My daily list is now one year old. Here are some of my observations.

Writing HTML doesn't meet the definition of programming. But you'll be surprised at what does!

Should you block "bad" behaviors, or allow them in case of emergency? Why not both?

XY problems are everywhere. Even hidden in plain sight in many user stories.

How do you know that the work you're doing is building on a valid premise?

Often the "obvious" answer blinds us to the "correct" answer.

Abhinav Dhasmana joins the adventure to discuss how he got Kafka to scale to handle thousands of messages. He explains how to scale Kafka up and how to allow applications to scale with the messaging architecture provided by Kafka.

I recently created an 8-minute video where I walk through my daly routine of writing one of these emails.

DevOps is usually viewed in the context of large organizations. But what does DevOps look like in small organizations? Does DevOps make sense in this context? Is it even feasible?

Alex Feiszli from GRAVITL joins the adventure to discuss how to securely connect Kubernetes clusters across clouds from one cluster to another. The discussion spans how to make secure connections and how the connections might be used.

The distinction some make between "testing" and "checking" is valuable. But the terminology is not. We can do better (with practically no effort).