Marko Anastasov

AI is writing code faster than teams can review, test, and deploy it.

Since AI enabled anyone to create decent content, the hiring funnel has been filled with scammers.

Looking through this week’s issues at SuperPlane, one pattern stood out.

If you’re still using AI by writing prompts, you’re missing 80% of the value.

A historical perspective on the evolution of software by Mike Swanson: What if your car worked like so many apps?

Engineering, Product, and Design used to be separate skills, but in the age of AI agents, they are like video game skills.

This week we open-sourced SuperPlane, a DevOps control plane for running event-driven workflows across the tools you already use.

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.

I got tired of password generator websites bloated with ads and trackers.

Darko Fabijan and I started a new company called SuperPlane.

On November 18th, 2025, Cloudflare had what they describe as their worst outage since 2019.

A common saying from the culture of Continuous Delivery is “If it hurts, do it more often”.

Today we’re releasing Operately 1.0.

A paper from Harvard Business School (PDF) provides data evidence on something we all knew: people dismiss AI-generated personal messages at best, and consider them offensive at worst.

DJ Patil, former U.S.

The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013.

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.

Successful companies are built on strong cofounder relationships.

You can just do things is the best startup meme in a long time.

One of the principles in product design that we’ve established at Operately is to avoid guessbuilding.

As announced, Semaphore has open sourced its CI/CD platform under Apache 2.0 in a new GitHub repository: semaphoreio/semaphore.

I opened r/founder while waiting for my Magic Mouse to charge to 2%, started writing a reply and a few minutes later realized I was writing a blog post.

I spent more time than I’d like to admit implementing the RSS feed for this blog.

Cedric Chin writing on Commoncog: it is easy to come up with plans and then start executing on them.

We’re hosting a virtual Semaphore Summit on February 26-28 to kick off our open source journey.

Serbia is experiencing an unprecedented political protest movement.

Therapy is expensive but saying this is free: Ship it.

After more than a decade of building Semaphore as a commercial CI/CD platform, we’re open sourcing the entire core under Apache 2.0.

We just got our SOC 2 Type 2 certification at Semaphore.

Naval Ravikant on X: AI won’t replace programmers, but rather make it easier for programmers to replace everyone else.

You can save yourself hours of typing by talking to your Mac.

Ambient music is my workday companion.

Marc Andreessen on Chris Williamson’s podcast: I’m not aware of another current CEO who operates the way that he does.

Sebastian Bensusan, writing about how digital work is invisible by default: Imagine you work at a paper store: One day, you observe there are a lot more customers in the store, mostly Chinese, and they are all buying red paper.

Semaphore launched a new YouTube channel called Semaphore Backstage to document the engineering journey building the next-generation CI/CD features.

For decades, we’ve been presented with a choice in consumer tech: either surrender your personal data to the surveillance economy or pay a high premium for privacy-focused alternatives, often sold by companies that don’t sustain over time.

Conceived by Tame Impala and created by Telepathic Instruments, Orchid is an advanced chord generating hardware synthesizer developed for songwriters, producers and musicians to expand the possibilities of songwriting and musical exploration.

I haven’t hit “subscribe” this quickly in ages.

Still fascinated by the effects of genuinely building Operately in public - from meetings on YouTube to public Discord discussions.

There’s something wonderfully absurd about starting a personal blog in 2024.

We just dropped Operately v0.1.

Your startup is running a marathon, and it’s your job as a leader to clear the road ahead so your team can keep running.

Let’s start with something simple.

When Semaphore hit the seven-figure mark as a bootstrapped business, my cofounder and I sat down to rethink our strategy.

We all act differently when we’re alone vs when there’s someone else in the room.

As we’re building the alpha version of Operately, we’re equally committed to creating content that helps businesses work smarter.