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Software Developer. Backend | Infrastructure | Platform Engineering | Observability. 🇧🇩 // 🇩🇪 https://mehdikhan.dev/
Reminder that I have a custom feed here about OpenTelemetry and Observability, its using HackerNews style rankings so it stays pretty fresh.
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OTel Collector users — we want to hear from you (again)!
Last year, we did a survey to learn how you’re using the Collector. The response shaped a lot of our thinking. Now we’re back with a quick follow-up. Tell us what’s changed, what’s working, and what’s still rough.
👉https://buff.ly/Ghoh5H9
no one on the planet is less free thinking than people with “free thinker” in their bio
01.08.2025 05:32 — 👍 315 🔁 25 💬 18 📌 3FOSS UX that isn’t absolutely miserable to use challenge
difficulty level: impossible
I think there's value in surfacing "hey, here are the first 5 things you might try looking up, and the query results already executed for you"
but the real value is the *understanding* of how and why it broke imparted to a responsible human.
(middleware)
www.junctionlabs.io/blog/platfor...
After all these reports of authors adding language instructions for LLM reviews in their papers I wanted to check this myself and I downloaded the .tex source from one of these papers.
Here is an example.
(I will not share the identity of the paper)
"Mastering the OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL)" by Ben Blackmore
www.dash0.com/guides/opent...
If the telemetry data volume isn't very high you might get away with the free tier from some vendors as well.
05.06.2025 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OpenTelemetry deals with instrumentation/collection/conversion. For storage, analysis, visualization you need to look elsewhere.
For self hosting, Grafana (+Alloy) stack is an option. There are a couple of clickhouse based options as well (like github.com/hyperdxio/hy...).
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It’s my experience that if you find that you’re getting more strongly opinionated as you advance in your career, chances are you’re caught in a rut and becoming an expert beginner.
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peter.bourgon.org/go-for-indus...!
Hey thanks. Yeah, a few friends notified me. I can confirm this is not me. But unfortunately I can't do much to report because I don't want to activate my FB profile just to report this. Decided to ignore the idiots and move on. 🤷♂️
21.05.2025 12:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For the curious (or future me trying to find this link again): melatonin.dev/blog/code-si...
20.05.2025 07:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you think your life sucks, try getting a code signing certificate for signing Windows applications as an individual/OSS developer. Everything else will magically feel better.
Dealing with this pain since 2010. How the fuck some basic stuff is so broken for so long. 😒
For every dev who thinks "I could build this $30/month SaaS myself instead of paying for it" - the best thing you can do IS to build it!
You learn
1. How much work it is (just for the base case)
2. Edge cases the SaaS silently takes care of
3. The cost (+pain!) of maintenance
you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"
08.04.2025 20:57 — 👍 5667 🔁 1165 💬 83 📌 59Not a manager, but I relate hard to this.
“Take a vacation”
“And do what?”
pypi.org/project/tari...
"TARIFF is a fantastic tool that lets you impose import tariffs on Python packages. We're going to bring manufacturing BACK to your codebase by making foreign imports more EXPENSIVE!"
Example Output:
JUST IMPOSED a 50% TARIFF on numpy! American packages are WINNING AGAIN!
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
08.04.2025 00:03 — 👍 31662 🔁 8874 💬 264 📌 477Even if that happens, academics and researchers are not going to learn anything else in the foreseeable future 😆
22.03.2025 17:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This person accurately predicted Nvidia Digits/DGX Spark memory bandwidth 2 months before official specs were announced, just by looking at an image.
Insane skills 🤯
www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA...
Photo showing GeForce RTX 5090s are available at the Gear Store in the park right now at #GTC25 at MSRP
Meanwhile the elite at #GTC25 🥲
20.03.2025 07:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There are a few RTX 5090 available at Notebooksbilliger.de for almost 24 hours and no one is buying them? What's going on 😆
www.notebooksbilliger.de/zotac+gaming...
🚀 Deno v2.2.4 is released:
- Built-in OpenTelemetry
support for span context propagators (tracecontext, baggage)
- Built-in OTel tracing for node:http.request
- LSP now starts the TypeScript server lazily
other improvements in the release notes:
github.com/denoland/den...
programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like "GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds. GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping. See why Microsoft, OpenAl and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows." and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what
This is my entire life
17.03.2025 01:53 — 👍 1526 🔁 428 💬 30 📌 40
TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go.
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
"I still believe that the world is flat."
"I can demonstrate that it isn't. Get in that boat and sail away from shore. Keep looking at that lighthouse until it disappears."
"OK. Then what?"
"Keep going."
