"Coders confuse technical power with social change. They think: “If I can write the tool, I can fix the politics.” But tools reflect cultures. Without collective governance, tools just reproduce existing hierarchies."

Good post of @hamishcampbell which reminded me of Aaron Swartz's "all code is political" statement. Sadly, in the "teach all to code" we quietly left out socio-political part - because it makes tons of people uncomfortable.

https://hamishcampbell.com/why-teach-everyone-to-code-has-become-a-dead-end-slogan/

Nice little piece on prompt engineering. My additional remark would be that you are hooked to some (paying) service, which is a liability, financially and creatively.

Ultimately GPT5 LLMs might run locally on your own device, but those days aren't there yet. And even still, and then again, you will only be as good a prompt engineer as you can afford to be by the tools (model/device) you own.

LLMs are consumerist development.

https://dev.to/holasoymalva/programming-is-becoming-prompting-2odn

Hardening Systemd Services

https://us.jlcarveth.dev/post/hardening-systemd.md

Want to change my primary git provider from GitHub to self hosted. Looking for a hosting provider that's based in the EU and ideally has no commercial ties to the US. Mostly I just need a VPS but would be nice if they also offer DNS, edge function, managed storage, etc.

Any recommendations?

Started building my entire infrastructure monitoring solution from scratch!

- Powered by FreeBSD!
- Using Jails and seperation of duty:
- One Jail running Grafana and Prometheus
- One Jail running Netbird Wireguard to connect my infra securely
- One Jail running Nginx and Certbot

All ZFS based for backup / snapshots and rollback options.

Routed and NAT'ed via a seperate dedicated pf jail.

All working fine, I get first metrics and can start slowly improve from here.

Todo:
- Alerts via AlertManager
- Log-Ingestion via promtail
- Log analysis with Grafana Loki
- Adding remaining servers via WireGuard Mesh VPN
- Adding another Jail for Uptime-Kuma

OH on slack

User Story
As Overloaded Olivia, the backend engineer,

I want clear, actionable requirements with business context, so that I can implement the correct solution without burning half a day in meetings or wild guessing.

Acceptance Criteria
1. The story includes functional requirements (not just vibes).
2. Success/failure states are defined happy path + edge cases).
3. Any dependencies or blockers are identified.

Bonus: PM/Designer reviewed this and it’s not just a draft in disguise.

#swe #sre #devops #devoops @devops @sre

Ich muen scho säge, #ChatGPT isch e riese Hilf bim Programmiere lerne.
Grad wenn me sich mit neue Konzäpt vertraut mache wett.

I like! ️

Missed one of my past conference talks? Let’s fix that.

I’m sharing my favorites—packed with real-world advice, lessons, and a few laughs.

“Security is Everybody’s Job”
https://twp.ai/4ipe5i

Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
https://edka.io
#ycombinator #kubernetes #platform #devops #cloud #container #management #enterprise #k8s

#Werbung, aber irgendwie auch gut gemacht. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJc0xN3WL3Q #Proxmox vs. #openstack #devops

Mal noch eine andere Frage an die #DevOps und #Sysadmin-Bubble: Lohnt es sich aus eurer Erfahrung eventuell, beruflich einen Blick auf #OpenStack zu werfen?

Wenn ich in der Vergangenheit mit dem Gedanken gespielt habe, kam mir das immer wie ein feuchter Enterprise-Traum an IT-Infrastrukturkomplexität vor.

Ich sehe halt hier und da mal Projektanfragen, wo das ein Thema ist. (Vielleicht suche ich auch nur eine Ausrede, mich nie mit dem Dumpsterfire Michrsoft Azure beschäftigen zu müssen.)

FREE LIVE Webinar: "Fork the Bank: How Open Source Is Rewriting the Rules of Finance" will break down the real-world tools, skills and standards developers, engineers, and tech leads working in—or moving into—financial services need to know.

September 9 -- Register today: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/fork-the-bank-how-open-source-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-finance?hsLang=en

Show HN: Edka – Deploy Kubernetes on your own Hetzner account in minutes
https://edka.io
#ycombinator #kubernetes #platform #devops #cloud #container #management #enterprise #k8s

Edka – Deploy Kubernetes on your own Hetzner account in minutes

https://edka.io

#NGINX introduces native #ACME protocol support for automated #SSL certificate management #DevOps

Built-in ngx_http_acme_module provides directives for requesting, installing & renewing certificates directly from #NGINX configuration

Eliminates reliance on external tools like #Certbot, reducing manual errors and vulnerabilities

Leverages #Rust SDK available as dynamic module for both open source and #NGINXPlus enterprise users

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter - Weeks Ending Aug 8th & 15th, 2025.

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Hoher IQ + viel Erfahrung = Perfekter KI-gestützter Entwickler? Nope, it's not working that way!

️ IQ reicht nicht: KI-Coding braucht Fluglotsen statt Piloten.
Warum Top-Entwickler mit #Copilot hadern & was Manager tun sollten.

Hab' dazu mal was aufgeschrieben.
https://www.itcv-software.com/mehr-als-nur-iq-die-unsichtbare-mentale-last-des-programmierens-mit-ki/

Was ist eure Meinung dazu? Habt ihr selbst schon den Unterschied erfahren?

Dew Drop – August 14, 2025 (#4476)

https://www.alvinashcraft.com/2025/08/14/dew-drop-august-14-2025-4476/

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