tpaschalis @tpaschalis@m.tpaschalis.me

English has two different terms for words that come into English from other languages. A 'calque' is translated from the source language. (E.g., flea market, beer garden, paper tiger) A 'loanword' is ported in its original form. (E.g., cafe, bazaar, kindergarten) Perhaps ironically, the word 'calque' is a loanword, while 'loanword' is a calque (from Ger. 'lehnwort').

Grafana Tempo 2.1 Released!

It has things! That do stuff!

https://grafana.com/blog/2023/05/02/grafana-tempo-2.1-release-traceql-performance-improvements/

There might also be a video of me somewhere in there!

I'm looking to hire a really great front-end engineer to work on Grafana observability for logs, metrics, traces, profiles.

Seeking someone who knows React, who is creative and resourceful, who has aspirations to build and grow a team. The biggest things in looking for are a bias towards action and curiosity.

This likely suits someone who has been freelance, doing consulting work, or tried their own startup in the past. It's a role with a lot of ownership over what you do, implies you're quite senior.

This is a remote role, it doesn't matter where you are. Though if you're in EMEA or the Americas it will help with time zones to existing team members.

Please boost, it's a good job in a good company for the right person ☺️

#fedihire

stop maintaining software

If you enjoy tesselation, penrose patterns, and 3D printing (or CNC/laser cutting), do I have news for you:

World's first einstein, an aperiodic monotile, as a paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798 and as an STL: https://www.printables.com/model/430171-einstein-worlds-first-aperiodic-monotile

https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk/110058807978537887

We're happy to announce that Pyroscope, the company behind the open source continuous profiling project of the same name, is now part of Grafana Labs.

With this acquisition, we will be merging the Pyroscope project and Grafana Phlare, the OSS project we launched last year, under the new name Grafana Pyroscope.

We're excited to unite the Pyroscope and Phlare teams and accelerate our plan to launch profiling in Grafana Cloud, which will make it easy to correlate profiles with metrics, logs, and traces. By doing so, we can help engineering teams gain a deeper understanding of their systems, quickly identify and resolve issues, and ultimately, deliver better software faster.
https://grafana.com/blog/2023/03/15/pyroscope-grafana-phlare-join-for-oss-continuous-profiling/

Is it bad? I’d need to think more about it!

Smartphone photography is already incredibly processed, lightyears from film photography of old. People should probably be more aware that the image their phone shows them is increasingly distant from “reality” – though most of the time, people don’t want reality!

Roses are red, coding is pain
git push --force origin main

Last night the 11yo broke down the Google Slides middle school Chatroom for me:

1. At first they used a Google doc but the infinite scroll was too chaotic
2. In the slide deck each new slide is one “post”—some all text, some images, some both—
3. They use slides’ comments feature to “reply” to each other’s “posts”
4. This allows participants to easily flip between posts using the slide thumbnail navigation, so they can find the conversations they care about easily
5. He owns the file & if anyone spams it, deletes other people’s posts, or gets nasty, he can revert the file to its previous save state & remove the spammer’s access
6. He did share the file with me on purpose, I think because he was proud & wanted me to see what he’d made

Essentially they’ve created a chatroom with moderation in Google Slides, so they can get around the school’s ban on platforms like Discord. It’s kind of brilliant