automation
Helm 4, Smarter Agents, and the Relentless Logic of Automation
Smarter automation, sharper governance, and a healthy skepticism toward "silver bullets" are reshaping modern software engineering. Helm matures, Python scales up, and your next agent needs less...not more...context.
Fast, Forgotten, Forever: How Code Moves—and Stays Still—in 2025
Biggest trends this week: developer velocity keeps breaking records, but software archaeology, security, and agentic workflows are racing to catch up. Preservation and iteration are (awkwardly) intertwined.
Shortcuts, Side-Eyes, and Guardrails: Navigating Tech’s Ethical Antics
From command-line copilots to the real costs of data breaches and the continual battle against dark patterns, this week's software engineering reads expose the quiet power struggles between automation and accountability. Ethics isn’t a cost—it's tech’s best defense.
Runbooks on the Run: Agents, Cloud, and the Automation Hangover
From agentic AI challenging runbooks to the headaches of cloud costs and unmaintained dependencies, this week’s posts reveal automation’s double edge in software engineering.
Revisiting Software Engineering: Trends and Innovations in 2025
Explore recent discussions in software engineering covering AI, security risks, automation, and the balance of innovation and oversight.
Lighthouse Website Monitoring with Slack Notifications
In this post we'll go over how to setup Slack notifications to trigger when Lighthouse audit scores change. Stay on top of website performance, SEO and more by monitoring with Foo.