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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 13/08/2026

These are only Lightroom Mobile (which isn't the best at editing) but I did travel to Mallorca to see it. Best. Decision. Ever. I think a full solar eclipse is one of those things that you cannot explain until you see it 🙂

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 10/04/2026

Sometimes, when I've had a bad day, I like reminding myself to "not be too harsh and the pursuit of perfection". Some wisdom from a vinyl installation tutorial I got for an old laptop, that lives permanently on my fridge door now.

Instructions to install a laptop vinyl stuck on a fridge via magnets

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 07/11/2025

Company-wide day off today, time to (finally) start editing photos from a recent trip! This is about 2/15 days... so much good stuff to go through 500px.com/p/dan_gomezb...

Buddha Dordenma

Towering Buddha statue overlooking the valley ＆ perched above a temple filled with art ＆ exhibits.

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 05/11/2025

The tail of a distribution is always interesting... like whoever decided to give The Witcher S04E05 a 10 on IMBD!

The Witcher S04E05 reviews on IMBD at 3.5, with a large number of 1's, a small number of 10's, and very little reviews in the middle.

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 27/10/2025

Voting for the @opentelemetry.io Governance Committee elections is now open! If you're eligible, head to vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elect... and cast your vote! It takes 2 minutes, but make sure you go to end until you see this screen otherwise your vote doesn't count! Power to the people! ✊

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 16/09/2025

Best part of preparing presentations? The memes, always the memes #opentelemetry #otel #observability #context #correlation

Obi-Wan Kenobi saying "Impossible. Perhaps the archives are incomplete" with the caption "Correlating container CPU throttling to IDs of end users that received a poor experience, without context propagation"

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 07/08/2025

Spoken word gig at @edfringe.bsky.social, small audience, active participation. Got asked what I do. Panic. Observability Architect would be wtf so conversation moves on to open source... And just like that I got a poem (and a great performance). Thanks Brian! Go watch him at the Royal Scots Club!

What do you need a poem about?

life – work – legacy
open source means owned by a
community – a tool held as a common good
until it's obsolete, free to all but made
by someone – someones – anonymous –
iterative until these two eyes meet
& in the space between them
we discover what new sort of software
is born, shorn of all pretence, a history
unbound by costume or custom, a
crumb of nourishment to pass on.

Until we know the destination
this travelling impulse is leading us
toward, through a wasteland post-
nuclear or at least post-modern,
post-mother, where we mother ourselves
into some kind of open source being,
where once there was one creator, now
you are part of a storm.

& after rain, things
grow

Brian Sonia-Wallace 7.8.25

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 07/08/2025

Let's just not forget how we learnt about the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012! Fabiola Gianotti, who later become Director General at CERN, was a good sport for April Fool's a couple years later home.cern/news/news/ce...

Slide from presentation at CERN, announcing the discovery of the Higgs boson, in Comic Sans

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 21/06/2025

I've recommended the Peak Design camera clip before for those that like outdoor photography, to put on your rucksack strap. I just got the Pro Pad and this is a game changer to clip it to a belt for street photography. So much more comfortable, and it feels way more secure too!

Me holding a Peak Design camera clip with Pro Pad

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 15/05/2025

I know it sounds like a cheap excuse but I swear I was en route to a PB at next week's Edinburgh half before I decided to change jobs, go to conferences in two different continents, and catch a nasty flu in one of them, all in the space of a month! It was kinda fun tho...

Garmin training status showing "strained" during the month of April

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 29/04/2025

What a nice surprise arrived in the post today! Practical OpenTelemetry is now available in Japanese!! 🎉 I love the quote taken from the book on the front cover "use the right signals for the right purpose". Still important!

My hand holding a copy of the Japanese translation of Practical OpenTelemetry

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 13/04/2025

When you get a clear day entering Newfoundland and Labrador 😍

Sheets of ice on the ocean. Photo taken from a plane window

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 05/04/2025

As ever, I think my body required a 10-hour sleep after KubeCon... Luckily this time it was just a 4h train journey away! Thanks to all that dropped by the #OpenTelemetry Observatory and brought their insights, to the maintainers that led meetups, and of course to everyone that helped organise!

A bunch of Oteliers talking about OTel at the OTel Observatory

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 11/03/2025

It's taken me a while, with a COVID episode in the middle, but I'm back in the VO2 50s after recovering from a long injury!

VO2 Max going from 43 to 50 since September to today.

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 09/02/2025

It doesn't matter if you're 8, or 38, the sense of wellbeing after finishing a Lego set remains the same

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 29/01/2025

I'm as excited about DeepSeek's efficiency, performance, and openness as the next person, but...

The Simpsons bus driving saying "don't make me tap the sign" that reads "open weight models are not open source"

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 24/01/2025

Is YouTube trying to tell me that both storm #Eowyn and #etcd are a "danger to life"?

YouTube recommending a video about Kubernetes running on PostgreSQL (instead of etcd) under a video about storm Eowyn hitting Scotland

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 13/01/2025

I was thinking "I might just be getting back to normal energy levels after the holidays" so I checked Garmin body battery history. Some real facts right there about Christmas, board games and NYE... Worth it though!

Garmin body battery showing dips on Christmas, board game night, and NYE

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 01/12/2024

Went out for a wee walk up Caerketton and Allermuir hills. Almost caught a full rainbow over Edinburgh! 🌈

Rainbow over Edinburgh from the Pentlands

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 30/11/2024

I thought this was supposed to be a roast not some of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me ☺️ Although not sure I'd trust this with a total population of 137 posts... blueskyroast.com/roast/dangb.me

My main summary from blueskyroast.com present in the attached link

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 18/11/2024

Precisely the strategy of @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social and many others in EU. Successful, but promptly met with the full force of media moguls to bring down their political personas with deception. Wide adoption of free press is a pre-req for a true socialist agenda, and that in itself is really hard!

This election, Trump was the beneficiary of a pissed-off electorate. It doesn’t have to be this way. We on the Left — in our community organizing, our unions, our socialist electoral campaigns — must become the political home of those who are so rightly angry at the establishment. We can win by rejecting the agendas and sensibilities of the rich, and advancing a political agenda that will make working-class people’s lives better. We cannot beat a promise to Make America Great Again with a mournful dirge or misanthropic insults. We believe in the American people, we know that we all deserve better, and we have a policy agenda to achieve it.

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 17/11/2024

'Twas the night after NA conference week

Graph with sleep duration for a whole week, with lows of 3h and 1.5h on travel dates, and then 11h on the way back

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 11/11/2024

Not sure if this will help with the jetlag after having just arrived, but I did get to cross a few landmarks of my list!

Strava run titled "Up Capitol Hill", 8.4km run, 5:15/km pace, 43m 58s time.

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 11/11/2024

If you see this, post a concert picture you took... #Khruangbin at the O2 Academy in Brixton, Dec 2019. Funnily enough, I had tickets for their gig in Glasgow this Friday, but alas I'll be talking about OTel in Salt Lake City! 😅

Khruangbin on stage in front of a crowd, with individual beams of white light coming down from the ceiling, illuminating each of the artists.

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 27/10/2024

Generally agree, but when there's no other solution, this type of mount that extends over the mantel works really well. Plus, having the soundbar come down with it is quite neat.

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 03/10/2024

Getting ready for #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon NA. #ObservabilityDay is going to be awesome! How are tech leaders empowering their teams to scale adoption of #OpenTelemetry with minimal friction, and harness the power of effective observability? Join us to find out! Info: sched.co/1izre

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #96,959! Congratulations 🎉

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 23/10/2023

First frost of the year walking to work. I never get tired of this.

Bruntsfield Links on a frosty morning with the sun rising behind autumn trees

The Meadows hiding behind some trees with the Sun rising behind them

Barclay Viewforth Church and Edinburgh Castle in the background. Frosty Bruntsfield Links on the foreground

Frosty grass and sun rising behind the trees at The Meadows. Path between autumn trees on the right hand side.

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 13/10/2023

Currently fighting the urge to channel my inner James Veitch and start an email thread with this person

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