CtrlSpice (they/them)

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- A bag of [7-12] possums - My handle is a Dune joke - Very sorry about the bug. Will patch shortly.

$Text messages. “The Debian package works fine on Ubuntu 24.04 \o/“ “Fuck yeah!”$

A local OpenTelemetry viewer displaying a metric of type sum, where the aggregation temporality is cumulative, and the cumulative flag is set to true. The time series selected in this example has a pink line and overlay, landing the visual element to the "On Wednesday, we wear pink" joke from Mean Girls.

A local OpenTelemetry viewer rendering a trace waterfall, along with span details.

A screenshot of a local OpenTelemetry viewer rendering a gauge, and aggregating average across several time series.

Meme using the Lion King "shadowy place" template with three panels. In the first panel, Mufasa tells Simba that AggregationTemporality defines how a metric aggregator reports aggregated values, gesturing toward the sunlit lands labeled AGGREGATION_TEMPORALITY_DELTA and AGGREGATION_TEMPORALITY_CUMULATIVE. In the second panel, Simba asks "But what's that shadowy place over there?" pointing toward AGGREGATION_TEMPORALITY_UNSPECIFIED. In the third panel, Mufasa sternly replies "UNSPECIFIED is the default AggregationTemporality, Simba. It MUST not be used."

Shepard and McKay are using the Atlantis facility as a driving range. The golf ball bucket says "Property of Daedalus - Do Not Remove"

A small seven-year-old enjoying the hell out of her new drum set, which is not even plugged in yet. She has a huge smile on her face and is enthusiastically hitting stuff with sticks.

Comic character is holding a cookie. The speech bubble says "I will do science to it"

A trace waterfall showing my LaTeX compilation workflow

A grey cat is curled up in a green, broad-rimmed hiking hat on the corner of my desk, getting ready for his post-nap snooze.

The photo shows the corner of my monitor with the Cursor editor in the background. It is focused in on a memory diagonal that says “The user prefers that the assistant not generate ASCII dick art in its responses”

A view of a bike path going into a lush wooded area. Somewhat far away from the photographer, potentially so far that one would need to zoom in, is a juvenile black bear eating berries by the side of the path.

Two grey and white kittens, stretched out luxuriously on pink bedsheets, among ballerina themed blankets.

A JSON print-out of some test logs (details irrelevant and boring) on the front end of otel-desktop-viewer, showing that logs are getting from point A to point B.

Two grey cats are playing with a long piece of brown packaging paper. Bug is laying on one end in loaf pose, while Patch is trying to the other end into submission.

Bug and Patch sleeping curled up together in joint croissant formation.

A slightly different grey and white kitten (this one is a bit chubbier, has white cheeks, and longer socks) than usual stretched out on my green blanket.

A grey and white kitten, curled up on the floor politely, looking up at the camera with very innocent eyes.

Bug, our grey and white kitten lays contentedly by a keyboard, his eyes closed. In the corner of the photo is a computer monitor showing an error in an OpenTelemetry exporter config file. The kitten’s peaceful demeanour is deceptive, and I am not currently allowed to fix the error.

Text message from my partner while I was out getting more cat things:

“View of doorway. Ball bounces by. Cat flies by. Followed by small child. Followed by larger child.

Same thing repeats in the opposite direction 5 seconds later.”

A 4-month-old grey and white kitten is partially squished between two couch cushions (on purpose) while stretched out on his back like a tiny person. He is having a nap.

A grey and white kitten staring intently at a colourful fishy toy, getting ready to murder it with his murder mittens.

My smaller child, ready for school in a raincoat and rain boots, ensconced under our single bar stool, reading Calvin and Hobbes.

An ottoman (I think) in white and millennial greige. It looks like two ass-ends of a dog, with both sets of paws on backwards, like something that would be produced by Boston Dynamics if they had diversified into sad expensive greige furniture.

The aforementioned child, wearing all the aforementioned things, racing down the hall with a paper airplane.

Ostensibly we have a duck and a capybara standing together in a heroic pose, symbolizing the unity of workers on a poster advocating for union rights.

However, this was made by AI, so the capybara’s arms terminate in weird blobs, the duck does not have a single thought behind those eyes, and the inspirational text is gibberish that says “UNTER RUOHTS! Ret the union rights.”

A section of two grocery store shelves featuring large bags of pryaniki and sushki. The first is a dense spice cookie of sorts, and the second is the ungodly textural love child of a bagel, a pretzel, and a crouton. Both are completely inedible without tea, but amazing with it.

A carnotaurus and three t-rex toys were positioned on a coffee table in the most expedient way to keep them vertical. The result looks like an album cover of a parody of a boy band. The carnotaurus is marketed as the group clown. The t-rex on the right raps in every song, so poorly it physically hurts.

A yellow long-tail cargo bike is standing in a parking lot. It is adorned with reindeer antlers on the handlebars and a big red nose on the handlebar stem.

In the background, there is a majestic view of snow-capped mountains, partially obscured by wisps of clouds.

My 8-year old seen walking ahead of me down a leaf-strewn gravel path. He is wearing a purple backpack, a green jacket, black fleece shorts over blue thermal tights, and what was previously my, but is now our, pair of geometrically pattered merino hiking socks pulled over the tights, half-way to his knees. Somehow, he manages to make the ensemble look really cool.