tpaschalis @tpaschalis@m.tpaschalis.me

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

OMG this thread is wild!

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

@RichiH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo ?

Dear #computing #history #datahoard bubble:

I am looking for the original advertisement of either Google Docs or potentially Google Chromebooks, strongly believing it's the former.

It was an ad in which someone wrote some words while walking counterclockwise through an office setup, destroying several laptops and showing that the written words had already been synced to the next device about to be used and destroyed.

Edit 2: thanks @HeNeArXn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo !

Grafana Pyroscope just hit 1.0 https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/releases/tag/v1.0.0

This is open source (AGPL) Continuous Profiling, the fourth pillar of observability. It is stable, performant, and capable of running at scale.

You can also try profiling on Grafana Cloud as we provide it as a SaaS if you don't want to run your own: https://grafana.com/products/cloud/profiles-for-continuous-profiling/ you can try it for free (and if usage is small it's free forever).

#grafana #pyroscope #profiling

I'm truly heartbroken. Life is full of distractions, but don't let them stop you from telling the people you love how much they mean to you. 💔

https://nivenly.org/blog/2023/08/19/an-announcement-regarding-kris-nóva/

This has absolutely no business, none whatsoever, being as good as it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzR9HwhhlkA

Extremely informative!:

Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States - by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/12/do-not-pay/#fair-debt-collection-practices-act

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