I can’t recommend Grafana to everyone

Link: https://henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-11-grafana-mess/

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Change is the fundamental in software, if something out there exist, it might not tomorrow, there is no gurantee, even if someone says so, might not. There are rare gems like SQLite, cURL, linux kernel and some of the fundamental tools that just work and don’t change or won’t change because that is what they do are supposed to do. No more no less, more they are adding, but it might come at the cost of backwards compatibility.

Make your own website

Link: https://michaelenger.com/blog/make-your-own-website/

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Yes, it helps you understand what you need, what you are actually writing. I have built an SSG and learnt a lot of things. It puts you under control, it helps you think broader, and not rely on third-party things all the time.

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The 18th November 2025 Cloudflare Outage Report

Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

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Ok, that was quite a big outage. It was the biggest Cloudflare outage since 2019. Four hours. It was down, everything was down. It got a few eyes on the engineering debt. I wonder if Cloudflare was really required in their tech stack who were affected in this outage. Really? I don’t think so, just for reverse-proxy, verification, 10 users, do you need Cloudflare? No, dog, you don’t. This is what is rightly pointed out here . It was a good thing, it put eyes on things which we take for granted or overlook, and just use the defaults, the frictionless tools.

The probelm with AI Slop

Link: https://youtu.be/vrTrOCQZoQE

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I am also quite happy, if we use LLMs to train on their own generated data, it will be a stangnation. Artists are going to thrive here, but that’s too dumb of a mistake these AI companies are to make. They can take all possible measures to make the people make use these chatbots more and more.

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TOON vs JSON

Link: https://youtu.be/nTMP_rLZOYM

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Its just CSV in disguise. YAML in some other way, nothing really surprising.

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Why Software Development fell to AI first

Link: https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/why-software-development-fell-to

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It makes sense now, It is instantly verifiable> if you can run it, it has some potential The medium is the message > Text in > text out There is verification, and it can check itself > if there are tests, it can run, it can itself verify if the generated code works or not, and tweak accordingly These are compelling enough reasons to understand that software is quite suited for AI to bite its jaws from.

Building a terminal wizard in BubbleTea

Link: https://youtu.be/Gl31diSVP8M

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This is a great video to understand Bubble Tea framework in almost 20 minutes. I was pumped after this to finally decide to build the TUI for GCP logger. Finally it will be done this weekend.

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From words to worlds with spatial intelligence

Link: https://drfeifei.substack.com/p/from-words-to-worlds-spatial-intelligence

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This a refreshing read, a positive take on the LLM thing. Its true, the words might have limitations, we don’t even know what true VLLMs are capable of, they can’t actually recognize the physical space, and what interpretations can they perform on it. The one thing that stuck with me was the use of LLM in education or learning. It is ranked or stated at the very end, indicating that LLMs are going to be least used to reform how we learn. If that is true, then I can take a relief. If they can’t change the way we learn things, I am a happy and satisfied person. It helps me use my brain rather than I handing over my neurons to it.

How Martain was written

Link: https://youtu.be/EXD3b6OLtsg

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I haven’t read Martain, want to. But nonetheless, this is an inspiring talk, as a writer and a programmer I am compelled to write a story now. This might be a turning point for me. If he can, I can too. It appeared to me at the right time though, November in middle of NanoWriMo. Perfectly adding up to my writing streak and building confidence.

How OpenAI Atlas is built

Link: https://youtu.be/jxsA_185lMI?si

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Atlas is a chromium wrapper right? right? Nope, its a little custom separate entity that is powered and laid by chromium but it doesn’t look and feel like Chromium. I don’t know anything about what Theo said, but if he is saying its gross. It might as well be, I can’t comment if I don’t know it.

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