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Graham Cox

@grahamcox82.bsky.social

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Software developer, professionally in Java but tinkering in Rust and Go. Cisgender He/him but I'll answer to anything vaguely polite. @grahamcox82 from Twitter if you're looking.

  1. As someone who's been reading through all of marvel - I started at FF #1 - there are some really good stories that often get missed if you start with the more recent stuff. And a lot of bad stories. And generally just a lot of reading. (I'm over 4k issues in and I'm only in the very early 80s!)

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  2. Can anyone suggest a decent article (or multiple articles) on setting up OpenTelemetry in Node with Zipkin and Prometheus, integrating with Fastify and exporting the metrics via a route in the existing Fastify server? Because I can't work it all out from the docs, and the various LLMs are useless...

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  3. The slogan on the side of a box of Shredded Wheat says "Your Bowl Your Way".

    Which is a really bad marketing slogan, since if I get any say in it then my way wouldn't include Shredded Wheat...

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  4. So, I've found an app that lets me use my phone as a Bluetooth keyboard for my tablet. Which means I can run Zork on my tablet for the bigger screen, and use my phone for easier typing. The same setup will work for MUDs equally well actually, and anything else like this...

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  5. Reddit is huge. But when I signed up, it was just a small Digg clone. Bluesky is huge. But when I signed up, it was just a small Twitter clone. Slack is huge. But when I first signed up, it was just another IRC clone.

    So what if your idea already exists. If you think you can do it better, do so.

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