Daily Archives: May 30, 2026

TL;DR OpenTelemetry (OTel) just hit CNCF graduation, cementing its place as the de facto, vendor-neutral standard for collecting metrics, logs, and traces. After seven years of community grinding, it’s production-ready, wildly adopted, and perfectly timed for the AI + cloud-native complexity explosion. I’ve spent years in the trenches watching observability...

TL;DR - Schematik is a super cool AI platform that lowers barriers for makers, hobbyists, and kids building with Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi. I was very excited to see Schematik hit the news this week. Schematik is an AI tool that generates complete hardware projects from natural language descriptions....

Back in 1991, Steve Jobs stood in front of his NeXT team with a chalkboard and laid out a market prediction that still feels eerily fresh. He had just realized the workstation world wasn’t one market, it was two. The old "science-and-engineering half" as he described it was crowded...