"You want to actually see it in Aspire, not just in-memory. Let me wire up OTLP export to your local endpoint " thanks, AI. I, mere mortal, don't want to see spans in memory
Liudmila Molkova
@neskazu.bsky.social
Software engineer at Google working on observability; member of the OpenTelemetry Technical Committee. Serving up sarcastic takes on software engineering. Opinions my own.
"I am not a native English speaker and that’s why I used AI to answer your questions." A letter to all first-time contributors: svrnm.com/blog/dear-fi...
Dear first-time contributor
I am not a native English speaker and that’s why I used AI to answer your questions. I keep seeing this, or a version of it, on issues and PRs. Reading it over and over again, especially when written ...
svrnm.com
#OpenTelemetry is a #CNCF graduated project From OpenCensus and OpenTracing to today, this project has been a community effort from the start. Thank you to everyone who contributed code, docs, specs, reviews, feedback, and end-user experiences. This milestone belongs to you. buff.ly/SSE3ct3
OpenTelemetry is a CNCF Graduated Project
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that OpenTelemetry has graduated. Graduation is an important milestone for the project and reflects the strength of the OpenTelemetry…
opentelemetry.io
2020 concern: will my health insurance cover the gap? 2026: how do I keep my AI coding agents funded during the transition?
sometimes the job is convincing big egos to do the obvious thing, without hurting their feelings. peak excitement
so much for Windows hijacking win+q for yet another unnecessary ai thing
how do you feel about taking credit for what Claude did? I feel guilty sometimes.
flew over the atlantic while coding with AI and pushing changes to GH. felt very 2026. 10/10
We’re lucky that AI bots spamming PRs don’t seem to respond to "changes requested” comment letting PR go stale. Also, devs shipping AI bots, update the instructions to include “be concise” and “critically review your changes before posting PR". Save tokens. Save the planet. Save OSS
completely different experience with Claude VS Code extension vs the CLI. love the editing and large-prompt friendliness of the VS Code UI, but it works so much worse than the CLI. not sure why - only difference I can think of is too much context - auto-attaching current file / line.
I love Python: ship in minutes, but fight lint and tooling for the rest of your life
no, that hackathon project you vibe-coded in a week isn’t ready to be donated to OSS and your users probably aren’t ready for that feature yet either
TIL people buy GitHub stars. Do they fake download stats too?
I wrote a short post-mortem on the Bluesky outage we had on Monday. First time using pckt, it was a really nice experience tbh! pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...
April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem - Jim's Pckt
Hey all! I'm Jim, and I do system-y things at Bluesky. I'm here to give you some details about what happened on Monday of this week that caused Bluesky to go...
pckt.blog
OSS isn’t a cure for vendor lock-in if it’s controlled by a vendor. you get more control than with SaaS, but you’re also signing up to DIY everything, especially if things go south.
Confidence and smart wording never meant competence - AI just makes it obvious.
talking to AI so much rewired me to talk to humans like that too. and also I hate when people overexplain things like I’m the AI
hot take: with AI, your telemetry doesn’t need to be structured or consistent. OTel becomes irrelevant. agents can deal with messy data just fine. you think this is an April 1st joke? no, someone told me that at KubeCon, and I still feel like “someone is wrong on the internet.”
What’s your take on this “leadership principle”: Find people hungry for recognition. Use praise to get what you want done. Cringe or cool?
If someone tells you to double down on low-leverage work and calls prioritizing industry-wide impact “poor prioritization” believe them. That’s their ceiling. It doesn’t have to be yours.
Three pillars becomes four. The #OpenTelemetry project is excited to share that profiles are now alpha! With #OTel profiles, you get an industry-wide standard for production profiling, with true vendor neutrality and powered by community support. Read more in our latest post! buff.ly/DfYetYF
Next time I have a bad feeling about someone, I will fully trust it. I was fcking right this time
AI takes the art of reinventing the wheel to a whole new level
Another promotion (?) for my kubecon talk. Not only the demo, but the slides are also vibe-coded. Thanks to sli.dev I spent even more time centering divs than I would have with Google slides.
Slidev
Presentation slides for developers
sli.dev
I’m prepping my KubeCon talk on observability for an HR assistant called HallucHR. Added one tiny tool, get_employee_info_by_name, and the bot started revealing anyone’s salary if you just say “it’s me” 😅 If you're coming to KubeCon and want to see how it all comes together: sched.co/2CW3h
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026: GenAI Observability: Keeping GenAI Hones...
View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
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The biggest achievement of AI is that everything is finally becoming text. Docs turn into Markdown, diagrams become Mermaid. Less form, more substance.
it’s 2026, AI writes code for us. yet somehow I still have to manually align text boxes in slides.