A developer buys a Hetzner server named Mercury, deploys sites using Dokploy, and reflects on Heroku's legacy and deployment UX.
A daily tech reading list covering AI code generation, open source ecosystems, enterprise patching, AI agents, and productivity metrics.
Datasette 1.0a32 bugfix release: fixes INSERT...RETURNING queries and base_url issues for the open-source data exploration tool.
A tech professional announces retirement from tech and open source to live offline, citing AI as the last straw.
Datasette 1.0a31 alpha release adds SQL write queries and stored queries for data exploration.
Datasette 1.0a31 alpha release adds SQL write queries and saved stored queries for database exploration.
A curated reading list covering AI's impact on software engineering, CI/CD for coding agents, Google's Agent Executor, Go error handling, and tech trends.
Guide to using Hermes Agent for free with DeepSeek V4 and Slack integration, enabling a zero-cost AI coding assistant.
Armin Ronacher reflects on using AI agents (Pi) to build Pi, highlighting challenges with AI-generated bug reports.
Interview with the new Ecosystem AI Security Engineer for PHP, discussing security improvements and community involvement.
Interview with Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia about her work on Chromium, focusing on enterprise browser features and rebase challenges.
Analysis of KDE's code base growth from 4.3M to 8.2M lines, with 55M lines written in total over 30 years of history.
Explores how code projects eventually become abandoned unless they 'graduate' by being adopted into larger projects, with personal examples.
Analysis of AI-assisted contributions in open source, focusing on maintainer load and governance challenges in Django, Python, GNOME, and OCaml.
Review of Nextpad++, a Mac port of Notepad++ built using AI vibe-coding, discussing its alien feel on macOS.
Bambu Lab faces backlash for threatening a fork of their open source software, OrcaSlicer, over cloud connectivity, sparking debate on open source rights.
Developer shares how GitHub Copilot helped transform pet projects into over 20 open source NuGet packages for AI, embeddings, and productivity.
Explores ZeroVer, a satirical yet realistic alternative to Semantic Versioning for software that stays in 0.x releases.
Developer ships version 3 of todometer, an Electron/React to-do app with progress bar, adding editing, rearranging, and dependency updates.
Announcing PAI 5.0, an open-source Life Operating System for personal AI infrastructure, featuring a new algorithm, memory system, and digital assistant.
