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Agents, Context, and the Real Work of AI Development

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· ~7 min read · December 7, 2025 (Updated: December 8, 2025) · Free: No

I sat in on a Buckeye AI session this week that covered reinforcement learning, evaluations,...

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We Built Google Maps for Kubernetes.

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· ~14 min read · July 15, 2026 (Updated: July 16, 2026) · Free: No

The first time you look at a map of Europe, you don&#39t need a legend to know Italy is the boot-...

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Building a Production-Grade HA Kubernetes Cluster on a Homelab with $0 in Cloud Costs

~7 min read · March 28, 2026 (Updated: March 29, 2026) · Free: Yes

How I turned four Proxmox nodes, some enterprise surplus drives, and an afternoon into a fully...

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22 More Ways to Make Money with n8n (No Code, No Nonsense)

~6 min read · October 2, 2025 (Updated: October 11, 2025) · Free: No

By very popular demand: after my first piece — "11 Ways to Make Money with n8n (Without...

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TypeScript + OpenTelemetry: End-to-End Tracing from Browser to Node Without Guesswork

~6 min read · December 6, 2025 (Updated: December 8, 2025) · Free: No

How to follow a single user action from click to database query without grepping logs or guessing...

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nb-cli: A Command-Line Interface for AI Agents and Notebook Automation

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· ~10 min read · May 11, 2026 (Updated: May 11, 2026) · Free: Yes

The rise of AI coding agents has transformed how we think about developer tools. Large language...

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The 12 Components of Google BigQuery

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· ~6 min read · July 11, 2017 (Updated: August 3, 2018) · Free: Yes

Folks have been discussing BigQuery quite a bit these days, which is fantastic. But there&#39s a...

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celld: Durable Objects, Unbundled

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· ~11 min read · September 15, 2026 (Updated: September 15, 2026) · Free: Yes

celld, a new open-source project from Deno, reimplements Cloudflare&#39s Durable Objects model on...

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Build a Local Kubernetes Platform with kubara, kind, and Argo CD

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· ~8 min read · August 4, 2026 (Updated: August 4, 2026) · Free: Yes

Create a local kind cluster, generate reviewable platform state with kubara, and let Argo CD...

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Is This a Tool, a Skill, or an Agent?

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· ~22 min read · June 20, 2026 (Updated: June 20, 2026) · Free: No

A map of the Generative AI stack, and how everything fits

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From Physics Events to Real-Time Analytics with Kafka Streams

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· ~7 min read · May 21, 2026 (Updated: May 21, 2026) · Free: No

A lightweight stream processing application that transforms raw motion and collision events from...

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VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability, and OpenTelemetry

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· ~16 min read · July 10, 2026 (Updated: July 10, 2026) · Free: Yes

OpenTelemetry and Observability in theory, deploying VictoriaTraces on Kubernetes, integration...

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LiteLLM: Metrics, Traces, and VictoriaMetrics Stack Integration

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· ~13 min read · July 21, 2026 (Updated: July 21, 2026) · Free: Yes

Configuring metrics and traces from LiteLLM to VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaTraces. iteLLM...

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A new Kubernetes package installer

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· ~8 min read · May 26, 2026 (Updated: May 26, 2026) · Free: Yes

Introduces a Kubernetes package installer designed for simple installation and post-installation...

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Building an AI Agent That Runs Your SRE Operations — What I Learned, What Works, and How You Can Do…

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· ~13 min read · April 8, 2026 (Updated: April 9, 2026) · Free: Yes

Every SRE team has the same story. Here is how we change the ending.

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Is Node-RED Production Ready for Industrial Automation? Real-World PLC and Factory Deployments

~8 min read · March 10, 2026 (Updated: March 10, 2026) · Free: Yes

Walker Reynolds, Klaus Landsdorf, and Oriol Rius discuss how Node-RED is used in real Industry...

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Observability Is Converging. Humans Aren't the Only Ones Querying It Anymore

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· ~11 min read · August 17, 2026 (Updated: August 17, 2026) · Free: Yes

Putting metrics, logs, and traces into one columnar store, querying them together, and holding up...

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From Physical Servers to Virtual Kubernetes Clusters

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· ~10 min read · October 23, 2025 (Updated: October 24, 2025) · Free: Yes

Understanding the need for Kubernetes multi-tenancy with vCluster

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Argo CD App-of-apps and Configuration as Data

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· ~8 min read · July 15, 2026 (Updated: July 15, 2026) · Free: Yes

App-of-Apps is how a lot of teams run many Argo CD applications from one place — but what it...

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6 Tips to Writing a Great Helm Chart

~6 min read · July 3, 2023 (Updated: July 5, 2023) · Free: Yes

Methods to make your helm chart go from good to great and improve the quality of life of every...

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GitHub Copilot Coding Agent: The Complete Architecture Behind Agentic DevOps at Enterprise Scale

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· ~13 min read · February 20, 2026 (Updated: February 20, 2026) · Free: No

How GitHub Is Replacing Solo Developers With Autonomous Agent Teams, and What That Means for Your...

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Microsoft Foundry — AI Agent Service Deep Dive.

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· ~8 min read · December 13, 2025 (Updated: December 13, 2025) · Free: No

A builder&#39s guide to tools, memory, workflows, evaluation, and observability in Foundry Agent...

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I setup Kubermatic SecureGuard before it even existed

~8 min read · March 24, 2026 (Updated: March 24, 2026) · Free: Yes

Kubermatic just released SecureGuard — an open-source secrets management platform built on...

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Unlock WhatsApp Messaging in Home Assistant with Green API Custom Notifier

~4 min read · April 2, 2024 (Updated: November 29, 2024) · Free: Yes

green-api is a service that allows us to send and receive text, photo and video using stable...

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Transcribing any Youtube Video with Python: A Step-by-Step guide

~5 min read · July 23, 2024 (Updated: November 20, 2024) · Free: Yes

Script that actually works

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Data Lakehouse: Infrastructure

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· ~6 min read · September 19, 2025 (Updated: September 20, 2025) · Free: Yes

Architecting a sophisticated Data Lakehouse platform on AWS, using EKS and cutting-edge...

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OpenAI Codex CLI: From Broken Install to Multi-Agent Orchestration (Production Guide)

~16 min read · November 18, 2025 (Updated: November 26, 2025) · Free: No

OpenAI Codex CLI Complete Guide from Installation to Multi-Agent Production Systems

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CI/CD Pipeline: Deploying a Hugo Blog to AWS with GitHub Actions + OIDC

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· ~3 min read · April 16, 2025 (Updated: April 23, 2025) · Free: No

Overview

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One Pane of Glass: Building a Real-Time LLM & Hardware Telemetry Dashboard

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· ~6 min read · July 22, 2026 (Updated: July 22, 2026) · Free: No

Leveraging llama.cpp telemetry and Linux kernel metrics for seamless monitoring

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Finding & Exploiting Exposed Google API Keys for Bug $Bounties

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· ~13 min read · May 23, 2026 (Updated: May 23, 2026) · Free: No

Turn exposed Google API keys into real-world impact by accessing Gemini and other Google services...

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We're a 3-person tech team running production Kubernetes — So we built an AI SRE

~9 min read · April 17, 2026 (Updated: April 17, 2026) · Free: Yes

We build a decentralized data platform. Client data never leaves their infrastructure — that&#39s...

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Inside Azure's AI Superfactory: How "Fairwater" Turns Every Gigawatt Into Useful Tokens.

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· ~8 min read · November 14, 2025 (Updated: November 14, 2025) · Free: No

A practical deep dive into the two-story liquid-cooled racks, flat AI fabric, and planet-scale AI...

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Running Production Minded Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi

~5 min read · February 15, 2026 (Updated: February 15, 2026) · Free: Yes

Most Kubernetes clusters are built in environments with excess capacity.

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AI is Here to Stay: Navigating the Uncertainty as a Developer

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· ~7 min read · July 28, 2026 (Updated: July 29, 2026) · Free: No

It is hard to find someone in software development/IT whose job wasn&#39t affected in some way by...

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Dynamic And Static Health Framework (DASH) At OVHCloud

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· ~21 min read · November 7, 2025 (Updated: November 7, 2025) · Free: No

Unified Quality Framework with Machine-Readable Reports and Transparent Governance

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Backup and Restore MySQL 8 Database with XtraBackup

~2 min read · November 13, 2019 (Updated: December 12, 2021) · Free: Yes

What is XtraBackup?

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The New Agents Window in VS Code: A Technical Deep Dive into the Agent Host, Sessions, Hooks, and…

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· ~14 min read · August 3, 2026 (Updated: August 3, 2026) · Free: No

VS Code now ships a dedicated Agents window, a second window built for running and tracking AI...

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This simple secret makes AI infinitely more intuitive.

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· ~6 min read · December 13, 2025 (Updated: December 14, 2025) · Free: No

Once you see it this way, you&#39ll never unsee it.

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GitOps with Terraform using tofu-controller: Grafana and Hashicorp Vault as Code

~5 min read · January 21, 2026 (Updated: January 21, 2026) · Free: Yes

Why GitOps shouldn&#39t stop at Kubernetes.

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Debugging Apache Iceberg: A Production Guide

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· ~27 min read · July 19, 2026 (Updated: July 19, 2026) · Free: Yes

Apache Iceberg gives you ACID semantics, schema evolution, partition evolution, and time travel...

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Your Customers Shouldn't Be Your Alert System: A Deep Dive into MELT

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· ~16 min read · August 25, 2026 (Updated: September 2, 2026) · Free: Yes

Stop relying on users to report outages. Learn how unifying MELT, OpenTelemetry, & modern...

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Mastering ArgoCD Management: Advanced GitOps Techniques for Flexibility and Scale

~6 min read · September 19, 2023 (Updated: September 26, 2023) · Free: Yes

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[July 2026] AI Community — Activity Highlights and Achievements

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· ~10 min read · August 24, 2026 (Updated: August 24, 2026) · Free: Yes

We love sharing the accomplishments of the Google AI communities over the month. We appreciate...

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Getting Started With Astro — The Innovative Static Site Generator

JavaScript in Plain English

JavaScript in Plain English

· ~5 min read · July 17, 2021 (Updated: January 6, 2022) · Free: No

An SSG for multiple frameworks, minimizing the JS we ship

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How to Manage Keycloak with the Command Line: No UI Required (release 26.7.1)

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· ~9 min read · August 18, 2026 (Updated: August 19, 2026) · Free: No

Step-by-step instructions for managing realms, clients, roles, and users straight from your terminal

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