Martin Costello 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🪿
@martincostello.com
Software Developer. Nerd. Cynic. Has lovely, soft, floppy ears. Nerdy on main, 24/7. Rainbow person. I help .NET o11y 🔭 at 📈ana. He/him/his. HONK 🏳️🌈🇪🇺💻
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Reminder ⏰
.NET 8 and .NET 9 support ends on November 10th.
Get your apps moved to .NET 10 before then.
.NET 8 and .NET 9 support ends on November 10th.
Get your apps moved to .NET 10 before then.
September 16, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Reminder ⏰
.NET 8 and .NET 9 support ends on November 10th.
Get your apps moved to .NET 10 before then.
.NET 8 and .NET 9 support ends on November 10th.
Get your apps moved to .NET 10 before then.
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My arm movement when doing a talk still not helping me trying to tell people my surname isn’t Italian
September 16, 2026 at 8:48 PM
My arm movement when doing a talk still not helping me trying to tell people my surname isn’t Italian
People just love to leave AirPods lying around WeWorks, huh?
September 16, 2026 at 3:43 PM
People just love to leave AirPods lying around WeWorks, huh?
Sometimes I do charitable work:
Happy Baby Safety Month.
September 16, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Sometimes I do charitable work:
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🎤 A Eurovision 2026 dashboard in Grafana Cloud: tabbed layouts, repeating rows, two Google Sheets joined with SQL expressions.
Now that's music to our ears!
Now that's music to our ears!
Douze points for Grafana Cloud: Building a Eurovision dashboard with tabs, variables, and Google…
How I turned the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest into a Grafana Cloud dashboard, using tabbed layouts to beat the scroll, a country variable…
medium.com
September 14, 2026 at 3:04 PM
🎤 A Eurovision 2026 dashboard in Grafana Cloud: tabbed layouts, repeating rows, two Google Sheets joined with SQL expressions.
Now that's music to our ears!
Now that's music to our ears!
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Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation.
The OTel Specification now has a release candidate for environment variables as context propagation carriers. We want feedback before we mark it Stable.
buff.ly/cKwKa7v
The OTel Specification now has a release candidate for environment variables as context propagation carriers. We want feedback before we mark it Stable.
buff.ly/cKwKa7v
Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation
A trace does not always cross a network boundary. A workflow runner starts a shell, the shell launches a build tool, and the build tool starts test processes. Batch and data-processing systems create…
opentelemetry.io
September 14, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation.
The OTel Specification now has a release candidate for environment variables as context propagation carriers. We want feedback before we mark it Stable.
buff.ly/cKwKa7v
The OTel Specification now has a release candidate for environment variables as context propagation carriers. We want feedback before we mark it Stable.
buff.ly/cKwKa7v
Watching a YouTube video about LotR has accidentally escalated into watching the full extended edition of the films
September 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Watching a YouTube video about LotR has accidentally escalated into watching the full extended edition of the films
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Specifically.
September 9, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Specifically.
Everything in the Ocarina of Time remake looks wet
September 8, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Everything in the Ocarina of Time remake looks wet
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I believe the RNLI are responding to legitimate concerns that people might drown.
September 8, 2026 at 7:02 AM
I believe the RNLI are responding to legitimate concerns that people might drown.
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New flatmate needed for beginning of November! www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/lo...
Excellent double room. Clapham and Brixton.
Clapham North : £1,100 pcm (inc bills). Excellent double room available 1st November. Convenient for Clapham and Brixton amenities and transport...
www.spareroom.co.uk
September 8, 2026 at 9:35 AM
New flatmate needed for beginning of November! www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/lo...
Me last week upon acquiring a new hat:
September 7, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Me last week upon acquiring a new hat:
Everyone else in my team is OOO today - Slack’s gonna be a 👻🏘️
September 7, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Everyone else in my team is OOO today - Slack’s gonna be a 👻🏘️
At first I thought this was the Keeping Up Appearances titles…
September 6, 2026 at 10:53 AM
At first I thought this was the Keeping Up Appearances titles…
Very old man shouts at cloud, but how can a 20yo not know what a VHS cassette tape is? Sure you didn’t experience them first-hand, but surely you can read about things? I didn’t own a gramophone but I know what one looks like.
September 6, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Very old man shouts at cloud, but how can a 20yo not know what a VHS cassette tape is? Sure you didn’t experience them first-hand, but surely you can read about things? I didn’t own a gramophone but I know what one looks like.
Conference flu making me sound like Patty/Selma
September 6, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Conference flu making me sound like Patty/Selma
Finally watched The Mandalorian and Grogu. It was…fine. Very clearly a chopped down TV series.
September 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Finally watched The Mandalorian and Grogu. It was…fine. Very clearly a chopped down TV series.
Got some profesh headshots done for free while I was at our work conference this week, and they all seem to just say “Doesn’t she look tired?”
September 5, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Got some profesh headshots done for free while I was at our work conference this week, and they all seem to just say “Doesn’t she look tired?”
Still have 19 days of holiday to take this calendar year. Oops.
September 5, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Still have 19 days of holiday to take this calendar year. Oops.
Just realised yesterday was the 20th anniversary of me starting my first full-time job and moving out of home to London 👴🏻
September 5, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Just realised yesterday was the 20th anniversary of me starting my first full-time job and moving out of home to London 👴🏻
@daveyblahblah.bsky.social Yours for just €4,990
September 4, 2026 at 10:26 AM
@daveyblahblah.bsky.social Yours for just €4,990
Last minute merch-raid at the work conference. But will it all fit in my luggage? 🤔
September 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Last minute merch-raid at the work conference. But will it all fit in my luggage? 🤔
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As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
www.theverge.com
September 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
I’ve heard two Americans use the word guillotine in the last 24 hours.
This (from Tom Wood) suggests more than just the typical thermostatic backlash is happening right now. In sixteen months, Trump and Republicans have turned the GOP’s largest party ID advantage this century into a tie for its biggest deficit
September 2, 2026 at 3:26 PM
I’ve heard two Americans use the word guillotine in the last 24 hours.