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Scott Gerring
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Software & tech enthusiast living in Switzerland, working @ Datadog. Opinions on all sorts of things, some of them reasonable.
Astro and cloudflare pages ! Pretty happy.
January 3, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Yup
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
December 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Incy Wincy Spider is Sisyphus for kids
December 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Anna’s Archive backing up all of Spotify is like a feel good version of the GenAI folks stealing everyone’s copyrighted content to train their models
December 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
@jameseastham.co.uk and I are back again talking about software engineering! This time, we dive into API-first design - what it's good for, and how you can get started with it.

Let us know what you think!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-R...
The Incredible Power of API First Design
YouTube video by Datadog Community
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Not sure anyone I know on here cares, but it brings me great sadness that Scott aren't producing tele boots anymore
Scott Ends Telemark Boot Production, Leaving Free-Heel Skiers Scratching Their Heads
The long quiet carrier of the legendary Garmont flame is done with boots, including free-heel options, just as the sport appears to rise again.
www.powder.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Gross
December 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Wot?
December 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
US State Department abolishing use of "Calibri" in documents because it is quote too diverse end quote is the most absurdly The Onion news I have read this year, and that is saying something
December 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This time they said “this wouldn’t have happened if we used Rust instead of lua!”. I am satisfied.
December 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#cloudflare down again? Hopefully wont blame rust this time 🥹
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The season of having my heart continuously broken by the snow forecast is upon us
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Cool! This wording with _friction_ is exactly how my internal monologue goes. Especially with e.g. learning things - without actual friction - without struggle (cuz you're outsourcing your brain) - you're not growing.
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I’d love to see some big moves to tangled ! Decentralized identity feels important here
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Congrats to our APM team on the preview release of dd-trace-rs! Now we have a nice opinionated datadog tracer for Rust folks 🥰

github.com/DataDog/dd-t...
GitHub - DataDog/dd-trace-rs: Datadog APM for Rust
Datadog APM for Rust. Contribute to DataDog/dd-trace-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Zig’s moving to codeberg from github because of entshitification ! Proverbial canary ?

ziglang.org/news/migrati...
Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg ⚡ Zig Programming Language
ziglang.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@jameseastham.co.uk and I have released the inaugural _second episode_ (coughs loudly) of our video series on modern software development - this time on James' favourite thing, **Event Storming** - a great tool to dive into a domain you're about to build something in!
This Process Will Change How You Think About Designing Your Software
YouTube video by Datadog Community
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Come listen to @jameseastham.co.uk and I ramble about software architecture!
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Had a great time at @vdthess.bsky.social over the last few days talking about software quality. Enormous thanks to Pat and the rest of the organisers for putting on a great event!
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Kalimera! #vdthess25
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is clever realization - you can use XDP also for fast **egress** by cleverly using veth pairs - #ebpf community continues to do wildly novel things !

loopholelabs.io/blog/xdp-for...
Using XDP for Egress Traffic
XDP only works for ingress. We found a loophole that lets it work for egress. Here's how we did the impossible.
loopholelabs.io
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Gotta say it’s nice to wake up and see some hopeful news from across the pond
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Google Slides diff view is surprisingly good? You can click through changes, and you get a big coloured box around what shifted.

... I kinda assume decent diffing was never gonna be a thing for presentations that _aren't_ written in some md/js framework
October 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM