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Grafana Labs Co-Founder, Grafana creator & and tech lead. Avid book reader, SciFi fan, coder, guitar player.

Sweden
Joined March 2008
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The AI team at Grafana Labs is one of the best agentic application teams in the world imho. I’m playing it cool here, but I’m blown away daily by what they are creating.
We asked Grafana Pages for a live map of traffic around the world. This is what we got. #ObservabilityCON
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We asked Grafana Pages for a live map of traffic around the world. This is what we got. #ObservabilityCON
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🎉 Introducing Grafana Pages! Turn your data into interactive experiences with the next evolution of Grafana. Available in public preview: grafana.com/blog/grafana-ai-… #ObservabilityCON
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And one more thing… 🥁🥁🥁 Introducing #Grafana Pages, a new feature in Grafana Cloud that gives you a canvas to describe what you need and build a live app in minutes, based on your real data, context, and interactions. 🔗: grafana.com/blog/grafana-ai-… #ObservabilityCON
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I had trouble fully unpacking what this paper actually was measuring, what its findings were, and what the implications are for human/primate consiousness so i had Claude read through the paper and this thread, compose a script, and create an explainer video
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We have so many great announcements this week. Monday's focus will be on those early stages of onboarding and planning, making sure observability is there right from the start. We'll show off the new immersive Grafana Assistant Workspace feature too. grafana.com/blog/explore-wha…
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In AI Week at @grafana (July 27th-31st) we are announcing features so modern, we had to balance it with a retro theme. #AI #AIWeek #BalanceWithRetro
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Creator of Sqlite on pull requests: "You say, oh, it's free. No. It's not free. What you're doing is asking me ... to maintain it for you, to to document it for you, to test it for you, to maintain it for you for the next 25 years. That's not free." Yep. Wise words from a wiser man than me. I've told people for the past decade and I have recent posts on here saying the same: the merge button is the easy part. Its the decade+ (Richard says 25 years) that follows where you've accepted the transfer of maintenance thats hard.
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50 Years of The Selfish Gene. In my experience, its main message has not sunk in half a century later, even among scientists: one often reads an ingenuous "adaptive explanation" of this or that trait (music, rituals, religion) as "bonding the group," without any awareness that this is not what the theory of natural selection is about or that it is in any way problematic. Dawkins began The Selfish Gene by awakening readers to this fallacy, but it's as if he never wrote it. freethinker.co.uk/2026/06/cr… via @freethinkermag
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On of my all time favorite science books! If you have not read the selfish gene you likely do not truly understand and appreciate the magic of evolution to it’s fullest
Fifty years ago, The Selfish Gene was published. The ideas — replicators, memes, the gene's-eye view of life — have held up rather well. The 50th Anniversary Edition is out now. Available at: amazon.co.uk/Selfish-Gene-50…
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Grafana feature POC, dashboard "View panel" view with controls to split panel into multiple by series or by label. Toggle some viz options like legend or stacking. Toggle queries on/off. Would any @grafana users find this useful? please comment on github.com/grafana/grafana/p…
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MASSIVE shoutout to @grafana It took me 5 minutes to add instrumentation to an app I'm working on, and I didn't really know what kind of logs I'd get. Their Assistant generated me a performance dashboard. I didn't have to touch anything. What the HELL? Well done
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Next up at @grafana CON ”Planet-scale dashboards at Google with Grafana ” about how Google is adopting Grafana, and the new Grafana features that has come from this collaboration. @CarlBergquist
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Yes.
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For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like. Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRBDT4mB/
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Ranking Freedom | The right-wing claim that Europe has become dictatorial is nonsense, according to rankings of economic, political, and press freedom, including the rankings by right-wing think tanks. By Dan Gardner @dgardner open.substack.com/pub/dgardn…
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