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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 14/09/2026

I wrote a new piece yesterday, called "Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob", about my escalating rage at AI-generated text. It includes a framework for thinking about when AI involvement is fine -- just another tool -- and when it lands as a violation. charity.wtf/p/confession...

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Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob

A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 28/08/2026

Is your organisation paying observability prices for monitoring outcomes? That's the question at the centre of my upcoming Masterclass on September 2 for engineering leaders. We'll work through five tests to find out whether that's you, using concrete evidence rather than feelings or suspicion.

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 04/08/2026

Log everything, structure nothing, then can't find what you didn't know to look for. That's the trap last week's Observability Masterclass focused on. @lizthegrey.com built wide events live with OpenTelemetry. On demand now. Next up Aug 19: feedback loops x observability. 🐝 go.hny.co/4wdFfDj

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O11y Masters: Observability Engineering Masterclass with Liz Fong-Jones

A six-session live masterclass with Liz Fong-Jones, turning Observability Engineering into practice. Aug 3 – Oct 14, 2026.

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 24/06/2026

🚀 We've just published the second @opentelemetry.io #Blueprint! This one provides strategic advice for teams aiming to ease adoption of observability best practices in K8s workloads via consistent, efficient, and reliable telemetry platforms. Have a read at opentelemetry.io/docs/guidanc...

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Managed Telemetry Platforms for Kubernetes Workloads

Summary This blueprint provides strategic guidance for organizations aiming to follow Platform Engineering practices to ease adoption of OpenTelemetry tooling and standards across their engineering te...

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 10/06/2026

hi Irish and UK SRE friends, @honeycomb.io is hiring an SRE in the UK or Ireland! You'll get to work with (IMHO) one of the best SRE teams in the industry, and help level up the rest of industry on o11y and SRE! job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo... job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo...

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Remote - Ireland

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 31/05/2026

Does anyone I know work in infosec at IAG or British Airways? I have somehow gained access to someone else's PNR because my email address contact info was put on their reservation, shortly after I updated the email address on my own PNR. I suspect some kind of caching input replay issue.

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Chris Short @chrisshort.net · 04/03/2026

I'm currently available for consulting work. If you need help with open source strategy, developer relations programs, Kubernetes & cloud native advisory, event programs, or technical content, including podcasts & live streams — let me know! Learn more at shortconsulting.io

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Ken Finnigan @kenfinnigan.me · 02/03/2026

Machine Learning Platform Engineering from @manning.com is an incredibly detailed look into all aspects of ML platforms and the their tools: MLflow, Kubeflow, and BentoML. The authors share insights on data analysis, model training, inference and serving, and monitoring. shortener.manning.com/wxr5

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Machine Learning Platform Engineering - Benjamin Tan Wei Hao, Shanoop Padmanabhan, and Varun Mallya

Get your machine learning models out of the lab and into production! Delivering a successful machine learning project is hard. Machine Learning Platform Engineering makes it easier. In it, you’ll des...

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Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info · 23/02/2026

Check out this week's o11y newsletter with lots of good OpenTelemetry content and more: o11y.news/2026-02-23/ #observability

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Ken Finnigan @kenfinnigan.me · 17/02/2026

@penberg.org's book on Latency with @manning.com is incredibly detailed! Covering latency in all its forms, and real practical approaches to reduce or minimize its impact. Brought me back to writing about event loops for Reactive Java with @cescoffier.bsky.social shortener.manning.com/X1ME

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Latency - Pekka Enberg

Practical techniques for delivering low latency software.

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Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info · 16/02/2026

Check out this week's o11y newsletter, with great contributions from OpenTelemetry hands-on articles to a Prometheus storage deep dive: o11y.news/2026-02-16/ #observability

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 06/02/2026

This article shows how to measure RAG behavior, not just generate answers: faithfulness, relevance, grounding, hallucination detection. Built with #Quarkus, #LangChain4j, and local LLMs. Written for #Java devs who ship to production. buff.ly/cLZpGIG #RAG #AIEngineering #LLM

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Dash0 @dash0.com · 21/01/2026

Migrating from #Fluentd to the OpenTelemetry Collector? Fluentd buffers to disk. The Collector defaults to memory - so a pod restart can mean lost #logging data. Here’s how to configure #OpenTelemetry persistent queues safely. 👉 dash0.link/otel-fluent-...

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Hey. I don't know who needs to hear this. It's gonna be okay. We will get through this. This is, sadly, cyclical in human society. And we've always been okay. Eventually. It's okay to be afraid. To take a break to recharge. You can't pour from an empty cup. Please care for yourself. Hold on.

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Liz @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The #RootsTech schedule is live. I’ve just created my own schedule of talks I want to watch. I will be attending online #NotAtRootsRech

Screenshot of the RootsTech schedule page

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 19/12/2025

I made a substack: charitydotwtf.substack.com. Some people questioned the ethics of doing so, so I put the project on hold for a few days to think and ask questions. I have decided to stay. Here is why. (also xpost: charity.wtf/2025/12/19/h...) charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/hello-worl...

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Hello World

On platform choices, professional responsibilities, and picking your battles

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Ken Finnigan @kenfinnigan.me · 25/12/2025

Transformers in Action (shortener.manning.com/JdAP) is an excellent resource for learning how various transformer models work, how to specialize and train models, and ethical LLMs. Thanks to Nicole Königstein for this @manning.com book! It's a great read

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Transformers in Action - Nicole Koenigstein

Understand the architecture that underpins today’s most powerful AI models. Transformers are the superpower behind large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Transformers in Actio...

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austin @aparker.io · 06/12/2025

putting this out there - anyone know someone or have recs for leadership coaches that specialize in tech + autism/adhd?

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Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info · 01/12/2025

Check out this week's o11y newsletter with great content from OpenTelemetry to OpenSearch: o11y.news/2025-12-01/ #observability

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Steve Little @digitalarchivst.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

You will hear of launches and rumors of launches—but here's how to test Gemini 3 yourself. Pick one stubborn document or photo. Run it through our #genealogy research-tuned Gem today (Gemini 2.5). Save everything. When G3 lands, rerun the exact same prompts. If it's real, you'll feel the difference.

A book-lined office at night: a researcher studies documents while a translucent AI assistant stands beside the desk; city lights glow outside—human + AI co-research.

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Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info · 17/11/2025

Check out this week's o11y newsletter with great news on OpenTelemetry releases to instrumentation score coming to Prometheus to AIOps and more: o11y.news/2025-11-17/ #observability

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Ken Finnigan @kenfinnigan.me · 17/11/2025

Current progress of McLaren P1 LEGO. By far the most complex and intricate set I’ve ever built!

Picture of partially built McLaren P1 Lego set sitting on a bookcase next to instruction book and Lego pieces ready to be built

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Andres Almiray @andresalmiray.com · 11/11/2025

Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support. I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...

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#opensource #opentowork | Andres Almiray

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Neo4j @neo4j.com · 07/11/2025

That's a wrap for #NODES2025! Our 7th edition brought together an incredible global graph community! 24-hour streaming 160 talks from 200 speakers from all over the world. Soon: all talks will be available on our YouTube channel (you can already watch some! bit.ly/43WU14G) THANK YOU!

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Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info · 03/11/2025

Check out this week's o11y newsletter with excellent contribs from non-pillars to new instrumentation method and OpenTelemetry material: o11y.news/2025-11-03/ #observability

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 01/11/2025

This was on for me when I checked. If you use LinkedIn, it's worth checking on. I definitely don't want my posts there being used as training data.

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Just realized I haven't announced this here yet - The 9th edition of my book "Java in a Nutshell" will be published by O'Reilly in 2026. Watch this space for an announcement of early access. #java #programming

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Ken Finnigan @kenfinnigan.me · 14/10/2025

Had a great weekend in London catching up with friends! Now at Heathrow, and excited to get home and see the family

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Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info · 13/10/2025

Check out this week's o11y newsletter with a range of good things from practitioners sharing insights to OTel reference material to new tooling: o11y.news/2025-10-13/ #observability

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Dash0 @dash0.com · 02/10/2025

Dash0 raises $35M #SeriesA!🚀 #Observability is too noisy, complex & expensive. We started Dash0 to fix that - and 300+ customers joined us. Now we’ve raised $35M in Series A led by Accel & Cherry Ventures, with DIG Ventures. Thanks to our investors & angels for the support! 👉 dash0.link/series-a

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QCon @qconferences.com · 30/09/2025

QCon San Francisco 2025: Full Schedule Available 🚀 6 weeks to go! 90+ speakers, 12 tracks, proven patterns from senior practitioners. Keynotes include: Nicole Forsgren on DevEx, "Hidden Decisions" by Shawna Martell & Dan Fike, plus AI engineering & leadership tracks. 🔗 bit.ly/3IGltgS #QConSF

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Ken Finnigan @kenfinnigan.me · 29/09/2025

I’ll be visiting London from 9-14 Oct if anyone I know would like to catch up. Look forward to being back in blighty!

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 24/09/2025

in other news, my upcoming trip to the UK is likely to be my last for quite some time. so do get in touch with our sales team if you'd like to have me give a talk in-person in London first two weeks of Oct, before rules shift from you *may* let me use the loo, to you *must not* let me use the loo.

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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

#RootsTech Registration is now open for 2026! Attend this incredible conference on March 5-7, 2026 in Salt Lake City, UT. Register at familysearch.org/en/rootstech/ Attending from home and register for #FREE at familysearch.org/en/rootstech/ #FamilySearch #genealogy #familyhistory

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Dash0 @dash0.com · 25/09/2025

🚀 Dash0 #SyntheticMonitoring is now GA! Check your APIs from around the world, catch #SSL issues early, and see instantly if errors come from #syntheticchecks or real users, all deeply integrated with Dash0 #tracing & #triage. 👉 Discover more: dash0.link/-synthetic-m...

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 24/09/2025

Yup. Nothing odd going on here at all. Gah.

Reddit screencap from r/AMA.

I'm a college-educated Black man who drove from Vermont to Florida this summer with my Asian girlfriend. We were pulled over 18 times in 4 days. Ask Me Anything.

After telling a few coworkers about this when I returned to work, one of them (a true Reddit head) suggested I do an AMA. So hi Reddit, nice to meet you.

So I live in New England, work a white-collar job, and fall into what most would call "upper middle class." This past August, I decided to use my summer vacation to visit family in Fort Myers, Florida. Since I'd never done a true long road trip before (my longest drives were maybe 5-7 hours), my girlfriend and I thought it would be fun to make the trip by car instead of flying.

We started in Burlington, Vermont, and made our way down the East Coast. The drive was about 1,500+ miles, and we stretched it over four days. I did roughly 75% of the driving, she took the rest.

Here's the part that baffled me: in just those four days, we were pulled over 18 times. Not for reckless driving or doing anything spicy. Just pulled over, again and again. Each time it was something else.

So I'll give this a shot: Ask me anything.

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 19/09/2025

Are you an experienced software buyer? I could use your help. I'm working on the second edition of "Observability Engineering", and hoping to include the kind of advice an experienced principal engineer might give a staff engineer buying for the first time. charity.wtf/2025/09/19/a...

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Are you an experienced software buyer? I could use some help.

If it seems like I’ve been relatively quiet lately on social media and my blog, that’s because I have. Liz, Austin, George and I have been busy toiling away on the second edition of “Observability …

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Bruno Borges @brunoborges.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

📢 Microsoft is hiring a Senior Compiler Engineer to work on the #JVM! If you have strong compiler / codegen / optimization skills, this could be your next big challenge. Want a referral? Send me a DM. #Hiring #CompilerEngineering #Systems #Microsoft #Java #OpenJDK #Java25

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Suitcase Genealogist @suitcasegen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I know a lot of folks have moved to using newsletters and even replacing their websites with the newsletter's platform/site. But, there are still a lot of people that have websites with feeds, so those are the folks I'm appealing to. Also, my inbox weeps daily under the heavy load.

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Commonhaus Foundation @commonhaus.org · 16/09/2025

Gradle is sponsoring the Commonhaus Foundation with a shared Develocity instance, giving open source projects observability, faster builds, test acceleration, and troubleshooting tools to improve productivity and long-term sustainability. www.commonhaus.org/activity/277...

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🐘 Gradle sponsors Commonhaus Foundation with Develocity to boos…

Gradle is sponsoring the Commonhaus Foundation with a shared Develocity instance, giving open source projects observability, faster builds, test accelerat…

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Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info · 08/09/2025

Check out this week's o11y newsletter with great OpenTelemetry practices and recommendations: o11y.news/2025-09-08/ #observability

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 07/09/2025

It’s been a dirty word in the US for decades. As far back as McCarthy, if not farther. What hurts my head the most is the conflation of socialism and communism. The right equates nationalized healthcare with Soviet Russia. It’s ridiculous, but so many people don’t know better.

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