There’s a pattern I’ve seen across many teams adopting OpenTelemetry, and it’s well-intentioned every single time. An engineer wants to make things easier for the team. They build a thin abstraction over the OTel API — an IMetric interface, a TelemetryHelper class, a MetricsWrapper module — and ship it as the team’s standard. “Just use this,” they say. “It’s simpler.” The intention is genuine. The outcome is usually not good.
OpenTelemetry: A Guide to Observability with Go | Blog
Modern applications are often complex, distributed systems. Debugging them is not fun: you have to follow requests across services, logs get lost, and metrics are often hard to correlate. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack - except the haystack is on fire, and the needle keeps moving. This is where OpenTelemetry (OTel) can help.
open-telemetry/semantic-conventions
Defines standards for generating consistent, accessible telemetry across a variety of domains
[Proposal] Adding OpenTelemetry Trace Support to MCP · modelcontextprotocol modelcontextprotocol · Discussion #269
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Comforting Myths - Infrequently Noted
I've been hearing confusing reports of Apple's openness to collaboration on challenging APIs so often that either my priors are invalid, or something else is at work. To find out, I needed data.
Ollama
Ollama is the easiest way to automate your work using open models, while keeping your data safe.
A Government Guide to Open Protocols
Public sector teams must go beyond the in-house or off-the-shelf dichotomy to take advantage of open protocols, which offer a unique way to manage both software costs and geopolitical exposure
Running a PDS for Your App: How OpenMeet Operates Its AT Protocol Integration
The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.
OpenAI Developers on Twitter / X
Today we’re announcing Open Responses: an open-source spec for building multi-provider, interoperable LLM interfaces built on top of the original OpenAI Responses API.✅ Multi-provider by default✅ Useful for real-world workflows✅ Extensible without fragmentationBuild… pic.twitter.com/SJiBFx1BOF— OpenAI Developers (@OpenAIDevs) January 15, 2026
OpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits Via Message Boards
How does the situation keep turning out to be worse than we know?
OpenWork — Open source Claude Cowork alternative for teams
Bring your own model and provider, wire in your tools and context, and ship reusable agent setups across your org — with guardrails built in.
API Overview | OpenAlex technical documentation
The API is the primary way to get OpenAlex data. It's free and requires no authentication. The daily limit for API calls is 100,000 requests per user per day. For best performance, add your email to all API requests, like [email protected].
A new era for choice and openness
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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OpenAI gpt-oss· Ollama Blog
Ollama partners with OpenAI to bring gpt-oss to Ollama and its community.
From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work
New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.
aparker.io
Austin Parker. Director of AI Strategy at Honeycomb, member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee, co-author of Learning OpenTelemetry and Distributed Tracing in Practice (O'Reilly).
