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In this episode, we discuss the complex flavour notes produced by third-wave coffee, natural wine, South Carolinian sweetgrass, instruments of musical nature, and developers as they steep themselves in the wonderful worlds of Statamic and Livewire.Links:StatamicFlat CampLivewireVoltFind us on X@austencam ...
Why on earth would you make something render-blocking?!
How does Michal Kuratczyk, Staff Software Engineer at RabbitMQ, access Kubernetes workloads securely, from anywhere? Regardless whether it's a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster or Kubernetes in Docker (KiND), Tailscale is a simple solution for this particular use case. This ...
In this post, I will guide you through creating an API Gateway with Lambda using Pulumi. I will also explain some of Pulumi's functionalities along the way.
Data is Not the New Oil - More Like Deep Fryer RefuseThe Grim RealityLet's burst that bubble: Most data is far from being the light, sweet crude we were promised. Think less "Spindletop gushes riches" and more "last night's deep ...
I spent several months iterating on the design and build of a ping pong ball collecting robot back in about 2014 but never posted the final photos of it anywhere, these are the final photos I took of the finished ...
Hi All! 🤗 Let’s talk about the first thing many of your visitors will see and thus one of the most important places on any personal website: the home page. “The home” is where you leave a first impression and ...
Learned behaviors based on years of training.
Summary Passing strings to the Rails logger methods (eg. Rails.logger.info(…)) causes unecessary object allocations, and if you’re calling methods to generate data for your log messages then it can cause unecessary CPU work too. In this post I’ll show you ...
In this blog we’ll explore k8sGPT, a powerful tool that brings the capabilities of AI to change the way you manage Kubernetes.
Let’s unpack the CrowdStrike debacle. I called it last week, and turns out I was spot on—it was a QA (Quality Assurance) problem. CrowdStrike’s own incident report confirms it. The fix they need? Better processes, better QA. This whole mess ...
Keep an eye out for the FOMO-inducing technologies. They’re the ones that don’t just add value to your skillset, but rekindle your passion for what you do.
When I was a young student (around 12), my math teacher had a unique requirement: students had to not only solve math problems but also compose them. This unconventional approach encouraged us to think creatively and critically… or not. While ...
Journal about my time at the 2024 Hackers & Designers summer camp in the Netherlands!
In this blog, we dive into Generic Client-Go, Controller Abstractions, and CRD Macros with Kube.rs.
Oh sweet, delicious, data. Get in my mouth.
Introduction In the second part of our NGINX Survival Guide, we dive into the practical aspects of using NGINX to serve web applications. This section will guid
Posted on Smashing Magazine: “Compliant” does not always equate to “usable.” But compliance does help set baseline requirements that benefit everyone…
“If you’re a new web developer entering the profession, you might even consider eschewing React altogether — although admittedly, that will diminish your short-term job prospects. But it’s at least an option to seriously consider, and might even help you ...
4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771 in 2024 (with quite a few of my fave NPR podcasts ...
Here are just a few ways a seasoned CTO brings a gun to a knife fight.
I don't think I've found a more perfect homelab setup since
(Modern) PHP: Does it really suck? Like many, many developers out there over the age of 30, I basically started my programming journey with PHP (and perl). Circa ~'05, PHP was the go-to language for the web, and Adobe Dreamweaver ...
To help my future self out, I made a self-care checklist I can use when I’m feeling bad. It might help you out, too!
In this blog, we will delve into the primary causes of CVE fatigue and discuss some actionable strategies to minimize CVE fatigue.
My thoughts on preparing to speak at conferences.
What does it look like to build a modern CI/CD pipeline from scratch in 2024? While many of you would pick GitHub Actions and be done with it, how do you run it locally? And what do you need to ...
Reflections on two years of working at Elicit and why it's time to leave
Austen Sforzando and Jesse Leitmotif contemplate the fine intricacies of jazz drumming, the musical concepts of Dredg, the 3D printing of multi-stringed instruments, and brewing coffee with pourovers, moka pots, and/or french presses. We might also nerd about keyboards for ...
This is the best way to debug slow web pages.
In what looks like a very smart move, the team at Mastodon just released a very nice new feature for media organizations, journalists and bloggers: when someone shares a link to an article by certain news outlets like The Verge, ...
Becoming a good manager is not only about learning what to do. It is also what not to do. These are some of my hardest-won lessons as I write this as a diary to myself.I will never again Be the ...
Stenography is a different way of text input, writing in syllables at a time. Every once in a while there's a census. What is the community like in 2024?
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in June 2024.
The software industry is at the top of valuation, but the tail is wagging the dog.
> note... this only represents my half of running AIE - the intention was to have Ben also write his side on the logistics and sponsorships but we never got round to it and its been a year and a ...
There are times when we need to stop trying to make everything sync automatically, and just test that it is synced. Tips for Python and web dev.
