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Skip to content About DTrace DTrace is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool that is included by default with various operating systems, including Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. A Linux port is in development.
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A portentous reunion The Observation Deck
I just attended my thirtieth college reunion, and there were some clear trends among my mid-life peers. First among them: grave concern for what AI means for our future and for the future of our (broadly young adult) kids.Now, surely many generations have
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The peril of laziness lost The Observation Deck
In his classic Programming Perl - affectionately known to a generation of technologists as "the Camel Book" - Larry Wall famously wrote of the three virtues of a programmer as laziness, impatience, and hubris:If we're going to talk about good software des
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The right place at the right time The Observation Deck
Recently, the New Stack had a piece excerpting some of my conversation with Gergely Orosz. In introducing me in the piece, Joab Jackson writes "Cantrill has had a knack at being at the right place at the right time." While this is objectively true at some
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Your intellectual fly is open The Observation Deck
Note: This was originally published as a LinkedIn post on November 11, 2025.I need to make a painful confession: somehow, LinkedIn has become an important social network to me. This isn't necessarily due to LinkedIn's sparkling competence, of course. To t
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College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe The Observation Deck
My son is a college baseball player. One of the singular aspects of having kids is that they open your eyes to facets of humanity that you might not have seen otherwise. I was not a college athlete (and knew little of even baseball until he got the bug at
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