Marty Lindsay

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

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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

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

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

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

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...

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)."

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.

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

Side Projects. I've done a bunch over the years just to keep my hand in with new tech, or solve some problem, and it turns out there are quite a few so I've started documenting them here. www.linkedin.com/in/martylind...

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Nom Nom

Hungry sparrow on car wing mirror wanting my burger. Gave it some lettuce which it chucked on the ground in disgust.

OpenTelemetry is often pitched as “vendor-neutral instrumentation”, but I think it could be much more than that jeremymorrell.dev/blog/opentel...

🚂 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗼𝗼 - The next CloudWatch Book update just arrived. We're now also introducing you to 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 🔎 As a quick wrap-up, what you need to know: - 📊 OpenTelemetry is an open-source framework for telemetry data like metrics, logs, and traces.

In a world of electric books it's nice to have these physical copies 😁 #Observability

This isn't some fluff survey... it's from the group I'm working with inside of OpenTelemetry to help make it better for you, as an End User, to instrument with Otel. It's really important we get as much feedback as possible from as many engineers, even if you tried it and decided not to.

youtu.be/ag2ykPO805M Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) • Charity Majors • GOTO 2024

youtu.be/1PJM8p-RMsY Observability 2.0: Transforming Logging & Metrics • Charity Majors & James Lewis • GOTO 2024

Join us on December 16 for a special Observable Lightning Talks holiday edition! This time, we welcome @salaboy.com, @boredabdel.bsky.social, and Mario Loriedo to learn more about how other companies implement observability. 🧵 Here's what you can expect:

I already have the pdf of this but just ordered the hard copy of #Observability Enngineering

Hey @support.bsky.team I'm curious what #observability tooling you are using..

Enjoying windy Wellington mountain biking 😁 #MountainBiking #NewZealand #Majestical

The big floofer enjoying one of her many day naps

congrats to @mipsytipsy.bsky.social and @honeycomb.bsky.social for banging the Observability 2.0 drum long enough that it now appears on the Throughtworks Technology radar :) www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techni...

Great example here of how the nuances of specific technology choices can be a positive driver of business outcomes, in this case a new pricing model. www.sumologic.com/blog/statefu... #observability