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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

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

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

Two CI strategies to keep main green

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