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Marketer: let's get an engineer on to talk about how easy it is

Me: engineers don't talk about easy. We talk about what was hard.

Claude Code: I did it! We’re done.
Whitney Lee: Telemetry or it didn’t happen!

#kubecon #observabilityday

A typo like 'enviroment' can easily turn your production dashboards into pumpkins
- Liudmila Molkova, on using Weaver to validate your telemetry #kubecon

@schmudde haha yes if I had been able to x ray the dryer... Or if I had sat down and watched the whole correct video... I would not have attempted this!

Build for after the revolution. Build the social structure that will serve us then. Build it now, where we are, and make the systems we hate less relevant.

@Michaelcarducci@mastodon.social I did see Eli's talk! I sort of remember it.

@Michaelcarducci@mastodon.social what's your favorite chunk of history to read about?

@Michaelcarducci@mastodon.social today I have another book that talks about the importance of camaratas, that's always fun. I also love tech around WWII, the beginning of computers and nuclear reactions. When scientists had to admit that their work is also political

The trick to enjoying history is
knowing more about history.

Each book is more interesting for everything I already know that it intertwines with.

so I wrapped it in bumpy code, to at least give my future self a better hint. https://github.com/jessitron/hny-tricks/blob/1e90435b00ebc7911423471f17259c7c5d4f9ff6/src/htm-but-right.ts

This post brought to you by the htm library for JS. It converts your jsx-looking string to HTML, without using JSX. The code strikes me as elegant. When I pass an extra closing tag, the exception says "h.push is not defined" When I miss a closing tag, it returns the wrong type. https://www.npmjs.com/package/htm

When your code helps people over bumps, your code looks bumpy.

the value of an abstraction is not revealed by the happy path.
Abstraction exists to help me with complexity. The complexity is in the failure cases.
Tell me what happens in various failure cases, and I'll tell you whether this abstraction is helpful or 💩