david L rifkin
davidrifkin.bsky.social
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.
it's not all bad
April 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
anyway, we just pulled this little guy off death row and are fostering him. adopt, don't shop.

sorry to bother you Charity.
April 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
other things of note:
- I got to see the @ollygarden.bsky.social in action
- i got to see some people instrument Doom (yes, that Doom)
- i got to see this cool shirt with surprisingly well-spaced elements
- i just ate for the first time today (10:55pm)

what adventures lie in wait tomorrow?
April 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
thank you for this image @kateholterhoff.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
as an American, I'd like to advocate for leaving our stupid things back in America, and sparing the rest of the world.
April 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
who photographs the photographer? me!

great "Humans of OTel" interview by @adrianamvillela.bsky.social, getting @bidetofevil.wtf's take
April 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
kinda love this lil guy tbh
April 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
why arent things stable when you're naming things smartly like this man?
April 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"first off: who here is Brazilian?"
AND THE CROWD GOES WILD
@marylia.dev
April 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
10_000 units of respect to the individual demoing off live code 🙏
April 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Logging layers seem important. Also if someone from Boston says this tagline it rhymes!
April 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
recapping the important events in 2019
April 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"They wanted more. They wanted users... users, Users, USERS!"
April 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
right after this photo @bidetofevil.wtf ran to the bathroom to make right on his username
April 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
selfie with a friend
April 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
wait a tic. a specified data shape could help coordinate something as thorny and important as flight operations???
April 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Alt title: by looking for new ways to gather info, OTel is truly out of this world!
April 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Our very charismatic standups I mean speakers get into some definitions... familiar!
April 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Allllll the stars are here
we've got @adrianamvillela.bsky.social
we've got @virtualized6ix.wtf
we've got @aparker.io
April 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
man loves an audience... imagine him on stage
April 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Elena, wrapping up a knockout talk by quoting tech heavyweight Mike Tyson
April 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"We wanted to change the culture of each internal org" - Every process that has a beginning and an end can use a TRACE (not tons of logs)
April 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
and now some wonderful hold music before Elena Kovalenko's talk "OpenTelemetry @ Delivery Hero."

I hope she'll be shouting out observability providers in this talk... RECORD SCRATCH
April 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“None of this is legible, and that’s what we wanted!”
April 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
dudes... learn how to use the advanced configuration. manage your certs. it takes some learning, but it'll definitely help.
April 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM