Evan Smith

LLMs aren't necessarily creating new risks in our software development lifecycle, but they're amplifying existing ones a thousandfold.

Someone who drowns in an inch of water, and someone who drowns in 20 feet of water, are no less drowned.

In the last 100 years, there’s been a lot of intense and distributed advancement in technology, and our use of it as a species.

At the centre of the story of society is a moral: If you love your job, you won’t work a day in your life.

After 1.5 years managing the Delivery team at Squarespace, it’s highlighted some things I’ve learned about CI/CD throughout my career.

In software engineering, the Golden Path is all about opinions and assumptions in a company.

This document is about the theory of incident response, it is not a prescription for how to do incident response necessarily.

The central idea to this all is that you treat your email inbox like a real inbox tray: Once something is dealt with, it's archived.

It's a strange phenomenon that I've seen time and time again where if you lay out processes and tools that make things like software deployments safer, the effects continue to compound long after the change has happened.

Something we don't spend nearly enough time trying to master as engineers is external communication.

Often, when someone works on changes that span multiple services, they think of it as a separate Pull Request for every project.

In October 2019, I moved from Dublin to Berlin.

RAID arrays are a way we make data robust but what happens when they fail?

As Operations Engineers, we often overlook the user experience of tooling in favour of functionality.