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Bryan Boreham
@bboreham.bsky.social
Programmer. Has commits in gcc, emacs, Go, Kubernetes, Prometheus and other things.
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I will be speaking at #GopherConUK about Swiss Maps!

www.gophercon.co.uk
In Shetland for Up Helly Aa, where people dress up as Vikings and burn a longship.
January 27, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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Due to current events:
January 19, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The hard things in computing:
* cache eviction
* naming things
* figuring out which of your paying customers is DOSing your service
January 19, 2026 at 3:35 PM
“What idiot wrote this?”



“Oh, it was me.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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The last day to submit your #GrafanaCON talk is quickly approaching!

Tell us about your plugins, dashboards, best practices, or that one unexpected use case that delighted you.

Speakers get free entry to GrafanaCON and a speaker gathering. Apply: https://pretalx.com/grafanacon-2026/cfp
January 13, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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🗳️Spread the word! @cncf.io Graduated and Incubating maintainers need to fill in this form BY TUESDAY to vote for their rep on the Governing Board docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #opensource #cloudnative
CNCF 2026 Governing Board Developer Seat Election - Voter Opt In Form
Please submit this form to opt into being a voter for the non-Kubernetes developer seat on the CNCF Governing Board. Only maintainers from non-Kubernetes Graduating and Incubating projects that submi...
docs.google.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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There's less than 2 weeks left to submit your #GrafanaCON talk!

🔗: https://pretalx.com/grafanacon-2026/cfp

Tell us about your plugins, dashboards, best practices, or that one unexpected use case that delighted you.

We welcome:
• First-time speakers
• Hands-on practitioners
• OSS contributors
January 7, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Honoured to have been included on the OpenUK list.
January 1, 2026 at 10:17 AM
I started listening to Ron Chernow’s Hamilton, but it doesn’t have any of the best songs in it.
December 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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😱 The Grinch is sabotaging Santa’s infrastructure!

Your mission: fix the chaos with the help of Grafana Assistant.

Play our new browser game where you tackle observability challenges inside Santa’s workshop to save Christmas — all while getting hands on with AI-powered #observability👇
Grot vs Grinch - Grafana Assistant
The epic holiday showdown!
grotvsgrinch.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is hilarious. HT @ahmet.dev

Fake (Hacker) News! sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html
Hacker News
sw.vtom.net
December 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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For day 7 of #blogvent, I wrote about one of my favorite ways to ask for feedback on something I'm making!

cassidoo.co/post/abcd-fe...
The ABCD framework for feedback
This is a short and sweet way to get feedback on your work in a specific, helpful way!
cassidoo.co
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
downdetector.com is down.
We're doomed!
December 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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TFW Grafana Labs finds a way... just in time for #AWSreInvent 😃

... thanks to our integration with CloudWatch & Amazon Data Firehose!

Meet us at booth #137 or learn more: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/03/aws-metric-ingestion-for-less-save-money-and-get-near-real-time-stream-into-grafana-cloud/
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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🔥✨🫣 Want to get more involved in OpenUK and become a part of the team? Apply to become an OpenUK Ambassador by 30 Nov 🤩 You can expect to become a part of a community that will not only offer you an amazing network but also friendships and potential career opportunities. ⬇️ openuk.uk/ambassadors/
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Why @bboreham.bsky.social of @grafana.bsky.social is a finalist in the Open Source Software category of The OpenUK Awards 6th edition sponsored by Red Badger, taking place on 4th December. Thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. openuk.uk/awards

#openukawards
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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You like Gophers? They might be your front row audience for your Go talk this February!?

Just don’t miss our CfP deadline which is this Sunday! https://github.com/go-devroom/cfp

Have a Go topic to talk about? Yea? Apply! No? :boost_requested:
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
#GopherCon 2025 - the first videos are up!
@michael.express gives a great overview of how the Go garbage-collector works, and the changes in the the new design.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPJk...
GopherCon 2025 - Advancing Go Garbage Collection with Green Tea - Michael Knyszek
YouTube video by Gopher Academy
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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🔥✨🤩🫣⬇️ Want to get more involved in OpenUK and become a part of the team? openuk.uk/ambassadors/
#opensource #opendata #openhardware #opensourcesoftware #openuk #ambassador
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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OpenUK Awards 25 Open Source Software Category sponsored by Red Badger, Shortlist is live, congratulations to the shortlisted nominees: @bboreham.bsky.social, Rustls github.com/rustls/rustls (@jbp.io), and Jan Faracik 🍾🥂🏆

#openukawards #opensource #opensourcesoftware
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Hello Gophers!

You might have seen it :gopher:
You might see just it now :ac_amazed:

Our CFP for FOSDEM 2026 is now OPEN

https://github.com/go-devroom/cfp

Want to help us out? Send in a talk :masto_wink: Want to help us out even more? :boost_requested:
GitHub - go-devroom/cfp: Go Devroom CfP — FOSDEM 2026
Go Devroom CfP — FOSDEM 2026. Contribute to go-devroom/cfp development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Distraction Is All You Get
October 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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📣 At #ObservabilityCON 2025, we announced updates that make observability smarter, scalable, and easier for every team — including Grafana Assistant GA, new additions to the Adaptive Telemetry, & more.

Read more:
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/08/observabilitycon-2025-announcements/
October 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it

#televisionmatters
October 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM