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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Well seeing where GH is headed I think that I'll take the current process and not modernize 😅

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 26/08/2026

I can finally talk about this, 3 years later... github.com/tailscale/ta... It's a library + CLI tool that's like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane without any control plane (no accounts, no dependence on Tailscale the company, all open source) WireGuard + NAT traversal without IP addresses.

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GitHub - tailscale/tailcat: like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane

like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane - tailscale/tailcat

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The thing is, it's what every sensible person is doing. They want flink, I know the problem space (just other stack)? Flink it is. This is basic stuff and you are up against stuffed and made up CVs and fake experience (I've had to work with a few such hires, holy ****).

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We are converting part of our small (rather tiny, Europe) backyard to a wildflower garden and I'm so glad our neighbors are sensible humans. We don't have much space to work with. Now that I think of it, I might make a first attempt in late summer. Gardener said its not worth it before spring, eeh.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Look what just arrived, Observability Engineering (2nd) is absolutely huge. @charity.wtf you were not joking. Time to borrow a few columnar ideas for my winter project. #observability

A book on a wooden desktop. The second edition of "Observability Engineering" with a cover featuring a fox (?). The book itself is quite thick at around 600 pages.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'll check it out for sure, I was justthinking about simple ways of standing up very rudimentary runners from basic building blocks.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I don't know how much this helps but maybe walking back from building in docker and going for #incus / lxc builders (start-up near instant) and cloud-init'ing / mounting SDKs is one way to get simple throwaway CI infra without the usual docker in docker pitfalls?

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Recently I got on the #eBPF #profiling hype train and I had so much fun that I wrote a little something. I wanted to spread the word about #opentelemetry & ended up with too much txt even after massive cuts #observability #go borismarinov.de/writing/otel... Comments and jabs welcome here.

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Zero-instrumentation profiling with OpenTelemetry | Borislav Marinov

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I am using this opportunity to mention that it would be nice if there was an alternative platform I can read and pay on. Voting with my wallet on substack :)

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Can thank Google for that tbh.

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 10/06/2026

to use undisciplined tools well, an org will have to build more discipline, not less.

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Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co · 09/06/2026

And here’s the other side of the story. 💁‍♂️

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My guess is, you don't want to advertise it to everyone - just to the right people (the ones you need and are not already at the company). And that's not something to wave in the face of your current employees not at that level either.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

/3 But poor engineers take shortcuts at the things they have not mastered. And orgs with weak technical leadership know one language - Gartner report, "ship faster", "we don't need X devs anymore". A friend told me about his CEO vibing something in a language they don't use. Now an ops problem. Sigh

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

/2 If I had to make one point - no one should be scaffolding test suites with a parrot trained on awful data. The average dev can't write effective tests for shit. Let alone #TDD. I know how bad frontier models are at "reasoning" and proving correctness. Write good tests upfront, let LLMs fill gaps

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This is one of my favorite reads on the topic, I'm making a small collection to hand off to people which don't get nuance. My current field of work is platform eng for enterprise orgs which do software as if it was a hobby. Poor discipline, poor results. And downstream we get many of the negatives.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Paperback preordered, I could even pre-order from Germany. I'm not sure I can wait until August though, might as well grab as download to read on the go. Too many copies? 😂 But first to finish a few chapters from the first edition. 🥂

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Awesome, that's some great news. I'm really looking forward to it. Thanks a lot 🙌 for all the hard work and everything.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Hey yeah sorry, I was a bit stuck spent some time parsing profiles, and with otel having an alpha definition I was hoping that's a topic. Wrt store/ingest they ended up fitting just right in the baby retriever 🦮. The hard part is adding useful attributes, thread context is still up in the air (otel)

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Daniel Martí @mvdan.cc · 02/06/2026

It really does feel like GitHub is getting worse by the day. Now I regularly get bogus "invalid value" label errors when the label clearly exists and works.

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Russ Cox @swtch.com · 30/05/2026

“But it happened” is definitely worth more attention. youtu.be/tlQ7EoJDTQY?...

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"But it happened."

YouTube video by Molly Rocket

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Josh Baker @tidwall.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Biscuits: A very fast concurrent hashmap with transactions for Go. It's like sync.Map but can work on multiple keys atomically. 🚀 github.com/tidwall/bisc...

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GitHub - tidwall/biscuits: Fast concurrent hashmap for rapidly changing keys

Fast concurrent hashmap for rapidly changing keys. Contribute to tidwall/biscuits development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Do you have an idea whether something like this is doable on Mastodon? Recently I noticed a similar trend of posts about "here just for the debate / both sides" and following specific accounts.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Ive been writing about the less obvious challenges I encountered while working on a #Garage controller for storage bucket provisioning. Too much content but I need to get back to actual development.Here it is: borismarinov.de/writing/k8s-... #homelab #selfhosted #golang Comments & feedback here ^^

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Building a Kubernetes controller for external resources - lessons from Garage | Borislav Marinov

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Clemens Vasters @clemens.vasters.com · 06/05/2026

Ich habe die Kriterien für den Cluster-Graphen vereinfacht. Die Accounts im Zentrum haben eine Bot-Score von >0,45 und folgen mindestens 5 anderen Accounts des Clusters. Die Accounts aussen sind die top-gefolgten Accounts des Clusters die weniger als 5 Accounts des Clusters folgen.

Netzwerkgraph des Bot-Clusters. Knoten sind Zielkonten (Anchors), Kanten zeigen gemeinsame verdächtige Follower. 1727 Knoten, dichteste Verbindungen zwischen den Top-Anchors

Verteilung der Bot-Scores (0–1) über alle 1678 Follower. Bimodal: Häufung bei Score > 0.5 (Bots) und bei Score < 0.3 (unauffällig). Schwellenwert bei 0.5 trennt die Kategorien.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Oh my, thumbs up. I need to revisit some recent benchmarking runs I did. Wish I had found your article earlier 😅

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I sometimes want to use my yubikey as a second factor / security key (U2F). It seems that everyone is rolling out passkeys and I have to temp disable modes on my yubi. I also use passkeys too, and like them. So I have a problem mostly with the implementation and rollout.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

With the risk of delaying the second edition even more 😂 have you also added some deeper dives on (OTLP) profiles? Landed in alpha just recently so I am wondering whether there was anything particularly tricky eg ingest? I've been pondering over the wire format and the storage footprint looks small

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I need to watch the presentation, so excuse me if this was addressed. After looking into the profiles format I am not sure what backing store will do a good job of ingesting these at reasonable scale. TSDBs are out, are we looking at wide col DBs as generic solutions? Plus vendor specific solutions?

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Felix Geisendörfer @felixge.de · 31/03/2026

The OpenTelemetry Profiles Signal is now in Alpha 🚀 This is a big step towards making Continuous Profiling in production available to the whole industry. And given the rise of AI coding, this couldn't come at a better moment in time ... 🧵

Florian Lehner and Felix Geisendörfer presenting "The Fourth Pillar Arrives: OpenTelemetry Profiling Alpha in Action" at KubeCon EU

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I totally do, for the obvious reason. A bit melodramatic, but watching my dream career path go down in flames breaks my heart. Still motivated to keep improving, but power dynamics and career chances are completely broken. I'm having fun building a slightly specialized DB and your posts resonated 🎨

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Cheaper and feasible solutions are not what oil/gas wants. So smoke and mirrors it is.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Hey I'm waiting for the 2nd edition, back to writing! ❤️ Or else I will ship my poorly copied retriever based on the few notes in the chapter from the first book. This has been such a fun read so far.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

You could call it T... Ah no you know where this is going, I'm not good at jokes 😂

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Wait this is the price increase @.@ im so glad I have a stack of 8GB 4's stored securely in a Pelican case. Gotta need the spares.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/01/2026

The only good thing about all this is that it has brought to my attention that the Greenland flag frickin’ rules. #Erfalasorput

The flag of Greenland. The bottom half is red and the top half white, and offset from the center there is a circular design with the bottom half of the circle white and the top half red. It is meant to symbolize ice caps and the sun setting over the ocean.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Where is the pressure to host on Substack coming from? Just curious, wouldn't some platform like Ghost be great for writing? It seems to support the usual features people want or expect too (membership). Hell it even looks better and more transparent wrt billing.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Man, have fun and do join next year! I'm out of town with family, would love a signed coffee mug or something 😉

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I am so close to pulling the trigger, you beautiful self-organized nerd! ❤️ Side question, are you actually writing internal / work stuff on your remarkable or keeping only private / not-confidential stuff there? Asking for a friend (compliance gonna compliance).

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

See, they did an AB test and figured out that people click more when something is free. It's not T-Mobile's fault that they want to charge you for it. A present* it is then! (* charges may apply)

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

And generally naming things in go feels vastly different (better) than most OOP languages. r.keys.Get(id) instead of this.KeyService.GetKey() etc. And the focus in general is on the flow when reading. Extensions methods are great and overused, I wouldn't focus on them wrt good language design.

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Methods only hide the first parameter (receiver) anyway. What I'm trying to say is, when I declare a method with a receiver, there is no notion of this or self. In c# this happens in the class context, so 'this' makes sense. Not arguing just a diff explanation to "too generic, bad practice".

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

If you cant define a good name it's okay to simply use 'r' (abbreviated receiver). There is no this, neither a self in this context. Receiver funcs don't live in the context of the struct. Definition is on the package level. Using the Java/Python convention is factually incorrect here. #go

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Yes it exists, this was my point (bs reply char limit). I get that it sounds. A few questions: Where should the "text grabs" end, do you need eg to paste into email on your phone? And how can a third party make sure that you aren't secretly grabbing text off their phone screen? Just a few thoughts

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Yeah, definitely! Only if something like optical recognition of characters existed.. We would then only need a hand held camera running an operating system capable of executing applications. But getting ads beamed right into my eye socket while I drive or walk around would do as well 😊

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Boris M @bmarinov.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

100x this. I was doing some Github actions release tasks recently when I got completely off guard that the GH owned publish release tasks repo is... Archived since 2021 and using the tasks causes deprecation warnings. Way to go, Microsoft.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 13/11/2025

Can’t see any reason for sw engineers to choose Windows with this weird direction they are doubling down on So odd because Microsoft has building dev tools in their DNA… their OS doesn’t look like anything a builder who wants OS control could choose Mac or Linux it is for devs

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