Learn how a data control plane centralizes metadata, governance, & collaboration to make distributed data architecture manageable.

Understand how data marts and data products serve different roles in modern data platforms—and why you need both.

This month, we’ve launched several improvements to AI Assist, opened Chat to all users on Stack Overflow, launched custom badges across the network, and launched one of the first community-authored coding challenges.

TL;DR: The Kotlin Foundation is launching a mentorship program that pairs experienced open-source maintainers with new Kotlin contributors to help them make their first meaningful contributions, with branded swag and a chance to win a trip to KotlinConf. I still remember my first contribution to an ...

We hope you’re staying up to date with our latest posts and have checked out our tutorials on how to create coding agents in Koog and connect ACP-compliant agents to your JetBrains IDE. As useful as these guides are, one important piece was hitherto missing from the puzzle: How do you make your Koog...

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TL;DR - Blanket sampling rates can be wasteful or inefficient. Capture 100% of the signal with less of the noise and fine-tune how you monitor your applications...

If you’re building on Vercel and using PostHog for feature flags and experiments , you’ve probably had some version of this setup: flags defined in…

Searches for locations with a slash in them are now more accurate with MapTiler's geocoding service. We account for local differences in how they are used around the world.

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My daughter will be born soon, and I’m reflecting on what that means for my open-source work.

The generative AI wave has made it very apparent to me that the world is absolutely out to get software engineers. I don't remember feeling this way over low code and no code solutions when they emerged to take my job. Right now though, I feel like a witch and everybody is carrying a match. The thin...

When people think about tooling for Android development, the conversation often gravitates towards platform-specific concerns: UI performance, layout validation, device compatibility, or resource management. Yet for many Android teams, the most persistent challenges don’t sit at the platform level –...

For the last few months, I have been developing a new reporting application. Early on, I decided to add a –dry-run option to the run command. This turned out to be quite useful – I have used it many times … Continue reading →

TL;DR We’re going to build a Pokémon search app. But we’re not going to write even one line of code. 🤨 I know, coming from a developer (who…

I don’t seem to have time or energy for long posts these days, but here’s another quick post which might save you some time and frustration. Recently, I’ve been trying to import OpenStreetMap data into a PostGIS database to use with pgRouting. I wanted to import data for the whole of England – which...

In my YouTube channel, for some time now I started to refer to the process of writing software using AI assistance (soon to become just "the process of writing software", I believe) with the term "Automatic Programming". In case you didn't notice, automatic programming produces vastly different resu...

The Fractal War did not spare the City. There were no bombs in the featureless black streets cruised by...

Your code becomes legacy software when it works. You build something to solve a problem, then the problem changes. Or best practices evolve. Or you hire team members with more experience. Or the world changes. Or you have more people touching the same code and your beautiful architectural vision did...

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you will have noticed this week that a project of my friend Peter went viral on the internet. It went by many names. The most recent one is OpenClaw but in the news you might have encountered it as ClawdBot or MoltBot depending on when you read about it. It i...

Happy new year! Here are some of my notes from the first month of 2026. New job at Ghost! I started a new job as a Staff Engineer at Ghost this month. According to our homepage, Ghost is “for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content.” I’m looking forward to ...

Imagine ending your workday and waking up to new features coded, tested, and ready for review. This is the promise of autonomous AI coding agents harnessing tools like Claude Code in continuous loops to improve and ship code while you sleep. In this write-up, I will ll cover how to set up these self...

Your code becomes legacy software when it works. You build something to solve a problem, then the problem changes. Or best practices evolve. Or you hire team members with more experience. Or the world changes. Or you have more people touching the same code and your beautiful architectural vision did...

At Lumen Field, Amazon One runs across concessions, merch, and age-restricted gates. With over 69,000 fans per game, every second at checkout compounds. Fans hover their palm. Move through. No card. No PIN. No wallet.The Seattle Seahawks adopted it for a simple reason. Every moment spent waiting is ...

I really loved Faraz Kelhini & Butch Mayhew's new book, "Hands on Automated Testing with Playwright: Create fast, reliable, and scalable tests for modern web apps with Microsoft's automation framework". Butch Mayhew is a Playwright Ambassador, dedicated to helping others, and it shows! I fully recom...