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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 29/08/2026

I’m using Claude to build a Boxing simulation, in the spirit of old Championship Manager games 🥊 I’m thinking of making it so that agents can ‘play’ with one another. Have Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol disagree on some PR review? Make them duke it out! 👊

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 22/08/2026

Ah, turns out this was too easy to circumvent, so they now blocked old.reddit for logged out accounts with a laughable excuse. So long!

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 28/04/2026

Thank you Reddit, It’s been a long run (16? 17 years?). You’ve been steadily going to shit, but you finally put the nail in the coffin! 👏 Now links even when browsing old.reddit.com are soft-blocked. Well, at least I now have more grass touching time.

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 01/03/2026

Happened to be reading “Never split the difference” alongside “How to talk so kids will listen” and some of the advice is eerily similar. I hope bath time doesn’t end soon end up sounding like hostage negotiations 😂

An image of a paperback “Never split the difference” by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz. The cover is crumbled

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 18/11/2025

The perks of having linguistic nerds in the family is that you often get hit with gems like this

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 08/07/2025

And the category is: "responses you get from your IDE but not your kids"

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 24/04/2025

Οι εθνικότητες δίνουν κάπως.... 😬😬 αποτελέσματα.

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 24/04/2025

Ξεκινώντας με τα βασικά... Δηλαδή δεν υπάρχει περίπτωση να μιλάμε για πλαστικό σωλήνα; Ή για μέγάλα όνειρα; Ή ομαδικό πνεύμα; Και τίποτα άλλο δεν μπορεί να είναι απίστευτο;

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 08/04/2025

I may have KubeCon FOMO.. but at least my GitHub handle found a way to sneak in there 😅 #opentelemetry

A banner hanging at Kubecon. It lists three columns of GitHub handles as "Top Contributors" and two columns for "Top Organizations".

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 07/04/2025

Stealing this from twitter

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 24/01/2025

golangci-lint working overtime out there

A screenshot of a row in macOS's Activity Monitor showing golangci-lint consuming 21 gigs of memory

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 07/12/2024

This means you don't have to build your own config provisioning pipelines (or god forbid!) manually SSH into any machine. Whether you want to deploy certain configs on _all_ collectors for compliance, or deploy specialized configurations on individual collectors, Fleet has you covered!

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 07/12/2024

The second (and even cooler!) part is centralized config management! ⚙️ You can define your telemetry pipelines right into Fleet Management's editor, along the conditions on where each pipeline should be deployed. Do you want to dynamically assign a pipeline to all Linux collectors on v1.5.1? Done!

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 07/12/2024

So what now? Right away, Fleet Management provides a real-time inventory of all running collectors, alongside their unique ID, OS, version, attributes, and most importantly, their health. 🩺 With a single click, I can dig into any Collector's current metrics, logs and locate any firing alerts.

This shows the inventory page for Fleet Management

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 07/12/2024

Now, whether you're running 10 or 100k collectors, all you need to do is add a `remotecfg` block in your configuration so it can reach out to Grafana Cloud. And that's all! 🪄 All other configuration can be remotely assigned via the Fleet Management interface later on. grafana.com/docs/alloy/l...

Showcases a sample remotecfg block in Alloy's configuration

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