Squad 0.11.0: portable teams and a harder release train
Squad 0.11.0 makes teams easier to share, easier to run in Copilot, and sturdier for the people using it.
Brady Gaster
Software engineer, writer, and maker of things that run on other computers.
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Note: Benchmarking your software against established benchmarks doesn't…
Benchmarking your software against established benchmarks doesn't just show you what your apps can and can't do — it shows you the weird ways people will try to use them. Finding the right benchmarks to harden your product is worth the effort.
Note: Spent the evening turning the Lab page into a modular-synth rack —…
Spent the evening turning the Lab page into a modular-synth rack — every side project a faceplate, patch cables drawn between the things that grew out of each other. It started as a joke about eurorack and ended up being the most honest map of my GitHub I've ever made.
Note: If you've never wired a multi-service app together with Aspire, the…
If you've never wired a multi-service app together with Aspire, the AppHost model is worth twenty minutes of your day. It's the first orchestration story in .NET that didn't make me reach for a YAML file out of spite.
The Squad in the Meeting
At some point people stopped asking me about Squad and started asking the agents directly. Watching that happen is the proudest I've been of anything I've built.
The Team I Built So I Could Stop Starting Over
Squad started as a Super Bowl weekend experiment, then taught me what it costs to make a thing keep going.
A Twenty Minute Timer for OBS
A small OBS overlay app makes long demo recordings easier to review.
Note: Shipped something small today instead of planning something big.…
Shipped something small today instead of planning something big. Recommend it.
Writing Again
I'm writing again, because turning an idea into a finished article stopped being a one-person job.