AI Site Generator - Outsourcing (Too Much) Responsibility to AI

Static Site Generators are good, but what if they were more gooder?

Prompt Driven Development; BDD but shift-left-y-er

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.

Cursed Knowledge

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.

A Unix Tree command - but for S3!

I was trying to visualise some S3 buckets for a cost optimisation exercise and wanted to be able to run a Tree command on it, obviously thats not a thing the Unix command can do … and I’ve been playing with JavaScript recently.

This blog post was not written by AI

I read this piece from the BBC and Sabine Zetteler’s words — “Why would I bother to read something someone couldn’t be bothered to write” — really resonated with me. I’ve long felt that when AI is used to generate content, it often becomes effortless and as a result, thoughtless and empty.