Austin Parker

@austin_parker@robot.villas

Austin Parker's writing about software, observability, AI, developer communities, and the open web.

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Give Agents One Way To Do Things #Software #AI #OpenSource
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Aug 29, 2026
Two questions from the Jagged Frontier #Software #AI #OpenSource
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Jun 15, 2026
if i have to read one more piece of generated text i will kms #AI #Writing #Tech
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Apr 30, 2026
Reflection, September 2025 #Reflection #Writing #PersonalGrowth
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Sep 9, 2025
The Future Of Software Is Small #Software #SmallTech #FutureOfCode
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Aug 3, 2025
Everyone Is Wrong, All The Time. #Software #AI #OpenSource
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Jul 19, 2025
JSON Is The Wrong Content Type For LLM Inputs. #AI #LLM #Software
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May 24, 2025
I Set Up My iPad Again, Please Clap. #Tech #Productivity #Apple
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May 17, 2025
Wide Events, Personal Software, and You. #Software #AI #OpenSource
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Apr 17, 2025
Introducing locol #Software #OpenSource #DevTools
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Jan 21, 2025
One Weird Trick #OpenSource #AI #Web
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Jan 3, 2025
The Hater's Guide to OpenTelemetry #OpenTelemetry #Observability #SoftwareDevelopment
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Jun 10, 2024
Re-Redefining Observability #Observability #Software #Tech
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Mar 29, 2024
Don't Work For Projects That Don't Have Open Governance #OpenSource #Community #Governance
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Mar 23, 2024
Regrets of a Technical Communicator #Tech #Writing #Career
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Feb 25, 2024
Lessons Learned from Learning OpenTelemetry #OpenTelemetry #Observability #DevOps
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Feb 11, 2024
What Do We Mean When We Talk About OpenTelemetry? #OpenTelemetry #Observability #Software
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Feb 3, 2024
OTel TIL - What The Heck Is Instrumentation, Anyway? #Observability #OpenTelemetry #DevOps
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Jan 25, 2024
Telemetry Ergonomics #Software #AI #OpenSource
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Jan 17, 2024
Selling The Vision #Tech #AI #Community
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Jan 13, 2024
Parsing Apache2 access logs with the OpenTelemetry Collector #Observability #OpenTelemetry #Logging
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Jan 6, 2024
Data Bores #Data #Writing #Tech
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Nov 20, 2023
Deploying on Friday the 13th #Tech #Software #AI
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Oct 30, 2023
Observability Cannot Fail, It Can Only Be Failed #Observability #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps
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Aug 28, 2023
Observability and the Decentralized Web #Observability #DecentralizedWeb #Tech
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Aug 22, 2023
The Blockchain Haters Guide To The AT Protocol #Blockchain #OpenWeb #Tech
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May 1, 2023
Stop Trying To Make Observability Happen #Observability #Software #DevOps
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Oct 16, 2022
Virtual Events Are Dead, Long Live Virtual Events #Tech #Community #Events
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Jul 27, 2022
Incentives and Power #AI #Community #OpenSource
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Oct 8, 2021
The Commodification of DevOps #DevOps #Software #Community
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Dec 23, 2020
Deserted Island DevOps Postmortem #DevOps #Software #Postmortem
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May 4, 2020
Mono in Debian 9 Containers #Software #DevOps #Containers
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Nov 11, 2018
OpenTracing for ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI #OpenTracing #DotNet #Observability
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Oct 13, 2018