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Reflection, September 2025
The Future Of Software Is Small
Everyone Is Wrong, All The Time.
JSON Is The Wrong Content Type For LLM Inputs.
I Set Up My iPad Again, Please Clap.
Wide Events, Personal Software, and You.
Introducing locol
One Weird Trick
The Hater's Guide to OpenTelemetry
Re-Redefining Observability
Don't Work For Projects That Don't Have Open Governance
Regrets of a Technical Communicator
Lessons Learned from Learning OpenTelemetry
What Do We Mean When We Talk About OpenTelemetry?
OTel TIL - What The Heck Is Instrumentation, Anyway?
Telemetry Ergonomics
Selling The Vision
Parsing Apache2 access logs with the OpenTelemetry Collector
Data Bores
Deploying on Friday the 13th
Observability Cannot Fail, It Can Only Be Failed
Observability and the Decentralized Web
The Blockchain Haters Guide To The AT Protocol
Stop Trying To Make Observability Happen
Virtual Events Are Dead, Long Live Virtual Events
Incentives and Power
The Commodification of DevOps
Deserted Island DevOps Postmortem
Mono in Debian 9 Containers
OpenTracing for ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI