This week
- The data is in. The number one requested resource on my blog which doesn’t exist is: /robots.txt According to Netlify’s analytics, that resources was requested 15,553 times over the last thirty days. Same story for other personal projects I manage: iOS Icon Gallery: 18,531...
- A database permissions change ended up knocking Cloudflare’s proxy offline. Pinpointing the root cause was tricky – but Cloudflare shared a detailed postmortem. Also: announcing The Pragmatic Summit...
Last week
- Every company that I’ve helped start their enterprise architecture practice so far, always tell me that they might not have architecture setup yet, but they do have a ton of information in the CMDB that we can use to kickstart the exercise. The CMDB is our source of truth of all...
- I zipped up to London last night to share the Platform Engineering Pulse report with the amazing London DevOps group. Afterwards, we spent several hours talking through some of the findings and I thought I’d write up some of the results of those discussion. We’re also thinking...
Two weeks ago
- You want to paint a wall. The fastest way to start is to open the paint tin and start rolling out the color. Except that’s not the quickest way to paint a wall, as expert painters know. If you give a professional this job, they won’t touch the paint until the surface has been...
- The DX AI-assisted engineering: Q4 (2025) impact report offers one of the most substantial empirical views yet of how AI coding assistants are affecting software development, and largely corroborates the key findings from the 2025 DORA State of AI-assisted Software Development...
About a month ago
- A cartoon in three frames. An e-reader is displayed, featuring a large screen and buttons for navigating pages and accessing a menu. An updated e-reader features a clean design with no buttons and a touchscreen, which makes you accidentally change page whenever you try to clear...
- Learn how to deploy n8n on Google Cloud Run with PostgreSQL and create an AI Agent using Google Gemini 2.5....
- The web-scraping arm race continues...
about 1 month ago
- Earlier this week, I was having a lot of trouble understanding how to get Dev Containers working. Dev Containers are the required way to enable Github Codespaces, which was my actual goal. I finally got to something that works, so I want to document what I learned. Dev...
- On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global outage...
- Ellis and Blake are having a catch-up over a coffee. Ellis is looking a little stressed. “We hired a new product manage,” Ellis explains. “So we can be more user-centric.” “Great!” Blake responds. “How often will they speak to the users?” There’s a long silence, which gives...
- The DORA State of AI Assisted Software Development report came out recently. It's a massive 142 page report that details analysis done by the DORA team. It captures trends and observations covering a 5000 participant study that focuses on AI Adoption and tool use in the Software...
- Ellis is presenting to a large crowd on his AI company’s incredible forthcoming achievements. Although he’s moving and speaking, there’s a certain lifeless quality in his demeanor. “We believe this tech will solve all crucial world problems within a year,” Ellis declares to the...
- Arlo meets Murray in the corridor. Murray is looking happy and a little vacant. “I hear you do YBYR here?” Arlo asks to break the awkward silence. “What’s that?” Murray asks with a big smile on his face. “You build it, you run it,” Arlo answers. “Well,” Murray thinks. “Not...
about 2 months ago
- From handles to hosting....
- I had not encountered the grib2 format before, but it is popular for this kind of data. A brief web search reveals the wgrib2 command-line tool might be helpful. Let’s see, is that in nixpkgs?… Nope. But we can add it. It’s a straightforward CMake build process with no required...
- Create a .hushlogin file in your home directory to silence login messages....
2 months ago
- Birgitta Böckeler examines the risk assessment around when to use vibe coding, using three dimensions of risk: Probability, Impact, and Detectability more…...
- Self-host Pulumi state with an S3 Bucket, an IAM User, and the Pulumi CLI....
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