Bryan Boreham (@bboreham) · DIRTY

Bryan Boreham

@bboreham

Programmer. Has commits in gcc, emacs, Go, Kubernetes, Prometheus and other things.

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Bryan Boreham@bboreham· 13d

Next up is @kakkoyun.me #gopherconuk

Man in shorts in front of slide saying “Why your Go benchmarks are lying”

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· 13d

The one and only Bill Kennedy! #gopherconuk

Man with odd-coloured shoes and a flat cap in front of a slide titled “Kronk”

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· 13d

#gopherconuk kicking off!

Fergus Oakley on stage in front of a huge cartoon gopher

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Jun 18

Conjunction

Crescent moon in the evening sky, with bright pinpoint of light just above.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Jun 15

Although clearly nonsensical, it is apparently a thing.

Screen grab from Cambridge Dictionary showing a US meaning of “out-of-pocket” as “not able to be contacted”.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· May 27

Weird new DoS where an outage in one service causes a flood of messages in the chat

GitHub "Ooops 500" page indicating an outage on their site.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Apr 23

This is peak release-noting. #kubernetes kubernetes.io/blog/2026/04...

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Apr 18

Two can play at that game.

Globe-like surface, brown with a white dusting, with an enormous fissure running from top to bottom.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Mar 26

Haven’t had snow at #KubeCon since Austin ‘17

Corner of a building; snow is streaking right to left.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Mar 21

On my way to #KubeCon. New transportation provider; they seem friendly.

Sign saying “Jellycat Airlines London”, with a selection of uniformed staff below.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Mar 18

@hannahfoxwell.net is moving from the 2-pizza team to the tapas team. #QConLondon

Slide from a conference talk.
BUILD SOMETHING WORTH BUILDING
I'M KEEPING
→ Empowered product teams
→ Fast feedback with real users
→ UX Research & Usability Testing
I'M TRASHING
→ The two pizza team of 6-8 developers
→ My 6 month roadmap
I'M TRYING
→ Forward deployed engineers
→ Product engineers
→ Prototype before product
→ Smaller teams

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Mar 16

The view at #QConLondon is pretty special.

London skyline: Big Ben on right, London Eye and The Shard in background.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Mar 15

20 years of #QConLondon. I'm honored to be part of this edition, speaking on CPU Hardware Counters, on Monday (tomorrow). qconlondon.com/presentation...

Banner for QCon London session "Understanding and Tuning System Performance with CPU Hardware Counters", speaker Bryan Boreham

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Mar 10

I love the power in this shot.

Dark brown bird of prey, wings up, has snatched a fish and is starting to fly off. Tail of the fish is dragging in the water.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Feb 19

Brown leather hardback book cover, title "Moby Mole", by "Helmann Kubeville".

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Jan 28

Later that night

People march down a street at night, carrying fiery torches. Some in the foreground are dressed as Vikings with shiny helmets.

Night scene; about 900 people carrying burning torches surround a replica Viking longship.

Night scene. A replica Viking longship ablaze, with people standing round.

Night scene. Five people dressed as Vikings, one with large wings on his helmet, silhouetted against a blazing inferno.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Jan 27

In Shetland for Up Helly Aa, where people dress up as Vikings and burn a longship.

City street, with about 40 people dressed as Vikings in red cloaks and silver helmets.

Replica Viking longship, mounted on a wheeled float on the street.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Jan 1

Honoured to have been included on the OpenUK list.

Bryan standing holding a medal with an orange ribbon.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Dec 5

downdetector.com is down. We're doomed!

Screen grab showing url downdetector.com and error message:
500 Internal Server Error - cloudflare

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Sep 28

Teddington Lock

River view, late evening. Trees and orange sky.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Aug 31

Conversational gambits for weeks! www.unicode.org/notes/tn27/

U+0238 LATIN SMALL LETTER DB DIGRAPH
U+0239 LATIN SMALL LETTER QP DIGRAPH

These are actually ligatures, rather than digraphs
U+025B LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E

This is actually a Latin epsilon and should have been so called.
U+025E LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E

Actually a closed reversed epsilon (reversed form of U+025B).
U+0285 LATIN SMALL LETTER SQUAT REVERSED ESH

This is actually a reversed fishhook r with retroflex hook.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Jul 20

I will be speaking at #GopherConUK about Swiss Maps! www.gophercon.co.uk

Gopher mascot in Swiss Guard uniform

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Jun 17

Missing GopherCon EU due to being 9,000km away.

Sunset over Tokyo bay. Suspension bridge and skyscrapers in the background, dinner cruise boats in the middle.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Jun 15

Continuing our series on vending machines…

Five vending machines in a row, in an indoor setting. The machines are emblazoned with pictures of raw steaks, except for the leftmost which looks like fish eggs. Bon appetit!

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Jun 15

He will protect us. 🤞

30m high Gundam “Unicorn” statue, with Bryan in front.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Jun 14

Japan is famous for vending machines, but this is one of the best.

Vending machine at the side of a street, offering Sriracha hot sauce. Nothing but hot sauce in this one vending machine. 30 bottles are on show. The price is 700 yen.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Jun 13

I’m in Japan for #kubecon, sightseeing for a bit before heading to Tokyo.

Ghibli park in Aichi, showing recreations of Howl’s Moving Castle and Kiki’s bakery.

Himeji Castle, striking white walls above massive stone walls.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Jun 11

Not sure if this translation is accurate.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Apr 11

I’m in Prague!

Old clock on the side of a tower.

Bryan Boreham@bboreham· Apr 1

Observability Day kicking off, sponsored by @grafana.bsky.social #kubecon