Luxon: "...me not know wot do.." Interpreter: presents his latest polling results

Luxon: "...me not know wot do.."

Interpreter: presents his latest polling results

#nzpol

From Kassie, Nadia and the team at ActionStation
#nzpol 🧵
Over the past week, the leadership of Christopher Luxon has been called into question in the polls and the media. 

Aotearoa is no longer buying what his government is trying to sell us, and here’s 99 reasons why:

Simeon bad at job and blames others

'Young idea-less boy, blames people from years ago for saving many lives, in attempt to distract from this governments economic austerity incompetence'.

#nzpol

you can't beat Wellington on 'the' good day

text of Trump replaced with Lump, using a Chrome Extension

A way to make Trump news more palatable is to create a Chrome Extension that replaces 'Trump' with 'Lump'

#nzpol

Image of Act Party advert being correctly reported as repulsive

I correctly reported this Act party ad featuring David Seymour as being repulsive.

#nzpol

Support local film

New sculpture in wellington

Wellington

Crowdfunding poster for local film makers

Pls support local film making 😎

#wellington #wellywood

Luxon worried about getting rolled due to his incompetence

Bahahah. luxon is getting rolled.

#nzpol

I can't recommend Grafana anymore
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Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news

It even did some actual production monitoring because a Govt department wanted it as a backup alerting mechanism for our NSM tool.

It loaded a server list, did up/down checks for the host and windows services, and even had a state machine, and email alerting.
Ah.. simpler times 😶

Maybe it's time for me to resurrect 'Monitaurus' which was a VBScript based monitoring tool I wrote in about 2006. I did it as a joke to see if I could replicate 80% of what the 'Computer Associates NSM' product was doing for us. It was a success and in less than 1 kilobyte of code. 😂

OpenTelemetry MCP Server Setup Guide Learn to set up an OpenTelemetry MCP server for better observability and instrumentation practices in your applications

I'm not [yet] aware of the degree of rust support available, but I've just written this article about MCP support for adding Otel, so I'm hoping things are going in a good direction.

blog.marty.co.nz/step-by-step...

OpenTelemetry MCP Server Setup Guide Learn to set up an OpenTelemetry MCP server for better observability and instrumentation practices in your applications

📢New Blog Post: Step-by-Step Guide to Set Up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server

Full walkthough to set up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server

📖 Read the full article here:
blog.marty.co.nz/step-by-step...

#OpenTelemetry #Observability #MCP #SRE #DevOps #Instrumentation #DistributedTracing #Honeycomb

meme passing note 'take this', opens note, says 'dependency'

npm

What does ‘good’ telemetry look like? Explore why you need good quality observability data to operate systems efficiently, the value of doing so, and how Instrumentation Score can help.

What does good telemetry look like?

@dangb.me has some answers here in their discussion of the Instrumentation Score project.

Article - newrelic.com/blog/best-pr...

Spec Website - instrumentation-score.com

Git Repo - github.com/instrumentat...

#OpenTelemetry #Observability

An analysis of nearly 100 organizations and individuals reveals where the industry excels, where it struggles, and the critical factors demonstrated by the best adopters of CD. Could these findings help you identify your CD strengths and weaknesses, and suggest ways you can improve?

Have a read of Dave Farley's State of Continuous Delivery report for 2025.

continuous-delivery.co.uk/cd-assessmen...

Nice to see you can't be in the elite 10% club without "Comprehensive observability and monitoring" 😎

#ContinuousDelivery #Observability

Ad for product which falsely claims to have no chemicals

Ad for bug-a-salt fly gun which shoots sodium chloride

Catzilla

Catzilla

Crustyfart Luxton plans to reduce sick leave

Example 538 of how the current New Zealand government hates workers

gave up waiting for my Y2K patching medal, so had to make this

met service image showing only sunny days in Wellington

it's always sunny in Wellington

Clean Air in Schools Covid can have substantial impacts on peoples’ health. Although Covid initially enters the body through the respiratory system, it can affect virtually every bodily system and organ. There are no adva...

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/cl...

#NZ

looking forward to when read-aloud software knows about tech terms. one needs to read the text visually along with hearing it, to know they mean 'AWS' [not oars], and 'APIs' [not 'Ar-piss] 😂

screenshot of events being sent to the Honeycomb UI

external view of a cologne box housing a Raspberry Pi mute contoller

internal view of the box, showing the Raspberry Pi and switch

It Lives!

I built a Rasberry Pi based TV mute controller for my LG WebOS tv, and I'm sending events to @honeycomb.io using their libhoney lib.
Nice to do a non-enterprise grade IT project for a change, i.e for fun.

I'll do a write up & link to the repo

#raspberrypi #observability #O11y #python

hoping NZ left can get some confidence from this result and next year kick out the the absolute eggs that are currently in power over here.

nice one, should get me in the right direction for my little raspberry pi tv mute controller project. will send to @honeycomb.io