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Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie.

FDR has always been one of my favorite presidents, second maybe to Lincoln.

I can’t remember the last time I was actually hot.

For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?"

I realized that it might be nice if you happen to stumble on this website if I had a way to recommend other websites you might enjoy.

Listening to two acquaintances argue about if AI art is "art" is not a new experience for me, the now eternal debate between Doomer and Boomer.

I was recently summoned to a meeting in Stockholm, a city I had somehow managed to avoid despite living in Copenhagen for years.

For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability.

I like the Internet.

My friend and I have a game where we talk about what we'd do if we were rich.

I write stuff here.

Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision.

In the nightmarish world of 2026 it can be difficult to know how to help at all.

I have always enjoyed the act of typing words and seeing them come up on screen.

I added a few modifications to the OSS Ghost theme that powers this site.