The Agentic Lair
The Agentic Lair
Imagine the situation: Our system, let’s call it “BSDFlow”, is a modern, impressive Event-Driven monster. Everything happens asynchronously, reliably, and scalably through Kafka. Every entity creation and data update flows through the data pipelines like water. Sounds like an architectural…
Why I Chose Monorepo: From Copy-Paste Hell to 2.8s Builds Friday, 11:47 PM. Portfolio site: white screen. Button component broke. I’d updated the variant prop in my UI library repo. Pushed it. Forgot the portfolio had its own copy of…
Hashtag Jakarta EE #310 Welcome to issue number three hundred and ten of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The conference year is getting closer to the end. Last week, I was in Ottawa for JakartaOne Livestream 2025 and next week I will go…
Why Cursor, Windsurf and co fork VS Code, but shouldn’t Forking VS Code gets you to market fast. Building on a platform gets you a product that lasts. Eclipse Theia is that platform. Over the last two years, a wave…
JakartaOne Livestream 2025 JakartaOne Livestream 2025 is a wrap! This was the seventh time we did the livestream, so we are getting used to it. This year we also had a professional production crew helping us out, and we also…
Support open source this Giving Tuesday: Help sustain the technologies you use every day For more than a decade, Giving Tuesday has been a global day of generosity, a day when people come together to give, collaborate, and this year, the…
Hashtag Jakarta EE #309 Welcome to issue number three hundred and nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am currently in Ottawa with Tanja and Shabnam preparing JakartaOne Livestream 2025. This is the seventh edition of JakartaOne Livestream, so you would assume…
If I were to divide CSS evolutions into categories, we have moved far beyond the days when we simply asked for border-radius to feel like we were living in the future. We are currently living in a moment where the…
Your senior management is excited about AI. They’ve read the articles, attended the webinars, and seen the demos. They’re convinced that AI will transform your organization, boost productivity, and give you a competitive edge. Meanwhile, you’re sitting in your UX…
In my last piece, we established a foundational truth: for users to adopt and rely on AI, they must trust it. We talked about trust being a multifaceted construct, built on perceptions of an AI’s Ability, Benevolence, Integrity, and Predictability.…
About 15 years ago, I was working at a company where we built apps for travel agents, airport workers, and airline companies. We also built our own in-house framework for UI components and single-page app capabilities. We had components for…
As the year winds down, many of us are busy wrapping up projects, meeting deadlines, or getting ready for the holiday season. Why not take a moment amid the end-of-year hustle to set the mood for December with some wintery…
I’ve built a browser extension that allows you to theme your visited websites just by prompting. It takes your request and uses openai’s codex-mini to generate the JS and CSS needed to apply the change. It can do all sorts…
The Project Manager’s Secret Weapon: An Introduction We all know the scene: a new project kicks off, and suddenly you’re drowning in options. Do you pay for that expensive, complicated project management software? Do you try to learn a dozen…
Whenever we create any resource using Terraform, whether it is an S3 bucket, an EC2 instance, or a security group, we have to pass certain arguments that are specific to the provider. For example, while creating an AWS S3 bucket,…