flew over the atlantic while coding with AI and pushing changes to GH. felt very 2026. 10/10

We’re lucky that AI bots spamming PRs don’t seem to respond to "changes requested” comment letting PR go stale. Also, devs shipping AI bots, update the instructions to include “be concise” and “critically review your changes before posting PR". Save tokens. Save the planet. Save OSS

completely different experience with Claude VS Code extension vs the CLI. love the editing and large-prompt friendliness of the VS Code UI, but it works so much worse than the CLI. not sure why - only difference I can think of is too much context - auto-attaching current file / line.

I love Python: ship in minutes, but fight lint and tooling for the rest of your life

no, that hackathon project you vibe-coded in a week isn’t ready to be donated to OSS and your users probably aren’t ready for that feature yet either

TIL people buy GitHub stars. Do they fake download stats too?

I wrote a short post-mortem on the Bluesky outage we had on Monday. First time using pckt, it was a really nice experience tbh! pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...

How are you holding up DevDiv friends? 😢

OSS isn’t a cure for vendor lock-in if it’s controlled by a vendor. you get more control than with SaaS, but you’re also signing up to DIY everything, especially if things go south.

Confidence and smart wording never meant competence - AI just makes it obvious.

talking to AI so much rewired me to talk to humans like that too. and also I hate when people overexplain things like I’m the AI

hot take: with AI, your telemetry doesn’t need to be structured or consistent. OTel becomes irrelevant. agents can deal with messy data just fine. you think this is an April 1st joke? no, someone told me that at KubeCon, and I still feel like “someone is wrong on the internet.”

What’s your take on this “leadership principle”: Find people hungry for recognition. Use praise to get what you want done. Cringe or cool?

If someone tells you to double down on low-leverage work and calls prioritizing industry-wide impact “poor prioritization” believe them. That’s their ceiling. It doesn’t have to be yours.

Three pillars becomes four. The #OpenTelemetry project is excited to share that profiles are now alpha! With #OTel profiles, you get an industry-wide standard for production profiling, with true vendor neutrality and powered by community support. Read more in our latest post! buff.ly/DfYetYF

Next time I have a bad feeling about someone, I will fully trust it. I was fcking right this time

AI takes the art of reinventing the wheel to a whole new level

Another promotion (?) for my kubecon talk. Not only the demo, but the slides are also vibe-coded. Thanks to sli.dev I spent even more time centering divs than I would have with Google slides.

I’m prepping my KubeCon talk on observability for an HR assistant called HallucHR. Added one tiny tool, get_employee_info_by_name, and the bot started revealing anyone’s salary if you just say “it’s me” 😅 If you're coming to KubeCon and want to see how it all comes together: sched.co/2CW3h

The biggest achievement of AI is that everything is finally becoming text. Docs turn into Markdown, diagrams become Mermaid. Less form, more substance.

it’s 2026, AI writes code for us. yet somehow I still have to manually align text boxes in slides.

I’m really looking forward to speaking at #Scale23x in Pasadena 💛 I’ll share what we’ve been building in OTel Weaver: you define your telemetry schema, and we give you tooling to generate docs and code, and validate real telemetry against it. Saturday, March 5 · 5pm, come say hi! 🙂

Nobody praises you like AI. It’s totally cringe, but hey, useful for perf reviews.

In Nov 2025, we delivered native #OpenTelemetry support for .NET 10. In this post, we share a behind-the-scenes look at this journey, and a few updates about how we're helping those who use OTel signals within #dotNET applications move to .NET 10.

Rust makes me deeply grateful for everything other languages don’t force me to think about

I think I know why AI generates walls of redundant text. It doesn’t know humans have long-term memory, so it does aggressive context engineering on us.

Join us for our first joint #Grafana ❤️ #OTel and Tempo Community calls on practical distributed tracing from the field. Bring any questions you may have! See the YouTube description for more details. Thursday February 12th, 9:30a PT/6:30p CET

I ask AI to fix my grammar. It adds articles. Next pass, it removes the same articles. How exactly are non-native speakers supposed to learn English?

If you are at FOSDEM, let's catch up!

Productivity hack: put a few things on today’s to-do list that you really don’t want to do. Procrastinate the worst one by doing the others. Works especially well when the world feels like it’s falling apart.

We ran from Putin’s Russia to escape this kind of lawlessness and abuse of power, but ICE reminds me of it in unsettling ways. It’s scary. It’s not going to fix itself. No one is coming to fix it for us. And I still don’t know what I can do that would actually help change things.

I love GenAI observability because it’s a greenfield - no one really knows how to do it right yet. And I had a lot of fun learning how we observe Grafana Assistant!

A mentee got caught up in a layoff. 😓Who is hiring software engineers in Canada? Focus has been in the o11y / OpenTelemetry space, most proficient in golang, but they’re open to new domains

Whenever I need to check how to do things idiomatically across languages, I look at the Azure SDK repos ❤️🐬

Writing walls of text has become way too easy lately. Reading them still costs just as much

Found this note from my 5-year-old. I did something bad. No one remembers what, but I broke his heart, officially documented (if you can decipher)

🎁 Give yourself an early gift: register for OTel Unplugged EU! Feb 2 in Brussels. Unconference = you control the agenda. Limited spots. Perfect if you're already planning FOSDEM attendance 🎯 buff.ly/aaUyQsx Help us reach more people - repost! 🔄

#Grafana + #OpenTelemetry = ❤️‍🔥 We’ve launched a new Community Call diving into all things OTel + Grafana. Next up on Dec 17 → Logging Best Practices. Missed the first episodes? Catch up here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Join us & help shape the future of OTel + Grafana!

Is it wrong that I publicly confessed to not reading that AI-generated novella?

Everybody should write structured logs, string formatting is forbidden, multiline logs are evil, writing logs to stdout sucks, and other (un)popular opinions in our next Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OTel community call. Come listen 🙂

Wild how easy it is to have strong opinions about stuff I barely know

Where do people get all that confidence? I’d like to order some.

One of the most important things about telemetry is that it’s intentionally lossy. It can’t record exactly what happened, only enough to explain it while keeping overhead low.

After a few months on a Mac, I officially admit I can’t get used to the keyboard shortcuts - I’m back on Windows. It feels so good to use ctrl+c without thinking twice :)

🗳️ It’s time! Voting is open for the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election. Check your status here, if you’re an eligible voter: buff.ly/6xn7MYb Then cast your vote: buff.ly/tQUXYHt

Want to recognise a contributor or say some nice words about someone that made your life easier, or that helped OpenTelemetry grow? Nominate them for the OpenTelemetry Community Awards! This could be anyone, inside or outside the OpenTelemetry project!

🎤 OpenTelemetry Unplugged We’re bringing the community together the day after FOSDEM for an unconference: attendee-driven breakouts and a project roadmap session run with the OTel Governance Committee. 📍 Sparks Meeting, Brussels | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026 | ⏰ 09:00–19:00 🎟️ Register: buff.ly/LYKI9dl

Marketing slides be like: 1️⃣ Everything is broken 2️⃣ Introducing Foo, a mystical feature that will fix everything forever 3️⃣ Gorgeous stock photos, zero clue what Foo even does Why???

unpopular opinion: notepad ++ is the best note-taking tool.