Ray Chen

Most engineers write better specs for a junior dev than they do for the most capable code generator they've ever used.

As a follow up to AI will NOT replace Software Engineers where I argued that AI handles the mundane so engineers can focus on the meaningful, I want to take that idea further.

The claim that "AI will replace software engineers" misunderstands what software engineering actually involves.

dd(1) is a utility for writing and reading files or devices.

Certain Microtik routers will use your ISP's DNS servers by default even if you override it.

ℹ️ This is a mirror of my original article on Railway's blog: https://blog.railway.com/p/support-engineering-is-engineering We wrote about our journey scaling support at Railway in Scaling Railway: Serving 250k Developers with One Support Engineer.

This is how you can control the Elgato Keylight Air over Apple's Home.app: Elgato has no native support for HomeKit, so you will need to have Homebridge installed, and the homebridge-http-light-bulb plugin.

I recently picked up a used Dell OptiPlex 3070 to replace my aging Pi, and went down a (fun!)

It's useful to know what StatsD metrics you're sending locally before it hits your production metrics sink.

👉 2025 Update: It has been two years since I published this.

I've been fully remote for more than half a decade in a globally distributed environment.

When working with multiple Kubernetes clusters, you need to know which cluster you're operating on.

migra is a great tool for tracking changes in a Postgres schema for ORM-less setups.

There are various ways to dump information about a variable/object in PHP.

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