Hi, I'm Tom.
I’m a Staff Field Engineer at Grafana Labs, based in London. I write about observability (OpenTelemetry, Loki, eBPF) and build small, useful apps in my spare time.
Things I've made
- Basic Countdown Timer iOS Apps
- Nice Move - Quick Workouts iOS Apps
- WalkThere iOS Apps
- Apoll Web Apps
Recent notes
- Pure Egg Singularity October 28, 2026
- k6 workshop in Bergen - thank you October 27, 2026
- Radios and ponies October 24, 2026
- Radio 4 Free Thinking October 10, 2026
- Widget October 07, 2026
All posts
- Making editing static sites easier November 02, 2024
- Facebook/WhatsApp: Consumers have no choice January 08, 2021
- Beau Travail / Djibouti June 30, 2019
- Google's lost my blog June 12, 2019
- Quarterly Review: 2018 Q4 January 20, 2019
- What I've learned while writing my first book August 27, 2018
- Quarterly Review: 2018 Q2 July 01, 2018
- First sale! April 16, 2018
- Pre-orders now available for my book April 02, 2018
- Quarterly Review: 2018 Q1 April 01, 2018
- I'm writing a book March 16, 2018
- Web development woes June 17, 2017
- Enable graphical user interface (desktop) in RHEL, CentOS April 04, 2017
- Fast switching between Gmail inboxes January 23, 2017
- Fixing DNS issues when using Vagrant Landrush March 25, 2016
- Fixing missing VPN shared secret in OS X El Capitan March 08, 2016