tpaschalis @tpaschalis@m.tpaschalis.me

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!

At a brand new startup this would feel slow to me, but in a company with a lot of moving parts, good security and deployment practices with large cloud environments, it’s pretty darn good.

It’s easy for me to get frustrated about not moving fast enough in a #software project; I was feeling this recently but, in hindsight, we’ve managed (in a 1k person company) to get a #product to real customers in less than six months, and it’ll probably go GA in less than a year from the kick off of defining the product. That’s well before we even started implementing!

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

[New Blog Post] I Completed All 8 Advents of Code in One Go: Here Are the Lessons I Learned 🚀

https://teivah.medium.com/advent-of-code-b5bf35a6d115 #AdventOfCode

#FOSDEM opening talk from the other side. It's really good to be back in person.

Today, we’re excited to announce Grafana Agent v0.31, which allows you to connect to even more types of observability signals for both scraping and remote writes. Get a rundown of the latest features in today's post:
https://grafana.com/blog/2023/02/01/grafana-agent-v0.31-release-new-helm-chart-flow-support-for-grafana-phlare-and-more/?mdm=social