Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Wide Events Didn't Make My RCA Cheaper (They Made It Right)

  Posted on:July 4, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM (17 min read)

  I built an eval harness to prove wide events would make agentic root-cause analysis dramatically cheaper than three pillars. An adversarial audit killed the cost story. What replaced it mattered a lot more.

• Dialling In Espresso, and Sending the Whole House to ClickHouse

  Posted on:June 20, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM (15 min read)

  A grind-and-dose UX on the espresso machine, a custom OpenTelemetry Collector that funnels the whole house into ClickHouse, finer-grained shot exports, and a LibreChat agent that reads the data and roasts my coffee.

• I Put OpenTelemetry in My Espresso Machine (and You Can Too)

  Posted on:June 14, 2026 |  at 03:00 PM (13 min read)

  How I put OpenTelemetry on an ESP32-powered espresso machine. Metrics, traces, and exemplars on a microcontroller, and the embedded gotchas along the way.

• TIL Leadership Fundamentals

  Posted on:February 25, 2020 |  at 06:30 PM (17 min read)

  When jumping into the deep end of leading the team that I helped to build, I struggled to communicate a good vision to my team. This post covers a few thing leading up to vision like motivation, and what good leadership looks like - to me anyway.

• On the Importance of Tooling

  Posted on:November 4, 2019 |  at 11:50 AM (8 min read)

  Why is writing internal tooling for developers so important? How do businesses benefit from the upfront investment in robust tooling?