Emily Nakashima
@eanakashima.bsky.social
VP Eng at @honeycomb.io; opinions my own. Former co-organizer AndConf, observability & dev tools nerd, Valkyries fan. she/her 🏋🏻♀️🚵🏼🚣🏼♀️🏳️🌈
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These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔
NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
www.thewrap.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔
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Join @swarmia.bsky.social's @rmurphey.bsky.social, @honeycomb.io's @eanakashima.bsky.social, & @nathenharvey.bsky.social for a webinar about:
• The impact of AI in engineering orgs
• How leaders are driving AI adoption
www.swarmia.com/events/dora/
#Swarmia #Honeycomb #GBGB #DORA
• The impact of AI in engineering orgs
• How leaders are driving AI adoption
www.swarmia.com/events/dora/
#Swarmia #Honeycomb #GBGB #DORA
AI-assisted software development in research and practice [online event] | Swarmia
Join us on October 28 for an online session with Google Cloud and Honeycomb on what the 2025 DORA report tells us about AI adoption — and how Honeycomb does it in practice.
www.swarmia.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Join @swarmia.bsky.social's @rmurphey.bsky.social, @honeycomb.io's @eanakashima.bsky.social, & @nathenharvey.bsky.social for a webinar about:
• The impact of AI in engineering orgs
• How leaders are driving AI adoption
www.swarmia.com/events/dora/
#Swarmia #Honeycomb #GBGB #DORA
• The impact of AI in engineering orgs
• How leaders are driving AI adoption
www.swarmia.com/events/dora/
#Swarmia #Honeycomb #GBGB #DORA
"These are Sabrinas. They aren't just a regular shoe. These are my Sunday church basketball sneakers."
September 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"These are Sabrinas. They aren't just a regular shoe. These are my Sunday church basketball sneakers."
This article is such a gorgeous portrait of the Valkyries' first season, AND, it is the most nyt vibe ever. Like it was written by an anthropologist who never watched a WNBA game before this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
Inside the Most Valuable Team in Women’s Sports
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This article is such a gorgeous portrait of the Valkyries' first season, AND, it is the most nyt vibe ever. Like it was written by an anthropologist who never watched a WNBA game before this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
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NEWS: Veronica Burton has been named the 2025 WNBA Most Improved Player.
September 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
NEWS: Veronica Burton has been named the 2025 WNBA Most Improved Player.
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the "from devops to AI" panel was brilliant. @eanakashima.bsky.social: "people miss how much of devops was about culture... the culture stuff is maybe more important than ever now."
David Williams shared how AI is a black box we need observability to understand. bsky.app/profile/hone... #o11yDaySFO
David Williams shared how AI is a black box we need observability to understand. bsky.app/profile/hone... #o11yDaySFO
What a panel with Emily Nakashima, James Bland (AWS), & David Williams (LaunchDarkly)! The role of an SRE is evolving and hard to define. SREs connect many dots in ways LLMs can’t—showing how people and AI must work together to solve complex challenges.
Learn more: buff.ly/TwvXfyV
#o11ydaySFO
Learn more: buff.ly/TwvXfyV
#o11ydaySFO
September 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
the "from devops to AI" panel was brilliant. @eanakashima.bsky.social: "people miss how much of devops was about culture... the culture stuff is maybe more important than ever now."
David Williams shared how AI is a black box we need observability to understand. bsky.app/profile/hone... #o11yDaySFO
David Williams shared how AI is a black box we need observability to understand. bsky.app/profile/hone... #o11yDaySFO
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If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
I saw protestors on the I-80 overpass holding signs that said, "ICE TARGETS COLOR, NOT CRIME." And that's the whole game right there. This is about indiscriminately harassing people who look like immigrants, regardless of status.
September 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I saw protestors on the I-80 overpass holding signs that said, "ICE TARGETS COLOR, NOT CRIME." And that's the whole game right there. This is about indiscriminately harassing people who look like immigrants, regardless of status.
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Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
Can someone from the Valkyries front office explain why the Valks shop has jerseys for two (2) players who rarely/never start and one (1) draftee who didn't actually join the team, but not Temi Fágbénlé who starts every game AND has the most important singing part in the pre-game hype cheer #wnba
August 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Can someone from the Valkyries front office explain why the Valks shop has jerseys for two (2) players who rarely/never start and one (1) draftee who didn't actually join the team, but not Temi Fágbénlé who starts every game AND has the most important singing part in the pre-game hype cheer #wnba
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Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
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I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
May 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
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I don't know who needs to see this, as the saying goes, but platform engineering is not just "devops" or "infra" by another name.
Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.
Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.
May 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I don't know who needs to see this, as the saying goes, but platform engineering is not just "devops" or "infra" by another name.
Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.
Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.
This is heartbreaking and horrible. AmeriCorps jobs are such a low-cost win-win, providing helpful support for the communities, nonprofits, schools, public agencies, etc. and helping young people pay bills and explore possible career paths.
bsky.app/profile/moll...
bsky.app/profile/moll...
NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —
DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs
The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.
www.wired.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is heartbreaking and horrible. AmeriCorps jobs are such a low-cost win-win, providing helpful support for the communities, nonprofits, schools, public agencies, etc. and helping young people pay bills and explore possible career paths.
bsky.app/profile/moll...
bsky.app/profile/moll...
I'm contacting my senators *right now* to ask them to shoot this hateful garbage down; I'll add my script below if anyone else wants to borrow.
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ALERT! It just broke that tomorrow, the Senate will attempt a procedural vote on a transgender sports ban.
It will take 7 Democrats breaking rank in order to have enough votes to pass cloture.
Democrats held very strong in the House and only lost two votes.
CALL YOUR DEMS! (info in next post)
It will take 7 Democrats breaking rank in order to have enough votes to pass cloture.
Democrats held very strong in the House and only lost two votes.
CALL YOUR DEMS! (info in next post)
Senate sets up vote to restrict trans women from women's sports
The House passed similar legislation in January.
www.axios.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I'm contacting my senators *right now* to ask them to shoot this hateful garbage down; I'll add my script below if anyone else wants to borrow.
bsky.app/profile/erin...
bsky.app/profile/erin...
Do you own a fully electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid? If so, help me out and take this survey (5-7 min)?
I'm doing a project for a marketing class on a new EV charging technology and you'll help us better understand market segments. Grateful for reskeets 🙌🏼
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I'm doing a project for a marketing class on a new EV charging technology and you'll help us better understand market segments. Grateful for reskeets 🙌🏼
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Survey: Bidirectional EV Charging
We are a group of UC Berkeley students working on a marketing pitch for a new startup focused on bidirectional EV charging. Information gathered in this survey will help us identify the best way to re...
docs.google.com
February 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Do you own a fully electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid? If so, help me out and take this survey (5-7 min)?
I'm doing a project for a marketing class on a new EV charging technology and you'll help us better understand market segments. Grateful for reskeets 🙌🏼
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I'm doing a project for a marketing class on a new EV charging technology and you'll help us better understand market segments. Grateful for reskeets 🙌🏼
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I used to believe in trans rights just because trans rights are human rights. Later, I came to see that the struggle for trans rights is intertwined with all women's rights and all LGBTQ+ rights. As James Baldwin said, "If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night" (1/3)
February 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I used to believe in trans rights just because trans rights are human rights. Later, I came to see that the struggle for trans rights is intertwined with all women's rights and all LGBTQ+ rights. As James Baldwin said, "If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night" (1/3)
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I regret to inform you that people have officially started circling back around after the holidays
January 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I regret to inform you that people have officially started circling back around after the holidays
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The "use tail sampling for your traces" advice should probably also come with a strong "you must be this tall to ride this ride" caveat
Simple if you have a monolith, challenging if you have a cluster of microservices, jesus take the wheel if you have geo-distributed traces crossing regions
Simple if you have a monolith, challenging if you have a cluster of microservices, jesus take the wheel if you have geo-distributed traces crossing regions
December 19, 2024 at 7:11 PM
The "use tail sampling for your traces" advice should probably also come with a strong "you must be this tall to ride this ride" caveat
Simple if you have a monolith, challenging if you have a cluster of microservices, jesus take the wheel if you have geo-distributed traces crossing regions
Simple if you have a monolith, challenging if you have a cluster of microservices, jesus take the wheel if you have geo-distributed traces crossing regions
Friends, chaps are leg covers. The default chap form has no butt cover. You do not need to call them “assless chaps.”
December 14, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Friends, chaps are leg covers. The default chap form has no butt cover. You do not need to call them “assless chaps.”
I feel like Americans love to analogize sports to business because for many of us, sports was the only time we:
1. worked as a team
2. received constructive criticism and
3. shared a larger mission
before being in the labor force. I wish there were more ways for young people to experience these.
1. worked as a team
2. received constructive criticism and
3. shared a larger mission
before being in the labor force. I wish there were more ways for young people to experience these.
December 11, 2024 at 2:48 AM
I feel like Americans love to analogize sports to business because for many of us, sports was the only time we:
1. worked as a team
2. received constructive criticism and
3. shared a larger mission
before being in the labor force. I wish there were more ways for young people to experience these.
1. worked as a team
2. received constructive criticism and
3. shared a larger mission
before being in the labor force. I wish there were more ways for young people to experience these.
If you follow me partly because you are a fan of my employer, @honeycomb.io, you'll be happy to know you can now follow them on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/hone...
🌟 Hello BlueSky! 🌟
We’re Honeycomb, the observability platform for teams who manage software that matters. Send any data to our one-of-a-kind data store, solve problems with all the relevant context, and fix issues before your customers find them.
We’re Honeycomb, the observability platform for teams who manage software that matters. Send any data to our one-of-a-kind data store, solve problems with all the relevant context, and fix issues before your customers find them.
December 9, 2024 at 6:29 PM
If you follow me partly because you are a fan of my employer, @honeycomb.io, you'll be happy to know you can now follow them on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/hone...
Me: oh god I’m so busy, I can’t remember ever being this busy in my life
Also me: <casually googling “how to start a superpac”>
Also me: <casually googling “how to start a superpac”>
September 20, 2024 at 1:19 AM
Me: oh god I’m so busy, I can’t remember ever being this busy in my life
Also me: <casually googling “how to start a superpac”>
Also me: <casually googling “how to start a superpac”>