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The price of software is going to zero.

The fundamental mechanic of cloud computing is that it pools usage across hardware.

Moving the blog to Hugo It’s time to move the blog off of wordpress.

Long ago digital calculators did not exist.

With AI investment arguably exceeding $1 trillion over the last few years many people are concerned about a bubble.

Anthropic just released a report on a sophisticated Claude Code and MCP based hacking ring.

The “@grok is this true” phenomenon On X users often reply to a post with “@grok is this true” which triggers Elon’s LLM to respond to their post.

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of coding using the AI Agent Claude Code.

I released a short demo of AI assisted vibe coding to the youtube channel.

In 2023 I was one of the many software engineers whose management pushed them into trying Github Copilot.

https://codewithoutlearningtocode.com I’m working on a new book on Vibe Coding for people who don’t know how to code.

LLMs are at the point where they can reduce toil for software engineers across a host of use cases.

If you’ve ever worked with PlantUML or Mermaid before it’s easy to forget the domain specific language used to build the diagrams.

Great article on mac setup Lots of tools are outdated by default.

Fine grained services Microservices have been the thing for over 15 years.

Key Performance Indicators are a common business practice.

We are in a phase where planning becomes quite difficult.

In practice ‘agile’ means ‘we have no process in place and each team does whatever random thing the manager wants to try next’.

A business process is any procedure that is done manually by employees.

For the next sledgeconf we will focus on software architecture success stories.

I’ve had a conversation where someone proposes trying a new language like Go or Scala or Typescript for new development several times.

In my conceptualization a low tier software engineering culture is one where engineers have low wages, low accountability, little responsibility and little control over the software development lifecycle.

The internet isn’t the best place to learn software architecture.

Quite good science fiction novella. https://borretti.me/fiction/eog581 Standford Hates fun https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2022/12/stanford-hates-fun.html I noticed something similar to the no-fun policy at Standford.

ChatGPT https://chat.openai.com/chat came out last week and I figured I may as well experiment with it a bit.

Previously published as a PDF **Code Review Handbook:**Code Review Basics How do you do a code review?

Real time analytics article https://adamsinger.substack.com/p/demystifying-real-time-analytics?

I’ve uploaded the videos from the 2022 SledgeConf to the youtube channel!

Static vs Dynamic Configuration There are two main types of configuration static and dynamic.

4:30PM Pacific Time https://sledgeconf.dev Hey, I’m bringing back Sledgeconf on July 15th.

AWS Athena is a managed big data query system based on S3 and Presto.

We all want to have good longterm software architecture.

People have extended the goal of building micro service systems such that we aren’t locked into a language to a new goal of every repository being able to use any language.

Away team work is a critical component of high performance software organizations.

At Amazon I had the chance to watch a monolithic service reach the point where it had to be split up into microservices.

We often see posts on hacker news about how Amazon charges an insane markup for hosting or data transfer, or anything.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QB8T6T9 The collection is out now!

Seviipay is a SAAS startup I launched in Summer 2021.

There is a lot of discussion of Web3 lately.

Hey, everyone I’m working on an NFT project.

The American workforce has been operating in a post-Organization Man https://www.amazon.com/Organization-Man-William-H-Whyte/dp/0812218191 manner since the 1990s when outsourcing ended the job security paradigm.

Fall into SledgeConf November 5th 2021 4:30PM Pacific Time!

**** The American workforce has been operating in a post-Organization Man https://www.amazon.com/Organization-Man-William-H-Whyte/dp/0812218191 manner since the 1990s when outsourcing ended the job security paradigm.

I set up Oauth2 authentication with Zapier for Seviipay.com recently and figured it was worth a short post on the gotchas I encountered.

I’m working on a new project.

“ two is better than zero**” is definitely harmful. ** The phrase “two is better than zero” - Jeff Bezos drives a lot of the technical disfunction inside of Amazon.

I have been thinking about the problems in software a bit lately.

Lots of links this round.

Despite it being the age of social media, I get a lot of my content via RSS.

A software daemon is some bit of software that runs independently of human control.