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a man in a striped shirt is reading a menu in a restaurant Alt: Good burger. Reading menu and responding I know some of these words

Reading the new large hadron collider particle discovery.

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I continue to be proud to be a Minnesotan, embarrassed to be an American

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Do more with less. | Polar Signals Polar Signals Cloud is an always-on, zero-instrumentation continuous profiling for CPU, GPU, and Memory that helps improve performance, understand incidents, and lower infrastructure costs.

🚀 Introducing the Polar Signals VS Code extension! See CPU time, memory allocations, and more as inline annotations, right next to your code.

Works with Polar Signals Cloud and self-hosted Parca.

www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...

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Does it ask you to take notes in meetings?

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Apparently there's no amount of AI that can figure out my deadlock

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Corgi dog named Turing

Corgi dog named Turing

This handsome boy turned 12 today! 🎂

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I had such a great time speaking at my first #FOSDEM. Check out the other great talks by some of my colleagues!

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From Disks to Distributed: Our Journey of Database Evolution in the Cloud FOSDEM 2026 Our database had reached a point where failure scenarios were becoming increasingly complex and time consuming. A single node could take up to 15 minutes to recover. It was expensive to run and operat...

I've uploaded my slides, can find the link at the bottom of the description page now: pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/...

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Thanks! I need to upload them still, I'll be sure to do that tomorrow

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Brennan telling #FOSDEM how to use Parca to profile Rust workloads!

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FOSDEM 2026 - OOMProf: profiling Go heap memory at OOM time OOMProf is a Go library that installs a eBPF programs that listen to Linux kernel tracepoints involved in OOM killing and records a memory profile before your Go program is dead and gone. The memory…

Polar Signals at #FOSDEM 2026 day 1!

Tommy at 12:30 @ H.1308 (eBPF)
OOMProf: Profiling Go heap memory at OOM time
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

Thor at 17:25 @ UB2.252A (Databases)
From Disks to Distributed: Our Journey of Database Evolution in the Cloud
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

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You're just gonna subskeet me like that?

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Heading to FOSDEM!

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Very excited for this year's #FOSDEM! Lots of talks by Polar Signals folks:

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Out of curiosity which bindings didn't work?

Zed was the first editor other than vim in 15 years that's worked for me and I didn't find anything missing

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How to check your debuginfo status in Polar Signals Cloud A faster and easier way to troubleshoot debuginfo processing in Polar Signals Cloud.

Symbolization issues don’t have to be mysterious.

Polar Signals Cloud now shows exactly what’s happening with your debuginfo, right from the flamegraph frame: www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...

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My wife owns balloon glue. She takes decorations seriously

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They hate us so much but we love each other more

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My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.

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fuck

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My EuroRust talk has been uploaded to YT! I cover how we architected our Rust database at @polarsignals.com as a set of state machines to enable deterministic simulation testing and catch hard-to-reproduce bugs before they hit prod.

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I wonder with the increase in llms doing coding/architecture if we'll see an increase in interviews being code review

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If Costco sponsored a stadium would the hotdogs there be $1.50?

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iykyk

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