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Ken Finnigan
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Distributed systems builder, author.
https://www.commonhaus.org/ Council member.
Observability focused. Ex: @workday, @redhat.
Amateur genealogist.
Opinions are my own. he/him
Mastodon - @[email protected]
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michele.dash0.com
Come and see what we cooked up! #Observability #MagicTheGathering #OpenTelemetry
dash0.com Dash0 @dash0.com · 2d
Hello Internet! Ready for KubeCon? 🔥

To celebrate last week’s launch of #Agent0 - the integrated Agentic #AI inside #Dash0 - we made something we’re pretty stoked about.

At #KubeConNA 2025, we’re giving away five custom MtG-style cards. Find us at booth 710 - first teaser: The Seeker & The Oracle!
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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neo4j.com
That's a wrap for #NODES2025!

Our 7th edition brought together an incredible global graph community!

24-hour streaming 160 talks from 200 speakers from all over the world.

Soon: all talks will be available on our YouTube channel (you can already watch some! https://bit.ly/43WU14G)

THANK YOU!
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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mhausenblas.info
Check out this week's o11y newsletter with excellent contribs from non-pillars to new instrumentation method and OpenTelemetry material:

o11y.news/2025-11-03/

#observability
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November 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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richburroughs.dev
This was on for me when I checked. If you use LinkedIn, it's worth checking on. I definitely don't want my posts there being used as training data.
proton.me Proton @proton.me · 11d
Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
November 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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ogkittylyst.bsky.social
Just realized I haven't announced this here yet - The 9th edition of my book "Java in a Nutshell" will be published by O'Reilly in 2026. Watch this space for an announcement of early access. #java #programming
October 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
kenfinnigan.me
Had a great weekend in London catching up with friends! Now at Heathrow, and excited to get home and see the family
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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mhausenblas.info
Check out this week's o11y newsletter with a range of good things from practitioners sharing insights to OTel reference material to new tooling:

o11y.news/2025-10-13/

#observability
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October 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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dash0.com
Dash0 raises $35M #SeriesA!🚀

#Observability is too noisy, complex & expensive. We started Dash0 to fix that - and 300+ customers joined us.

Now we’ve raised $35M in Series A led by Accel & Cherry Ventures, with DIG Ventures.

Thanks to our investors & angels for the support!
👉 dash0.link/series-a
October 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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andimann.bsky.social
So much, so amazing. Saw them live in a small-ish pub in London when they were big in Oz, but not much elsewhere. Most energy I have ever seen in a live show, bar none. Amazing.
October 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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qconferences.com
QCon San Francisco 2025: Full Schedule Available 🚀

6 weeks to go! 90+ speakers, 12 tracks, proven patterns from senior practitioners.

Keynotes include: Nicole Forsgren on DevEx, "Hidden Decisions" by Shawna Martell & Dan Fike, plus AI engineering & leadership tracks.

🔗 bit.ly/3IGltgS

#QConSF
September 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
kenfinnigan.me
I’ll be visiting London from 9-14 Oct if anyone I know would like to catch up. Look forward to being back in blighty!
September 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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lizthegrey.com
in other news, my upcoming trip to the UK is likely to be my last for quite some time.

so do get in touch with our sales team if you'd like to have me give a talk in-person in London first two weeks of Oct, before rules shift from you *may* let me use the loo, to you *must not* let me use the loo.
james.claims james @james.claims · Sep 24
Nothing Wes said is new, he just gave an incoherent interview

The UKSC ruling happened in April.

EHRC Interim Guidance came soon after.

Official EHRC guidance has been finalised and sent to the government, we are not privy to what it says yet - that’ll be sometime before the end of the year.
September 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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dlgenealogist.bsky.social
#RootsTech Registration is now open for 2026!

Attend this incredible conference on March 5-7, 2026 in Salt Lake City, UT. Register at familysearch.org/en/rootstech/

Attending from home and register for #FREE at familysearch.org/en/rootstech/ #FamilySearch
#genealogy #familyhistory
September 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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dash0.com
🚀 Dash0 #SyntheticMonitoring is now GA!

Check your APIs from around the world, catch #SSL issues early, and see instantly if errors come from #syntheticchecks or real users, all deeply integrated with Dash0 #tracing & #triage.

👉 Discover more: dash0.link/-synthetic-m...
September 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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h.olysh.it
Yup. Nothing odd going on here at all. Gah.
Reddit screencap from r/AMA. I'm a college-educated Black man who drove from Vermont to Florida this summer with my Asian girlfriend. We were pulled over 18 times in 4 days. Ask Me Anything. After telling a few coworkers about this when I returned to work, one of them (a true Reddit head) suggested I do an AMA. So hi Reddit, nice to meet you. So I live in New England, work a white-collar job, and fall into what most would call "upper middle class." This past August, I decided to use my summer vacation to visit family in Fort Myers, Florida. Since I'd never done a true long road trip before (my longest drives were maybe 5-7 hours), my girlfriend and I thought it would be fun to make the trip by car instead of flying. We started in Burlington, Vermont, and made our way down the East Coast. The drive was about 1,500+ miles, and we stretched it over four days. I did roughly 75% of the driving, she took the rest. Here's the part that baffled me: in just those four days, we were pulled over 18 times. Not for reckless driving or doing anything spicy. Just pulled over, again and again. Each time it was something else. So I'll give this a shot: Ask me anything.
September 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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charity.wtf
Are you an experienced software buyer? I could use your help.

I'm working on the second edition of "Observability Engineering", and hoping to include the kind of advice an experienced principal engineer might give a staff engineer buying for the first time.

charity.wtf/2025/09/19/a...
Are you an experienced software buyer? I could use some help.
If it seems like I’ve been relatively quiet lately on social media and my blog, that’s because I have. Liz, Austin, George and I have been busy toiling away on the second edition of “Observability …
charity.wtf
September 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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brunoborges.bsky.social
📢 Microsoft is hiring a Senior Compiler Engineer to work on the #JVM!

If you have strong compiler / codegen / optimization skills, this could be your next big challenge.

Want a referral? Send me a DM.

#Hiring #CompilerEngineering #Systems #Microsoft #Java #OpenJDK #Java25
September 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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suitcasegen.bsky.social
I know a lot of folks have moved to using newsletters and even replacing their websites with the newsletter's platform/site. But, there are still a lot of people that have websites with feeds, so those are the folks I'm appealing to.

Also, my inbox weeps daily under the heavy load.
suitcasegen.bsky.social Suitcase Genealogist @suitcasegen.bsky.social · Sep 17
I'm creating a genealogy feed in my newest RSS feed app, and unfortunately, many of the blogs/publications I imported from another app no longer exist. ☹️

So, if you have a genealogy or history blog or are an org/society publication with a RSS feed, please drop a link below!

Happy to reskeet, too.!
September 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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commonhaus.org
Gradle is sponsoring the Commonhaus Foundation with a shared Develocity instance, giving open source projects observability, faster builds, test acceleration, and troubleshooting tools to improve productivity and long-term sustainability. www.commonhaus.org/activity/277...
🐘 Gradle sponsors Commonhaus Foundation with Develocity to boos…
Gradle is sponsoring the Commonhaus Foundation with a shared Develocity instance, giving open source projects observability, faster builds, test accelerat…
www.commonhaus.org
September 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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mhausenblas.info
Check out this week's o11y newsletter with great OpenTelemetry practices and recommendations:

o11y.news/2025-09-08/

#observability
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September 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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dlgenealogist.bsky.social
Archaeologists find remains of Isaac Newton's mother's 17th-century house | Fox News share.google/6AoH8ZRhzdbz...
Archaeologists uncover house linked to Isaac Newton beside his legendary apple tree
British archaeologists recently discovered Isaac Newton's mother's 17th-century house near Woolsthorpe Manor, uncovering artifacts, including thimbles, buttons and tableware.
share.google
September 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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richburroughs.dev
It’s been a dirty word in the US for decades. As far back as McCarthy, if not farther.

What hurts my head the most is the conflation of socialism and communism. The right equates nationalized healthcare with Soviet Russia. It’s ridiculous, but so many people don’t know better.
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 6
The fact that, in the New York City Mayors race, you can have 2 candidates as obviously corrupt and horrible as Cuomo and Adams, and still have so many folks expressing concern about a “socialist” in the race, just shows how successful the anti-socialism psy-op by the U.S. right wing has been.
September 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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philgrass.bsky.social
I see that the University of Strathclyde is planning to launch a Genetic Genealogy Research Network. Is anyone here getting involved with this?

www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
Genetic Genealogy Research Network Launch | University of Strathclyde
www.strath.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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annetgriffin.bsky.social
Excited to be speaking at Startup Boston Week on Sept 10 on the panel AI at the Helm: Prototyping Smarter as a Product Manager.

Going to talk about what’s actually valuable in AI prototyping, what is hype, and what not to do.

www.startupbos.org/sbw2025
September 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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brunoborges.bsky.social
Hey all,

Excited to share I will be speaking (and attending) IBM TechXchange, in Orlando, next month.

Come join me to learn about Java App Modernization, and Java on Kubernetes.

Two of my most favorite topics!

(if you want to attend, I may have tickets to share. DM me)
September 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM