A professional footballer doesn't play until retirement. I never applied the same logic to myself. Maybe talking to machines was never the real superpower. shippingbytes.com/2026/06/17/i...
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go.sum and package-lock.json aren't infrastructure. They're a liability you haven't priced. Gorilla got archived quietly. Dependabot opens PRs nobody reviews. When did you last actually look at your dependency graph? shippingbytes.com/2026/05/28/y...
Agent observability is not a dashboard problem. It is a design problem. Three things you actually need before your agents ship to production. shippingbytes.com/2026/06/03/a...
Agents don't just write code. They generate operational surface area. 30% of Vercel deploys are now agent-initiated. Up 1000% in 6 months. Your telemetry stack was not built for that velocity. shippingbytes.com/2026/05/21/a...
I wrote about the hidden cost of “vibe coding.” AI makes it easy to generate working software fast. But someone still has to: * maintain it * debug it * secure it * understand it months later A demo is not the same thing as a sustainable system. shippingbytes.com/2026/05/07/v...
Vibe coding builds the mess, you still have to live in it – shipping bytes
The codebase doesn’t care how it got written, but you will. Robby Russell wrote a piece that I keep thinking about. His argument: the pros dismissed Access and FileMaker, but founders built real busin...
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Most arguments about AI-generated code are talking past each other. Robby Russell asks "does it work?" often yes. Paul Stack asks "does it keep working?" that's where vibe coding breaks down. Both are right. They're just answering different questions. New post shippingbytes.com/2026/04/22/d...
Does it work, or does it keep working? – shipping bytes
Most arguments about AI-generated code are talking past each other. I have been watching this debate for months now and I think I finally understand why it never resolves: the two sides are answering ...
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There are thousands on new skills, plugins for agents trying to get our attentions. Agents on their own are trying to lock you in as well to be honest! Anyway recently I tried superpower, I like it so far! shippingbytes.com/2026/03/27/p...
Pragmatic early adopter meets coding agents
I like to think I have a couple of “superpowers”… but coding agents aren’t (yet) one of them. That said, I’ve been experimenting with obra/superpowers + Claude, and I have to admit the experience has ...
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Any experience with #MCP and #wordpress? I think I want to try this out for my company blog @shippingbytes.com
Well, I just got an email from my domain register saying that I have a few days to renew shippingbytes.com . At this point better to keep it around for a bit longer! gianarb.it/blog/shippin...
I did not plan to end up writing this article but it grew out of my first couple of months doing consulting! shippingbytes.com/2026/03/02/t... I like the challenges so far!
The Subscriptions We Choose Shape Us
There has been a growing number of articles and personal stories from people trying to move away from Google, Slack, and other large platforms. The reasons vary. Geopolitics plays a role. European gov...
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What I am looking for when I do DevOps related work and automation? The easiest thing I can fully automate
The easiest thing I can fully automate
That’s it! I think the title self explains what is my north start when it comes to DevOps, infrastructure and such. The selection of tools, the skills we have as team, the longevity of the projects are all things to keep under consideration in order to build a sustainable environment but at the end what […]
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Buy vs build software and its relation with eng career shippingbytes.com/2025/09/24/b...
Buy vs build when it comes to dependency management
Recently I read on LinkedIn a post I can’t find anymore. I was looking for it again because I wanted to reply to one of the replies! Since I can’t do it anymore I am going to write it down here! The p...
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Everyone has something to say about how LLMs works but this presentation from Yann Dubois at Stanford is something to listen to!
Stanford CS229 I Machine Learning I Building Large Language Models (LLMs)
I ended up working instead of finishing the university, not because I needed to drop off but it was not for me. I am glad I have the opportunity to access top quality contents like this from Stanford. LLMs are here to stay, even if the technology is a cancer for the environment it brings […]
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It has been a while! I thought I didn't have anything good to share, but I think I am wrong! There is always something interesting or challenging. I am in ❤️ with #datafusion those days and I used one of their crate to parse and inspect a SQL query shippingbytes.com/2024/11/27/t...
Traverse a SQL query to get what you like with Rust
Recently I had to parse a SQL query to get the list of tables it requires, so I can hunt for them in my catalog and load them dynamically to Apache Datafusion. Most likely there is a better way, a bit...
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Today all about an issue that kept me busy for more than 10 hours until I landed to the right GitHub issue. #kubernetes #nginx #tls shippingbytes.com/2024/11/11/k... If you have suggestions about how to mitigate this to happen again with a doc change let me know!
Kubernetes Nginx Ingress didn’t attach the correct TLS certificate
Recently I had an issue that took me a couple of hours of troubleshooting, googling and various chats with ChatGPT, at the end I found the right GitHub issue and I got it figured out. If you follow m...
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No better way to take off with this account then writing about what empowers the #fediverse. shippingbytes.com/2024/10/29/f... I don't know much about it and I am just a user I started by answering a few questions I have: * Why I should care? * What's different compared with an RSS aggregator
Fediverse for dummy
I am a dummy! When Twitter exploded I moved to Mastodon, I hosted for some time my own instance but at some point I lost interest for it and I moved to hachyderm I may get back to self-hosting, but th...
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