Linklog 2025-08-03

Obsidian, Taming a Collective Consciousness

an oldie but goodie detailing the challenges with maintaining wikis and comprehensive look at how they made Obsidian work for everyone

At the beginning of our project to improve our knowledge management strategy, nearly every member of TrustedSec’s Targeted Operations team was maintaining personal notes in an entirely different application...

Travel Giant Skyscanner Overhauls Observability, Cuts Telemetry Costs by 90%

yes! FinOps already found that you can nerdsnipe teams into optimizing their cloud costs by making those costs visible and actionable.

An unexpectedly positive outcome was a cultural shift in how teams approached telemetry. When made aware of the costs associated with data collection and storage, many teams voluntarily looked for more efficient approaches.

[video] Where Did Cringey Corporate Jargon Come From? - Otherwords

I am guilty as charged as using "let's double click into that" un-ironically 🙈

"We're not firing everyone, we're just doing some restructuring and need to downsize." When delivering information directly could cause conflict or low morale corporate jargon can make a user's language less clear on purpose.