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SWE @grafana.bsky.social Fleet Management, prev. Alloy, Agent - FOSS <3

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#golang #vim #observability #prometheus #opentelemetry #distsys
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tpaschalis.me
Ok let’s see this time: Citizen Sleeper.

It doesn’t exactly scratch that Disco Elysium itch yet, but nice setting and so far, good writing. Also good to play in short bursts.
tpaschalis.me Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · Dec 14
Post-thirties gaming cycle:

1. Start a new game, get hyped, OMG THIS IS AWESOME
2. Proceed to never EVER start the game again 🤷

Most recently happened with Alan Wake 2, Helldivers 2, Deep Rock Galactic, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Assetto Corsa, It Takes Two, Weird West, Sifu... 🥲
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
tpaschalis.me
Just how good is Alex Volkanovski???
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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golang.org
“Go’s Sweet 16” by Austin Clements, for the Go team — https://go.dev/blog/16years

#golang
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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murdoink.com
steam machine de la abuela
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
tpaschalis.me
I wrapped up Leviathan Wakes this past week, the first installment in the Expanse.

Anyone got any recommendations? Potentially with better worldbuilding?
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
tpaschalis.me
It took me 15 hours to _try_ the other weapons in Hades; who knew the game could be so much more fun??? 🤦
November 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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vladimir.varank.in
Gaslight-driven development tonsky.me/blog/gasligh...
Gaslight-driven development
Computers are starting to have opinions on how our APIs should look like
tonsky.me
October 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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python.org
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
A couple of weeks ago, Trump struggled with a broken umbrella as he boarded Air Force One.

Let me tell you how we got to this point — and the tragic downfall of the noble umbrella. 🧵
October 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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hillelwayne.com
I know this is bait (4/5 of his "good" games are shooters) but I love talking about videogames, so here's a list of videogames that gave me sublime experiences, that make videogames into something precious and special and worthy of respect. Screenshots when I 'got em

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tiredgenerally.bsky.social Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · Sep 30
(honest question) what are the “good” video games? artistically i mean, not in a “i enjoyed this escapist slop” kind of way
gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · Sep 30
Well. It's not Red Dead Redemption 2, but it's like one of three video games I'd genuinely consider good.
October 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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hillelwayne.com
2. RETURN OF THE OBRA DINN: A therapist once told me that all anger comes from loss. I told her some anger came from joy, because one discovery in Obra Dinn was SO GOOD it made me physically angry. Emotion hysteresis is real
October 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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stavros.io
Does this make any sense? Please let me know if not, it was surprisingly difficult to explain Jujutsu's mental model in the end:

www.stavros.io/posts/switch...
Switch to Jujutsu already: a tutorial - Stavros' Stuff
www.stavros.io
October 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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serwewx.bsky.social
Be loving.
Be caring.
Be kind.
Be generous.
Be empathetic.
October 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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grafana.bsky.social
📣 At #ObservabilityCON 2025, we announced updates that make observability smarter, scalable, and easier for every team — including Grafana Assistant GA, new additions to the Adaptive Telemetry, & more.

Read more:
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/08/observabilitycon-2025-announcements/
October 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
tpaschalis.me
Grafana #ObservabilityCON 2025 is under way and the announcement storm has just started! 🚨

Watch out for the Instrumentation Hub, a brand new, zero-code onboarding workflow, taking a new Grafana Cloud signup to base 80% estate coverage in just a couple of clicks!
October 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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grafana.bsky.social
Today's the day!

#ObservabilityCON 2025 keynote starts at 10:00 am BST / 9:00 am UTC.

Join the livestream and be among the first to learn about new AI features and Grafana Cloud solutions.
https://youtube.com/live/MJXpfFgFCjg?feature=share
ObservabilityCON 2025 Keynote
YouTube video by Grafana
youtube.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
tpaschalis.me
TIL of the “omakase framework” concept
October 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
tpaschalis.me
Was stuck in traffic for 1 hour and got so frustrated I devoured ½lt of terrible ice cream 😭 AMA
September 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
tpaschalis.me
Hey #OpenTelemetry folks! We've released a #Prometheus mixin for the OpenTelemetry Collector! 🔭🎉

It's a set of predefined dashboards and alerts for monitoring your fleet of collectors using their internal metrics.

So grab it, `make dashboards_out`, import into @grafana.bsky.social and voila!
jsonnet-libs/opentelemetry-collector-mixin at master · grafana/jsonnet-libs
Grafana Labs' Jsonnet libraries. Contribute to grafana/jsonnet-libs development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
I wrote something about respectability in dress over on Twitter. The topic is nuanced for me, so unfortunately the post had to be long. Since Bluesky (reasonably) has character limits, I can't easily import the text here. So I'm including screenshots, if you would like to read it.
ON RESPECTABILITY IN DRESS Every once in a while, people here will get mad at me. And it often involves the same issue: respectability in dress. Or its related cousin: dress codes. Judging someone's deeper, more important qualities based on attire often feels so natural; people get upset when I refuse to engage in the same judgment. To them, it feels as though I'm denying something so obvious, I'm dishonest. I've written about dress respectability no fewer than half a dozen times in my 15 years of writing about menswear, but never so thoroughly and comprehensively on Twitter. This post will be long, but I hope it is engaging. And I hope you stay with me because I find this sentiment to be so noxious — so antithetical to any notion of "good," whether religious or secular — that I hope I can convince a few people to resist such temptations. What is respectability in dress? It's the idea that you can show respect through clothes, such as wearing a suit to a wedding. Or the idea that people in certain clothes are more deserving of respect, such as a man in a suit versus another man in a hoodie. I will address each in turn. I believe dress is a form of social language. And thus, you can signal certain things through clothes. For instance, if I were to attend a wedding, I would wear a suit as an outward expression of a sentiment in my heart (e.g., "I'm happy for my hosts and wish to honor them on this day"). The suit is simply a representation of my sentiment, which already exists, even if I was in jeans. However, if I arrived at a wedding and saw someone not wearing a suit, I would not judge the person's more important qualities based on their attire. Perhaps they didn't have time to buy a suit. Perhaps clothes shopping gives them great anxiety. Perhaps they can't afford a suit that fits. If I wanted to know whether that person is of good character, I would judge this off their more direct actions, such as how they treat the people around them. Are they genial to g… In 1852, Cardinal John Henry Newman penned an essay, initially delivered as a university lecture, titled "Definition of a Gentleman." A gentleman, he says, is someone gentle and kind, considerate of others, humble in social relations, and respectful of boundaries. He compares a gentleman to "an easy chair or a good fire, which do their part in dispelling cold and fatigue." He writes: "The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast — all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern being to make every one at his ease and at home. He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome. He makes light of favors while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring." There is notably nothing in his essay about clothes. It's impossible to judge a person's deeper, more important qualities based on clothes because people are often just following social conventions. To go back to the wedding example, many people wear a suit not because they hold a particular sentiment in their heart, but simply because a suit is protocol. A friend who works as a wedding photographer revels in telling me stories about suited guests getting into fistfights—certainly not a way to honor your hosts. The irony of dress codes is that the stronger the enforcement, the less you can tell about someone's character based on dress. Let's now turn to the idea that people in certain clothes are more deserving of respect. The sharpest, most pointed counterargument for this is Pierre Bourdieu, who in his 1979 book Distinction, pointed out that our notions of "Good Taste" are often nothing more than the habits and preferences of the ruling class. Edward Carpenter, a gay British reformer in the late 19th century, understood this a century earlier. He hated suits. In an essay about the "simple life," he compared suits to coffins, as they have "stiff layers upon layers of buckram," which he believed prevented people from getting enough sunlight and air. But more importantly, he hated suits because he recognized that Victorian dress codes weren't about dress codes at all — they were about status signaling and social hierarchy. In May 1889, Carpenter wrote a letter to The Sheffield Independent about how 100,000 of the city's residents were struggling to find sunlight and air, enduring miserable lives, and dying of illnesses because of the thick, black cloud of smog arising out of factories like smoke from Judgement Day. Meanwhile, as Melton-clad plutocrats nattered on about proper dress codes, they concealed their cruelty and vulgarity under refined manners. They weren't concerned with virtue, but rather with showing their supposed higher moral status. And then those socially under them aped those manners to seem higher class. (A dynamic that German sociologist Georg Simmel recognized in his 1902 essay "On Fashion.) Our judgements of dress are often more about the person underneath the clothes, rather than the clothes themselves. We see this with the pre-war British Guardsmen, who dropped their Edwardian-inspired fashions as soon as they were adopted by the "ruffians" known as Teddy Boys (and some Teddy Gals). Or how the slacker hoodie became a symbol of meritocracy in the New Economy when (white) coders wore it in the early 2000s, but it symbolizes criminality when worn by black teens. Clothes ind… I'm fundamentally opposed to any notion of respectability in dress, as I find it antithetical to a fundamental moral principle: you should treat everyone with respect unless they behave in a manner that suggests otherwise. And so, if John Fetterman lumbers through the halls of Congress in hoodies and shorts, you should object to him based on his politics, not his dress. If a student shows up at Oxford Union in sweats, you should consider his ideas, not his pants. I am perfectly fine with saying certain outfits are ugly. I'm deeply uncomfortable when people make moral judgments based on clothes. A person is not more or less deserving of respect based on dress; they can only do so based on more meaningful behavior. My guess is that you know this in your heart. As you travel through the world, look around you. Are your poorly dressed cousins and uncles bad people? Do shabbily dressed teachers or nurses on the train not actually serve society in positive ways? Do suited politicians not occasionally commit crimes? The idea that appearance doesn't always match character can be found more melodically in Fela Kuti's 1973 album "Gentleman." If you are already interacting with someone on a meaningful basis, you've hopefully already gotten enough information about them to form a judgement and thus can ignore dress. If you haven't interacted with them in meaningful ways, you can simply withhold judgement. I will end with an excerpt from Stuart Hall, a Jamaican-born British cultural theorist. In an essay about pluralism, he made a distinction between "common culture" and "common society," encouraging us to embrace differences. "It should not be necessary to look, walk, feel, think, speak exactly like a paid-up member of the buttoned-up, stiff-upper-lipped, fully corseted and free-born Englishman, culturally to be accorded either the informal courtesy and respect of civil social intercourse or the rights of entitlement and citizenship. Since cultural diversity is, increasi…
September 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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basil-mage.bsky.social
Bruh
Drawing if a tired puppy with the caption; "This too shall pass but like wtf"
September 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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swordgav.bsky.social
Kindness is punk as fuck.
September 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
tpaschalis.me
That's one hell of a sci-fi term 🤯
petertevans.bsky.social Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · Sep 4
There is a very small "group" of us doing computational theology. In broad terms, we're asking 'distant writing' related questions: what does it mean when a model trained on theological texts then *writes* theological text? How do we categorize it? Is it "new" theology? Etc.
September 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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citymystic.bsky.social
Wrote about the feeling of living at a literal fever pitch for the last decade, and how every day things somehow get worse but stay the same.

houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/we-live-in...
We Live Inside The Shepard Tone
Everyday things get worse, and stay the same
houseofmirrors.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM