david L rifkin
@davidrifkin.bsky.social
Thought follower ➕ Enjoyer of human+technical abstractions ➕ Professional nuisance
Live: New Orleans 🎺 Work: Developer Relations @ Embrace 🤗
Life should be full of beautiful, unique things.
Live: New Orleans 🎺 Work: Developer Relations @ Embrace 🤗
Life should be full of beautiful, unique things.
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🎉 Big news! We’re thrilled to welcome @SpeedCurve to Embrace 💛
Together, we’re uniting deep web + mobile expertise into one OpenTelemetry-based, user-focused observability platform.
Learn more: ow.ly/8li350Xqim4
Together, we’re uniting deep web + mobile expertise into one OpenTelemetry-based, user-focused observability platform.
Learn more: ow.ly/8li350Xqim4
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🎉 Big news! We’re thrilled to welcome @SpeedCurve to Embrace 💛
Together, we’re uniting deep web + mobile expertise into one OpenTelemetry-based, user-focused observability platform.
Learn more: ow.ly/8li350Xqim4
Together, we’re uniting deep web + mobile expertise into one OpenTelemetry-based, user-focused observability platform.
Learn more: ow.ly/8li350Xqim4
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YOUR LOCAL MUTUAL AID AND HARM REDUCTION ORG
the cure for male loneliness?
YOUR LOCAL MUTUAL AID AND HARM REDUCTION ORG
the cure for male loneliness?
Experts Credit Harm Reduction, Not Border Cops, for 27% Drop in Overdose Deaths
I cover the OD crisis closely cuz I lost so many friends.
If anyone gets credit for the decline in death, it's community activists like Tasha in this photo, and drug users themselves.
truthout.org/articles/exp...
I cover the OD crisis closely cuz I lost so many friends.
If anyone gets credit for the decline in death, it's community activists like Tasha in this photo, and drug users themselves.
truthout.org/articles/exp...
Experts Credit Harm Reduction, Not Border Cops, for 27% Drop in Overdose Deaths
Grassroots public health efforts and shifts in drug use have contributed to the sharp decline in overdose deaths.
truthout.org
May 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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YOUR LOCAL MUTUAL AID AND HARM REDUCTION ORG
the cure for male loneliness?
YOUR LOCAL MUTUAL AID AND HARM REDUCTION ORG
the cure for male loneliness?
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POSTING LESS
the key to happiness?
POSTING LESS
the key to happiness?
May 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
is
POSTING LESS
the key to happiness?
POSTING LESS
the key to happiness?
q2 planning
PALPATINE HOLOGRAM: 𝑨𝑹𝑬 𝑾𝑬 𝑶𝑵 𝑻𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑲 𝑻𝑶 𝑴𝑬𝑬𝑻 𝑶𝑼𝑹 𝑸𝑼𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑳𝒀 𝑲𝑷𝑰𝑺?
IMPERIAL BUREAUCRAT: Y-yes my lord.
PALPATINE: 𝒀𝑶𝑼’𝑹𝑬 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹. 𝑳𝑬𝑻’𝑺 𝑻𝑶𝑼𝑪𝑯 𝑩𝑨𝑺𝑬 𝑳𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹.
IMPERIAL BUREAUCRAT: Y-yes my lord.
PALPATINE: 𝒀𝑶𝑼’𝑹𝑬 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹. 𝑳𝑬𝑻’𝑺 𝑻𝑶𝑼𝑪𝑯 𝑩𝑨𝑺𝑬 𝑳𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹.
May 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
q2 planning
tis i, the voguish downtowner, in my jorts and t-shirt
I would guess that Zohran Mamdani cultivates alternative media because the New York Times covers him in the Styles section as a “long shot” while he is running a solid second place in the polls.
May 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
tis i, the voguish downtowner, in my jorts and t-shirt
This Thursday! Grab your board or a beach chair and wade into OpenTelemetry waters with us.
🏄♂️ Who’s ready to hang ten some observability this summer?
Join @hazelweakly.me @jpkroehling.bsky.social , Iris Dyrmishi, and @bidetofevil.wtf to hear how you can catch some sweet observability waves with #OpenTelemetry
📍Sign-up here: ow.ly/wpFq50VN837
Join @hazelweakly.me @jpkroehling.bsky.social , Iris Dyrmishi, and @bidetofevil.wtf to hear how you can catch some sweet observability waves with #OpenTelemetry
📍Sign-up here: ow.ly/wpFq50VN837
Webinar: Riding that OTel wave
In this summer-themed panel, OpenTelemetry experts share best practices, success stories, and tips on starting and scaling your observability culture and systems.
ow.ly
May 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This Thursday! Grab your board or a beach chair and wade into OpenTelemetry waters with us.
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This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
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this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people
"Intimacy with information produces understanding" thank god someone articulated this correctly @kissane.bsky.social
oh and we're using human care and human brains—not a fucking LLM—to brute-force the knowledge gap, because intimacy with information is what produces understanding and you can write that in my permanent record
April 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"Intimacy with information produces understanding" thank god someone articulated this correctly @kissane.bsky.social
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"At some point in time in your life, you’re going to run across a nurse. Birth, death, in between."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-its-l...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-its-l...
What It's Like Being a Nurse in New Orleans
"Once we stamped a dollar sign on patients' heads, all bets were off."
www.hamiltonnolan.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"At some point in time in your life, you’re going to run across a nurse. Birth, death, in between."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-its-l...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-its-l...
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These aren't mutually exclusive issues, and the people who would have you think so are just hiding the fact they agree with Trump on one of them
NEW: A deportation case exposes a rift among Democrats over how to take on Trump
One camp sees a pivotal moment to lean in and fight a lawless move.
Another camp sees a trap and wants to pivot to hitting Trump on his growing economic vulnerability.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
One camp sees a pivotal moment to lean in and fight a lawless move.
Another camp sees a trap and wants to pivot to hitting Trump on his growing economic vulnerability.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Abrego Garcia's deportation case exposes a rift among Democrats over how to take on Trump
As some Democrats vocally push for the release of the man the administration says was mistakenly deported, others have sought to steer clear and focus on high prices and economic issues.
www.nbcnews.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
These aren't mutually exclusive issues, and the people who would have you think so are just hiding the fact they agree with Trump on one of them
happy passover all
Since I'm working all weekend, Good Friday seems an appropriate time to repost it (thanks to @neauxpe.bsky.social for getting me a link from the bad place)
April 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
happy passover all
April 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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MTA's former train whisperer again forgets he lives in a world of shouting : (
like clockwork once again andy byford achieved something amazing and paradigm-changing with almost no resources and was immediately undermined by the most dumbass politicians in history
April 16, 2025 at 4:50 AM
MTA's former train whisperer again forgets he lives in a world of shouting : (
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You can now check my talk from KubeCON here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf9N...
Enhancing Database Observability With OpenTelemetry - Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs
YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
www.youtube.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
You can now check my talk from KubeCON here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf9N...
not to be rude but something like Palantir shouldn't exist in a sane society.
April 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
not to be rude but something like Palantir shouldn't exist in a sane society.
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Like we are the only state with whiskey in the produce section, right?
April 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Like we are the only state with whiskey in the produce section, right?
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TURN ON THE FUCKING NEWS IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT CHANNEL
September 11, 2001 at 12:14 PM
TURN ON THE FUCKING NEWS IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT CHANNEL
🚗 beep beep 🚗
🚌 hop in kiddos we're building OTel for Kotlin 🚌
🚢 [boat noise] 🚢
🚌 hop in kiddos we're building OTel for Kotlin 🚌
🚢 [boat noise] 🚢
It's early doors, but we at @embrace.io have published draft #OpenTelemetry Kotlin APIs for Tracing/Logging for feedback, targeting eventual donation to @opentelemetry.io
We want Android (and #KMP) devs to have idiomatic support to make #observability a thing there. #mo11y needs this!
We want Android (and #KMP) devs to have idiomatic support to make #observability a thing there. #mo11y needs this!
GitHub - embrace-io/opentelemetry-kotlin: An implementation of the OpenTelemetry specification as a Kotlin Multiplatform Library, developed by embrace.io
An implementation of the OpenTelemetry specification as a Kotlin Multiplatform Library, developed by embrace.io - embrace-io/opentelemetry-kotlin
github.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🚗 beep beep 🚗
🚌 hop in kiddos we're building OTel for Kotlin 🚌
🚢 [boat noise] 🚢
🚌 hop in kiddos we're building OTel for Kotlin 🚌
🚢 [boat noise] 🚢
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"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured.
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
prisonjournalismproject.org
April 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured.
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
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glad we finally get to live out the exciting scenario "what if every badged loser had a gun and was allowed to kill you"
In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."
Columbia University's new campus patrol officers appointed by New York Police Department
The 36 new special patrol officers announced last month by Columbia University were appointed by the New York Police Department and will be subject to the orders of the police commissioner, an arrangement confirmed by a Columbia spokesperson this week.
www.reuters.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
glad we finally get to live out the exciting scenario "what if every badged loser had a gun and was allowed to kill you"
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hey all 👋 have any of you recently committed any crimes? happy to snitch on you if so, please dm
April 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
hey all 👋 have any of you recently committed any crimes? happy to snitch on you if so, please dm