Articles by gpi
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Disruption with Some GitHub Services (githubstatus.com)

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Open-Slopware (codeberg.org/small-hack)

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I deliberately understaff every project [video] (youtube.com)

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Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software (theregister.com)

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Attitude, Belief, Skill: A Hiring Priority Stack (inferal.com)

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Bring Back Ops Pride (substack.com)

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Your Problem framing is sabotaging your strategy (productpicnic.beehiiv.com)

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Only Five Cars a Year, 100% Handmade, Tuksedo Garage Builds New Icons [video] (youtube.com)

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Do not give up your brain (cassidoo.co)

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The Most Important Teams in Tech (staysaasy.com)

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The rise of 'micro' apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them (techcrunch.com)

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Keeping Secrets from Claude Code (patrickmccanna.net)

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OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor (undeadly.org)

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"You Had One Job": Why Twenty Years of DevOps Has Failed to Do It (honeycomb.io)

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Tailscale the Terraform Way (tailscale.com)

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Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source (optimizedbyotto.com)

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The Slop Was Never the Failure (substack.com)

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Personal Taste Is the Moat (wangcong.org)

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Revolutionizing Accreted Systems (gleasonalia.com)

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Provenance Is the New Version Control (leaflet.pub)

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Staging is a wasteful lie: the case for the mono-environment (tomwphillips.co.uk)

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How I'm Doing at the End of 2025 (rmondello.com)

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How I Used Claude Code Subagents to Create an 18-Month Roadmap in 2 Hours (zachwills.net)

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The Move Faster Manifesto (brianguthrie.com)

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Datadog, thank you for blocking us (deductive.ai)

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People are abusing Facebook's deceased persons account hacked request form (infosec.exchange)

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Covibes Covibing is for humans and AI (covibes.ai)

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The Hidden Cost Killing Your Innovation Strategy (thenewstack.io)

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Fragments: January 8 (martinfowler.com)

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A Major Mail Provider Demonstrate They Likely Do Not Understand Mail at All (nxdomain.no)

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Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of EOL (arstechnica.com)

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IBM's AI agent Bob easily duped to run malware, researchers show (theregister.com)

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Forward Deployed Engineers (svpg.com)

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How to Progress Faster Than Anyone Else in Your Career (getpushtoprod.substack.com)

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Sleeping Rough in Alaska with a USPS Cargo Bike (hackaday.com)

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Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (wsj.com)

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Immutable Infrastructure, Immutable Code (leaflet.pub)

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Fork Yeah: We're keeping ingress-Nginx alive (chainguard.dev)

2

How Buttondown uses your content to power generative AI (buttondown.com/blog)

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loveholidays Engineering Wrapped (loveholidays.com)

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Plastic Software (medium.com/jpleboeuf)

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Shai Hulud strikes again – The golden path (aikido.dev)

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Fox's Laws of Software Development (gist.github.com)

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Structural Inequality for Older Women Thwarts Social Progress (philanthropywomen.org)

1

The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer (joanwestenberg.com)

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How Walmart's Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet (propublica.org)

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How to Ruin All of Package Management (nesbitt.io)

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Mercedes Will Use Screws to Make Headlights Repairable (motor1.com)

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MongoBleed (github.com/joe-desimone)

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Apple's App Course Runs $20k a Student. Is It Worth It? (wired.com)

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Just in Time Software (commaok.xyz)

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On Friday Deploys: Sometimes That Puppy Needs Murdering (substack.com)

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Amazon blocks 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents (bbc.com)

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Code Orange: Fail Small – our resilience plan following recent incidents (cloudflare.com)

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CD Pipelines: Operational Control, Not a Delivery Convenience (substack.com)

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2026 Observability Predictions – Part 9 (apmdigest.com)

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Automatically Merging Dependabot PRs (lethain.com)

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2025 in Review (lethain.com)

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The Price of Intelligence – Three Risks Inherent in LLMs (acm.org)

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Crafting Conflict in an Illegible Org (forgedculture.com)

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How I Assess Open Source Libraries (nesbitt.io)

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Chainguard EmeritOSS: Sustainable stewardship for mature open source (chainguard.dev)

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Resisting Capitalism's Shoulds (cate.blog)

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The Terragrunt Scale Free Tier (gruntwork.io)

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Calendar rules I learned from an EA (rubick.com)

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Strategy Before Metrics (fastwonderblog.com)

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Being a SysAdmin Is Hard (tree.ht)

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"Just doing things" is not a path to value (productpicnic.beehiiv.com)

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Moving from WordPress to Substack (charity.wtf)

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Beyond Disagree and Commit (duncan.dev)

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Using LLMs at Oxide (oxide.computer)

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The ivory tower of Platform Engineering (platformengineering.org)

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You Cannot Fix Rotten Soil (alifeengineered.substack.com)

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Gatekeepers: The Traffic Controllers of the Gnome Village (happihacking.com)

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Building a Self-Hosted CDN for BSD Cafe Media (dragas.net)

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Facilitating AI Adoption at Imprint (lethain.com)

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Open Source Doesn't Fail Because of Code (ulisesgascon.com)

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The Resonant Computing Manifesto (resonantcomputing.org)

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The Syncthing Android drama is exploding (mastodon.pirateparty.be)

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Quick takes on the Dec 5 Cloudflare outage (surfingcomplexity.blog)

2

Top hard-earned lessons from the experts on managing Kubernetes (cncf.io)

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Emacs is my new window manager (2015) (howardism.org)

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Good Governance for Open Source Projects (fastwonderblog.com)

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Boundaries, Modularity and a Diaper Effect (talesfrom.dev)

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Perfetto – Open Souce System profiling, app tracing and trace analysis by Google (github.com/google)

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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (amazonclimatejustice.org)

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Passwords Aren't Going Anywhere (ciamweekly.substack.com)

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Are You Interviewing a Candidate–Or Their AI? (hbr.org)

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The engineer–manager pendulum is breaking (modernleader.is)

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Brief thoughts on the recent Cloudflare outage (surfingcomplexity.blog)

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You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing (joanwestenberg.com)

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Contrast best practices between OS and enterprise (gist.github.com)

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Explore the Independent Web (ghost.org)

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HP to sack up to 6000 staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting (theregister.com)

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Flexible Code, Rigid Org (avivbenyosef.com)

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Browser Choice Alliance (browserchoicealliance.org)

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From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing (charity.wtf)

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Leading in Low-Trust Times (subbu.org)

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Jack Conte – I'm Building an Algorithm That Doesn't Rot Your Brain (nytimes.com)

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iOS Developers Claim 1Password Isn't Removing Deleted Profile Pictures (privacyguides.org)