Last week
- 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...
Two weeks 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 a 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 1 month ago
- From handles to hosting....
about 2 months ago
- 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....
- 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....
- Seven Years of Firecracker Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. Back at re:Invent 2018, we shared Firecracker with the world. Firecracker is open source software that makes it easy to create and manage small virtual machines. At the time, we talked about...
- GitHub Actions are a great way to get stuff done. Prod a bit of code. Automation happens. Lovely. Over time, though, you end up with lots of runs. I’m sure there are legitimate reasons to need to see whether that build you did on your 30th birthday worked, but that was two...
2 months ago
- Arlo is at the arcade playing on a whack-a-mole game. He’s frantically smashing at the moles as he clocks up a score of 8,392 points. He whips back and forth, smashing at the moles until he hits 9,999 and the machine errors out. The whack-a-mole table is smoldering from the...
- I’ve been using Playwright to automate browser tests for ages. I also like to keep my dependencies up to date, so I dutifully ensure Playwright has a working browser installed before I run the tests. Today, I hit a wall where the latest updates just wouldn’t complete the...
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