You should have replied “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”

Two can play at that game.

Same code using twice as much CPU.
Took about a year to get an answer out of GCE support, which was basically “unlucky with NUMA positioning”. (Oh, and the hypervisor lies about NUMA)

“Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with”

Corner of a building; snow is streaking right to left.

Haven’t had snow at #KubeCon since Austin ‘17

If you want to say hello at #KubeCon, I will be on the Grafana booth (480) tomorrow morning.

Interview with a 'sweating' AI CEO (2026) YouTube video by Kai Lentit

Funny. He didn’t say “agentic” enough though.

youtu.be/tnYaExb5JvM

Might be better organised than the other lot.
“I’m sorry sir, the security scan didn’t register you so you’ve been taken off the plane.”

Sign saying “Jellycat Airlines London”, with a selection of uniformed staff below.

On my way to #KubeCon.
New transportation provider; they seem friendly.

Slide from a conference talk. BUILD SOMETHING WORTH BUILDING I'M KEEPING → Empowered product teams → Fast feedback with real users → UX Research & Usability Testing I'M TRASHING → The two pizza team of 6-8 developers → My 6 month roadmap I'M TRYING → Forward deployed engineers → Product engineers → Prototype before product → Smaller teams

@hannahfoxwell.net is moving from the 2-pizza team to the tapas team. #QConLondon

London skyline: Big Ben on right, London Eye and The Shard in background.

The view at #QConLondon is pretty special.

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Banner for QCon London session "Understanding and Tuning System Performance with CPU Hardware Counters", speaker Bryan Boreham

20 years of #QConLondon. I'm honored to be part of this edition, speaking on CPU Hardware Counters, on Monday (tomorrow).

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Dark brown bird of prey, wings up, has snatched a fish and is starting to fly off. Tail of the fish is dragging in the water.

I love the power in this shot.

"Today I resigned from the Torment Nexus Project: it turns out, they want to *torment* people with it!

Also, this is about the *principle*, I have absolute respect for the people who design, oversight, implement, market and lobby for the Torment Nexus"

The Octagon (Egypt) - Wikipedia

Well actually en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oct...

Open positions | Grafana Labs

Are you a fantastic engineer who wants to come and build Grafana Assistant and our other agentic tools with us? Ahh, well I’m glad I asked, because we’re hiring.

grafana.com/about/career...

(Or DM for questions)

Today I realised that my main microphone was unplugged, and the PC was using some internal microphone inside the case.
Sorry to everyone who had crap sound on a call with me!

Brown leather hardback book cover, title "Moby Mole", by "Helmann Kubeville".

Follow the tale of DevOps Director Ahab, unhinged by his pursuit of the last great mole to whack.

Japan’s largest toilet maker is undervalued AI play, says activist investor Toto should invest more in its sideline in the chip supply chain, Palliser urges

Brilliant headline.
“Japan’s largest toilet maker is undervalued AI play”

www.ft.com/content/4252...

now that Git 2.53 is out, the Git data model @omarieclaire.bsky.social and I wrote is on the official Git website! git-scm.com/docs/gitdata...

Biden Grateful He’s Not Alive To See What Trump Doing To Country WILMINGTON, DE—Expressing relief about his obliviousness to America’s unraveling, former President Joe Biden told reporters Thursday that he was grateful not to be alive to see what Trump was doing to...

Biden Grateful He’s Not Alive To See What Trump Doing To Country

And two from @kakkoyun.me

fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

I highlighted “Understanding Why Your CPU is Slow: Hardware Performance Insights with PerfGo” at 11am CET.

fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. Just turn up and join this weekend! fosdem.org/2026/
#openuk #fosdem #opensource

I should be at FOSDEM from Saturday afternoon. Have to get off Shetland first 🌨️💨

People march down a street at night, carrying fiery torches. Some in the foreground are dressed as Vikings with shiny helmets.

Night scene; about 900 people carrying burning torches surround a replica Viking longship.

Night scene. A replica Viking longship ablaze, with people standing round.

Night scene. Five people dressed as Vikings, one with large wings on his helmet, silhouetted against a blazing inferno.

Later that night

That would certainly be an innovation.

City street, with about 40 people dressed as Vikings in red cloaks and silver helmets.

Replica Viking longship, mounted on a wheeled float on the street.

In Shetland for Up Helly Aa, where people dress up as Vikings and burn a longship.