‘Made in America’ label turns out to be some sort of a marketing scam, and that is what the bots at Amazon are now confirming. To be fair: an LLM may generate anything, so take their output with a grain of salt… but it looks like they have some extra data points the user has…
Read the note Amazon bots are snitching on Amazon?Yesterday, I watched a podcast featuring Gregor Hohpe. He shared some nice insights into how architects can function within an organization: as amplifiers rather than gatekeepers. A lot of what he described resonated with me, particularly in relation to how we approach pathfinding at Wehkamp.
Read the note Gregor Hohpe: architects as amplifiers, not gatekeepersThis is a great article about hiring a strong candidate, that fitted on the technical level, but not on the relational and organizational level: He simply operated on a model of engineering work that did not include the relational and organizational layer as part of the work. When working in teams the team output should…
Read the note About hiring for your teamSometimes you hear a story that stays with you. This is the story of how the Nintendo 3DS got hacked trough a buffer overflow in a game using a QR code! But that is not all… it set off an arms race between (an almost paranoid company called) Nintendo and the community to get control…
Read the note How the Nintendo 3DS got hacked…Lately I’ve been experimenting with the grill-me skill on ADRs and I really like it! By deepening the conversation with the AI, you’ll get a better thought out document. When you combine it with the Atlassian MCP, you can write the result directly to Confluence. Install it with: Check the video by author Matt Pocock:
Read the note Grill Me!The same guy that built Windows Task Manager, has a very entertaining video on using the Windows OS to rebuild Notepad under 3K 🤯
Read the note Building a notepad app under 4kb?It was all client side authentication! I kid you not:
Read the note You won’t believe the (lack of) digital security at the FIFA Word Cup 2026!
We replaced Redis with Valkey with no production downtime and no application changes, just a few lines of Terraform. Here is why an uneventful infrastructure migration is often the best possible outcome.
Read the article How we switched 150+ stores from Redis to Valkey, and nobody cared!At Wehkamp, we use containers on our platform. During one of our Tech Sessions, Robin Wanders (.NET developer) gave a great presentation about why proper SIGTERM handling in containers is important. During his presentation, he shared this hilarious comic: Please check the Linux Handbook for more info. The image came from the awesome {turnoff.us}.
Read the note SIGTERM vs SIGKILL: What’s the Difference?
Make OpenCode easier to use in Windows Terminal by adding a key binding that sends Shift+Enter through the kitty keyboard protocol.
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