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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Core Web Vitals telemetry can be a bit confusing to understand, especially when each browser is sending them in real time. I've put together a quick guide to some of the odd edge cases. www.honeycomb.io/blog/using-c...

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Using Core Web Vitals in Honeycomb Frontend Telemetry

Google's Core Web Vitals (CWVs) measurements have been used by web administrators and SREs to review frontend application performance metrics, and have been factored into Google's page rankings since ...

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 20/01/2026

Honeycomb co-founders Charity Majors and Christine Yen are hosting a live fireside chat on Feb 3 about where observability is headed and what it takes to run modern, AI-driven systems with confidence. Register here 👉 buff.ly/GpusMCg #honeycomb #observability #AI

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Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 06/09/2025

Chrome Dev Tools upgraded to straight up underlining problematic elements. I like it, points to Google ⭐️ Many people never open the Issues panel, this is much better integrated.

<input> element underlined with tooltip "View issue: A form field element should have an id or name attribute"

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Story of my life as a front-end developer.

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Matthew Sanabria @matthewsanabria.com · 19/06/2025

You can just graph your Claude Code usage using OpenTelemetry on Honeycomb.

Claude Code usage graphed in Honeycomb show the P50 and P90 of token usage by session and by model.

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

It's here! Honeycomb's Mobile Frontend Observability support!

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Also, looking forward to speaking in our O11yDays London event next week! Stoked that I'm able to talk about the great things in Honeycomb Frontend Observability! events.honeycomb.io/o11ydays-Lon...

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Observability Day London

Immerse yourself in a day that brings observability to life. With a powerful mix of keynote talks, technical deep-dives, live demos, and real-world stories, you’ll walk away with practical insights yo...

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It's been a while, sky'ers (what do we call ourselves over here?) Anyway, new blog post up on how to use Honeycomb's Explore Data tab and the `session.id` attribute to query frontend user flow. www.honeycomb.io/blog/visuali...

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Visualizing Session Flow With Honeycomb

The concept of a “session” is essential when looking at longer-running interactions, like user interface interactions from a given user.

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 17/03/2025

Attending SREcon? Take a break with the unofficial SREcon North America tailgate, hosted by us, along with our friends from Spacelift, Oso, and Cloudsmith! Join us on March 26 to enjoy some refreshments, games and make new connections. Learn more: events.spacelift.io/off-call-on-...

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Off Call and On Tap: SREcon Tailgate with Spacelift, Honeycomb, Oso & Cloudsmith

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Honeycomb Observability Day is coming to Denver on March 27! It's a day we engage in sesssions with a mix of engineering best practices, hands-on workshops, and insightful product demonstrations.. I'm speaking about Frontend Observability. Save your place: events.honeycomb.io/o11ydays-Den...

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Observability Day - Denver

This free in-person event is tailored for both the hands-on professionals and visionary strategists in the tech ecosystem. Engage in a mix of engineering best practices, hands-on workshops, ...

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This post is SO, SO good. Very much in line with my thinking about AI and the future of software. I hope we can get @PhillipCarter.dev to speak at one of our upcoming #AICodeCon events.

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LLMs Are Weird Computers

A perspective on AI models as an inverted computing paradigm

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 28/02/2025

Have you ever been playing @eveonline.com and thought, "wow, this is awesome?" Us too. It's partially thanks to Honeycomb observability, which helps their engineers find performance bottlenecks, optimize performance, and prevent strain on the backend. Learn more: www.eveonline.com/news/view/ev...

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EVE Evolved: The Future of EVE’s API | EVE Online

Enhancing ESI for a better third-party ecosystem.

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 28/02/2025

On March 20th, join @charity.wtf and @phillipcarter.dev of Honeycomb, along with @nathenharvey.bsky.social, @dora.dev Lead, as they explore the challenges of AI usage in software engineering and how teams can avoid common pitfalls. Register today: info.honeycomb.io/ai-unrealize... #AIObservability

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 26/02/2025

The Honeycomb team will be on the ground at DevOps Day LA, and we want to meet you 👋 Stop by our booth to learn about OpenTelemetry, observability, and play our ObservaQuiz to win a prize! #DevOpsDayLA devopsdays.org/events/2025-...

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DevOpsDays Los Angeles 2025

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 26/02/2025

Are you trying to connect Honeycomb to a standalone (not hosted with Vercel) #Next.js application? @krimple.bsky.social can help! In his latest blog, he shares the configuration steps, how to view your traces, how to explore your frontend React #telemetry, and more: www.honeycomb.io/blog/wiring-...

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Wiring Up a Next.js Self-Hosted Application to Honeycomb

In this blog post, Senior DevRel Ken Rimple will get you started ingesting your Next.js application’s telemetry into Honeycomb.

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I'll be speaking in Denver on frontend observability

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

You: in NYC on March 11th. Me? there with you, at the O11yDays event learning about OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb. It's free, and we have great information to share! events.honeycomb.io/o11ydays-NYC

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Observability Day - NYC

This free in-person event is tailored for both the hands-on professionals and visionary strategists in the tech ecosystem. Engage in a mix of engineering best practices, hands-on workshops, ...

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 19/02/2025

Observability tools serve as the essential eyes and ears for engineering, providing invaluable insights. Here at Honeycomb, we're dedicated to transforming the observability experience with our innovative and modern approach.

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Switching Observability Platforms With Confidence

In this guide, you'll learn how we make switching to Honeycomb as easy and risk-free as possible by partnering with your engineering teams.

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 13/02/2025

By monitoring real-time logs, teams can optimize their systems, leading to smoother user experiences and reduced downtime. Check out our guide on log monitoring key concepts and best practices for improving your observability. www.honeycomb.io/blog/log-mon...

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The Log Monitoring Guide for Sweet Insights

This blog post is a guide on log monitoring key concepts and best practices for sweetening your observability.

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 13/02/2025

Duolingo and OneFootball, like many others, were burdened by excessive #observability costs & limited metrics capabilities. Join us on 2/25 to learn how they used wide events for better results, and how they maximized insights while reducing observability costs: info.honeycomb.io/how-to-get-y...

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 11/02/2025

By enhancing #frontend monitoring with observability, teams can catch & resolve problems proactively before they escalate. On our blog, we share the fundamentals of frontend monitoring, including what you need to know about performance measurement & strategies: www.honeycomb.io/blog/fronten...

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Frontend Monitoring: Deliver Seamless and Performant User Experiences

In this blog, we’ll share the fundamentals of frontend monitoring, including what you need to know about performance measurement.

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 10/02/2025

Help your team break vendor lock-in using OpenTelemetry. Honeycomb works out of the box with your existing metrics, logs, and traces through the #OpenTelemetry Collector. Check out our OpenTelemetry resources: info.honeycomb.io/otel?utm_sou... #otel

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 10/02/2025

With observability 2.0, you can derive any metric across any number of dimensions. That, by itself, is profound—but it’s what that enables that makes a difference. @koogh.com shares how much of an impact observability 2.0 makes vs. your current way of working: www.honeycomb.io/blog/why-obs...

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Why Observability 2.0 Is Such a Gamechanger

In this blog, Erwin articulates just how much of a difference Honeycomb/observability 2.0 makes compared to your current way of working.

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

EAGLES win! Fireworks popping off out here. Now, if everyone can stay away from lampposts and awnings, that'd be great.

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Ok, Eagles. Just because you're massively ahead , don't just screw around out there for the last 5 minutes.

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I am kind of stunned. the Eagles, crushing it with a giant lead? Where am I? Is this the upside-down? Wow!

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 05/02/2025

With Honeycomb Service Level Objectives (SLOs), you can improve your team's engineering time and get fast feedback on service reliability. Learn more: www.honeycomb.io/slos?utm_sou...

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SLOs: Service Level Objectives | Honeycomb

Improve your team's engineering time and get fast feedback on service reliability with actionable Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from Honeycomb.

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Go Boids! We are heading to the SuperBowl!!

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Why don't I feel good about this? Is it maybe because I'm flying so much in the next year? What a dumb decision. Hey, FAA, is anyone paying attention? www.dpreview.com/news/8031929...

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DJI puts safety in the hands of users by ending No-Fly Zones

In a bold move, DJI says it will no longer enforce its No-Fly Zones, meaning safety is up to the individual users.

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 08/01/2025

During "The CTO's Guide to Reshaping Observability in 2025," happening on January 23, Austin Parker will discuss how OpenTelemetry and semantic telemetry will reshape observability.

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MartinDotNet @martindotnet.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Published the first Alpha of the @xunit.net tracing extension. I've love some feedback if you're a #dotnet developer www.nuget.org/packages/Pra... One of the big changes is controlling the output/destination using OTEL_* environment variables #testing #opentelemetry

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PracticalOtel.xUnit.v3.OpenTelemetry 0.2.3-alpha

An xUnit test framework that wraps tests in a trace to provide better visualisation of the test flows

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Great post on someone moving their Next.js functionality back to React + FastAPI. It's a powerful framework but depending on your needs, maybe this fits more... www.comfydeploy.com/blog/you-don...

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You don't need Next.js

We migrated the ComfyDeploy dashboard from Next.js to just React

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

www.techradar.com/pro/after-tw... - New Gimp Release: 3.0 - last major version release was 20 years ago. This one is supposed to have lots of usability improvements.

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After two decades, GIMP 3.0 has arrived with high-resolution compatibility and extensive improvements

GIMP 3.0 keeps projects compatible with older versions

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

That is OUR money, paid by our income over a lifetime. If he makes that happen I will he stunned if the response isn't seismic.

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 19/12/2024

In Heavybit's o11ycast episode, Daniel Ravenstone and Adriana Villela dive into the challenges of adopting observability and OpenTelemetry, and how to foster a culture of curiosity and collaboration to make observability a core part of development. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8su...

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o11ycast - Ep. #75, O11yneering with Daniel Ravenstone and Adriana Villela

YouTube video by Heavybit

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The OpenTelemetry collector can be configured to allow frontend OTLP traffic with CORS, but CORS can be confusing to troubleshoot. Here are a few troubleshooting techniques. www.honeycomb.io/blog/trouble...

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Troubleshooting CORS Errors in Offsite API Calls

In this article, Ken clears up the confusion around Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), specifically discussing preflight requests.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

If you're a Domain Driven Design person, follow its progenitor here: @ericevans0.bsky.social If you're not a DDD person yet, and you're into software and care about systems, then follow Eric for wisdom :-)

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Dan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 21/11/2024

Want to know why @opentelemetry.io is not just yet another telemetry client or protocol? Check out the recording from this #kubecon lightning talk by @aparker.io and yours truly!

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OpenTelemetry: OpenTelemetry in Five Minutes | Project Lightning Talk

YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

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Ken Rimple @krimple.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Attending #kubecon in Salt Lake City this week, digesting as much tech (and food?) as I can handle. Was helping with Observability Day in/the Honeycomb team yesterday.

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