With all the Black Friday articles, I feel bad for not buying anything and not getting any deal. 🤔 I guess I should stop reading some websites. (Looking at you @theverge.com)

I have found that Apple Music has over the years lost a big portion of my uploaded music :-( I may still have some CDs somewhere to grab it again, but a lot of it is also just gone :( Is there a good and reliable music service for uploading and streaming music from (ideally Sonos-compatible)?

How should I trust AI tools when they tell me things that contradict what I'm seeing, and then say "I Was Wrong Earlier"? They are good at finding explanations for *anything*, no matter whether it's true or not :-(

Grafana Mimir 3.0 is here! 🎉 The release marks a new era for the open source, horizontally scalable, multi-tenant time series database (TSDB), delivering dramatic improvements in both reliability and performance.

Wow, that’s amazing! Ganesh, Bjorn, Dieter, Krajo, and many others … congrats! (Does that include NHs with custom buckets?)

Did a new one

Norah Jones podcast is coming back 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO86...

Most people cannot name a single astronomer. If I could change that to one person it would be Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. I've never read her thesis. I think I'll fix that.

Oh, I have listened to this album so many times. ❤️

Amusing how 99% of people using LLMs forget how these things work: They are advanced probability machines. They generate the next most likely token (word) based in the input and their training. Under the hood, it’s a giant matrix multiplication that has eerily good output.

I've discovered esolangs.org today, looks like fun page to explore :)

My teammate Arati did this funny and informative talk about her first contribution to Go 1.25 (T.Output) www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Mn...

Broken automation is worse than no automation.

Whoever did #golang "modernize" - thank you! pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x...

I got "Panic is better than deadlock" response when I pointed out that code suggested by Claude Code doesn't handle some edge-cases correctly. 🤷‍♂️

#NeverForget www.facebook.com/SlovakEmbass... (The video was produced few years ago and put up by various Slovak Embassies on FB. Todays Russia-friendly government would never make this 😢)

A product that (almost) everyone uses from mid-sized tech companies and up but I rarely hear talked about: Grafana In The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 survey, it had more mentions than Cursor, and dominates as the answer to "how do you turn information into graphs" This is Grafana:

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz. e-mail.wtf

clickhouse.com/blog/llm-obs... Nice writeup on LLMs and incident resolutions.

Security BlueSky people, I am hiring for a staff security engineer. You have to be into SaaS, Go & be really cool. Who doesn't want to work in open source on the best platform out there @grafana.bsky.social job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/... #infosec #security #cyber #securityjobs

Just published a very opinionated 🔥 blog post on why I still recommend using Prometheus's native instrumentation libraries over @opentelemetry.io, especially if you mainly care about metrics and using them with @prometheus.io: promlabs.com/blog/2025/07...

MORE news about the alien object zipping through the solar system: it's a comet! Plus, a gorgeous new banner for the newsletter. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-update-... 🔭 🧪

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Who was Vera C. Rubin? 💫 Vera Rubin is the namesake of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory, but how much do you know about her? 🔭🧪

Do you want to find out more about how @grafana.bsky.social secures its GitHub actions using Zizmor? Check out this post from James on my team : grafana.com/blog/2025/06... @yossarian.net

I give you a momentary reprieve from the madness: The Vera Rubin Observatory has taken its first images of the sky, and they are *extraordinary*. Mind blowing detail, jaw dropping beauty. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/rubin-open... 🔭 🧪

Happy solstice! Tonight at 10:42 pm Eastern US time (02:42 UTC) is the June solstice, or the summer solstice for northern hemispherians. I wrote about this jn 2022 with links for more info. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-437-so...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY APOD! This was a brilliant idea early on in the days of the internet: a daily cool astronomy/space pic with a brief description and links. It brought science to millions of people.

🏳️‍🌈 Pride began with the bravery to be seen. We honor the courage of those who stood up at Stonewall—and stand with the LGBTQIA+ community today and every day. #PrideMonth

This is just wonderful. Bravo 👏 joshworth.com/dev/pixelspa...

We're getting SO CLOSE to the reveal of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's first images on June 23! So let's take a walk down memory lane 🎞️ Come with us through 10 memorable moments from the past 10+ years of building Rubin 🔭 🧵 📷: H. Stockebrand

Google Cloud is taking a massive outage right now, globally. status.cloud.google.com Not to be outdone, so is CloudFlare. www.cloudflarestatus.com #hugops

This is problem with all automation I've seen so far. It's great when it works, but when it breaks, it can be very painful to fix. Let's not forget our fundamental skills and practices.

🎉 Grafana labs has been included in the 2025 Redpoint InfraRed 100! This list recognizes 100 transformative companies in cloud infrastructure. Thank you to our community, customers, and Grafanistas who help push the boundaries of observability every day. See the list: redpoint.com/infrared/100/

Sometimes, #Grafana helps you land on the moon — literally. 🌕 @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social made history with the first fully successful commercial lunar landing, guided by real-time #telemetry in #Grafana dashboards. 🌙 Read the full story: grafana.com/blog/2025/06...

So happy to see Jonathan and David talking about features in Grafana Mimir 3 (psst… these are already available in current Mimir). Before switching teams I worked on new ingest storage architecture that Jonathan talks about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yabt...

Happy #pride yall

Which TV series have you watched more than once?

when the AI bubble pops and corporations stop forcing AI down our throats i'll miss stuff like this

What makes glaciers melt, you may wonder. What could it be? Our planet is heating up due to humanity's folly. We can fix this. We choose not to.

No prob for P9. Check out Fig 3 of the paper: the orbit is unstable WRT Neptune, so should not be part of the aligned cluster. Unsure about implications of Fig 4 since they use a weird version of Planet Nine that is closer than what we think is true.

Astronomers have found a decently big iceball on a ridiculously elongated elliptical orbit *way* out past Neptune. It hints at a whole population of these things, and does throw a monkey in the wrench for Planet Nine. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/astronomer... 🔭 🧪

I love this Rosetta shot of the comet's surface. It looks like it's exquisitely molded in clay.

Congrats Denmark, what an amazing match! :-) Good luck in Semi-finals! www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Uj...

This is pretty nice... Azure users can now use Grafana directly from the Azure portal. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureob...

If you're a EU citizen (even if currently not resident, as far as I understand), you are eligible to sign eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/ If this can be pushed over the finish line, an EU-wide ban on anti-scientific cOnVeRsIoN tHeRaPy is in reach Deadline is tomorrow; no idea about specific time 1/2

Dear Apple Music, are you OK? This album-splitting bug is quite annoying :( It's happening for me on both macOS and iOS, but it only started recently (2-3 weeks ago).

Has Planet 9 been found? Maaaaaaybe. Probably not, but maaaaaaybe. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/has-planet... 🔭 🧪

Adobe has been pulling the same unethical pattern for 5+ years: sign up for (what you think is) monthly; then when you cancel, charge you a massive cancellation fee (+lose immediate access) Every week, a complaint goes viral. Adobe doesn't care. Love this page collecting them: