https://svrnm.com/tags/balatro/ Recent content in Balatro on svrnm :: Severin Neumann Hugo -- 0.146.0 en-us Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://svrnm.com/blog/balatro-otel/ Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://svrnm.com/blog/balatro-otel/ <p>I should start this blog post with a witty joke, because that&rsquo;s one of the key ingredients that make <a href="https://www.playbalatro.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Balatro</a> such a beloved game. However, I can&rsquo;t come up with one, so here&rsquo;s a different intro: I am fascinated by the possibility that any software I use could, in theory, emit logs, metrics and traces through <a href="https://opentelemetry.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OpenTelemetry</a>. And Balatro is software that I <strong>use</strong> a lot. I&rsquo;ve spent hundreds of hours with it, the best 2 × 10 euros I&rsquo;ve ever spent<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>. So creating OpenTelemetry for Balatro was a side project I wanted to try out for a long time! It turned out to be one of those projects where I cared more about the outcome than about writing the code myself, so it was a perfect candidate to ask an LLM to build for me!</p>