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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can see your correlated logs in the trace waterfall now and also they cluster instead of overlapping which is nice

A screenshot of the otel-desktop-viewer UI showing a neat dropdown that lists logs and events, their offset from the start of their span, and their names.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

not getting read for filth by the semver.org FAQ or anything. oh no.

A screenshot from the semver.org faq section reads as follows:

How do I know when to release 1.0.0?

If your software is being used in production, it should probably already be 1.0.0. If you have a stable API on which users have come to depend, you should be 1.0.0. If you’re worrying a lot about backward compatibility, you should probably already be 1.0.0.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

“Sucking at [CI] is the first step to becoming sorta good at [CI]” - Jake the Dev …or something is going to splat I don’t know it’s okay I’ll fix it 🤷

$Text messages. “The Debian package works fine on Ubuntu 24.04 \o/“ “Fuck yeah!”$

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

On sum-cumulative-monotonic we wear rate. Told ya I don't theme-shame! Mostly. My light-side heat maps still look like bacon, but I am fixing that next.

A local OpenTelemetry viewer displaying a metric of type sum, where the aggregation temporality is cumulative, and the cumulative flag is set to true. The time series selected in this example has a pink line and overlay, landing the visual element to the "On Wednesday, we wear pink" joke from Mean Girls.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Not to brag or anything, but it has 2 (two) dark modes. And also a light mode if you are into that sorta thing. We don't theme shame. #OpenTelemetry #otel-desktop-viewer #soon!

A local OpenTelemetry viewer rendering a trace waterfall, along with span details.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Felt cute, might delete later ;) #OpenTelemetry #otel-desktop-viewer

A screenshot of a local OpenTelemetry viewer rendering a gauge, and aggregating average across several time series.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Stepping away from Stargate: github.com/open-telemet...

Meme using the Lion King "shadowy place" template with three panels. In the first panel, Mufasa tells Simba that AggregationTemporality defines how a metric aggregator reports aggregated values, gesturing toward the sunlit lands labeled AGGREGATION_TEMPORALITY_DELTA and AGGREGATION_TEMPORALITY_CUMULATIVE. In the second panel, Simba asks "But what's that shadowy place over there?" pointing toward AGGREGATION_TEMPORALITY_UNSPECIFIED. In the third panel, Mufasa sternly replies "UNSPECIFIED is the default AggregationTemporality, Simba. It MUST not be used."

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Property of Daedalus. Do Not Remove. This is funny because buckets! 😁

Shepard and McKay are using the Atlantis facility as a driving range. The golf ball bucket says "Property of Daedalus - Do Not Remove"

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I need to re-read Dresden Codak, but that's where the phrasing is from. Also I am doing a batch at @recurse.com right now, and "I will do OpenTelemetry" to it is kind of a meme because I am having a lot of fun instrumenting increasingly weirder things for my personal amusement.

Comic character is holding a cookie. The speech bubble says "I will do science to it"

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Okay, so I ran with this half-joke-half-experiment and swapped the original latexmk script with the one I instrumented, and here's my CV getting compiled, visualized in a tool I built! This is very silly, but also unbelievably cool!

A trace waterfall showing my LaTeX compilation workflow

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

You are neither wrong nor untimely with your advice, but also I'm not gonna. 😁

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I’m working on the weekend, and Bug is all curled up in his favourite hiking hat, keeping me company.

A grey cat is curled up in a green, broad-rimmed hiking hat on the corner of my desk, getting ready for his post-nap snooze.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Yeah Claude I really rather you didn’t.

The photo shows the corner of my monitor with the Cursor editor in the background. It is focused in on a memory diagonal that says “The user prefers that the assistant not generate ASCII dick art in its responses”

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Saw a small bear this morning while biking back from kiddo’s camp drop off.

A view of a bike path going into a lush wooded area. Somewhat far away from the photographer, potentially so far that one would need to zoom in, is a juvenile black bear eating berries by the side of the path.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

My hiking hat is no longer for hiking. It is for baby.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I don’t think I have ever been or will ever be as cozy as these two when they take over my kid’s bed for the day.

Two grey and white kittens, stretched out luxuriously on pink bedsheets, among ballerina themed blankets.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Made some progress on logs in otel-desktop-viewer. Just super roughly prototyping the front end for now, but the back-end is doing its thing and ready for review! I’m going to treat myself to a pastry, then move on to metrics.

A JSON print-out of some test logs (details irrelevant and boring) on the front end of otel-desktop-viewer, showing that logs are getting from point A to point B.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The kittens are fully enjoying their time with the large crinkle snake.

Two grey cats are playing with a long piece of brown packaging paper. Bug is laying on one end in loaf pose, while Patch is trying to the other end into submission.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Patch got accidentally shut in a closet yesterday, and I’m not sure he actually even noticed? The thing about Patch is that while his handful of brain cells are acquainted in passing, they don’t really interact outside of the daily stand-up, ya know?

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

So… this is Bug’s brother Patch. He lives here now. The smooth children haven’t yet realized we have two cats. I’m not telling them because it’s funnier this way.

A slightly different grey and white kitten (this one is a bit chubbier, has white cheeks, and longer socks) than usual stretched out on my green blanket.

A slightly different grey and white kitten than usual curled up happily on my bed.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Does this look like the face of someone who pooped on the bread this morning? He would never! (He did.)

A grey and white kitten, curled up on the floor politely, looking up at the camera with very innocent eyes.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Bug (the kitten) will not let me fix the bug (derogatory) in my exporter config. He swipes at the keyboard if I stop petting. No debugging allowed, I guess.

Bug, our grey and white kitten lays contentedly by a keyboard, his eyes closed. In the corner of the photo is a computer monitor showing an error in an OpenTelemetry exporter config file. The kitten’s peaceful demeanour is deceptive, and I am not currently allowed to fix the error.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The smooth children have fully claimed their new furry sibling, and vice versa.

Text message from my partner while I was out getting more cat things:

“View of doorway. Ball bounces by. Cat flies by. Followed by small child. Followed by larger child.

Same thing repeats in the opposite direction 5 seconds later.”

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Yes! Behold my new fluffy child! He is just so good and soft and I LOVE HIM! ❤️

A 4-month-old grey and white kitten is partially squished between two couch cushions (on purpose) while stretched out on his back like a tiny person. He is having a nap.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

We have acquired one (1) kitten. His name is Bug. He is 4 months old, and I don’t think he has stopped purring unless it was to sleep.

A grey and white kitten staring intently at a colourful fishy toy, getting ready to murder it with his murder mittens.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The smaller child sure loves a nook.

My smaller child, ready for school in a raincoat and rain boots, ensconced under our single bar stool, reading Calvin and Hobbes.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My bigger kid pointed out that the smaller kid’s pet unicorn has a second face and now we are both giggling because we can’t unsee it.

The same unicorn facing forward. The nostrils over the mouth can be viewed as a second pair of eyes, making up a very silly smiley face.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

But consider, if you go with “Christofascist Oligarchy” it can be sung to the tune of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

- a long-sleeved black thermal with rainbows 🌈 - an awesome Hawaiian shirt over the thermal - a glitter pink coil necklace - a green headband - a dinosaur blanket blanket as a cape

The aforementioned child, wearing all the aforementioned things, racing down the hall with a paper airplane.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

There’s a time and a place for AI art, and that time is when I need a deeply unserious capybara doing non-capybara things and that place is in my pull requests, as a little treat.

Ostensibly we have a duck and a capybara standing together in a heroic pose, symbolizing the unity of workers on a poster advocating for union rights.

However, this was made by AI, so the capybara’s arms terminate in weird blobs, the duck does not have a single thought behind those eyes, and the inspirational text is gibberish that says “UNTER RUOHTS! Ret the union rights.”

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

My grocery store got a new Eastern European section and I’M GOING TO EAT IT!

A section of two grocery store shelves featuring large bags of pryaniki and sushki. The first is a dense spice cookie of sorts, and the second is the ungodly textural love child of a bagel, a pretzel, and a crouton. Both are completely inedible without tea, but amazing with it.

Here’s me trying to carry two bags of sushki under one arm. I’m going to eat them and they will be delicious.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The kids have reached the end of their dinosaur era (for now) and I was photographing these girls to put up for free on marketplace (dinosaur era gets hella expensive) but it looks like they are shooting an album cover. 🤷 Ship it.

A carnotaurus and three t-rex toys were positioned on a coffee table in the most expedient way to keep them vertical. The result looks like an album cover of a parody of a boy band. The carnotaurus is marketed as the group clown. The t-rex on the right raps in every song, so poorly it physically hurts.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

When the kids beg you to put festive reindeer antlers and a nose on your vehicle, you put festive reindeer antlers and a nose on your vehicle.

A yellow long-tail cargo bike is standing in a parking lot. It is adorned with reindeer antlers on the handlebars and a big red nose on the handlebar stem.

In the background, there is a majestic view of snow-capped mountains, partially obscured by wisps of clouds.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The bigger child did a communism to m… our DarnTough socks this morning, and to be fair I feel like I deserved that.

My 8-year old seen walking ahead of me down a leaf-strewn gravel path. He is wearing a purple backpack, a green jacket, black fleece shorts over blue thermal tights, and what was previously my, but is now our, pair of geometrically pattered merino hiking socks pulled over the tights, half-way to his knees. Somehow, he manages to make the ensemble look really cool.

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