Mastodawn

Awareness + Good Intensions + Imperfect Action = Good Enough!

When it comes to your wellbeing, you don't have to be perfect.

Although I'm here talking about wellbeing all the time, I'm not a shining beacon of health 100% of the time. 🤷‍♂️

Like everyone else:
👉 I eat takeaway
👉 I eat chocolate
👉 I get ill sometimes
👉 I get up late sometimes
👉 I stay up too late sometimes
#developers #coding #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #wellbeing #mindset #mentalhealth

Lobsters 11h ago

Slop Paralysis

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/slop-paralysis

#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #VibeCoding

Hacker News 12h ago

Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required

https://statusdude.com/blog/zero-downtime-docker-compose

#HackerNews #ZeroDowntimeDeployments #DockerCompose #DevOps #Containerization #SoftwareDevelopment

Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose — No Kubernetes Required | StatusDude

We tried Traefik for zero-downtime deploys. It dropped requests, returned 404s, and couldn't retry on a different backend. HAProxy fixed everything in 60 lines of config.

StatusDude

Lobsters 13h ago

Microspeak elaborated: Isn't escrow just a release candidate by another name?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260623-00/?p=112462

#Tech #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming

Microspeak elaborated: Isn't escrow just a release candidate by another name? - The Old New Thing

Yes, but the name is a psychological trick.

The Old New Thing

Sebastian Hans 13h ago

You are the one who decides what you do. Always. Some people don't believe this. But it's true, in martial arts and software development. And everywhere else, too.

https://sebastian-hans.de/blog/agency/

#MartialArts #SoftwareDevelopment #Agency

Agency — Sebastian's blog

Sebastian's blog – Agency

N-gated Hacker News 15h ago

Ah yes, finally! 🚀 The groundbreaking revelation that computers are used in software development, brought to you by the tech innovators still stuck in the 20th century. Maybe next we'll get a detailed exposé on the revolutionary use of #electricity in light bulbs. 💡✨
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-computer-use-gemini-3-5-flash/ #techinnovation #softwaredevelopment #20thcenturyhumor #groundbreakingreveals #HackerNews #ngated

Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

A look at the built-in computer use tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Google

Nebraska.Code 16h ago

Jodi Jones, Dea Mandery, Keil Wilson and Kyle Jenkins present on Practical Agile this July at Nebraska.Code().

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

#CynefinFramework #Rumsfeld #AntiPatterns #SoftwareLifecycle #Agile #Delivery #PracticalAgile #SoftwareDevelopment #Nebraska #DeveloperConference #Scrum #ProjectManagement #DevConference

Hacker News 17h ago

Pure Effect – Reproduce production bugs on your laptop without a DB

https://pure-effect.org

#HackerNews #PureEffect #Reproduce #Bugs #Production #Bugs #Laptop #DB #PureEffectOrg #SoftwareDevelopment

Pure Effect: Business logic as plain data

Hacker News 20h ago

Krea 2 Technical Report

https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report

#HackerNews #Krea2 #TechnicalReport #AItechnology #SoftwareDevelopment #TechNews

Krea 2 Technical Report

Technical report for Krea 2 (K2), our open-weights text-to-image foundation models for creative exploration. Release includes K2 Raw and K2 Turbo open weights.

Krea

Hacker News 20h ago

Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions

https://rworks.dev/posts/too-many-R-packages/

#HackerNews #Rpackages #CRAN #dataanalysis #datascience #softwaredevelopment #open-source

New CRAN Packages: signal or noise? – R Works

CRAN continues to be the most accessible repository for statistical knowledge on the planet, and the number of new packages being accepted by CRAN is growing faster than ever. But, is the R community really benefiting from this new growth?

R Works