tpaschalis @tpaschalis@m.tpaschalis.me

I don't know how I feel about email

https://xeiaso.net/blog/idk-about-email

#satire #email

There was a stretch when Elon Musk took over twitter and started charging for blue checks (lmao) and some of his sycophants started talking about “Veblen goods.”

A Veblen good is something for which demand *increases* as price increases, in contact to the neoclassical orthodoxy that demand decreases axiomatically with price.

Veblen goods are things that rich people buy to signal their wealth and status. Jewelry, fancy watches, yachts, Ivy League degrees. Things that cost many thousands or millions of dollars.

The idea that an $8 verification on twitter would ever be a status symbol for the rich was fucking ludicrous.

1/8

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!

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!