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I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service
Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s...
6 days ago
Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s because the honest justification for a career is rarely noble. It’s usually a combination of a decent paycheck, tolerable hours, and whatever neurosis you
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OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)
For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor...
12th Aug 2026
For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?"
Vendor SDKs for observability are, to put
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Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking...
1st Jul 2026
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work
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The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger...
7th May 2026
I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger generations pining for those simpler days, I was there. Paper maps were absolutely horrible, just you and a compass in your car on the side of the road in the middle of the
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You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026
I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good. Sometimes it reads like I wrote it at 2 AM after an...
9th Apr 2026
I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good. Sometimes it reads like I wrote it at 2 AM after an argument with a YAML file, which is because I did. But one decision I made early on was that I didn't want to offer an email newsletter.
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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with...
6th Mar 2026
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter.
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GitButler CLI Is Really Good
My workflow has remained mostly the same for over a decade. I write everything in Vim using the...
9th Feb 2026
My workflow has remained mostly the same for over a decade. I write everything in Vim using the configuration found here. I run Vim from inside of tmux with a configuration found here. I write things on a git branch, made with the git CLI, then I add them with
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Making RSS More Fun
I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.
2nd Dec 2025
I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.
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I broke and fixed my Ghost blog
In case you find this post after hours of google searching
16th Oct 2025
In case you find this post after hours of google searching
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Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like...
27th Sep 2025
Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like a colony is something that inspires a lot of emotions. Greenland has been subjected to a lot of unethical experiments by Denmark, from taking their kids to wild experiments in...
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