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Does anyone have opinions on Perses? I love the idea of dashboards as code. The Go example looked awful tbh. Feels like it should only be in a declarative format.

I hate macos so freaking much

Lmao remember when Crowdstrike bricked everyone's machines and their take away was that they should test their changes 🤣🤣

I love it when my morning is cratered because my Mac decided to do an update and I have to wait 45m for it to start

How many generations of Apple silicon you figure I gotta wait until I don't have to deal with the neural engine or "Apple intelligence"?

I absolutely love seeing our customers use our product to make theirs better! Check out our block to learn how @s2.dev did just that

"Make this as user hostile as possible" -- ancient otel proverb

I know some of y'all follow me for corgis.

It's that time of year again; where I talk myself out of buying a Remarkable

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally

Is CRIU the next hotness?

Hello dependency hell, my old friend

You either die a Gopher, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Rustacean

Curious about Continuous Profiling and how it can level up your Observability game? Come join me next week Wednesday at 4 PM CET / 10 AM EST and learn all about it! Whether you're an expert or a beginner I promise you'll learn something new! See you there! events.polarsignals.com/continuous-p...

Remember choose your own adventure books?

2025 is the year. I'm going to try a different editor other than vim.

Me with Rust's borrow checker today

[email protected], we often get questions about how continuous profiling is different from traditional APM tools. If you're free Feb 5 at 10:00 EST/16:00 CET, @brancz.com will be diving deeper into how these differ and complement each other. Register here:

I used to be able to tell my android phone to start a timer, and it would pull up my timer app and start one. Now with AI it can Google search that for me and sometimes start a timer in some magical web interface. Someone better have gotten promo'd for this enshitification

📢 New year, new compliance! We're excited to share that Polar Signals Cloud is now SOC2 type 2 compliant! 🔐 www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...

Excited to try this type of book club out. Wanted to read this book anyways, so this seemed like a good excuse.

We struggled to really understand cross-zone network traffic and the resulting cost on our cloud bill, so we created a new project to help us out. Check it out! The first time I used #eBPF for its original purpose (#networking) 😂

DigitalOcean had the best education program of any company I've worked at. Day one you were given a Kindle and could request books that the company then sent to your Kindle. Any other unique education programs y'all have experienced?

My household is playing norovirus Russian roulette. I'm currently winning but I'd really like to not have to play.

No matter what @kakkoyun.me tells you Wisconsin is not in Minnesota #geoguesser

There is no antimemetics department is the craziest thing I'll read all year.