Reposted by Bryan BorehamOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 14/09/2026Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation. The OTel Specification now has a release candidate for environment variables as context propagation carriers. We want feedback before we mark it Stable. buff.ly/cKwKa7vopentelemetry.ioHelp us stabilize environment variable context propagationA trace does not always cross a network boundary. A workflow runner starts a shell, the shell launches a build tool, and the build tool starts test processes. Batch and data-processing systems create… 165
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026PromCon is back in Munich next month; hope to see many of you there! promcon.io/2026-munich/ 010
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A rare moment of joy in the headline-writing room, I imagine. “UK canned ‘mackerel’ now contains no mackerel” www.ft.com/content/980a...ft.comUK canned ‘mackerel’ now contains no mackerelCritics say switch to tins comprising more sustainable species risks confusing consumers 030
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Molly White wrote about it (in considerable detail): www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-...citationneeded.newsMigrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the detailsI migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that. 120
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Been there. Though not very often - I guess one typically hits the limit hard or not at all. 110
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I heard you liked AI so I refactored with AI and then built tools with AI to find the mistakes from AI. #GopherConUK youtu.be/RK7oQie4d9k?...youtu.beBuild Your Own Tools to Refactor Go Safely – Bryan BorehamYouTube video by GopherCon UK 040
Reposted by Bryan BorehamBryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Use a liveness probe when you know for sure the best possible thing to do is to kill your app. 042
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This is a version of “why not what”. I can see what the code does; don’t repeat that in the PR description. What I can’t see is why. 000
Reposted by Bryan BorehamDaniel Lemire @lemire.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Go 1.27 will make some allocations cheaper lemire.me/blog/2026/08/15/go-1-27-w… 1204
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Shit, it’s the name of an Adobe Illustrator format. 010
Reposted by Bryan BorehamOpenUK @openuk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The OpenUK Awards are live the "Oscars of Open Source." 🏆 🚀 This 7th edition recognises UK leadership and global collaboration in open tech. Gala dinner at the House of Commons, 5 Nov, hosted by Chi Onwurah MP. Nominations close midnight BST, 6 Sept. Nominate here: openuk.uk/awards/ #openukawards 024
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Tried to find the website for “P95Conf”, which sadly doesn’t exist. I guess it would be a more relaxed and chill sister to P99Conf. 170
Reposted by Bryan BorehamWIRED @wired.com · 05/08/2026Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.wrd.cm4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI StartupJeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design. 135017
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Pondering how many ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden slow implementations of half of Common Lisp are encoded in the weights of a frontier model. 120
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It is unbelievable. Much of it comes from massive solar farms in Kent like www.clevehillsolar.comclevehillsolar.comCleve Hill Solar Park 110
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Why are there two 64GB options? I can’t spot the difference. 100
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 An elegant weapon for a more civilized age. 020
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Very sad about Ronnie Le Drew, puppeteer of Zippy, Sweep and Muppet Treasure Island. He was so full of joy. 011
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Heh. I think the LLMs do this a lot. They love to preach. Also they charge by the token. 100
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I hate when I’m reading code and there’s a ten-line comment about why it doesn’t do such-and-such and why this other thing would break. I read code to see what it does *now*. Put the history in git. You don’t need to warn me not to change it back to the old version because you wrote a test. Right? 210
Reposted by Bryan BorehamGrafana @grafana.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Your voice helps the Grafana community! 🗣️ Speak at one of our meetups — whether it's a lightning talk or a deep dive — and score an exclusive free t-shirt! Submit your talk, take the stage, and receive your tee. Limit one per speaker: grafana.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4… 011
Reposted by Bryan BorehamPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope 821849632
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Interesting. Project Oak seems to be from Google Research, although they don't say that very clearly. 100
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 20/06/2026If you want to know where all the trees are in London. apps.london.gov.uk/public-realm...apps.london.gov.ukLondon’s Public Realm TreesExplore a collection of over 1.1 million Public Realm Trees in London by Species, Location and Climate Suitability. 130
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The PromCon CFP is now open. sessionize.com/promcon-eu-2...sessionize.comPromCon EU 2026: Call for SpeakersPromCon EU 2026 is the tenth conference fully dedicated to the Prometheus monitoring system. It will take place on 2026-10-07 & 2026-10-08 (Wed & Thu)... 022
Reposted by Bryan BorehamMichael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Delighted to share some good news 🧪 “This hugely encouraging news shows the life-saving impact of the HPV vaccine, and it’s incredibly exciting to be able to say to this whole generation: cervical cancer shouldn’t be a risk for you,” says Caroline Temmink www.newscientist.com/article/2530...newscientist.comNo young women have died of cervical cancer in England for yearsWe already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cases of cervical cancer, and now we have the first evidence it prevents deaths too 5695226
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 17/06/2026You're absolutely right Dave, I did open the pod bay door. 030
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The OED has citations back to 1908. We can blame O. Henry. 🙂 english.stackexchange.com/questions/28... 100
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Although clearly nonsensical, it is apparently a thing. 100
Reposted by Bryan Borehamadjectivecat aka brad @adjectivecat.bsky.social · 14/06/2026food and laughter are our true natural law 021
Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Thank you, autocorrect, I do like the phrase “but-twiddling”, but it doesn’t fit with my expository flow. An entirely different world of digital manipulation. 030
