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Emily Nakashima

@eanakashima.bsky.social
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SVP Eng at @honeycomb.io; opinions my own. Former co-organizer AndConf, observability & dev tools nerd, Valkyries fan. she/her 🏋🏻‍♀️🚵🏼🚣🏼‍♀️🏳️‍🌈

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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I played women's rugby in college. You get tackled, kicked, stepped on. Do you know what my team less safe? Lack of adequate funding, facilities, coaches & trainers. Do you know what would have only made it more awesome? Trans athletes. Trans people belong in sports.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 22/07/2026
It's out! As of today you can order the PRINT 2nd edition of Observability Engineering from any major bookseller; no more waiting for preorders. Co-written w/ @charity.wtf, @gmiranda23.bsky.social, @aparker.io & guest authors Buy: www.indiebound.org/book/9781098... or www.amazon.com/Observabilit...
blue background and sparkles around a front cover image of observability engineering, second edition, by charity majors, liz fong-jones, and george miranda with austin parker
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I had been looking for this exact data this election cycle and OF COURSE @molly.wiki is the one who has assembled it into a beautifully designed, easy to navigate website bsky.app/profile/moll...
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Emoji reactions are training treats for humans
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It has become unfortunately difficult to buy protein powder without a subscription. Must my little powdered nutrients be part of your MRR chart??
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My greatest professional accomplishment of the year: I got my exec & manager teammates saying "point positive," a term from whitewater rafting and kayaking. Meaning: when facing hazards, point people toward where to go/what to do, rather than drawing attention to everything to avoid.
A drawing showing a river rafter who has fallen out of a raft in rapids. The people still in the raft are pointing to a safe way to swim rather than at rocks to avoid. Caption: "Point positive: pointing the way to go, rather than at the problem." Drawing created by sketchplanations.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔
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DORA @dora.dev · 03/10/2025
Join @swarmia.bsky.social's @rmurphey.bsky.social, @honeycomb.io's @eanakashima.bsky.social, & @nathenharvey.bsky.social for a webinar about: • The impact of AI in engineering orgs • How leaders are driving AI adoption www.swarmia.com/events/dora/ #Swarmia #Honeycomb #GBGB #DORA
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AI-assisted software development in research and practice [online event] | Swarmia
Join us on October 28 for an online session with Google Cloud and Honeycomb on what the 2025 DORA report tells us about AI adoption — and how Honeycomb does it in practice.
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"These are Sabrinas. They aren't just a regular shoe. These are my Sunday church basketball sneakers."
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This article is such a gorgeous portrait of the Valkyries' first season, AND, it is the most nyt vibe ever. Like it was written by an anthropologist who never watched a WNBA game before this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
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Inside the Most Valuable Team in Women’s Sports
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 15/09/2025
NEWS: Veronica Burton has been named the 2025 WNBA Most Improved Player.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 16/09/2025
the "from devops to AI" panel was brilliant. @eanakashima.bsky.social: "people miss how much of devops was about culture... the culture stuff is maybe more important than ever now." David Williams shared how AI is a black box we need observability to understand. bsky.app/profile/hone... #o11yDaySFO
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I saw protestors on the I-80 overpass holding signs that said, "ICE TARGETS COLOR, NOT CRIME." And that's the whole game right there. This is about indiscriminately harassing people who look like immigrants, regardless of status.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Can someone from the Valkyries front office explain why the Valks shop has jerseys for two (2) players who rarely/never start and one (1) draftee who didn't actually join the team, but not Temi Fágbénlé who starts every game AND has the most important singing part in the pre-game hype cheer #wnba
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
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Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
A list of bad-news headlines wrapped up with an Atlantic article headlined “Why are young people everywhere so unhappy?”
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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 01/05/2025
I don't know who needs to see this, as the saying goes, but platform engineering is not just "devops" or "infra" by another name. Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is heartbreaking and horrible. AmeriCorps jobs are such a low-cost win-win, providing helpful support for the communities, nonprofits, schools, public agencies, etc. and helping young people pay bills and explore possible career paths. bsky.app/profile/moll...
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I'm contacting my senators *right now* to ask them to shoot this hateful garbage down; I'll add my script below if anyone else wants to borrow. bsky.app/profile/erin...
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Do you own a fully electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid? If so, help me out and take this survey (5-7 min)? I'm doing a project for a marketing class on a new EV charging technology and you'll help us better understand market segments. Grateful for reskeets 🙌🏼 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Survey: Bidirectional EV Charging
We are a group of UC Berkeley students working on a marketing pitch for a new startup focused on bidirectional EV charging. Information gathered in this survey will help us identify the best way to re...
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I used to believe in trans rights just because trans rights are human rights. Later, I came to see that the struggle for trans rights is intertwined with all women's rights and all LGBTQ+ rights. As James Baldwin said, "If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night" (1/3)
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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 02/01/2025
I regret to inform you that people have officially started circling back around after the holidays
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Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 19/12/2024
The "use tail sampling for your traces" advice should probably also come with a strong "you must be this tall to ride this ride" caveat Simple if you have a monolith, challenging if you have a cluster of microservices, jesus take the wheel if you have geo-distributed traces crossing regions
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Friends, chaps are leg covers. The default chap form has no butt cover. You do not need to call them “assless chaps.”
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I feel like Americans love to analogize sports to business because for many of us, sports was the only time we: 1. worked as a team 2. received constructive criticism and 3. shared a larger mission before being in the labor force. I wish there were more ways for young people to experience these.
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
If you follow me partly because you are a fan of my employer, @honeycomb.io, you'll be happy to know you can now follow them on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/hone...
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Me: oh god I’m so busy, I can’t remember ever being this busy in my life Also me: <casually googling “how to start a superpac”>
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Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
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New injection is 100% successful at preventing HIV
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
TURN THIS UP
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
Oh for fuck's sake bsky.app/profile/dell...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 12/06/2024
I just want justice for them. Viola Fletcher is 110. A human treasure. Imagine spending your whole life in litigation bc your countrymen bombed your entire community when you were 7 for simply succeeding against all odds at the American promise & being told you are less than nothing for 107 years.
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
Angry down to my bones about this decision. Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Ford Fletcher have spent their whole lives fighting for long overdue repair. Justice for Greenwood. bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Oof, Tressie left. If you run a social network in the year of our lord 2024 and it doesn't have Tressie McMillan Cottom on it, what's the point? <finally logs on to TikTok>
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Every time I see a buzzy tech trend now, I'm looking under the trench coat for "exploiting underpaid workers," "money-laundering IP," or "unregulated negative externalities." (AI shopping, generative AI, crypto, gig economy...) Truly, there are other ways to innovate. bsky.app/profile/abeb...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 03/04/2024
in reality, most of current AI is a bunch of underpaid data workers in a trench coat gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditch…
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
I'm on Dev Interrupted talking about the VPE role and one weird reasons I like personality tests as a management tool (hint: it's about bias) linearb.io/dev-interrup...
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Preparing for Your First VP of Engineering Role
Emily Nakashima joins Dev Interrupted to discuss how you can prepare to be a VP of Engineering, and how the role differs among companies.
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Never not thinking about the time early in my career when we got a new VP over our department and she immediately ran a RIF and then gifted all remaining employees a copy of Who Moved My Cheese?
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
A devastating but very good read on the cognitive effects of covid erictopol.substack.com/p/long-covid...
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
It's hard to square AWS's customer centrism with Amazon dot com's obvious customer disdain
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
NEW: Leaked data analyzed by WIRED’s @dmehro.bsky.social reveals the secret locations of ShotSpotter sensors around the globe, and the communities most directly impacted by the surveillance. www.wired.com/story/shotsp...
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Love to see Densho, an organization dedicated to preserving Japanese American history, celebrate Black History Month with stories of how Black activists have been integral to Japanese American civil rights struggles. Wish more JA orgs would do the same densho.org/catalyst/mee...
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Meet Erna P. Harris: Writer, Dissident, and Ally
Erna P. Harris was a dissident columnist for the Los Angeles Tribune who penned scathing critiques of the Japanese American incarceration.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 03/02/2024
a big thing for the very clever contrarian boys has long been what does *diversity* have to do with *science*?!?! anyway this is the 101-level answer
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 10/01/2024
this @davidjroth.bsky.social take on the NYT's personal Benghazi, The Harvard Story™, is so good.
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Hiding And Seeking With The New York Times | Defector
A story changes simply by dint of The New York Times covering it, and how the Times covers it will go a decently long way in deciding what kind of story it will become. That is something that the peop...
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 08/01/2024
This is a lie, and it's always been a lie. Something like ChatGPT needs a TON of text in the language you're targeting to train the model. You get it by licensing it, or you by paying people to write it for you, or by stealing it. What they're saying is it's impossible to create CHEAPLY.
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
There are zero allegations you can rebut effectively by saying, "But I have friends of x race!" Just, no.
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Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
If you haven't yet read Claudine Gay's piece about her resignation as Harvard's president, it is so important. There is a pattern to these baseless attacks and recognizing them for what they are is the first step in combating them.
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Opinion | Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me
The demagogues won’t stop with Harvard.
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