Deni Bertovic

Follow up to my "hellok8s-*" series of post: now covering deploying Next.js to Kubernetes. Different stack. Same devops principles and re-use of the same components.

@senkorasic 😁

28 years ago, I built MicroLinux - the first Croatian Linux distro: senko.net/microlinux/

Just one of those days. I hate Microsoft.

@thorstenball I have that one and it's great!

One vice I have that I can't even explain to myself: I love good cables, power adapters, and could (and have!) essentially buy new Anker stuff every two weeks. Something in me tells me that I need this. Look at that display. That knob. I don't need it, it's expensive, ... BUT.

Company: We made it easy to backdoor your workstation! Users: Can you make it MORE easier to backdoor our workstations!? I mean I kind of get the feature. I want it too...but man oh man are me heading for a security crisis!

@senkorasic It's a skill issue. Honestly.

In my book, this is 100% on Terraform, or rather the modern best practices cloud setup. AI is a convenient scapegoat here, but this happened because of the sheer complexity of the setup combined with oneliner commands capable of nuking everything because you copied a wrong file.

@mitsuhiko @joi_ned I don't know about Canada but Australia is on Eurovision! Does that count?! 🤣

@joi_ned Are Canada and Australia in the European Union?

I really don't get this "but do nuclear" obsession in the comments. Our problem is we're dependent on other countries. Where should Europe's uranium come from? Let alone that financing these damn things continues to be a largely unsolved problem. x.com/mitsuhiko/stat…

@GeoffreyHuntley The current CICD model is IMO definitely falling apart - in the age of AI. My thoughts on how to fix this haven't fully formed yet but there's definitely work to be done. I can feel it in my bones!

If you are still using runners by GitHub, then you should switch and upgrade to @namespacelabs. a. It's faster b. Observability c. Ya can SSH into your runners to troubleshoot stuff

I can't emphasize this enough ... you can just build things! I mean sure this was true before - but I'm finding it really fulfilling in the age of AI agents. denibertovic.com/posts/you-can-…

The standalone local coding agent, especially when confined to an editor sidebar that you babysit, is dead. It’s time to build what’s next. And we think we’ll be able to do that best and bring you along with us by calling out the truth. To help bring you along, we’re killing the Amp editor extension on March 5. Use the Amp CLI instead. It’s a better path to the future because it means less babysitting in your editor.

Is it weird that AI coding assistance is not giving me identity fracture? A lot of software developers are feeling disoriented and threatened these days. Programming by hand is clearly going the way of the buggy whip and the hand-cranked auger. Which is how we're finding out that a lot of people have their identities bound up in being good at hand-coding and how it feels to do that. That's not me. It's not me at all. Rather to my surprise, I don't miss coding by hand, not any more than I missed writing assembler when compilers ate the world and made that unnecessary. (That was in a couple years back around 1983, for you youngsters.) Maybe the fact that I'm not feeling any of this disorientation disqualifies me from having anything to say to people who are. On the other hand...if you can learn to emulate my mental stance and be completely unbothered, maybe that would be a good thing? So. If you're a programmer, and you're feeling disoriented, try this on for size: I like being a wizard. I like being able to speak spells, to weave complex patterns of logic that make things happen in the world. Writing code is a way to manifest my will. Yes, I've piled up a lot of arcane knowledge over the 50 years I've been doing this. But languages of invocation, they come and they go. Been a long time since I've had any use for being able to program in 8086 assembler, and that's okay. I have better spells now, and these days some rather powerful familiars. What I'm inviting you to do is think of yourself as a wizard. Not as a person who writes code, but as a person who is good at assuming the kind of mental states required to bend reality with the application of spells. And if that's who you are, does it matter if the spells are painstakingly scribed in runes of power, versus being spoken to an obedient machine spirit? It's all one; it's all the manifestation of will. Arcane languages come and go, machine spirits appear and then diminish to be replaced by more powerful ones, but you? You are the magic-wielder. Without you, none of it happens. Same as it ever was. Same is it ever was. And so mote it be.

Patching QEMU.... 😆 it's still going.

@mitchellh CICD also needs to be drastically redesigned and simplified. I'm tired of yaml and all the quirks it brings with it.

If you're a code forge competing with GitHub and you look anything like GitHub then you've already lost. GitHub was the best solution for 2010. It is hanging on by a thread in 2026 (but its mostly down nowadays). The needs of today are so different that the form factor doesn't work anymore.

Everything we're doing to make codebases "agent-ready" (better docs, less dead code, smaller surfaces) engineers always needed too. Agents just have zero tolerance for the entropy humans learned to work around. They can't "just know" a file is outdated or a code path is dead. They take your codebase at face value, which means it finally has to be worth taking at face value.

I see we're trying to revive remote/cloud developer environments again. Now the claim is that you need them to run AI agents for some reason. I don't remember what the claim was before but it was bullshit then and it's bullshit now.

Having AI Agents has made me way less tolerable about stupid quirks computers sometimes have... that I experience in my day to day. I was able to tolerate stuff for years at a time. Now....after something has come up the third time and even slightly annoyed me, I ask the agent to fix it. Cause it's easy and takes just a few minutes.

@tmrcv Looking forward to your devenv talk at the upcoming python Meetup. I'll be the one in the back nodding and agreeing with everything. 😎

@denibertovic youtube.com/watch?v=iPoL03… Might be relevant, might not, but I enjoyed learning that Anthropic uses Nix internally

Everybody's writing their own sandbox and I'm no different :D denibertovic.com/posts/slopbox-…

I don't know about you but for me... In just a couple of weeks things quickly went from unbelievable excitement - one I last felt when I first discovered the internet and the web - to one of anxiety and FOMO! 😰

@thdxr Does "sandbox" in this case just mean a remote VM?

i spend so much time thinking about what people might want to do and designing primitives for them but every week i see someone build something i never even thought of, we never designed for, and seems impossible

I wonder if I should just leverage ZFS in some smart ass way.... Hmmm. Need to think about this more. Anyone out there doing something similar?

Not surprisingly...the word sandbox means different things to different people. How long did it take us to sort of agree on what Agent means? This is exhausting.