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https://rednafi.com/shards/2026/04/no-stacked-loglines/ · 7 Apr 2026
Why logging at every layer of a service produces noise, and how to log only at the handler level while propagating context from below.
https://charlesharri.es/stream/how-to-read-and-write-logs · 8 Feb 2026
Writing logs is important: they are the story of how your application is doing what it does.
https://aparker.io/wide-events-and-personal-software · 17 Apr 2025
I recently built a fun little project called 777-BSKY. It looks at Bluesky trending topics, does some math, figures out what's most popular and slaps some TTS on it. You can call a phone number and have the output read back to you, kinda like Moviefone exc...
https://aparker.io/locol-build-log · 21 Jan 2025
The best projects to work on are the ones that scratch a few different itches at once. I've wanted to write a native macOS application for years now, but I've always found building GUIs to be tedious and -- frankly -- hard to wrap my head around. I've also...
https://aparker.io/re-redefining-observability · 29 Mar 2024
This post is a response/companion to Hazel Weakly's excellent 'Redefining Observability'. You should probably read it first, and perhaps Fred Hebert's commentary on it, 'A Commentary on Defining Observability'. I don't necessarily plan on re-treading a lot...
https://aparker.io/telemetry-ergonomics · 17 Jan 2024
I used to joke that there were maybe fifty people on the planet that really cared about 'observability' at a philosophical level, and I still maintain that I'm mostly correct. Maybe you're one of them, but odds are, you aren't. This disconnect becomes very...
https://aparker.io/data-bores · 20 Nov 2023
Sampling is a method to reduce the volume of data processed and stored by observability tools. There’s a variety of methods and algorithms that can be employed to do this, and most observability practices will wind up using a blend of them, but this blog...
https://aparker.io/observability-cannot-fail-it-can-only-be-failed · 28 Aug 2023
Being between jobs is a great time to step back, do some self-critique, and engage in light home improvement for fun and or profit. It’s this last pursuit that’s convinced me that if this whole computer thing doesn’t work out, I’m screwed — I don...
https://aparker.io/observability-and-the-decentralized-web · 22 Aug 2023
It's probably still too early to write the obituary for centralized social media and 'Web 2.0' — but if you squint, you can see it on the horizon. Ongoing regulatory pressures and the slow burn of Twitter at the hands of Elon Musk aside, there's an incre...
https://aparker.io/stop-trying-to-make-observability-happen · 16 Oct 2022
"It's not going to happen."A friend of mine (@mononcqc) turned me on to an essay titled 'Unruly Bodies of Code in Time' the other day, and skimming through it made me consider a phrase I like to use when introducing observability concepts to folks. I give ...