If you’re asking, yes I use claude code and yes I’ve used it for my actual professional paid work. And no nothing has broken beyond repair. I started exploring AI/LLM use for software engineering and programming tasks about a year ago, and as a data privacy paranoid, I still remember the immense feeling of risk I experienced. I mean… existentially… you were surrendering your data, your code, your intellectual property to a massive statistical machine that would use it to get fed, become bigger and thus perpetuate itself. ...

NOTE: I know the cover image has nothing to do with this post, I just found it in my photos and thought it was pretty One thing I wanted to document somewhere is a finding I just while I was working on a project. I’ve been building a Kubernetes cluster using AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), with the fantastic terraform-aws-modules Here’s the example I’m using (trimmed for brevity) module "eks" { source = "terraform-aws-modules/eks/aws" version = "~> 21.0" kubernetes_version = "1.34" ... addons = { vpc-cni = { before_compute = true } } ... } Problem I am deploying things but Pods get stuck in Pending with the note “Too many pods 0/N nodes are available”. I checked and have sufficient memory and cpu resources to allocate them. ...

A little more than two years ago, I started experiencing a very unique feeling, the sort of complex emotion that’s hard to put into words, but that I’d describe as a “bittersweet, existential, anxiety-inducing nostalgia.” I’m not quite sure how else to put it, and I’m writing this as a way to see if putting it into words can help me clarify it in a more structured form. Many days, I’d go to sleep and wake up feeling this bizarre mixture of happiness and melancholy. ...

Je voudrais commencer en dissant que ce-ci est mon premier post en francais (j’ai utilise languagetool.org), alors aies-moi patience. Il fait déjà 1+ an que moi et ma famille, nous avons déménagé en Belgique. Je ne me sens pas étranger aux déménagements disruptifs comme ce qu’on a fait, mais de le faire avec un enfant de cinq mois, c’était énormément dur. Dès que je suis arrivé en Belgique, au travers du système d’immigration, j’étais obligé de m’enregistrer à la commune pour commencer mon processus pour vérifier mon statut et pouvoir recevoir ma carte de séjour. ...

I have just completed a 1000 days streak on Duolingo learning French (from English) and I wanted to make a blog post dedicating this achievement to Duolingo and all the language enthusiasts that are using it across the world. In my humble opinion, as a technologist and ethusiast myself, Duolingo is one of the best apps that have ever existed. I have to say that there wasn’t any time while using it where I didn’t notice the effort that went into building it. From the language coverage, to the speech features to the gamification mechanics. ...