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Mila Ardath (they/them)

@ctrlspice.bsky.social
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- A bag of [7-12] possums - otel-desktop-viewer's work dad - Handle is a Dune joke - All the possums want to talk to you about OpenTelemetry

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 8h
Fuck it. It’s 1. Everything is so stupid that at this point I vote 1. But I bet it’s less like the Arquillians from MiB and more like the Slitheen from that scary AF Doctor Who arc…
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Doctor Who: David Tennant & Billie Piper
ALT: Doctor Who: David Tennant & Billie Piper
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 8h
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The Princess Bride Mandy Patinkin
Alt: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 8h
“Twatted it on the straight” use cases include but are not limited to: - compaction ate my context - Oscar Piastri - dating while non-binary
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 9h
In other news, my unhinged rodent brain met the expression “twatted it on the straight” on the meme f1 subreddit and decided that it’s the best thing in the English language and we are keeping it.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 12h
I am going to enjoy ripping out span events so much when the time comes y’all. It’s going to be so satisfying! I bet it will feel like pealing surprise protective plastic off a screen that you’ve used and been mildly annoyed with for years.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Make it exist first. You can make it good later. Says Skeletor thinking this octopus staff needs some more work.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This short break in development is brought to you by ✨the flu✨ I have very exciting activities planned for ✨the flu✨such as: - groan in pain - flop about - start swamp in own hair
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Never before has a turtle turtled this hard. Zoom in and appreciate The Foot
A fantastic painted turtle stands on a snag in a stream. Turtle has a smooth black carapace with bright red edges. Its neck and legs are a glorious riot of yellow racing stripes. It has its neck fully extended staring at the sky and the back right leg and foot are completely extended. This is an epic pose by a creature at the peak of its powers.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Your wife is right. Top hat and fancy cane is much safer.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The three horsemen of every internet outage are DNS, BGP, and the Greater North American Cable Seeking Backhoe
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The amount of compute I use to mathematically approximate a half-hour of an actual designer's time is staggering, y'all.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Friends, I need someone to be very real with me about Docker's whole trace export thing. Why is it like that?
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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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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a good post
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Compacted away all the humour and now we're back to hating on Ferrari: Why did the F1 team number every meeting agenda item? So “we’re checking” could finally have a tracking number. 🤦
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We’ve ordered some more for extra safety. #WorldBollardAssociation
Hundreds of yellow bollards block a pavement.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have the agents tell me an F1 joke when they come back with work and they are getting better ngl. "Aston Martin’s most expensive component is technically still listed as a dependant."
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don't follow Formula One, but good on them for using subtitles for the hard of hearing… 
F1 track with numerous Zoom signs on the advertising billboards
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm only 2 coffees in tho, so who knows?
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I feel like I can't hit that with a combination of solid technical work and hilarious fuckery, and any more hilarious fuckery would get in the way of the work?
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R. Blaylock Art @meanderingunicorns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Many fantasy and sci-fi authors have created compelling fictional religions, but @tkingfisher.com has written the only one I actually want to join. Let me be be useful. Let me be practical. Let me find ways my skills can serve others in the Temple of the White Rat.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Drag is an art form. Exclusive drag ownership is a science. Pointer-capture lifecycle management is kind of a bitch.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Everything I have ever built is a Rat-Flail and I will not be elaborating further.
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Out of curiosity, what were the uniforms in Starship Troopers inspired by?
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Right?! I just want to switch to the international feed for both audio AND subtitles I don’t want to ponder the meaning of futility
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You know, I get insecure about my UI sometimes but F1 TV is just out there crashing when you open the drawer so…
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Make a band edible (low effort): Sublime
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Don’t mind me, I’m just over here waiting patiently for v2.0 for the even faster recursion and json mutation functions 😍 duckdb.org/2026/08/17/d...
duckdb.org
A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new storage format, and much more...
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I wrote about building trace waterfalls using recursive CTEs in @duckdb.org ctrlspice.codes/building-tra...
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Generating Trace Waterfalls with Recursive CTEs in DuckDB
in which we talk about the last time I was accused of witchcraft
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
À propos of nothing in particular, did you know that Necromantic Robot Army works with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle theme song? Just making casual conversation.
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reposting this because
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
if my saint-ciboire de sausage fingers could stop reflexively typing "merde" instead of "merged" that would be very good oké beau-bye
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austin @aparker.io · 09/09/2026
i mean i can generally understand why people do things that look stupid but i literally cannot understand why companies with more or less positive reps are throwing money at a guy who in tyool 2026 literally wrote a blog calling for racial cleansing
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Users SHOULD NOT want to scream at the datetime picker. I MUST shoulder this burden and scream alone.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Cat Righting Reflex is the official name of the process cats use to automatically correct themselves mid-fall and land on their feet. It develops between 3 - 9 weeks of age, and is responsible for the greatest wikipedia gif of all time.
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 03/09/2026
Hilroy to remove additional province from map of Canada every year until demands met
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Hilroy to remove additional province from map of Canada every year until demands met
MISSISSAUGA, ON – Earlier this week Canadians noticed that Hilroy had excluded Newfoundland and Cape Breton from the map of Canada on the cover of their latest notebooks. Today, the company confirmed ...
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
590) Leakbots. If you have a household leak, use these instead of various pots and pans, buckets, or whatever to catch the water. They move around to intercept drips, empty themselves, and only occasionally fall asleep. #SmallRobotsRemastered
A set of five robots in the form of flat-bottomed bowls of various sizes, partially filled with water and each with a pair of banded legs on the bottom and eyes on the front. One is walking off somewhere, the smallest is being surprised by a splash landing in it and one on the far right has fallen asleep - a small puddle has formed beside it as a result. A series of drips are falling from above.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Bear just sat on his butt and grumbled for a few minutes before moving on. TBF that was like, a lot. And he didn’t even get any garbage.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s 3 am and I’m awake because there’s a whole-ass bear pouting under a tree in the backyard after getting read for absolute filth by one of the neighbours’ huskies. #squamish
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snek @snek.dev · 28/08/2026
why have you forsaken me
blahaj poking out of washing machine looking like some sort of melted goblin due to the stuffing getting all bunched up, the face is totally flat and misshapen.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ooooh! Cool! I am thinking something very similar. No MCP (yet) or raw DB access but the agent gets a JSON-RPC endpoint and same API the UI itself calls plus discoverability and some composite queries (like describeTrace)
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hey folks! otel-desktop-viewer 0.5.0 is out now and also the project just passed 1k stars on GitHub, so I figured I'd (re-)introduce it: ctrlspice.codes/rebuilding-o...
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I rebuilt otel-desktop-viewer on top of DuckDB
and all I got was locally searchable traces, metrics, and logs.
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Niv is both the calm and the storm 🖤 @lanooba.com · 21/08/2026
MOOD
Poster of animated hippo with quote saying “I will succeed because I am insane”
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The kids are playing Wobbly Life and the medium child just yelled “Why?! This is NOT the Jedi Way!” at his sister I have like 40 seconds to bask in the pride before someone starts crying in earnest so…
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 19/08/2026
Why is the Cat Screaming?
1. Why wouldn't the cat scream
2. If you were smart, you'd be doing the same thing
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
Panel one shows a bone. The bone says, "I make stem cells!"
Panel two shows a pancreas. The pancreas says, "I make insulin!"
Panel three shows the bone and pancreas and now a brain. The brain says "I make scenarios!"
Panel four shows the bone, pancreas, and brain. The brain is on fire.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Yeah, no that's a wardrobe staple now and you need 2 more colours. You'd need one more even if it your ex hadn't said a word about it because it looks amazing, but as it stands yeah I think at least 2.
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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
For those unfamiliar, if you have a cable loose, you are contractually obligated to blame it on the goose iirc
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