# semaphore (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover semaphore. Page: Feed: --- ## [SuperPlane Beta Launch Week →](https://superplane.com/blog/superplane-beta-launch-week/) _2026-06-22 · Marko Anastasov_ Opening the SuperPlane Cloud beta with a five-day deep dive into the platform ## [Seeking a Human Connection in the Scam-Infested Hiring Process](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/seeking-a-human-connection-in-the-scam-infested-hiring-process) _2026-04-29 · Marko Anastasov_ Since AI enabled anyone to create decent content, the hiring funnel has been filled with scammers. Am I going to spend hours reading fake resumes every day? Hell no! Before AI, when screening candidates, I paid a lot of attention to their writing. At Semaphore we’d long established a practice of adding a couple of questions to the standard job form, like ‘What have you shipped recently that you’re… ## [Product Friction Starts As Unclear State](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/product-friction-starts-as-unclear-state) _2026-03-27 · Marko Anastasov_ Looking through this week’s issues at SuperPlane , one pattern stood out. A lot of UX friction comes from the product leaving people unsure what state they are in. A simple CLI issue was a good example. A canvas update command exited with code 0 and printed nothing. Exit code 0 indicates success, but as a user, I am still not sure what happened. I have to run another check just to verify whether… ## [Stop Prompting, Start Plugging In Your Context](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/stop-prompting-start-plugging-in-your-context) _2026-02-27 · Marko Anastasov_ AI is an amplifier of what you already have. The real gains come from giving models access to your docs, tickets, code, metrics, and decisions. ## [Backseat Software →](https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/) _2026-02-03 · Marko Anastasov_ A historical perspective on the evolution of software by Mike Swanson: What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks: “How are you enjoying your drive so far?” Annoyed by the interruption, and even more behind schedule, you dismiss the prompt and merge… ## [Engineering, Product, and Design Are Now Like Video Game Skills](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/engineering-product-design-are-video-game-skills) _2026-02-02 · Marko Anastasov_ Engineering, Product, and Design used to be separate skills, but in the age of AI agents, they are like video game skills. You can clear the early levels by maxing one, but you won’t progress if the other two are at zero. It’s now normal to see product managers and designers writing code and implementing UI with agents in the loop. Two examples from the SuperPlane team: Aleksandar is a Product… ## [SuperPlane Is Open Source](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/superplane-is-open-source) _2026-01-30 · Marko Anastasov_ This week we open-sourced SuperPlane , a DevOps control plane for running event-driven workflows across the tools you already use. You can think of it as ‘n8n/Zapier for DevOps’ that sits on top of Git, CI/CD, observability, infrastructure, and the rest of your production system. Why does this matter? To evolve, DevOps needs to move on from one-off scripts, tribal knowledge, and untraceable… ## [You Need To Change The Whole Assembly Line](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/you-need-to-change-the-whole-assembly-line) _2026-01-21 · Marko Anastasov_ In the DevOps Paradox episode 2026 — The Year of Discovery , Viktor and Darin talk about how software work is changing, but the bottlenecks aren’t where people think. A few quotes are basically a version of why we started SuperPlane . My comments below. You cannot just give developers, here’s AI. Everything else stays the same… you need to change the whole assembly line. Most organizations are… ## [Awesome Password Generator](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/awesome-password-generator) _2026-01-08 · Marko Anastasov_ I got tired of password generator websites bloated with ads and trackers. So I built a small side project to fix that: fully client-side no tracking, no popups open source awesomepasswordgenerator.com ## [Starting SuperPlane](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/starting-superplane) _2025-12-22 · Marko Anastasov_ Darko Fabijan and I started a new company called SuperPlane . The best engineers are creating and reviewing an order of magnitude more code with AI. But the way they manage and operate their production systems is still manual and fragile. We think there’s a better way to do DevOps in the age of AI. It’s our most ambitious project to date, and we’ll share more as soon as we have something to show.… ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ObESRaoLE3HU) _2025-12-22 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [Cloudflare's November 18 Outage – A Continuous Delivery Perspective](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/cloudflare-november-18-outage-continuous-delivery-perspective) _2025-11-27 · Marko Anastasov_ Cloudflare's worst outage since 2019 is a change management story and exactly what Continuous Delivery is supposed to make safe. ## [If It Hurts, Do It More Often](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/if-it-hurts-do-it-more-often) _2025-10-13 · Marko Anastasov_ When something hurts, lean into it. The discomfort is the teacher that forces you to adapt until it disappears. ## [Operately 1.0 →](https://operately.com/releases/v100/) _2025-07-30 · Marko Anastasov_ Today we’re releasing Operately 1.0. Most open source products have a bad UX. At Operately we have set a higher standard. For example, the Work Map is our third design solution for visualizing goals and projects. Sometimes you need a few bad takes before you nail it. Would love to hear your thoughts if you’re looking to replace duct-taped Notion documents or legacy project management tools at your… ## [AI-Generated Personal Message Equals Trash](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/ai-generated-personal-message-equals-trash) _2025-06-03 · Marko Anastasov_ A personal message that feels AI-generated is dismissed at best, and considered offensive at worst. ## [Dream in Years, Plan in Months, Evaluate in Weeks, Ship Daily](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/dream-in-years-plan-in-months) _2025-05-21 · Marko Anastasov_ A former U.S. Chief Data Scientist's simple daily reminder card offers a powerful framework for planning and execution. ## [Easter walk](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/easter-walk) _2025-04-21 · Marko Anastasov_ Easter walk ## [Peaks calling](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/peaks-calling) _2025-04-17 · Marko Anastasov_ Peaks calling ## [A Blue Dot Underneath The Rings of Saturn](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/blue-dot-underneath-rings-of-saturn) _2025-04-14 · Marko Anastasov_ A blue dot underneath the rings of Saturn ## [How Channable Made Deploying Often Easy →](https://www.channable.com/tech/automated-deployments) _2025-04-08 · Marko Anastasov_ This 250+ person tech company deploys 50+ times daily with zero drama: At various times, CI was not fast enough, in response to which we did various optimizations. Very aggressive caching played a large role. We also made sure we only tested code that actually changed. In the early days of our CI adventure we switched CI providers twice before settling on Semaphore for performance and ergonomics… ## [A Checklist for Cofounder Happiness](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/checklist-for-cofounder-happiness) _2025-04-03 · Marko Anastasov_ The cofounder checklist nobody shows you before you start ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7DvRO8Sl4Gvv) _2025-04-03 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [Just Do Things](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/just-do-things) _2025-03-26 · Marko Anastasov_ Do things. Learn things. Then do some more things. ## [Don't Guessbuild](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/dont-guessbuild) _2025-03-21 · Marko Anastasov_ How we avoid guessbuilding at Operately by stopping feature development where certainty ends and speculation begins. ## [Semaphore's Open Source Repo →](https://github.com/semaphoreio/semaphore) _2025-02-27 · Marko Anastasov_ Semaphore has open sourced its CI/CD platform under Apache 2.0 in a new GitHub repository ## [How to Come Up With New Features That People Want](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/how-to-come-up-with-new-features-that-people-want) _2025-02-18 · Marko Anastasov_ Being data-driven sounds great, but you won't build a great product through feature requests. Here's what actually works. ## [Making a Full-Content RSS Feed in Astro](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/making-full-content-rss-feed-in-astro) _2025-02-17 · Marko Anastasov_ A note on creating an RSS feed for your Astro site that includes valid image URLs ## [A Graveyard of Incomplete Execution Loops →](https://commoncog.com/no-learning-dont-close-loops/) _2025-02-10 · Marko Anastasov_ What kills execution: distractions, emergencies, and the forgotten review phase ## [Semaphore Summit 2025 →](https://semaphoreci.com/summit) _2025-02-06 · Marko Anastasov_ Join us for short talks and live Q&As about Semaphore going open source. No boring presentations — just real dev conversations about CI/CD. ## [Serbia's Student Revolution](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/serbia-student-revolution) _2025-02-04 · Marko Anastasov_ Serbia is witnessing Europe's largest student-led movement since 1968. Sparked by a deadly railway collapse, it has united a nation in demanding accountability and rule of law. ## [Mantras](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/mantras) _2025-01-30 · Marko Anastasov_ Therapy is expensive but saying this is free. ## [Semaphore Is Going Open Source →](https://semaphoreci.com/blog/semaphore-is-going-open-source) _2025-01-29 · Marko Anastasov_ Developer tools belong in open source, and Semaphore is coming home ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ywslFAI9vzyQ) _2025-01-29 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [Foggy Weekend](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/foggy-weekend) _2025-01-27 · Marko Anastasov_ Foggy weekend ## [Semaphore is now SOC 2 Type 2 Certified →](https://semaphoreci.com/blog/semaphore-soc2-type2) _2025-01-24 · Marko Anastasov_ We just got our SOC 2 Type 2 certification at Semaphore. This means we’ve proven our security practices work consistently over time, not just on paper. Protecting our customers’ code and data has always been a top priority for us, and now we have the audit to back it up. The difference between Type 1 and Type 2 matters here. Type 1, like ISO 27001 which Semaphore has been certified to since 20201,… ## [AI Can Build Apps Like Calculators Can Do Math](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/ai-can-build-apps-like-calculators-can-do-math) _2025-01-06 · Marko Anastasov_ AI and automation make programming more valuable, not less. ## [In the new year, fly free](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/fly-in-new-year) _2025-01-02 · Marko Anastasov_ In the new year, fly free. ## [Enable Dictation](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/enable-dictation) _2024-12-27 · Marko Anastasov_ macOS dictation can help you write better AI prompts and content by removing the friction between thinking and typing. ## [10 Ambient Music Albums of 2024](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/ambient-music-albums-2024) _2024-12-20 · Marko Anastasov_ The ambient records that have colored my working hours throughout 2024 ## [Musk Operates Like a 19th Century Industrialist →](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn9YZP_Zm50) _2024-12-18 · Marko Anastasov_ Marc Andreessen explains how Elon Musk's hands-on style mirrors industrial-era leaders but differs from modern management ## [Blind by Default →](https://blog.sbensu.com/posts/default-blind/) _2024-12-16 · Marko Anastasov_ How physical and digital workplaces differ in visibility, and why software teams are 'default blind' without the right tools and habits. ## [Semaphore Pulls Back the Curtain →](https://www.youtube.com/@SemaphoreBackstage) _2024-12-13 · Marko Anastasov_ Semaphore Backstage is a new documentary YouTube channel on building the next-generation CI/CD features ## [Cudis Smart Ring →](https://www.cudis.xyz/) _2024-12-11 · Marko Anastasov_ The third way for personal data ## [Orchid Synth →](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyeR6pCyUi0) _2024-12-10 · Marko Anastasov_ A chord generating synth ## [Windsurf →](https://codeium.com/windsurf) _2024-12-09 · Marko Anastasov_ The AI editor that made me instantly subscribe ## [Public By Default →](https://blog.operately.com/p/public-by-default) _2024-12-09 · Marko Anastasov_ Still fascinated by the effects of genuinely building in public. ## [Starting a Personal Blog in 2024 (Yes, Really)](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/start) _2024-12-08 · Marko Anastasov_ Rediscovering the ancient joy of starting a personal blog ## [Operately v0.1: Open-source first, SaaS next](https://markoanastasov.com/signals/operately-v01-open-source-first-saas-next) _2024-09-05 · Marko Anastasov_ First release: Centralizing goals, projects, and more