Back in 2019 when I started at BJSS as a fairly junior Platform Engineer I was first introduced to Terraform around the time when 0.11 and 0.12. If you remember that migration path, you’ll know it wasn’t exactly the gentlest onboarding experience.
There seems to be a current trend happening corporate and professional communications - looking at you LinkedIn - where people write bullet points and have AI tools expand on it.
Static Site Generators are good, but what if they were more gooder?
Déjà Vu in the IDE Every few years the industry seems to come back to the same idea with a fresh lick of paint. Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) was all the rage when I entered Platform Engineering, what feels like forever ago. With Cucumber, Gherkin, SpecFlow and the rest, the plan was to write tests in something approaching natural human language: Given … Then … When. It is not far from the familiar As a … I want … So that … format we use in user stories.
The creators of the Immich photo hosting app have a page for Cursed Knowledge and the concept really resonated with me. In particular two really stood out, the JavaScript Dates indexing, and the Cloudflare workers redirect loop problem. I have without any shame ripped off that concept and intend to add to it as I go along in my journey.
