Mathew Duggan
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- Sep 25, 2026
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I’m Tired of Being on the Network (opens the original)
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You can tell how tired someone is of the always-online life pretty easily. When they get home, watch the distance between the phone and the body. The people who love being connected never let the thing leave them be it pocket, palm, face-down next to the fork. Everyone else sets it down the way you drop a heavy backpack after a long day of walking. My wife does not set her phone down so much as launch it. From her hand to the far corner of the room, the phone travels from indispensable to litter
You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It (opens the original)
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FDR has always been one of my favorite presidents, second maybe to Lincoln. Both were men the establishment assumed were one of them until, to their horror, they governed like they weren't. Both could trash the opposition in one breath and take the moral high ground in the next. One of my favorite Roosevelt lines growing up came from Madison Square Garden, October 1936, standing before a crowd that included plenty of people who wanted him dead: What I love is that he doesn't argue with the hate.
OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It) (opens the original)
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For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?" Vendor SDKs for observability are, to put it charitably, idiot-proof. You install the thing, dashboards just load data, someone else worries about how all those pieces fit together, and you get on with your life. OpenTelemetry, by contrast, greets you at the door with a lot of "experimental" stam
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