Archive

2026

Apr 30 — if i have to read one more piece of generated text i will kms

2025

Sep 9 — Reflection, September 2025
Aug 3 — The Future Of Software Is Small
Jul 19 — Everyone Is Wrong, All The Time.
May 24 — JSON Is The Wrong Content Type For LLM Inputs.
May 17 — I Set Up My iPad Again, Please Clap.
Apr 17 — Wide Events, Personal Software, and You.
Jan 21 — Introducing locol
Jan 3 — One Weird Trick

2024

Jun 10 — The Hater's Guide to OpenTelemetry
Mar 29 — Re-Redefining Observability
Mar 23 — Don't Work For Projects That Don't Have Open Governance
Feb 25 — Regrets of a Technical Communicator
Feb 11 — Lessons Learned from Learning OpenTelemetry
Feb 3 — What Do We Mean When We Talk About OpenTelemetry?
Jan 25 — OTel TIL - What The Heck Is Instrumentation, Anyway?
Jan 17 — Telemetry Ergonomics
Jan 13 — Selling The Vision
Jan 6 — Parsing Apache2 access logs with the OpenTelemetry Collector

2023

Nov 20 — Data Bores
Oct 30 — Deploying on Friday the 13th
Aug 28 — Observability Cannot Fail, It Can Only Be Failed
Aug 22 — Observability and the Decentralized Web
May 1 — The Blockchain Haters Guide To The AT Protocol

2022

Oct 16 — Stop Trying To Make Observability Happen
Jul 27 — Virtual Events Are Dead, Long Live Virtual Events

2021

Oct 8 — Incentives and Power

2020

Dec 23 — The Commodification of DevOps
May 4 — Deserted Island DevOps Postmortem

2018

Nov 11 — Mono in Debian 9 Containers
Oct 13 — OpenTracing for ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI