# unless otherwise (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover unless otherwise. Page: Feed: --- ## [An agent in my workflow](https://nskm.xyz/posts/claude-code-workflow/) _2026-07-28 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Hook Last week, I was asked how Claude Code actually improved my productivity, past the pitch of "it writes code for you." I didn't have a sharp answer on the spot. Turns out the honest answer isn't about writing code faster, it's about writing the thing that does the task once, instead of re-explaining the same task every time. ToC What it is How it fits your workflow A practical… ## [ITIL 4... as fast as possible](https://nskm.xyz/posts/itil-4-again/) _2026-07-12 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Disclaimers Opinions expressed in this post do not reflect the views/positions of no affiliated group. Unto Caesar what is Caesar's: Claude helped beautify all the diagrams used in this article. Hook My hierarchy asked me to take the ITIL v4 Foundation certification. I have had a genuinely hard time seeing how this exam would help me do my job better. It has been due for days, and I kept… ## [Samplyr](https://nskm.xyz/posts/samplyr/) _2026-07-05 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Disclaimer Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's: Claude helped me find up-to-date documentation links. No other disclaimers for this article. The message that found me in Thiès It's Saturday, around 1pm. Usually I'm lying down at that time on a Saturday, but not this one, I was outside, under the Senegalese sun. With a few good friends, I was wandering around Keur Cherif Lo , a small… ## [Developer Growth Report — 2026-06-22](https://nskm.xyz/developer-growth/developer-growth-2026-06-22/) _2026-06-22 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Developer Growth Report Period : 2026-06-15 to 2026-06-22 Generated : 2026-06-22 Work Summary This week spanned 7 projects and 131 recorded messages — a dense, multi-domain sprint. The dominant thread was the WALIP health surveillance platform : auditing 6 Django microservices (consultation, analyses, patient, notifications, organizations, bio\_bank), reasoning about cross-service data ownership,… ## [Work Report — 2026-06-08 to 2026-06-22](https://nskm.xyz/what-i-have-done/work-report-2026-06-22/) _2026-06-22 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Work Report — 2026-06-08 to 2026-06-22 Period : 8 June 2026 to 22 June 2026 Generated : 22 June 2026 Summary The dominant theme of the period was stabilisation and feature expansion of the WALIP platform — a six-service web application for epidemiological surveillance, currently deployed across multiple countries in West Africa. The most critical delivery was fixing a silent failure in the… ## [Developer Growth Report — 2026-06-08](https://nskm.xyz/developer-growth/developer-growth-2026-06-08/) _2026-06-08 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Developer Growth Report Period : 2026-06-01 to 2026-06-08 Generated : 2026-06-08 Work Summary This week touched nine separate projects across backend microservices (Django/Python), an Angular frontend, documentation pipelines (Quarto/Pandoc), and infrastructure tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, shell scripting). The dominant technical focus was on the backend microservice platform:… ## [Work Report — 2026-05-25 to 2026-06-08](https://nskm.xyz/what-i-have-done/work-report-2026-06-08/) _2026-06-08 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Work Report — 2026-05-25 to 2026-06-08 Period : 2026-05-25 to 2026-06-08 Generated : 2026-06-08 Summary The dominant theme of this period was security: a coordinated hardening sprint touched six backend services simultaneously, closing two separate credential-exposure vulnerabilities before they could be exploited. Alongside that, a soft-delete mechanism was delivered for clinical data models in… ## [ITIL 4 Foundations](https://nskm.xyz/posts/itil-4/) _2026-05-02 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ .it { border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; margin: 1.2em 0; font-size: 0.88em; } .it th, .it td { border: 1px solid #30363d; padding: 8px 13px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; line-height: 1.5; } .it thead th { background: #161b22; color: #388bfd; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.02em; } .it tbody tr:nth-child(even) td { background: #0d111799; } Disclaimers Opinions expressed in this… ## [Developer Growth Report — 2026-04-21](https://nskm.xyz/developer-growth/developer-growth-2026-04-21/) _2026-04-21 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Developer Growth Report Period : April 15–21, 2026 Generated : 2026-04-21 Work Summary This week split across three distinct areas. The largest chunk was engineering work: designing and beginning to implement Notification System V2 across the backend, building the ipd-notification-client shared library from scratch, and migrating several services. Alongside that ran a sustained investment in… ## [Work Report — April 7 to April 21, 2026](https://nskm.xyz/what-i-have-done/work-report-2026-04-21/) _2026-04-21 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Work Report — April 7 to April 21, 2026 Period : April 7–21, 2026 Generated : 2026-04-21 Summary The dominant theme of this period was hardening: hardening how notifications are routed across services, hardening email delivery against a vendor platform change, and hardening the deployment pipeline across all six backend services. The single most important delivery was the shared notification… ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aNlvwU0mg4TY) _2026-04-20 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [From rsync to CI/CD: automating a static site deployment](https://nskm.xyz/posts/mvln2/) _2026-03-05 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Disclaimers Opinions : The views expressed here are my own unless otherwise specified. They do not represent any employer, organization, or affiliated group. Scope : This case study documents my personal journey automating a static Zola site. Your infrastructure needs may differ. Audience : This article assumes DevOps familiarity. You should be comfortable with Docker, shell scripts, git… ## [Vectors](https://nskm.xyz/posts/vctrs/) _2026-02-26 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Disclaimers : Opinions : The views expressed here are my own unless otherwise specified. They do not represent any employer, organization, or affiliated group. Code examples : All code examples are educational. Production use requires careful consideration of performance, security, and your specific data characteristics. Model choice : The all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model is a practical default, but… ## [AWS (Recap)](https://nskm.xyz/posts/aws-recap/) _2026-02-12 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Disclaimers: Opinions expressed in this post (and in any of all my posts) are solely, unless otherwise specified , those of the authors, me . Those opinions absolutely do not reflect the views, policies, positions of any organizations, employers, affiliated groups. I've strived for accuracy throughout this piece. If you catch any errors, please reach out — I'd be grateful for the… ## [AWS (Day 8)](https://nskm.xyz/posts/aws-8/) _2026-02-11 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Disclaimers : Opinions expressed in this post (and in any of all my posts) are solely, unless otherwise specified , those of the authors, me . Those opinions absolutely do not reflect the views, policies, positions of any organizations, employers, affiliated groups. This article is educational content . The examples are intentionally simplified for clarity. All tools featured here are free and… ## [AWS (Day 6)](https://nskm.xyz/posts/aws-6/) _2026-02-09 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Disclaimers : Opinions expressed in this post (and in any of all my posts) are solely, unless otherwise specified , those of the authors, me . Those opinions absolutely do not reflect the views, policies, positions of any organizations, employers, affiliated groups. This article is educational content . The examples are intentionally simplified for clarity. Before using these patterns in… ## [AWS (Day 5)](https://nskm.xyz/posts/aws-5/) _2026-02-06 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Disclaimers : Opinions expressed in this post (and in any of all my posts) are solely, unless otherwise specified , those of the authors, me . Those opinions absolutely do not reflect the views, policies, positions of any organizations, employers, affiliated groups. This article is educational content , not a production hardening guide. Before securing a real EKS cluster, consult the AWS EKS best… ## [AWS (Day 4)](https://nskm.xyz/posts/aws-4/) _2026-02-05 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Disclaimers : Opinions expressed in this post (and in any of all my posts) are solely, unless otherwise specified , those of the authors, me . Those opinions absolutely do not reflect the views, policies, positions of any organizations, employers, affiliated groups. My employer says I don't have the right to share the source code I've written in the course of my work. So, I'll try… ## [AWS (Day 2-3)](https://nskm.xyz/posts/aws-2-3/) _2026-02-04 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Disclaimers : Opinions expressed in this post (and in any of all my posts) are solely, unless otherwise specified , those of the authors, me . Those opinions absolutely do not reflect the views, policies, positions of any organizations, employers, affiliated groups. I don't agree with this, but my employer says I don't have the right to share the source code I've written in the… ## [AWS (Day 1)](https://nskm.xyz/posts/aws-1/) _2026-02-02 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Disclaimers : Opinions expressed in this post (and in any of all my posts) are solely, unless otherwise specified , those of the authors, me . Those opinions absolutely do not reflect the views, policies, positions of any organizations, employers, affiliated groups. I don't agree with this, but my employer says I don't have the right to share the source code I've written in the… ## [Syndromic Surveillance! (Part 1)](https://nskm.xyz/posts/syndromic-surveillance/) _2025-08-24 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Disclaimers : Opinions expressed in this post (and in any of all my posts) are solely, unless otherwise specified , those of the authors, me . Those opinions absolutely do not reflect the views, policies, positions of any organizations, employers, affiliated groups. I've strived for accuracy throughout this piece, but if you catch any errors, please reach out—I'd be grateful for the… ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qB4LG5PsmRSA) _2025-08-23 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [Free and Open Source Software.... Again!](https://nskm.xyz/posts/fossa/) _2025-05-31 · Unknown · Kiesse\__ Table Of Content: 1 Intro 2. Why contribute 3. Skepticism 4. How to contribute 5. Success stories 6. More on the topic Intro I'm tired of seeing that the majority of Africans still don't get it , and probably never will, that free and open source software represents the optimal path forward for our continent. One of my brightest students asked me to talk about free and open source…