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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿

@martincostello.com
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Software Developer. Nerd. Cynic. Has lovely, soft, floppy ears. Nerdy on main, 24/7. Rainbow person. I help .NET o11y 🔭 at 📈ana. He/him/his. HONK 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺💻

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 19h
not sure why I made this but now you have to see it
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 29/09/2026
I might not have a face card, but I do have a memory card.
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 28/09/2026
Welcome to the world of tomorrow
A screenshot informing me that my dishwasher has installled a security update
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 27/09/2026
Is today’s main news article going to turn out to be the most successful example of See It, Say It, Sorted?
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 27/09/2026
It’s taken me far too long to realise there was a link in Monzo that let me take the adverts away from YouTube
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 24/09/2026
Star Trek: Strange New Wigs
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 23/09/2026
TIL there’s a Pokémon called Flabébé
Moira Rose looking concerned
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Jonny Deane @jondeane.io · 23/09/2026
Potential flatmate changed plans, so pushing this again.
m.spareroom.co.uk
Excellent double room. Clapham and Brixton.
Clapham North : £1,100 pcm (inc bills). Excellent double room available 1st November. Convenient for Clapham and Brixton amenities and transport...
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 22/09/2026
Love it when you only realise the bread’s gone mouldy halfway through eating your sandwich
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Your voice helps the Grafana community! 🗣️ Speak at one of our meetups — whether it's a lightning talk or a deep dive — and score an exclusive free t-shirt! Submit your talk, take the stage, and receive your tee. Limit one per speaker: grafana.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4…
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 20/09/2026
Well fuck 😢 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Chad Gilbert, New Found Glory's Founding Guitarist, Dead at 45
Chad Gilbert, founding member and lead guitarist for New Found Glory, has died at the age of 45.
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OpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 18/09/2026
Dual-exporting .NET metrics with OTLP and Prometheus. The latest OTel Prometheus exporter for .NET lets you export your metrics to both systems in parallel, and migrate without a single cut-over event. buff.ly/FhOnXkD
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Dual-exporting .NET metrics with OTLP and Prometheus
Many applications export their metrics directly to Prometheus. If you’re unfamiliar with Prometheus, in a nutshell it’s a time-series database for storing metrics, like counters and histograms.…
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OpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 17/09/2026
Have you ever wanted to contribute to OpenTelemetry but didn't know how to get started? Check out the first video in the series, "How to Contributed to OpenTelemetry", brought to you by the Contributor Experience SIG. Thank you Abhi Narwal for the contribution! buff.ly/6iMgSHo
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 16/09/2026
Reminder ⏰ .NET 8 and .NET 9 support ends on November 10th. Get your apps moved to .NET 10 before then.
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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 16/09/2026
My arm movement when doing a talk still not helping me trying to tell people my surname isn’t Italian
Martin giving a talk at a meet up. His arms are gesticulating wildly.
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 16/09/2026
People just love to leave AirPods lying around WeWorks, huh?
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 16/09/2026
Sometimes I do charitable work:
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🎤 A Eurovision 2026 dashboard in Grafana Cloud: tabbed layouts, repeating rows, two Google Sheets joined with SQL expressions. Now that's music to our ears!
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Douze points for Grafana Cloud: Building a Eurovision dashboard with tabs, variables, and Google…
How I turned the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest into a Grafana Cloud dashboard, using tabbed layouts to beat the scroll, a country variable…
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OpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 14/09/2026
Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation. The OTel Specification now has a release candidate for environment variables as context propagation carriers. We want feedback before we mark it Stable. buff.ly/cKwKa7v
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Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation
A trace does not always cross a network boundary. A workflow runner starts a shell, the shell launches a build tool, and the build tool starts test processes. Batch and data-processing systems create…
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 12/09/2026
Watching a YouTube video about LotR has accidentally escalated into watching the full extended edition of the films
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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Specifically.
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 08/09/2026
Everything in the Ocarina of Time remake looks wet
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I believe the RNLI are responding to legitimate concerns that people might drown.
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Jonny Deane @jondeane.io · 08/09/2026
New flatmate needed for beginning of November! www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/lo...
spareroom.co.uk
Excellent double room. Clapham and Brixton.
Clapham North : £1,100 pcm (inc bills). Excellent double room available 1st November. Convenient for Clapham and Brixton amenities and transport...
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 07/09/2026
Me last week upon acquiring a new hat:
A smiling bearded man wearing a baseball cap with a pride-themed company logo, holding a glass of white wine and carrying a cushion also bearing a company logo
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 07/09/2026
Everyone else in my team is OOO today - Slack’s gonna be a 👻🏘️
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 06/09/2026
At first I thought this was the Keeping Up Appearances titles…
A photo of a bookshelf filled with James Bond novels with the caption “Most Bind film titles have been taken from the Ian Fleming stories”
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 06/09/2026
Very old man shouts at cloud, but how can a 20yo not know what a VHS cassette tape is? Sure you didn’t experience them first-hand, but surely you can read about things? I didn’t own a gramophone but I know what one looks like.
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 06/09/2026
Conference flu making me sound like Patty/Selma
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 05/09/2026
Finally watched The Mandalorian and Grogu. It was…fine. Very clearly a chopped down TV series.
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 05/09/2026
Got some profesh headshots done for free while I was at our work conference this week, and they all seem to just say “Doesn’t she look tired?”
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 05/09/2026
Still have 19 days of holiday to take this calendar year. Oops.
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 05/09/2026
Just realised yesterday was the 20th anniversary of me starting my first full-time job and moving out of home to London 👴🏻
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 04/09/2026
@daveyblahblah.bsky.social Yours for just €4,990
An illuminated sign that reads "blah blah"
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 03/09/2026
Last minute merch-raid at the work conference. But will it all fit in my luggage? 🤔
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 02/09/2026
I’ve heard two Americans use the word guillotine in the last 24 hours.
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 31/08/2026
Boarding complete and no one sat next to me - tiny win for the day
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 29/08/2026
I’ve seen A View To A Kill many times, but I’ve only just realised Elsa from Indy and the Last Crusade is in it.
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 29/08/2026
People (fairly) complain about the BA website, but Austrian’s is a different level of things just randomly not working and being janky. Want to pick a seat during check-in? Nah, sorry that’s broken lolz, our bad.
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 27/08/2026
So many news stories these days could be summarised as: “stupid cunt [says|does] stupid thing”
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 26/08/2026
The Gulf War, but only in a “thing happening now" way, not in a way that I actually understood it
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 26/08/2026
How long until the PCC announces a 9-to-5/RHPS double-bill then?
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🎉 We've crossed $600M ARR & 10,000 customers worldwide! And we're a 3x Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. This milestone belongs to our community: thank you for making the climb with us. www.businessinsider.com/grafana-lab…
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Jerry @coachjerry.dad · 26/08/2026
Don’t bemoan the fact that he hasn’t died yet. Appreciate the fact he’s watching people his age pass be celebrated, knowing that he will only be celebrated for finally not existing.
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
asked the monkey paw to take out "the guy from home alone 2"
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 26/08/2026
Ah, fuck, not Tim too 😓
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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 26/08/2026
As a tribute to Dolly Parton we all shouldn’t start work until 09:25
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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