Alex Boten

Just let me see whats behind these damned banners, i just want to buy one sock

3 am is living eternally rent free in my head

For the love of… ACCEPT ALL COOKIES

dammit… one more thing for the todo list

even if i gave all my boring jobs to clones, j dont know if there’s enough time for all my hobbies… time to devise a plan to live *forever*

E_TOO_MANY_HOBBIES

im so thankful firefox comes with its own printer settings... i don't think i'll ever be able to print from another application on my laptop ever again

It’s hard to see the forest from the trees when your glasses are covered in smudges all the time

Clean your glasses 🤣

💜 Lupita seemed like such a wonderful friend 💜

Where do people get information when they're looking at making things?

Specifically I'm trying to build some outdoor chandeliers. Is reddit the last source of information on the internet?

Me sitting on the denver convention centre floor hacking together buzzers for a talk

Sometimes you just gotta make things work at the last minute before a talk at a conference 😅

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

Caught up with the creator of Anubis, an open-source software that's stopping AI bot scrapers from crashing sites across the internet www.404media.co/the-open-sou...

I recently found out that enough citrus takes the bite out of even the worst mustard greens, big fan of sneaking those veggies in

I dont like playing the version game

I dont even care… just let me plug it in without having to flip it a dozen times and i’ll give you access to anything 🤣

The best part of USB-C is never having to waste time guessing if the damned connector is the right side up

Hosting a game show A few months ago, my co-worker Tyler and I were discussing how it would be a lot of fun to host a game show to engage with an audience at a conference. We had both recently been watching a lot of “Um,...

Last week, I was lucky enough to to cohost a panel in the style of a gameshow about OpenTelemetry. I wrote a little post about the panel I co-hosted with Tyler Helmuth at OTel Day words.boten.ca/gameshow/

The recording of the talk is up www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipFV...

#otelDay

YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Sponsored Keynote: Why Semantic Conventions are OpenTelemetry’s Most Important Con... Gordon Radlein

All the talks from OTel Community Day and Open Observability Summit are up!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=dlDT...

#otelDay #opentelemetry

Yes! Less things to have to configure in each pipeline and it removes the problem of making the pipeline asynchronous, making it difficult to report errors back to the senders

The configuration is documented in the library’s readme file: github.com/open-telemet...

Thw new batching configuration (it’s all built into the exporter helper library) in the s3 exporter directly works great too!

A slide showing spanley’s diary with some daily gratitude notes

I love the life of a span named Spanley… Spanley’s diary with some daily gratitude 🥰

Oh noooooooooooo 👋🏼

Austin on stage at the keynote for opentelemetry community day

@aparker.io starting the day strong with some context propagation jokes at #OTelDay

Home made game show buzzers with an Otel telescope burned into the side of their cases

The buzzers are as ready as they’ll ever be, with a telescope and everything.

Don’t miss the Spec-tacular game show at #OtelDay tomorrow!

otelopenobservabilityna25.sched.com/event/223AX

A badly rendered almost empty web page with a nice little chat prompt that says “tell me more”

We really nailed usability in 2025

Testing code in prod before it’s shipped to prod just doesn’t work 🤣

A busy day on the internet!

Can signal be bought? 🤔

Where do i see the rest of this show???