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Flow Town: a map of the work behind software delivery

Flow Town is a free interactive map of Enablement Engineering: find where your software delivery is stuck, or choose your next DevOps specialisation.

12 October 20266 min read

Of the state of trains in Europe in 2026

I took the train to go from Paris 🇫🇷 to Stavanger in Norway 🇳🇴. That's 9 different trains, 2550km, about 33 hours on a train seat, and 3 days total.

6 October 20265 min read

Read Obsidian notes in your browser, without publishing them

A small open-source viewer that renders any note from your Obsidian vault as a local webpage, so bookmarks, todo lists and cheatsheets are one click away in your browser toolbar.

9 September 20264 min read

Merge queues: how many changes can you land at once?

Merge queues automate rebasing and testing PRs at scale, with batching, speculative checks, and bisection tradeoffs explained through failure-rate math.

16 August 202613 min read

Test selection: the tests you didn't need to run

Fix slow CI with test selection: test impact analysis, only-changed flags and Meta's Predictive Test Selection skip the tests a change can't break.

27 July 20267 min read

Keep main green: block bad changes or chase failures

A discussion on CI/CD strategies to keep main green: block bad changes with a merge gate, or land them fast and chase failures with automated bisection and rollback. Or blend both!

20 July 20269 min read

A short series on Test Automation

Slow CI and flaky tests feel like the price of quality. DORA research shows speed and stability move together. A series on test automation strategies.

1 July 20262 min read

56 Repositories, 5 Hours and $80: How I automated a large-scale update with AI

A reproducible AI-assisted workflow for large-scale migrations across many repositories, with Renovate and Claude. 56 repositories, 5 hours, $80.

23 June 20267 min read

Jobpocalypse: Designing Economic Systems for the AI era

AI threatens millions of jobs while political debate ignores it. Four economic models for the transition: bans, UBI taxes, token taxes, job-creation incentives.

14 May 20269 min read

Surveillance 2.0: how to become a ghost

14 April 202613 min read

Surveillance 2.0: when privacy becomes a luxury

Tech giants and governments are converging on mass surveillance, from Chat Control to AI-powered facial scans. Why privacy is becoming a luxury.

6 February 202614 min read

15 tips for putting your life on autopilot

22 December 202217 min read

Build a Node.js Server — Part 4/4: Testing

Part 4/4: test the Koa.js, GraphQL, and MongoDB server with Mocha and Chai, using an in-memory MongoDB instance to keep tests fast and isolated.

29 November 20206 min read

Build a Node.js Server — Part 3/4: The API

Part 3/4: build a GraphQL API with Apollo Server and MongoDB, using GraphQL Code Generator to keep schema, types, and database models in sync.

29 November 20208 min read

Build a Node.js Server — Part 2/4: Docker

Part 2/4: containerize the Node.js server and a MongoDB database with Docker and Docker Compose, then manage secrets with environment variables.

29 November 20207 min read

Build a Node.js Server — Part 1/4

Part 1/4: bootstrap a Node.js server with Koa.js and TypeScript, then add ESLint, Husky git hooks, and Nodemon for a clean development workflow.

29 November 20207 min read

An intro to the git basics

Learning Git - 101

9 October 20181 min read

Load a C++ class from a shared library (Modern C++)

Loading of a C++ class from a shared library (Modern C++)

26 February 201810 min read

Can Vivatechnology make Paris tech again?

Vivatech event review

7 October 20172 min read

A modern and lightweight Arch-Linux (xfce) configuration

Arch Linux - XFCE configuration

7 July 20174 min read