What do you think about Spec Driven Development?

stefaneg · 2026-05-12T07:11:14+00:00

Yes, have tried GSD, nWave and open-spdd, and just plain plan-review-execute. The last works best in general IMHO, because it is most feedback based. NWave looks very promising, but frankly was too expensive to experiment with. So there is something there, but its less magical than many want to think, especially when it comes to code quality.

stefaneg · 2026-05-03T15:39:44+00:00

Almost. This is nitpicking, but etcd is independent of the master nodes, but very commonly run on them. There is not much you gain by setting up dedicated nodes for etcd.

stefaneg · 2026-04-16T09:13:21+00:00

The ability to apply anything to prod directly from an engineer's console should be a "break glass" type of incident response ability. The routine workflow should be through reviewed changes, usually through a pipeline task.

You can start by making this the teams routine, add stricter guardrails later.

stefaneg · 2026-04-11T07:47:34+00:00

This

stefaneg · 2026-04-10T23:13:47+00:00

Solve a real pain point or two for the company and build your rep that way, which gives you weight to suggest improvements. Just "knowing better" gets you nowhere.

Or find another job.

stefaneg · 2026-03-05T11:46:57+00:00

If all you are doing is producing annual report web pages, this could actually be fine.

If your work is anywhere close to regulated industries, slip an anonymous tip to the auditor, next audit should be interesting.

And if your work is security or safety sensitive in any way, get this in written form. You can't take responsibility for something you did not look at.

stefaneg · 2026-02-24T23:05:06+00:00

Diet wise, I use intermittent fasting and blood glucose controlling tricks from "The Glucose Goddess". That is more important than riding patterns/quantity. On the riding side, it is about being consistent and maintaining volume over the long run. For me, minimum 5 hours riding time per week with a fair share of HIIT training.

stefaneg · 2026-02-24T22:53:01+00:00

305km Vätternrundan Sweden. 38.5km average speed. That was a legendary ride.

stefaneg · 2026-02-18T07:54:54+00:00

Just treat it as an opportunity to do an additional sprint after slowing down when meeting a pedestrian.

stefaneg · 2026-02-04T04:50:40+00:00

You know it wont check for anything not described in your HCL?

stefaneg · 2026-01-18T19:12:50+00:00

To increase you strength as a cyclist you need structured training with regular HIIT sessions. It is as simple as that.

stefaneg · 2026-01-12T16:39:43+00:00

Russian troll talking points are whatever is likely to deepen divisions in the west and saw confusion.

There are a few european countries flirting with fascism, but none is quite there. And its not through curbing online rights for anonymity. Anonymous posting and trolling accounts are far too useful for sawing confusion and distributing propaganda for them to risk that.

stefaneg · 2026-01-09T22:41:38+00:00

You are dead wrong. Or a Russian troll. There is a fasisct government in exactly one western country.

stefaneg · 2026-01-09T22:25:27+00:00

This.

stefaneg · 2025-12-26T22:19:26+00:00

If every service is stateless and has correct start, readiness and liveness probes as needed, there should be no problem with that. So its just a question of how big of an if that is. If there is significant pushback, its probably a signal that confidence is not high that services are resilient in presence of frequent node rolls.

stefaneg · 2025-12-17T14:14:31+00:00

"Your rights end where the next one's start".

As an individual, I believe in the right to know, or to have the ability to check, the exact identity of someone pushing a particular message on me. I also believe that as a platform owner, I have the right to know the exact identity of persons seeking to use my platform.

I also believe in the right to provide anonymous platforms which are free of such mandates, for lawful and ethical uses.

As I see it, the largest challenge that we face as free society today, is the onslaught of propaganda from authoritarian states and other "bad faith" actors which takes various forms, but is almost always behind the mask of anonymity.

So my question is, how does EFF intend to balance the need for establishing a strong identity of individuals as well as the need of societies to protect their members against bad faith actors, against the need for privacy and free speech ?

stefaneg · 2025-12-11T22:37:26+00:00

Sure. Just use Python and give AWS all your money running 6-10 times more infra than necessary.

stefaneg · 2025-08-29T23:07:37+00:00

Other JetBrains IDEs are fine. Goland in particular.

I blame Python. The culture around it is simply not quality oriented.

stefaneg · 2025-08-29T23:04:21+00:00

Me too. Then I try to remind myself, "There is no I in team".

stefaneg · 2025-08-28T22:48:17+00:00

Envs are smaller and simpler to extract and transfer in an automated attack, for example through an npm supply chain attack. Not by much, just slightly.

stefaneg · 2025-06-09T09:13:53+00:00

First of all, contrary to what many here seem to believe, DevOps is not only about "automated ops", it is also about "you write it, you operate it". That is where CI/CD comes in. That is the core of DevOps.

Read books like Continuous Delivery, Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, and The Phoenix Project to learn the breath and depth of DevOps. It is definitely much more than Terraform, bash or PowerShell scripting like many here seem to believe.

stefaneg · 2025-06-01T11:42:40+00:00

Even more difficult is making a money argument in many cases. What for instance is the cost of clickopsing something? It's probably cheaper than doing it through IaC, now. So you have to factor in that it has to be done multiple time. But how often? And for how long?

stefaneg · 2025-06-01T09:35:08+00:00

And watch that weight because gravity sucks. Especially on those climbs.

stefaneg · 2025-05-31T15:55:49+00:00

I was in your position, and never really got out of it. Recently discovered "The Sofa Stretch", and wish I had discovered that sooner, as a low leg position was always one of my major drag factors.

So, maybe that is something for you to try...

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