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Just noticed a vibe-coded project of mine cost $200/month to serve a few dozen users/day 😭 Turns out it was doing 10s of millions of unnecessary Redis polls/day, even when idle - telemetry alone cost $$ a possible clue for why infra providers are growing so much right now
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18 September
Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
7 September
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
4 September
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
1 September
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23 August
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
21 August
Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
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18 August
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
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12 August
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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
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Auto instrumentation has gotten so good in recent years. If you're using Open Telemetry and everyone should be using Open Telemetry. All of the common patterns like all of the models are trained on them. So, it is literally faster and easier to build with instrumentation than to than not to.
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17 July
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
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politicians acting based on what they think polls well, rather than based on what will actually produce results that make voters happy
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16 June
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
Telemetry is a product decision. These are not your old school infra logs and metrics; this is not your system exhaust pipe, spewing crap into the sky. The trace is all you need. But the trace must be part of the product. The trace is your source of truth. Quoting @mykola I think as LLM computer use gets increasing capable we are going to see a massive rise in the popularity and significance of telemetry. @mipsytipsy and honeycomb are way early yet, this will generalize. Think games or movies or lives as nested event streams. If you can see that, you can see why I’m… Related
2 December 2025
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14 June 2025
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13 February 2025
Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.
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This is what leads to slop JS/TS software. Treating errors generically like this is a mistake. It leads to fragile software, poor telemetry/observability/debugging, and as a result worse experiences
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9 December 2023
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One clue to the difficulties I faced, if I hadn’t been too naïve to see it, is that almost nobody works in small-scale, local, agroecological market gardening in Britain and most other rich countries. There’s a reason for that.
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8 December 2023
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
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