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Software engineer at Grafana Labs, Graz (Austria)

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A product that (almost) everyone uses from mid-sized tech companies and up but I rarely hear talked about: Grafana

In The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 survey, it had more mentions than Cursor, and dominates as the answer to "how do you turn information into graphs"

This is Grafana:

18.08.2025 09:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 174    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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dudes rock

10.07.2025 00:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 84    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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meine 3 neuen Lieblingsbilder

04.07.2025 06:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Accidental line-wrapping in Base64

When your shell script produces garbage base64 output ๐Ÿ˜‘ zerokspot.com/weblog/2025/...

#blogged #linux #macos

03.07.2025 13:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Merz gegen Regenbogenfahne am Parlament: Bundestag ist "kein Zirkuszelt" In Deutschland brauchen immer mehr queere Paraden Polizeischutz. Auf Distanz ist Kanzler Friedrich Merz. Auch er will am Bundestag keine Regenbogenfahne sehen, dieser sei "kein Zirkuszelt"

Den Deutschen Bundestag mit einem Zirkuszelt zu vergleichen, finde ich doch durchaus unterhaltsam ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿคก๐Ÿคก www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

02.07.2025 13:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. 

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country โ€” as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question โ€” it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. 

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. 

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. 

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country โ€” as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question โ€” it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

01.07.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37279    ๐Ÿ” 6828    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 642    ๐Ÿ“Œ 507

Ah, a US society study ๐Ÿคฃ

02.07.2025 08:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ich kann einfach nicht aufhรถren zu lachen. Jemand, der aktuell und in der Vergangenheit รถfters Bรผrgermeister ist/war will gegen eingesessene politische Strukturen kรคmpfen ๐Ÿคฃ

02.07.2025 07:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Curious, if you have a #fairphone 6, are you happy with it? How is the camera etc.? ๐Ÿ™‚ (reposts welcome ๐Ÿ˜Š)

29.06.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Next week, deno bundle returns in 2.4
๐Ÿ“ฆ --platform, --sourcemap flags
๐Ÿ“ฆ server-side, client-side
๐Ÿ“ฆ automatic treeshaking

27.06.2025 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dumme Frage an die #Bayern: Wozu Butterflocken in der Buttermilch? ๐Ÿคข

24.06.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nun zeigt dieses Medium, dass man dafรผr eigentlich nur verachten kann, sogar die abgedeckten Leichen der Opfer von #graz

10.06.2025 11:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 393    ๐Ÿ” 53    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

09.06.2025 02:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13412    ๐Ÿ” 5310    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1115    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1073
Stormtrooper-ass looking cops standing in front of a giant donut.

Stormtrooper-ass looking cops standing in front of a giant donut.

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

08.06.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25997    ๐Ÿ” 6169    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 256    ๐Ÿ“Œ 350
sketch blog: How I program with Agents 2025-06-08 by David Crawshaw

The Sketch blog has become the one thing you need to readโ€”along with @simonwillison.netโ€”to keep the pulse of LLM-assisted development.

Senior engineers putting in the work and giving no-bullshit perspectives.

Read this one by @crawshaw.io through. Not skim or half. Especially if you are a skeptic.

09.06.2025 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 68    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Once again, I have outsmarted Miyamoto

06.06.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1177    ๐Ÿ” 94    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 65    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23

Everything is a subscription these days ๐Ÿ™„

04.06.2025 22:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So, mal andersherum: Gibt es schon jemanden, der von MediaMarkt eine Versandbestรคtigung fรผr die #Switch2 bekommen hat ๐Ÿ˜‘

Bitte boosten ๐Ÿ™‚

04.06.2025 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Ich als langjรคhriger Softwareentwickler sage Ihnen, dass diese Anwendung offenbar von kompletten Dilettanten stammt."
Ich als langjรคhrige Bibliothekarin sage pscht.

02.06.2025 09:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 170    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

"Willst du heute Abend Penne oder Spaghetti?"
"Ist mir ganz egal."
"Sag bitte was."
"Ok, dann Penne."
"Wir haben aber nur mehr Spaghetti, da mรผsst ich extra einkaufen gehen."
Folgt uns fรผr mehr Tipps zur erfolgreichen Gesprรคchsfรผhrung.

02.06.2025 12:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 238    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Die MAGA Community will Harvard boykottieren und ich glaube das ist das lustigste was ich in dieser Woche bis jetzt gelesen habe.

02.06.2025 14:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 177    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
I am disappointed in the AI discourse

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

28.05.2025 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 917    ๐Ÿ” 180    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 212    ๐Ÿ“Œ 89
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ร–VP Mann Kosak wirft uns vor Plakolm โ€žabgewertetโ€œ zu haben weil wir schreiben sie sei eine โ€žBauerntochterโ€œ, die Posaune spielt. Als Autor eines Buches รผber einen Bauern und Enkel einer Bรคuerin kann ich nur sagen: irgendwo ist da langsam eine Schraube in der PR-Propagandaabteilung locker.

31.05.2025 07:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 256    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Bei manchen Politiker:innen hรคtte ich groรŸe Lust, sie in einen Arabisch- oder Farsi-Kurs zu setzen und zu sagen: In einem halben Jahr wirst du geprรผft und wenn du durchfรคllst, wirst du aufs Existenzminimum gesetzt. Fang mal mit der Schrift an, dann geht das schon!

31.05.2025 07:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 599    ๐Ÿ” 137    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Tourist magnets and expectations

Exploring Salzburg: Tourist magnets and expectations. zerokspot.com/weblog/2025/... #blogged #austria #salzburg #traveling

30.05.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ist auch derweil so meine Einstellung dazu. Gut dass ich jetzt mal drin war, aber muss ich nicht wieder

28.05.2025 18:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Was ist denn so die allgemeine Meinung zum Augustiner Brรคu Mรผlln in #Salzburg? Geile Institution, Touristenfalle, ...?

28.05.2025 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Slightly disappointed that the Belgian bar we found in Salzburg doesn't have anything by the Brussels Beer Project ๐Ÿคช

25.05.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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