Burnout Sucks
My favorite personal project is an application called PiWeatherRock… or it was before I dove in head-first working to update it and create a community for it’s users. Tons of enthusiasm morphed into something else » Read more
OpenTelemetry Part 1: Sinatra
OpenTelemetry (aka OTel) is becoming the standard for distributed tracing. This is the first in a multi-part series where I will document my trials, tribulations, and successes along the road of using OTel to instrument multiple applications. The first few are all ruby applications and some that I hope to be able to do later are written in Java. My goal is to instrument the applications using one or more standards-compliant libraries and then send the spans to an OTel collector. The OTel collector will then send them on to one or more backends such as Jaeger, Lightstep, and/or Datadog. » Read more
Fixing powerline in homebrew’s vim
For the last few days I have been trying to figure out why, all of a sudden, powerline has stopped working in vim. Whenever I start vim I get this error: » Read more
Puppet Camping in place: East meets West
A recap of the first virtual Puppet Camp by an experienced camper. » Read more
Church and COVID-19
My church has been streaming our service for several years and has been live on a local FM station since before I became a member. I setup streaming initiall... » Read more