Honeycomb Frontend Observability for Web AND Mobile Native is now live!
Now you can use Honeycomb to instrument native iOS and Android applications, and view their telemetry alongside of Web Applications in the Enterprise Launchpads.
New O11yCast online featuring Kent Beck
O11yCast Episode 80 with Kent Beck is now online...
Honeycomb blog post: New Feature: Manage Your session.id in Honeycomb’s Web SDK
I've written a blog post on how to manage the session.id in Honeycomb's Web SDK. This is a new feature that allows you to set the session.id for your application, which can be useful for tracking user sessions and understanding user behavior. View the
Longwood Gardens, 2025
Here's a gallery from Longwood Gardens. We visited in April when the spring bulbs were all in bloom. Enjoy.
A few photos from Denver - O11yDays 2025
Here are a few images from my trip to O11yDays in Denver. It's a really walkable city with lots of night life and great art and architecture.
New York Travel Photos - O11yDays 2025
Here's a few photos snapped while I was at O11yDays in NYC in March 2025. The tee shirts are NSFW, but classic NYC.
AI and Developers: What does the future hold
Tim O'Reilly has a post out there about the huge shift AI is making with our relationship to software engineering. Scary title. But the content is less so. Why? How many of you started with technologies you still use exactly the same way today? Even if you'
Honeycomb tech post - How to instrument a React application with Honeycomb Frontend Observability
I've written a blog post on how to instrument an React application using Honeycomb's Frontend Observability Web SDK. It wraps OpenTelemetry's JavaScript API. In the post I discuss the basics of wiring up a frontend application, how to view the telemetry generated by the
Honeycomb tech post - Next.js Honeycomb Telemetry
One of the most popular Metaframeworks today is Next.js. I've delivered a number of talks on that framework, and so when I came to Honeycomb I realized I needed to do some experimenting and see how far I could take the instrumentation. So, after digging into React
Honeycomb Blog Post - Debugging Errors in offsite API calls with CORS
My latest post on debugging CORS on frontend applications is available on Honeycomb.io. It reviews how a CORS handshake works, what it provides, and how to troubleshoot problems when they occur.
Salt Lake City Photos - KubeCon 2024
My second trip for Honeycomb was to help with the booth at KubeCon 2025 in Salt Lake City. I've been there several times before for a number of ng-conf conferences, as well as one for Remix.run in 2023. I love Salt Lake, it's so wide
First Week at Honeycomb in San Francisco = First Photos
Well, my first week at Honeycomb as a Developer Relations Advocate landed me at the last O11yDays event of the year, right downtown in San Francisco. Here are a few photos from that first trip as a new Bee: