Articles by gpi
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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)

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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)

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Coding at work (after a decade away) (lethain.com)

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Who's in Charge? (uptimelabs.io)

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Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals (phys.org)

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The "Meh-Trics" Reloaded: Why I Was 100% Wrong About Metrics (& Also 100% Right) (honeycomb.io)

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An Homage to 90s –/Public_HTML Hosting (public.monster)

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Honeycomb Private Cloud (honeycomb.io)

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"Disagree and Let's See" (mollyg.substack.com)

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Excellence Is a Habit: Why Shipping Software Beats Perfection (jordanambra.com)

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Honest Take on Amazon Layoffs (reddit.com)

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To Be a Leader of Systems (hazelweakly.me)

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Sustaining Open Source: The Next 25 Years Depend on What We Do Together Now (opensource.org)

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We Removed Redis (goauthentik.io)

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How to Make Claude Code Skills Activate Reliably (scottspence.com)

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I can't recommend Grafana anymore (henrikgerdes.me)

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DoorDash hit by new data breach in October exposing user information (bleepingcomputer.com)

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I Work for an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I'm a Good Person (mcsweeneys.net)

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Chad is a new Y Combinator-backed product so wild, people thought it was fake (techcrunch.com)

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The Two Jobs of a CPO (staysaasy.com)

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Ingress Nginx Retirement: What You Need to Know (kubernetes.dev)

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Tangled Mess (subbu.org)

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Vibe Operations – The Next Indispensable Trend (shinglyu.com)

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Building Green Software (strategically.green)

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Dare Market Hands Out Crypto If You Complete Potentially Humiliating Pranks (pcmag.com)

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You'll never see attrition referenced in an RCA (surfingcomplexity.blog)

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How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose (rubick.com)

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Runs-On: Mac (runs-on-mac.com)

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What the Hell Is a CTO? (cory.news)

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A New Developer joins GitHub every second as AI Leads TypeScript to #1 (github.blog)

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Crafting Engineering Strategy (lethain.com)

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Your Next Promotion Won't Make You Happy (yewjin.substack.com)

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Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AI (zdnet.com)

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Ruby Central – Source of Truth Update (rubycentral.org)

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I Want to See the Claw (vickiboykis.com)

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OpenAI's New Browser Raises 'Insurmountably High' Security Concerns (gizmodo.com)

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The Geomys Standard of Care (filippo.io)

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Leveling Up Teams Fast and Slow (staysaasy.com)

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Amazon's stock climbed despite an AWS outage. What gives? (seekingalpha.com)

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Chaos Engineering Upgraded (2015) (netflix.com)

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Measuring Engineering Productivity (justoffbyone.com)

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The web infrastructure revolt over Google's AI Overviews (arstechnica.com)

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OpenAI Pauses Sora Video Generations of Martin Luther King Jr (techcrunch.com)

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Specialization Is for Insects (staysaasy.com)

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The DORA 4 key metrics become 5 (cd.foundation)

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Announcing Vite+ (voidzero.dev)

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The Case for Tiny Teams: Why AI Changes Everything About Software Development (artium.ai)

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Cloudflare Collaborates with Payment Companies to Secure Agentic Commerce (businesswire.com)