(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian.
I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me...
Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond!
I own and manage pkm.social.
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(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
🔴 I'm live with some @grafana@grafana.social colleagues on The Context Window. This time we're talking about MCP, CLI, and other ways that agents can talk to our tools. We're ironing out what those acronyms are and which one's better. https://youtube.com/live/ZR6U4TN8-Cw
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
In this video, I talk about the AI tools I use for taking notes--including an overkill setup for recording and lifelogging my entire day. Of course, everything ends up in Obsidian in the end! https://youtu.be/2Jl6H9Ri8iI
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
🔴 Live now with Stephanie Hingtgen on Grafana Campfire Community Call: We're doing a GrafanaCON roundup! https://youtube.com/live/6qYCSBT3yU4
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
Whatever you have to say about AI, probably my favourite thing about it is how accessible it makes all software engineering: coding, but also things like monitoring and dashboarding. I rarely write queries anymore, and this video is why. Here's a realistic look at how to get from an empty Grafana Cloud account to a fully visualized dashboard using video game data from a public API... all by just chatting to Grafana Assistant. https://youtu.be/X3TZk_qywlo
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
Trying something new at work! Here's an excerpt from a real meeting of the Grafana AI team that I'm a part of. In the meeting we often demo things we're working on that might never make it to production. This time it's the latest on Assistant workspace and investigations. https://youtu.be/qts_fkMtdps
We're thinking of this as a way to build in public. It's a little risky, but it's a great way for me to learn how to edit quickly AND to get over the fear of speaking about something half-baked.
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
Yay an Obsidian video! This one's on how I'm using observability and AI to supplement my PKM system in Obsidian. I gave this talk at PKM Summit in Utrecht earlier this year!
Spoiler: I'm using Grafana and OpenClaw on my notes! https://youtu.be/BeuaPO0Ezuk
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
🔴 I'm live now with Tiffany Jernigan and Christian Simon to talk about profiling, the fourth pillar, and how to use it with OpenTelemetry! Join us in chat to ask your questions about profiling, Pyroscope, and OTel. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N47wy9pp7Lo
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
Can AI dream? I just published a blog post on OpenClaw's new "dreaming" feature and why it matters, along with my personal experience of it while using my OpenClaw instance. https://contexthorizon.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-forgetting
Incidentally, this is the missing piece/part 2 to my talk "Do Androids Dream of Second Brains?" at #pkmsummit26 last month! I wish I had been able to talk about this feature then!
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
Earlier this week, @grafana@grafana.social launched o11y-bench, a benchmark for how well AI agents do for observability use cases. Do we really need yet another AI benchmark? Here's why I think the answer is still yes: https://contexthorizon.substack.com/p/high-int-low-wis-what-llm-benchmarks
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
🔴 I'm live now with some awesome colleagues talking about new ways to observe AI, including a juicy reveal hot off the presses from GrafanaCon earlier today! Join us to chat about AI Observability and evaluations! https://youtube.com/live/vzygCuuf7JQ
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
Just released this video tutorial for how to enable @grafana@grafana.social's agentic tool, Assistant, for use with Grafana OSS. tl;dr: Assistant is not open source, and you still need a (at least free) Grafana Cloud account, but you CAN now use it for your self-hosted Grafana instance.
Incidentally, I demonstrated how I use Assistant to visualize my Obsidian data in my local Grafana instance at the #pkmsummit26 last month. :)
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
@DanielBCNA@mastodon.social Ha, thanks, but I'm just very lucky I get to mess around with AI and learn things for a living! And no, it was like that... I saw two other women there (there was an upstairs, another big room, and a patio) but that was it!
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
Apparently I’m in the top 1% of #cursor users in Lisbon, so I was invited to their Cafe Cursor, where they took over a restaurant for the day and turned it into a coworking space. Got some swag, saw a demo of automations by the Cursor team, and got to talk to some people who were all using Cursor heavily. Great way to learn tips. I’m definitely going to play around with automations! #til
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
What?! Copilot has ads now?! Very Black Mirror.
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
I wrote this blog post after watching @grafana@grafana.social's team build Grafana Assistant. It's 10 moments where received wisdom turned out to be wrong — LangChain, multi-agent architectures, bigger context windows, and more.
https://contexthorizon.substack.com/p/unlearnings-from-building-grafana?r=7xe6zg&triedRedirect=true
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
Iris (my OpenClaw instance for processing my Obsidian notes) processed my transcript and notes on giving my talk. She clearly knew I was talking about her, saying "you talked about how *I* helped you do X..." so I asked her what she thought of me talking about her. Here's her response.
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
Just gave a talk called "Do Androids Dream of Second Brains?: Observability and AI for PKM" where I showed off a super overkill but cool observability stack (with Alloy, Loki, Prometheus, and @grafana@grafana.social) to monitor information from my Obsidian notes--observability isn't just for computer systems! I also talked about how I'm starting to use OpenClaw with my notes, and some initial surprises from that.
My repo: https://nicole.to/obsidiangrafana
My slides: https://nicole.to/androids
(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me... Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond! I own and manage pkm.social.
🔴 Live now with my colleagues Liudmila Molkova and Jay DeLuca talking about Java auto-instrumentation with the Java agent for OpenTelemetry and the OTel Ecosystem Explorer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HItumi3qt90