leads to folks logging off and going to talk to their neighbours

Like everyone else with a keyboard and a programming habit, I've been experimenting with coding assistants. But I'm pretty skeptical of using them for anything chunky - so I thought, what if we push this way beyond its sensible bounds? Let's build a path tracer without any human code using claude!

Brendan Gregg always has the best charts —> GPU flamegraphs 🔥are jazzy ! www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-0...

Fixing the com.horror package 😂 with @scottgerring.com at VoxxedDays Zürich #VDZ25

@fmartin.ch is in the field real user testing your systems!

Great talk from @garnier.wf with a step by step intro to SSO + spring ! Also, excellent type safety banter 🤪

#VDZ25 just started. New record with 688 participants! Yay!

As I've spent a bunch of time staring at #OTel Rust PRs, I thought i'd write a thing about OTel's notion of Context - what it is, and how it flows through services. It's a core abstraction of OTel and an interesting thing to learn about if you're into APM! blog.scottgerring.com/posts/contex...

@frankel.ch caught your talk at @oslo.cloudnativeday.no - Super engaging!

Wrapping up the day at @oslo.cloudnativeday.no learning why you might want to convert your super-popular cat meme service to make use of Rust. A fun look at some of the work being done inside @datadoghq.com currently by @scottgerring.com and Ramon Lopez

On Tuesday the 25th of March, I'll be at @voxxedzurich.bsky.social talking about the terrible things you can find if you look below the happy easy high level runtimes - Java, golang and so on - that we've all become accustomed to - into the linuxy bits underneath. Stop by if you're around!

Hot tips on a CLI diff tool that's git aware? I love beyondcompare but the mouse is the enemy.

I reckon most of us IT folks intuitively understand that _everything is watching you all the time_, but the sheer amount of random metadata in here - presumably to de-anonymize - is astounding

In my latest blog, I continue my series on modern language selection for services, focusing this time on Java & Quarkus. I am an avid rust fan, but Quarkus is amazing! The developer-experience is amazing, and the platform is proven. I hope virtual threads save us from the async APIs, though ...

Days until AU's DFAT downgrades the US to "do not travel"?

Me <opens IDE and does nothing involving the network at all> lolwut?

The uretprobe impl changed and its breaking stuff! I wrote about how they work ages ago, and it is super interesting that a subtle perf-oriented change to that behaviour is causing ~wild side-effects~ .The LWN article about it is super interesting for eBPF nerds blog.scottgerring.com/posts/an-ebp...

@jcosta.dev and I and our lovely colleague JC whom I do not have on bsky wrote a thing explaining how to get started with OTEL+Rust. There are a few decision points in monitoring a Rust service, and I hope this condenses it down for others!

Great to see my daily driver is powering forwards. Column pickers are great! helix-editor.com/news/release...

lol

I am 38 years old and just realised that the big number on the back of a good-fitting pair of levis is the key to never speaking to a jeans salesman again

"My childhood was elegant homes, tree-lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it's supposed to be."

Enjoyed working on this article about GitOps with Bowen Chen! Also: discovering that we have _actual human artists_ to make glorious hero images (amongst other things) 🤩 www.datadoghq.com/blog/gitops-...

2025: the year we can stop carrying on about GENERATIVE AI? Maybe? 🙏

It took a while after joining Datadog to realize how much cool eBPF work happens here. Recently, I worked with some folks on an article about how we use eBPF to trace AWS IMDSv1 usage back to workloads. A neat mix of ✨shiny cool tech✨ + productionizing it to be easy to use!

“When the night seems dark, we can still make it darker and profit from darkness arbitrage markets.” Lawd

Over on the blog, i'm starting a series on adopting Rust for services - when does it make sense in comparison to more established languages, and what price is paid? I am messing about with a (coughs loudly) new writing style - and welcome feedback both on this and the nerdery contained within!

Hot take: Copilot and friends are the modern day clippy. We will look back in disgust at the horrors we knowingly unleashed upon our editors

@mcfunley.com 's talk on structure in engineering orgs is absolutely worth a look! How can you not want to contextualize this image? egoless.engineering