Software Architect and DevOps Consultant on Kristof Kovacs ✈️

Tasking people effectively is very hard to do, as I've learned in my late 20s, my first time being a manager-architect of a developer team.

I admit that I am an open-weight model aficionado.

TL;DR: #export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL=minimax-m3 export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL=minimax-m3 export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL=minimax-m3 export CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL=minimax-m3 export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://opencode.ai/zen/go/" ex…

(Originally posted to Reddit) I'm not saying the world needed another mini-claw, but *I* needed one.

(Originally posted to Reddit) I've switched from OpenClaw three days ago, having been tired of the constant flow of updates that kept making everything worse and worse.

Hiring devs post-AI, update: we trying a new approach for our preliminary coding test.

One of the funniest reads for large orgs is the declassified "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" (1944): the CIA (then OSS) guidelines for the Resistance on underhandedly destroying productivity.

GNU screen is one of my must-have command-line tools.

Of course your critical systems should have either backups/snapshots (for example lxc snapshot), or a full deploy pipeline that allows you to revert to older versions in case of problems.

Sometimes, working in some restricted environment, you need to push a few commits back to a git repo (for example, a hotfix).

I wrote this as an assignment for The Economist's Data storytelling and visualisation executive education course, so it's different from my usual writing. :) But some of the data are interesting (suprising even, for me), so I thought I'd republish it here.

I'm a big fan of Server-sent Events (SSE), which are similar to Websockets.

Recently I had the opportunity to reimplement the web UI of a 10+ years old project.

One of the big pains of podman was that while it replaces docker, nobody actually uses docker standalone -- everyone uses (at least) docker-compose.yml, because it's incredibly rare that you don't need at least a DB for any app too.

Two of my favorite functions in Ansible are lineinfile and blockinfile.

The pendulum of customizing our environment #Probably most people (but certainly me) go through different "phases" in our lifetime regarding the customization of our work environment.

We, programmers, had hit a wall.

Experienced people in our industry will be familiar with the following popular anti-pattern: The system is built in secret, from unbelievable money.

A forgotten military standard that saves weeks of work (by providing free project management templates) Nobody loves to write documentation, but with age and experience, IT project managers usually come to accept that it can be useful sometimes, even nece…

When you're in a team that I lead, there are three minor things that I'd like to ask you.

The big Cassandra vs Mongodb vs CouchDB vs Redis, vs Riak vs HBase vs Couchbase (ex-Membase) vs OrientDB vs Aerospike vs Neo4j vs Hypertable vs ElasticSearch vs Accumulo vs VoltDB vs Scalaris vs RethinkDB vs Kyoto Tycoon comparison.

For years, I was using Nagios for server monitoring, but now I'm in the process of switching to Zabbix.

Erlang: What's it good and not good for?

Please keep in mind that every environment, company, and situation is different.

A little collection of cool unix terminal/console/curses tools Just a list of 20 (now 28) tools for the command line.

This checklist was honed through 20+ years of business travel and saves me regularly; I hope that it will be useful for you too. – Kristof Packing checklist #Clothing # Shirts (one / day + 1, more if hot climate) Undershirts (one / day + 1, more if hot cl…

By now, we all know that multitasking (in humans, not in computers) hurts performance.

is it OK to take program code under the ______ license, add our own functionality, and then ______?

A few days ago I found this "ancient" (in Internet-time, at least) text on my harddrive, along with other texts.