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Adam Jacob, who previously created Chef, has a new DevOps 'power tool' called System Initiative. Could it be Lego for the deployment world?

The company that gave the world the 5 1/4-inch floppy was quickly acquired, and its founder quit on bad terms. But his follow-up firm became a computing giant.

Recently I've been learning about the history of computers. I find it to be incredibly interesting. I'd like to write a post about it to summarize and comment on what I've learned. …

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Writing blog posts is something that I generally struggle to make time to do. I have always got several parallel activities on the go and writing everything down takes time and slow down progress. Things also come up and disrupt the flow, providing further challenges. I feel writing blog posts is useful as it allows me to share thoughts and solutions that others can then build on and utilise for their own needs, but I don’t have a way to set a structured regular time to do this, so it is an ad hoc activity. This frequently results in me starting writing up a post to be published on one day, but it getting delayed. Because my blog posts and assets utilise the publish date, this can lead to a bit of remedial work to line things up again prior to publishing. After doing this manually a few times, I created an automation to allow me to quickly shift posts and assets to a new publish date. In this post I am going to outline how I do this to give you some ideas of how you might accomplish something similar with your own similar scenarios.

After flipping the page on yet another chapter in my career and beginning a new chapter focused on the application programming interface (APIs), I am left once again with the burning question — what do I do with API Evangelist? To help answer this question I will need to refresh my memory on why I did API Evangelist in the first place, what it ultimately has become, and exploring what value it might still bring to the table. I love to lean on the fact that API Evangelist first and foremost is about me (isn’t everything), but the fact of the matter is that none of it is possible without exploring ideas with other smart people in the space, and in 2023 I could care less about page views, social media, growing and audience or getting more attention. However, I can’t ignore that API Evangelist is why I have a career and can pay my bills—something I suck at reconciling on a regular basis.

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Artist, filmmaker, and maker, Van Neistat, offers this video of his interesting approach to organization. The video has a very Tom Sachs Ten Bullets vibe as it humorously runs through a series of 5…

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Earlier this month I mentioned on Mastodon that I was replacing a Docker-based local development environment at my day job with a Nix-based one, orchestrated with overmind and a justfile. There was quite a lot of interest in particular in how overmind and just could be used to replace a container / compose-based local development. While I can’t share the details of the significantly more complex migration I did at my day job (yet!

I'm going to a small academic workshop on design next week. This got me thinking of the various meanings of "design", which got me thinking about the various...

In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small startup as a senior developer, and before I knew it, I was

Recursion is a programming technique where a function repeatedly invokes (calls) itself until some condition is satisfied.

Just be thankful you're not editing sendmail.conf.

This article explains what data storytelling is and how companies and analysts can use it to uncover insights and improve data literacy.

Building an Antisocial Network Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

The stiltwalking French shepherds in the marshes of the Landes are incredible, and I love this postcard—which you can buy from a nice person on

Some question the architect’s applicability to modern software development methodologies in agile environments. Technology leaders need to empower the architect with architectural observability.

In this excerpt from our upcoming book, Sandrine shares a big aha moment: making great products starts with developing people's thinking.

With headless services, using a GraphQL middleware lets you leverage the strength of decoupled services without the hassle of ‘gluing’ data together.

I live in Seattle, and Amazon is our giant.

You don’t have to be an engineer to be be a racing driver, but you do have to have Mechanical Sympathy. - Jackie Stewart, racing legend

Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies. This is not a general turn-around, and it's barely a turn-arou...

From a developer's perspective, the fact that Meta's Threads app has rapidly gained over 100 million sign-ups is not the most fascinating aspect of this