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Alex Boten
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Writes open source software and about technology sometimes. Problems solver & author. He/him https://dot.cards/codeboten
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Alex Boten @boten.ca · Dec 29
I liked the internet better before monetizing it became a thing
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I want to go back to restaurants without apps
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Do people know what a duotang is?
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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What if instead of springing forward in a few months, we just spring further back?
November 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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The more I practice muay thai, the more I hurt
October 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Sometimes i just want []byte
October 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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anyone else struggling with github atm?
October 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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PSA: tell people you care about them
September 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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friends dont let friends javascript today krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/self...
Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages
At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on G...
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September 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Still true today
Meme with two buttons next to each other and a person sweating ad they’re trying to figure out which to push: brew upgrade or brew update
September 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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That thousand word blog post could have been a screenshot
September 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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There is way too much traffic on this information highway
August 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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For the love of… ACCEPT ALL COOKIES
August 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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E_TOO_MANY_HOBBIES
August 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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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
August 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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It’s hard to see the forest from the trees when your glasses are covered in smudges all the time

Clean your glasses 🤣
July 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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?
July 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Sometimes you just gotta make things work at the last minute before a talk at a conference 😅
Me sitting on the denver convention centre floor hacking together buzzers for a talk
July 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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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...
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.
www.404media.co
July 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I dont like playing the version game
July 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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The best part of USB-C is never having to waste time guessing if the damned connector is the right side up
July 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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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
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,...
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July 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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All the talks from OTel Community Day and Open Observability Summit are up!

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

#otelDay #opentelemetry
Sponsored Keynote: Why Semantic Conventions are OpenTelemetry’s Most Important Con... Gordon Radlein
YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
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July 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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I love the life of a span named Spanley… Spanley’s diary with some daily gratitude 🥰
A slide showing spanley’s diary with some daily gratitude notes
June 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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@aparker.io starting the day strong with some context propagation jokes at #OTelDay
Austin on stage at the keynote for opentelemetry community day
June 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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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
Home made game show buzzers with an Otel telescope burned into the side of their cases
June 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM