(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian.
I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual polyamorous agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me...
Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond!
I own and manage pkm.social.
| YouTube | https://nicole.to/youtube |
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| Course | https://nicole.to/o4e |
Just finished watching the GrafanaCON 2025 keynote livestream from Seattle along with everyone else who couldn't go. 😅 @grafana
I quickly recorded this short summarising it in 1 minute: https://youtube.com/shorts/JeRPAvWtknM
Here's the original livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYVf-Z320Y0
Here are my notes while I was watching it: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/sources/Conference/GrafanaCON+2025+Keynote
Sometimes I learn how to do something quickly for work and don't have time to turn what I've learned into “proper" notes. Enter the humble devlog.
A devlog is the minimum note I'll keep while I'm doing something technical, and it's usually just a section in my daily note. It's a running log of everything I've tried, including snippets of code/terminal commands. Here's me trying to consolidate devlogs from when I learned how to deploy Loki on k8s in GCP via Helm.
My talk at #kubeconeu25 was just released! It's called "Asimov's Zeroth Law of Robotics: Observability for AI”. I use OpenTelemetry, OpenLIT, OpenAI, @grafana , Prometheus, Tempo, Loki, and k6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6EKTCAWtn8
I was super nervous about this one because when I sent the abstract in for the talk, I had never created an AI app, much less instrumented it. So this talk is more like the story of how I learned how to do all that than an expert's guide to doing it right.
🎉 We're having a blast at #KubeCon!
Stop by our booth (S462) to collect swag, learn about the LGTM Stack and Kubernetes Monitoring, and see featured #Grafana dashboards from the community.
And don't miss the sessions presented by our Grafanistas: https://grafana.com/events/kubecon/?mdm=social
I'm speaking about AI Observability in 3.5 hours… but here's a sneak peak of the slides! https://nicole.to/asimovslides
And here's the event at #kubeconeu25 : https://kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1txEF
Almost a year ago, Nicole (@nicole) shared a video called Learning in Public with PKM. I really liked her idea: learning out loud, sharing what you learn as you go. Since then, I’ve been getting ready to show up publicly too. I learned how to edit videos, studied SEO, practiced talking to the camera. In April, I started posting videos. My only rule? I had to think they were actually useful. Big thanks to Nicole. You inspired me to start creating in public. https://youtu.be/i-uNtkre1aE
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