Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿

Stupid but I love it 🪿🏳️‍🌈 honk.gay

Maintainers keep #OpenTelemetry moving, from reviewing contributions to shipping releases and mentoring contributors. Our latest blog post explores why #OTel needs more maintainers, how companies benefit from supporting them, and what it takes to become one. buff.ly/2FG2qfN

🗳️ It’s time! Voting is open for the 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election. Check your status here, if you’re an eligible voter: buff.ly/ufu6qP0 Then cast your vote: buff.ly/r5f4A8t

Well done 🇧🇷

get in, no time to explain

Didn’t have a .NET security patch being released on a Sunday in my weekend plans 😅

Current status:

[whittling a stick, looking off to the distant horizon] The Vengabus is coming

Winter duvet mode engaged

Current status:

📣 The 2026 Cloud Native Annual Survey is back, and we’d love to hear from you! Your responses will help The Linux Foundation (and OpenTelemetry) understand how the community uses cloud native technologies. ⏱️ The survey may take about 15 minutes to complete. 🔗 Take the survey: buff.ly/fI48Mq0

New Backbox puzzle dropped. Took me a while to work out. ▪️

My day has been a very unexpectedly “Hal changes a lightbulb" kind of day

now look at them yo yos that's the way you do it use number 4 as your private key that aint workin thats the way you do it kill all computers via PHP

Bad day to launch my PHP based certificate authority

The OpenTelemetry Election Committee is excited to announce the final list of candidates for the 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee election: buff.ly/pZYzHuM

📣 Introducing the 2026 State of Observability Report 📣 We asked 300 IT leaders to share how they’re using AI, what they’re spending on observability, and what’s working for their teams. See all of the findings: https://grafana.com/analyst-reports/executive-survey/

@mildperil.bsky.social FYI I just went into a bar wearing your tee and the bouncer complimented it

Introducing Grafana Learn: free learning journeys and hands-on paths to help you understand the concepts and put them to work. No login. No paywall. No forms. Less “Where do I start?” More “Let’s try it.” 👍 Start exploring: https://grafana.com/docs/learning-hub

“Marge, can you set the fridge to hot?” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If there’s an uptick in slop is that a sloptick?

I’m 99% something dropped on my head at 5am, but it’s probably for the best not to think about what it was.

Accidentally left the bathroom light on all evening with an open window and turned it into mosquito central 😑

Uh oh, the slop machines might have found the thing I work on 🤦‍♂️

Toilets that put the toilet paper behind you not on the side:

Did not expect South West Trains to appear in Stop! That! Train!

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

I might not have a face card, but I do have a memory card.

Welcome to the world of tomorrow

Is today’s main news article going to turn out to be the most successful example of See It, Say It, Sorted?

It’s taken me far too long to realise there was a link in Monzo that let me take the adverts away from YouTube

Star Trek: Strange New Wigs

TIL there’s a Pokémon called Flabébé

Potential flatmate changed plans, so pushing this again.

Love it when you only realise the bread’s gone mouldy halfway through eating your sandwich

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Dual-exporting .NET metrics with OTLP and Prometheus. The latest OTel Prometheus exporter for .NET lets you export your metrics to both systems in parallel, and migrate without a single cut-over event. buff.ly/FhOnXkD

Have you ever wanted to contribute to OpenTelemetry but didn't know how to get started? Check out the first video in the series, "How to Contributed to OpenTelemetry", brought to you by the Contributor Experience SIG. Thank you Abhi Narwal for the contribution! buff.ly/6iMgSHo

Reminder ⏰ .NET 8 and .NET 9 support ends on November 10th. Get your apps moved to .NET 10 before then.

My arm movement when doing a talk still not helping me trying to tell people my surname isn’t Italian

Sometimes I do charitable work:

🎤 A Eurovision 2026 dashboard in Grafana Cloud: tabbed layouts, repeating rows, two Google Sheets joined with SQL expressions. Now that's music to our ears!

Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation. The OTel Specification now has a release candidate for environment variables as context propagation carriers. We want feedback before we mark it Stable. buff.ly/cKwKa7v

Watching a YouTube video about LotR has accidentally escalated into watching the full extended edition of the films