The question used to be whether a project was risky enough to justify a POC. Now the question is whether it’s certain enough to skip one. Every software team eventually faces the same problem: you have an idea, you’re not sure it will work, and...
Reading Mitchell Hashimoto’s post left me quieter and sadder than I expected. Not because I disagree with the decision, but because it names something I have felt in the background for years without putting words to it. GitHub was never just hosting...
There are moments when the world changes its interface. People still want the same things: good products, less busywork, fewer meetings, more time, more leverage. But the way you get there shifts. The internet did this. Spreadsheets did this. Search...
When I’m working with AI agents, I spend most of my time reviewing changes. Not individual commits. Not unstaged files. The only thing I care about is the full diff between my branch and main. What changed? What files were touched? That’s it. The...
Last week our team at SuperPlane organized a DevOps Unconference. We split into groups, picked our own topics, and talked for hours about data privacy regulations, DevOps automation, AI agents for observability. Just people in a room who actually care...
I wanted to deploy OpenClaw to Hetzner the other day, and it hit me again: basic security hardening of a VPS by hand is a pain. Editing sshd_config, creating users, configuring the firewall, setting up fail2ban, copying keys. It’s the same tedious...