# maintaining (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover maintaining. Page: Feed: --- ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 22, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-22-2026) _2026-08-22 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ Good morning. Don't underestimate stairs. Regularly climbing stairs challenges your heart, lungs, and leg muscles at the same time and can be an easy way to add more activity to your day. ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 21, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-21-2026) _2026-08-21 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ Your reaction time matters as you age. Staying physically active and practicing coordination can help you respond more quickly when you trip or lose your balance. ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 20, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-20-2026) _2026-08-20 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ Today is actually the 1 year anniversary of the Newsletter. Thank you for being here and being apart of this. I appreciate you. Let’s get into your brief. ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 19, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-19-2026) _2026-08-19 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ Don’t forget, your ability to reach overhead matters. Maintaining shoulder mobility makes everyday activities easier and can help you preserve independence as you get older. ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 18, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-18-2026) _2026-08-18 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ Your ability to carry things matters. Carrying groceries, luggage, or even your kids requires grip strength, core stability, and muscle that become increasingly important as you age. ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 17, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-17-2026) _2026-08-17 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ You should occasionally practice getting down to the floor and back up. It's a simple way to work on strength, coordination, mobility, and balance simultaneously. ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 16, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-16-2026) _2026-08-16 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ 🗳️ Fifth Circuit Fully Reinstates Key Parts of Texas Election Law ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 15, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-15-2026) _2026-08-15 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ Your ability to get up from the floor matters. Strength, mobility, and balance determine whether you can do it easily, and maintaining those abilities becomes increasingly important as you age. ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 14, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-14-2026) _2026-08-14 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ Just a quick idea, take the stairs instead of the elevator when you can. It's a good way to get some steps and leg work in without going to a gym or technically working out. ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 13, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-13-2026) _2026-08-13 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ Remember, walking is one of the closest things we have to a super pill. If all of its benefits could fit into a medication, it would likely be one of the most prescribed drugs in the world. ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LeR6d5FCh33a) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 12, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-12-2026) _2026-08-12 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ Reminder. Your toothbrush can't clean between your teeth. Flossing daily helps prevent plaque buildup that can lead to cavities, gum disease, and tooth loss. ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 11, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-11-2026) _2026-08-11 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ Muscle burns more energy than fat, even at rest. Building and maintaining muscle can help increase the number of calories your body burns each day and help keep fat off of you. ## [☕ Morning Briefing — August 10, 2026](https://thejefferymead.substack.com/p/morning-briefing-august-10-2026) _2026-08-10 · Jeffery Mead · Jeffery Mead_ 🇮🇱 Netanyahu Rejects Gaza Roadmap Until Full Hamas Disarmament ## [Fix: 'The type initializer for PerTypeValues threw an exception' in Visual Studio](https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2026/08/how-to-fix-the-dreaded-type-initializer-PerTypeValues-vs-extension-error.html) _2026-08-08 · Prahlad Yeri_ Yesterday, I was trying to install the RDLC Report Designer Extension for my Visual Studio 2022 and I was greeted with a strange and obnoxious error right after double-clicking the vsix installation file: The type initializer for ‘PerTypeValues’1’ threw an exception. Unfortunately, this error is notorious for being overly generic and turning up at the most inopportune moments. Consequently, the… ## [New and Improved Google Gemini](https://fordsnotes.substack.com/p/new-and-improved-google-gemini) _2026-07-21 · Brian Ford · Ford's Notes Newsletter_ Why something that might appear to be a 'rebranding' is a really big deal. ## [Can a Candy Bar Price a Code Review?](https://bolshakov.github.com/2026/07/20/can-a-candy-bar-price-a-code-review.html) _2026-07-20 · Tëma Bolshakov_ In the mid-1990s, ten daycare centers in Haifa had a problem: parents showed up late to pick up their kids. A teacher had to stay late every time, unpaid, waiting. So the daycares ran an experiment. Six of them introduced a small fine for picking up more than ten minutes late. Late pickups didn’t go down. They roughly doubled, and stayed doubled even after the fine was later removed. Why it… ## [Security+ and the Deep, Dark Web](https://fordsnotes.substack.com/p/security-and-the-deep-dark-web) _2026-07-08 · Brian Ford · Ford's Notes Newsletter_ An often misunderstood (and under studied) topic on the CompTIA Security+ exam. ## [The craft of authoring technical guides, books, tutorials and documentation with AI assistance](https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2026/06/the-craft-of-technical-writing-with-ai-assistance.html) _2026-06-19 · Prahlad Yeri_ An overview of the process There are many ways of drafting technical content using AI assistance, I’m going to describe here the one I happen to use. The structure is simple and involves at least three basic steps and files: ./prompt.md : The initial brainstorming prompt to create the outline, just for the record. ./prompt-gen.md : The prompt containing actual outline and fed to model for… ## [How to fix TypeError: 'autocommit' unexpected keyword argument in Python sqlite3](https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2026/06/how-to-fix-type-error-autocommit-invalid-keyword-python-sqlite3-connect.html) _2026-06-13 · Prahlad Yeri_ So there I was, writing a quick script to churn through an array of items and throw them into a local SQLite database. Standard stuff. Because I didn’t want the script to crawl at a snail’s pace by writing to the disk on every single loop iteration, I decided to do the sensible thing: turn off autocommit mode and just batch-commit the whole thing at the end. I confidently typed out the connection… ## [The joy of coding a command line english dictionary program in dotnet](https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2026/06/the-joy-of-coding-cli-dict-in-dotnet.html) _2026-06-10 · Prahlad Yeri_ In today’s globally connected digital village, we often come across words and syllables which are quite new to us. Most folks hardly take the trouble to look up a dictionary, though; there is no immediate or short-term incentive to increase your word power, especially in a world where LLMs can do most of the intellectual bidding for you. For those of us who do care about the ever degrading human… ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/frH5jdqkcoct) _2026-06-09 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [About seed oils. Is omega-6 really “toxic”?](https://paleozonenutrition.com/2026/05/18/about-seed-oils-are-they-toxic/) _2026-05-18 · Julianne · Julianne's Paleo & Zone Nutrition_ Seed oils are vilified for the amount of omega 6 they contain. Seed oils are commonly called industrial seed oils, toxic, inflammatory, and touted to drive inflammation and chronic disease. And then of course we see influencers parading through supermarkets pointing to every food with the tiniest amount of seed oil and rant about avoiding \[ \] ## ['Break Glass' as an Authentication Technique added to the CompTIA Security+ Exam Objectives](https://fordsnotes.substack.com/p/break-glass-as-an-authentication) _2026-05-11 · Brian Ford · Ford's Notes Newsletter_ Another example of knowledge over memorization in SY0-801 ## [My Powerlifting Update: World Champ 2023 and 2025!](https://paleozonenutrition.com/2026/05/10/powerlifting-update-julianne-taylor-world-champ-2023-and-2025/) _2026-05-10 · Julianne · Julianne's Paleo & Zone Nutrition_ I ve now been powerlifting for about 10 years. For a little history read the following post from 2019, near the beginning of my powerlifting journey: Gaining strength and competing in powerlifting after menopause. Personal update. I ve continued training, sometimes more intensively, other times taking a break from the longer sessions but still maintaining gym \[ \] ## [What is the Effect of the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) diet in Rheumatoid Arthritis?](https://paleozonenutrition.com/2026/05/08/what-is-the-effect-of-the-autoimmune-protocol-aip-diet-in-rheumatoid-arthritis/) _2026-05-08 · Julianne · Julianne's Paleo & Zone Nutrition_ If you have rheumatoid arthritis (RA), chances are you ve wondered whether what you eat matters. You may have come across others with RA who swear that a certain diet has helped them, whether it s a plant-based diet like the Paddison Programme or the Autoimmune protocol. You ve heard some people avoid all animal foods and others \[ \] ## [20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-years-on-AWS-and-never-not-my-job.html) _2026-04-11 · Daemonic Dispatches_ I created my first AWS account at 10:31 PM on April 10th, 2006. I had seen the announcement of Amazon S3 and had been thinking vaguely about the problem of secure backups — even though I didn't start Tarsnap until several months later — and the idea of an online storage service appealed to me. The fact that it was a web service made it even more appealing; I had been building web… ## [Before you ask your AI that next question...](https://fordsnotes.substack.com/p/before-you-ask-your-ai-that-next) _2026-04-06 · Brian Ford · Ford's Notes Newsletter_ The recent United States v. Heppner ruling sets a precedent regarding AI and confidentiality. ## [Does Creatine Damage Your Kidneys?](https://paleozonenutrition.com/2026/03/27/does-creatine-damage-your-kidneys/) _2026-03-27 · Julianne · Julianne's Paleo & Zone Nutrition_ Creatine has become one of the most popular and well-researched supplements available. Yet people taking it regularly are sometimes told by their doctor to stop, because their blood tests suggest their kidneys are being damaged. This article explains why that interpretation is usually wrong, what those tests are actually measuring, and what the research really \[ \] ## [Readymade template engine using the function constructor trick in JavaScript](https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2026/02/function-constructor-trick.html) _2026-02-28 · Prahlad Yeri_ One of my favorite features in JavaScript is the backtick string interpolation technique: let name = " Prahlad " ; let greeting = \`Hello, ${ name } \` ; The backtick string can be extraordinarily long and quite versatile, folks often use it like a mini-template engine. And what’s more, it’s built right into the core JS language and you get all the goodies without installing an extra package like… ## [FreeBSD AMI ID pages](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-02-19-FreeBSD-AMI-ID-pages.html) _2026-02-19 · Daemonic Dispatches_ In 2021 I started publishing FreeBSD AMI IDs in the SSM Parameter Store ; this made it much easier for scripts to launch EC2 instances without needing to have hard-coded AMI IDs. (Indeed, I use this extensively in my regression testing, to launch e.g. the most recent 14.4-STABLE image.) While this is useful for scripts, it's not so useful for humans. ## [Patched FreeBSD AMIs](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-01-20-Patched-FreeBSD-AMIs.html) _2026-01-20 · Daemonic Dispatches_ I've been maintaining FreeBSD in the EC2 cloud since 2012, and from October 2013 onwards FreeBSD AMIs had code to automatically download and install security and critical errata updates when they first boot. Importantly, this took place before sshd started running, to ensure instances could be launched safely even if there were OpenSSH vulnerabilities in the release, and the system rebooted after… ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/GmHCSmpUBJ1Q) _2026-01-20 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [How well does Gemini know Email?](https://fordsnotes.substack.com/p/how-well-does-gemini-know-email) _2026-01-06 · Brian Ford · Ford's Notes Newsletter_ Results of a simple test series asking Google Gemini to verify authenticity of messages. ## [Why Circuit Breaker Recovery Needs Coordination](https://bolshakov.github.com/2025/12/06/why-circuit-breaker-recovery-needs-coordination.html) _2025-12-06 · Tëma Bolshakov_ Every circuit breaker tutorial shows the same state machine. CLOSED means healthy, OPEN means failing, HALF-OPEN means testing recovery. Three states, a few transitions, done. The state machine is trivial. The coordination problem hiding beneath it is not. The moment you have concurrent execution–threads in a single process, workers across multiple servers–recovery becomes a coordination problem.… ## [Systems: Composition Roots for Stoplight 6.0](https://bolshakov.github.com/2025/11/28/stoplight-systems.html) _2025-11-28 · Tëma Bolshakov_ In the Stoplight 6.0 roadmap , I outlined three major changes: enforcing configuration consistency, UTC timestamps, and cleaner configuration API. These improvements share a common foundation–an architectural pattern called systems. This document explains the architecture behind those changes. If the roadmap answered “what problems are we solving?”, this answers “why is this the right solution,… ## [Stoplight 6.0: Fixing Legacy Design Decisions](https://bolshakov.github.com/2025/11/27/stoplight-6-roadmap.html) _2025-11-27 · Tëma Bolshakov_ I want to talk through some changes we’re planning for Stoplight 6.0 and get your feedback before we finalize anything. There are three design decisions from Stoplight’s early days that keep causing problems in production. They’re not bugs exactly – more like compromises that made sense when the library was younger but now create subtle issues at scale. We’ve been working around them for years,… ## [What We Know About Elimination and Re-introduction Diets for Rheumatoid Arthritis](https://paleozonenutrition.com/2025/11/11/what-we-know-and-dont-about-elimination-and-re-introduction-diets-for-rheumatoid-arthritis/) _2025-11-11 · Julianne · Julianne's Paleo & Zone Nutrition_ Could Certain Foods Be Making Your Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms Worse? If you live with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), you may have wondered: “Could a certain food be making my joint symptoms worse?” As part of my PhD I carried out a scoping review titled “Elimination – Reintroduction Diets and Oral Food Challenge in Adults with Rheumatoid \[ \] ## [How to support FreeBSD on your cloud](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-11-08-How-to-support-FreeBSD-on-your-cloud.html) _2025-11-08 · Daemonic Dispatches_ As most of my readers are aware, I ported FreeBSD to run on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and have been maintaining the platform ever since. Between this and my (far more recent) role as FreeBSD release engineering lead, I sometimes get a question from other cloud providers: "What's involved in supporting FreeBSD" — or sometimes, "How can we make FreeBSD on our cloud work as well as FreeBSD works on… ## [How AI can turn us into a society of p-zombies](https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2025/10/how-ai-can-turn-us-into-society-of-p-zombies.html) _2025-10-25 · Prahlad Yeri_ I’m probably one of the last generations of human writers on this planet who is actually involved in the end-to-end writing process. We’re already transitioning to that phase where the drafting and proof-reading for many articles is done by an LLM, and even other processes like editing and publishing are transitioning to full automation as we speak. For starters, what exactly is a p-zombie or… ## [I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code](https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2025/10/i-am-a-programmer.html) _2025-10-15 · Prahlad Yeri_ Today morning, I came across this reddit post titled Completely losing interest in the career due to AI and AI-pilled people . They describe how in a span of just two months, their corporate job went from "I'll be here for life" to "Time to switch careers?" . And this post isn’t alone, there is a deep and dark pattern to it. When CTOs or project managers suggest programmers in their team to use AI… ## [Unpopular Opinion: Implicit Usings are an Anti-Pattern](https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2025/10/implicit-usings-are-an-anti-pattern.html) _2025-10-05 · Prahlad Yeri_ As someone who has coded across Python, PHP, Java, and C#, I’ve learned to borrow patterns from each language to improve workflow and maintainability. One principle that has consistently stood the test of time is Python’s aphorism: “Explicit is better than implicit.” It usually leads to robust, readable, and maintainable code. From this perspective, explicit using statements in C# have always been… ## [Create a C# Windows Desktop App in 9 Lines — No Visual Studio Needed](https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2025/09/hello-csharp-winforms-zero-deps.html) _2025-09-20 · Prahlad Yeri_ If you’re new to C# and especially desktop development, here’s how easy it is to get started on a modern Windows 10/11 PC. This way of creating a Hello World C# program doesn’t involve installation of any heavy IDE like Visual Studio or the .NET 8/9 SDK. In fact, most recent Windows versions already come with .NET Framework 4.x preinstalled, including the classic C# compiler at a location like… ## [Thoughts on (Amazonian) Leadership](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-09-01-Thoughts-on-Amazonian-Leadership.html) _2025-09-01 · Daemonic Dispatches_ Amazon's Leadership Principles are famous, not just within Amazon but also in the tech world at large. While they're frequently mocked — including by Amazonians — they're also generally sensible rules by which to run a company. I've been an Amazon customer for over 25 years and an AWS customer for almost 20 years, and also an AWS Hero for 6 years, and while I've never worked for Amazon… ## [How to Deploy Often and Sleep Well](https://bolshakov.github.com/2025/08/27/how-to-deploy-often-and-sleep-well.html) _2025-08-27 · Tëma Bolshakov_ It’s 11 PM on Sunday. Your team is on Slack, coordinating the quarterly deployment. The application starts but immediately crashes—turns out the production Redis URL is different from staging. The load balancer health checks are failing because someone changed the endpoint path three commits ago. Your deployment runbook is missing step 7, and nobody remembers what it was supposed to be. This scene… ## [NixOS and the Android emulator Vulkan problem](https://adol.pw/2025/08/25/nixos-android-emulator-vulkan/) _2025-08-25 · captainepoch's log_ I was updating Husky for the API 36 requirements of Google for the new upcoming version of the operating system, and I updated my computer before. For some reason, the Android emulator looked like this: Not so long ago, the emulator was working fine, and I was using it to test other things of Husky and other apps. For context, I installed the emulator using the SDK manager from Android itself, not… ## [Ford's Notes Newsletter #8](https://fordsnotes.substack.com/p/fords-notes-newsletter-8) _2025-07-21 · Brian Ford · Ford's Notes Newsletter_ Cybersecurity topics that should get more attention ## [Permissive vs Copyleft Open Source](https://shazow.net/posts/permissive-vs-copyleft/) _2025-07-09 · shazow.net | Andrey Petrov_ The premise of copyleft licenses is attractive: Create more open source! With permissive licenses, someone can take the code and make proprietary modifications to it and sell it to other people without releasing the modifications. We want people to publish their improvements, right? With copyleft, we can force people to publish their improvements to copyleft code. Businesses will want to use our… ## [A year of funded FreeBSD](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.html) _2025-06-06 · Daemonic Dispatches_ I've been maintaining FreeBSD on the Amazon EC2 platform ever since I first got it booting in 2010, but in November 2023 I added to my responsibilities the role of FreeBSD release engineering lead — just in time to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.0, although Glen Barber did all the release engineering work for that release. While I receive a small amount of funding from Antithesis… ## [Ford's Notes Newsletter #7](https://fordsnotes.substack.com/p/fords-notes-newsletter-7) _2025-06-06 · Brian Ford · Ford's Notes Newsletter_ New ways Internet Educators are taking people's money ## [The art and science of effectively maintaining changelogs](https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2025/06/effectively-maintaining-changelogs.html) _2025-06-05 · Prahlad Yeri_ Even in 2025, maintaining changelogs isn’t an exact science. There is no general consensus or even tooling around how your changelog should look in order to conform to some norms or standards, because there aren’t any. After some trial-error and pondering, this is what I came up with for my upcoming FocusBeam project: # Focus Beam Changelog ## \[Unreleased\] ### Added - \[ x\] Dashboard and Timesheet… ## [urllib3 Origin Story](https://shazow.net/posts/urllib3/) _2025-05-21 · shazow.net | Andrey Petrov_ Syndicated This post was featured on opensource.org/maintainers/shazow My first big open source project was urllib3 . Today it’s used by almost every Python user and receives about a billion downloads each month, but it started in 2007 out of necessity. I was working at TinEye (formerly known as Idée Inc.) as my first “real” job out of university, and we needed to upload billions of images to… ## [Going full (GNU/)Linux](https://adol.pw/2025/05/05/going-full-gnu-linux/) _2025-05-05 · captainepoch's log_ Not so long ago, Microsoft announced Recall , a yet another AI feature that it is being forced upon users, despite nobody asking for yet another AI thing . I was running at that time Windows 10 and NixOS (dual-boot), and was thinking that M$ will force me to update to Windows 11 at some point. I never liked newer versions of Windows. Windows 7 was the last good Windows, and it died the moment…