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263 posts
2026
Little Did We Know: The Hacktoberfest T-Shirt and the Pull Requests I Asked ForOriginalIn 2018 I built a repo where a first pull request meant adding your name to a README, then pointed at the Hacktoberfest t-shirt. Eight years on, I'm glad it's gone.Open Source
Does llms.txt Work? What a Year of Server Logs SaysOriginalDoes llms.txt work? Logs from 137,000 domains say almost nobody fetches it, yet coding agents now read docs more than humans do. What that means for DevRel.Developer Relations
TIL: Node --env-file Loads .env Without the dotenv PackageOriginalSince Node 20.6 the node --env-file flag reads a .env file into process.env before your code starts. No dotenv install and no require line in the entry file.TIL
DevRel This Week, 28 September: Hacktoberfest Drops the Pull RequestOriginalDevRel this week, 28 September: Meta and Cloudflare pay prize money, DevDay is tomorrow, Hacktoberfest drops pull requests, Microsoft cuts developer accounts.Developer Relations
Eleven v4 Turbo Gets Voice Agents to Full DuplexOriginalElevenLabs shipped Eleven v4 Turbo today: 150ms to first speech, streaming both ways, a turn-taking model around it. The full duplex setup I wrote about in August.Voice AI
The Frontier AI Standards Agency Has a Shortlist and No Rules YetOriginalThe Frontier AI Standards Agency got a name and a CEO shortlist this week, two more agent break-ins surfaced months late, and Zuckerberg said no to slowing down.AI
Moving Off WordPress: 500 Posts and a Nuxt RebuildOriginalIn 2020 I led moving off WordPress for a developer blog: 500 posts, a plugin that stored code in tables, two prototypes, and 30 minute builds cut to one.Career
TIL: git rerere Remembers Your Conflict ResolutionsOriginalTurn on git rerere once and git records how you resolved a merge conflict, then replays that resolution when the same conflict comes back in a rebase or merge.TIL
Jev: The ChatGPT Co-Creator's System One Model Can't TalkOriginalTypeSafe AI's Jev is a System One model that decides instead of talking: 70-500ms, $0.042/MTok, output free. Diogo Almeida's RLHF led to ChatGPT.AI
Developer Relations in the Era of AIOriginalHow developer relations and AI are reshaping documentation, community management, and the metrics that prove DevRel's impact.Developer Relations