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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kicking off #PromCon with a full house and some great talks. Livestream at PromCon.io

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Although clearly nonsensical, it is apparently a thing.

Screen grab from Cambridge Dictionary showing a US meaning of “out-of-pocket” as “not able to be contacted”.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Weird new DoS where an outage in one service causes a flood of messages in the chat

GitHub "Ooops 500" page indicating an outage on their site.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is peak release-noting. #kubernetes kubernetes.io/blog/2026/04...

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Haven’t had snow at #KubeCon since Austin ‘17

Corner of a building; snow is streaking right to left.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

On my way to #KubeCon. New transportation provider; they seem friendly.

Sign saying “Jellycat Airlines London”, with a selection of uniformed staff below.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

@hannahfoxwell.net is moving from the 2-pizza team to the tapas team. #QConLondon

Slide from a conference talk.
BUILD SOMETHING WORTH BUILDING
I'M KEEPING
→ Empowered product teams
→ Fast feedback with real users
→ UX Research & Usability Testing
I'M TRASHING
→ The two pizza team of 6-8 developers
→ My 6 month roadmap
I'M TRYING
→ Forward deployed engineers
→ Product engineers
→ Prototype before product
→ Smaller teams

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

20 years of #QConLondon. I'm honored to be part of this edition, speaking on CPU Hardware Counters, on Monday (tomorrow). qconlondon.com/presentation...

Banner for QCon London session "Understanding and Tuning System Performance with CPU Hardware Counters", speaker Bryan Boreham

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I love the power in this shot.

Dark brown bird of prey, wings up, has snatched a fish and is starting to fly off. Tail of the fish is dragging in the water.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

In Shetland for Up Helly Aa, where people dress up as Vikings and burn a longship.

City street, with about 40 people dressed as Vikings in red cloaks and silver helmets.

Replica Viking longship, mounted on a wheeled float on the street.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Honoured to have been included on the OpenUK list.

Bryan standing holding a medal with an orange ribbon.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

downdetector.com is down. We're doomed!

Screen grab showing url downdetector.com and error message:
500 Internal Server Error - cloudflare

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Conversational gambits for weeks! www.unicode.org/notes/tn27/

U+0238 LATIN SMALL LETTER DB DIGRAPH
U+0239 LATIN SMALL LETTER QP DIGRAPH

These are actually ligatures, rather than digraphs
U+025B LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E

This is actually a Latin epsilon and should have been so called.
U+025E LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E

Actually a closed reversed epsilon (reversed form of U+025B).
U+0285 LATIN SMALL LETTER SQUAT REVERSED ESH

This is actually a reversed fishhook r with retroflex hook.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I will be speaking at #GopherConUK about Swiss Maps! www.gophercon.co.uk

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Missing GopherCon EU due to being 9,000km away.

Sunset over Tokyo bay. Suspension bridge and skyscrapers in the background, dinner cruise boats in the middle.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Continuing our series on vending machines…

Five vending machines in a row, in an indoor setting. The machines are emblazoned with pictures of raw steaks, except for the leftmost which looks like fish eggs. Bon appetit!

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Japan is famous for vending machines, but this is one of the best.

Vending machine at the side of a street, offering Sriracha hot sauce. Nothing but hot sauce in this one vending machine. 30 bottles are on show. The price is 700 yen.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I’m in Japan for #kubecon, sightseeing for a bit before heading to Tokyo.

Ghibli park in Aichi, showing recreations of Howl’s Moving Castle and Kiki’s bakery.

Himeji Castle, striking white walls above massive stone walls.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Not sure if this translation is accurate.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Come see me and Chris Leavoy on Thursday at #kubecon This talk is about the biggest Prometheus I've ever seen. Lots of low-level detail about what goes on inside, plus what we did about it. Or find me on the Grafana booth - number S462. sched.co/1txHp

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Come see me and @bernot.dev on Wednesday at #kubecon This talk is about extending the Vertical Pod Autoscaler to cope with hetrogenous loads. Or find me on the Grafana booth - number S462. sched.co/1tx8F