Luxon: "...me not know wot do.." Interpreter: presents his latest polling results #nzpol

From Kassie, Nadia and the team at ActionStation #nzpol 🧵 Over the past week, the leadership of Christopher Luxon has been called into question in the polls and the media.  Aotearoa is no longer buying what his government is trying to sell us, and here’s 99 reasons why:

'Young idea-less boy, blames people from years ago for saving many lives, in attempt to distract from this governments economic austerity incompetence'. #nzpol

you can't beat Wellington on 'the' good day

A way to make Trump news more palatable is to create a Chrome Extension that replaces 'Trump' with 'Lump' #nzpol

I correctly reported this Act party ad featuring David Seymour as being repulsive. #nzpol

Wellington

Pls support local film making 😎 #wellington #wellywood

Bahahah. luxon is getting rolled. #nzpol

I can't recommend Grafana anymore View Article | Join the HN Conversation Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news

📢New Blog Post: Step-by-Step Guide to Set Up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server Full walkthough to set up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server 📖 Read the full article here: blog.marty.co.nz/step-by-step... #OpenTelemetry #Observability #MCP #SRE #DevOps #Instrumentation #DistributedTracing #Honeycomb

OpenTelemetry MCP Server Setup Guide

Learn to set up an OpenTelemetry MCP server for better observability and instrumentation practices in your applications

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What does good telemetry look like? @dangb.me has some answers here in their discussion of the Instrumentation Score project. Article - newrelic.com/blog/best-pr... Spec Website - instrumentation-score.com Git Repo - github.com/instrumentat... #OpenTelemetry #Observability

What does ‘good’ telemetry look like?

Explore why you need good quality observability data to operate systems efficiently, the value of doing so, and how Instrumentation Score can help.

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Have a read of Dave Farley's State of Continuous Delivery report for 2025. continuous-delivery.co.uk/cd-assessmen... Nice to see you can't be in the elite 10% club without "Comprehensive observability and monitoring" 😎 #ContinuousDelivery #Observability

An analysis of nearly 100 organizations and individuals reveals where the industry excels, where it struggles, and the critical factors demonstrated by the best adopters of CD. Could these findings help you identify your CD strengths and weaknesses, and suggest ways you can improve?

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Ad for bug-a-salt fly gun which shoots sodium chloride

Catzilla

Example 538 of how the current New Zealand government hates workers

gave up waiting for my Y2K patching medal, so had to make this

it's always sunny in Wellington

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/cl... #NZ

Clean Air in Schools

Covid can have substantial impacts on peoples’ health. Although Covid initially enters the body through the respiratory system, it can affect virtually every bodily system and organ. There are no adva...

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looking forward to when read-aloud software knows about tech terms. one needs to read the text visually along with hearing it, to know they mean 'AWS' [not oars], and 'APIs' [not 'Ar-piss] 😂

It Lives! I built a Rasberry Pi based TV mute controller for my LG WebOS tv, and I'm sending events to @honeycomb.io using their libhoney lib. Nice to do a non-enterprise grade IT project for a change, i.e for fun. I'll do a write up & link to the repo #raspberrypi #observability #O11y #python

www.honeycomb.io/blog/how-muc... #Observability

How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?

In this update to her 2018 post, Charity Majors explains how much teams should spend when it comes to observability costs.

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after going round in circles with Cursor, I'm now reading the docs like an animal #DevLife

most IT projects

I've been bogged down in writing about cost controls for the past few weeks (current status: 6k words and trying hard to edit down 🥺).. but I took an hour this morning to write up a response to @mattklein123.dev's thought-provoking take on "observability 3.0". charity.wtf/2025/03/24/a...

Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon

Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between the pillars model and the single unified storage model and applying “2.0” to the latter, Christi…

charity.wtf

It's handy when job descriptions let you know the red flags early on, by accidently saying the quiet bit out loud "3+ years managing a portfolio of projects (up to 50 at any one time)."

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and looking at the camera .

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and looking at the camera, saying No

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still a great article from @mipsytipsy.bsky.social charity.wtf/2023/03/09/a... I've mostly been a solution architect over the years, but lately have been getting back into the weeds of modern Javascript & MERN stack. good times.

Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery

I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it, tongue-in-cheek-ily, whether or not architect is a “bullshit role”. It got a LOT of reactions (2.5 we…

charity.wtf

I've just completed a large Javascript course 😎 I've worked with JS since 1998 but it's useful to do a complete course in a topic to fill in any gaps. Particularly true for #Javascript as a lot has changed over the years. 'The Complete JavaScript Course 2025: From Zero to Expert' at Udemy