I built an LLM eval framework from scratch. Here is what I wish I had bought instead.
One weekend I wrote an LLM eval framework in about two hundred lines of Python. It demoed beautifully. I felt clever. Six months later that same frame…
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The Modern Browser Testing Stack: AI, CI, Human Review, and the Cost of Maintenance
Browser automation used to be easier to describe. A test opened a page, filled in a form, clicked a button, and checked the result. The hardest parts …
Claude Shortcuts !
🚀 Automation & Scripting -p / --print: Non-interactive mode. Runs a query, outputs the result to stdout, and terminates immediately (essential for…
What a Refinery Taught Me About CI Pipelines
I’m currently relearning the Core Three — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — as I work toward becoming a full-stack JavaScript developer. Before I came back …
Docker Checks for AWS Config Drift Emails
AWS Config drift emails look simple until you depend on them during a release window. A rule flags a changed security group, EventBridge pushes the ev…
CI/CD Pipelines That Actually Work: My Quest Like a DevOps Jedi
The Quest Begins (The "Why") Look, I still remember the first time I tried to automate a build for a tiny side‑project. I slapped together a shell scr…
Build Your First CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions (Complete Beginner's Guide)
Every time you push code, a few things should happen automatically: your tests should run, your code should get checked for obvious mistakes, and — if…
Rootless Edge Deployments: Architecting Daemonless CI/CD Pipelines with Podman and Buildah
IT InstaTunnel Team Published by our engineering team Rootless Edge Deployments: Architecting Daemonless CI/CD Pipelines with Podman and Buildah Quick…
CloudFront Invalidations from CI: Automate Cache Clears
If you've ever deployed a website to S3 and CloudFront, you know the frustration: you push your changes, wait a minute, refresh the page, and... still…
Blue/Green Release Emails for Kubernetes Ops
Blue/green rollouts look clean on diagrams, but the handoff can still be messy in real operations. Pods go healthy, the service flips, and everyone as…
Automating Flutter Android Releases to Google Play using GitHub Actions
Publishing a Flutter app manually is fine once. Doing it every time by downloading an .aab , opening Play Console, uploading it, checking versions, an…
Kubernetes Release Emails as a CI/CD Gate
Most teams validate pods, probes, and rollout status, but skip the email that tells humans a release actually happened. In cloud work, that message is…
Scaling Terraform Infrastructure Beyond a Single Team
When a single engineer manages all the Terraform in an organisation, everything is simple. One repo, one state, one pipeline, one set of credentials. …
Managing Terraform Across Multiple Cloud Providers
Most organisations don't live in a single cloud. You might run compute in AWS, DNS in Cloudflare, identity in Azure AD, and logging in GCP. Terraform …
Testing Management at Speed: Caching and Execution in CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines, and GitHub Actions
Abstract An automated test suite is the ultimate gatekeeper for your code, but if it takes 20 minutes to run, it destroys developer velocity. While my…
Testing Management in CI/CD: GitHub Actions vs GitLab CI vs Jenkins with Real Pipelines
Abstract An automated test suite is only as good as the system that runs it: if tests execute only when a developer remembers to run them, the contrac…
Why Snap CD: Non-invasive Orchestration
Most infrastructure CD tools ask you to change the way you write Terraform. Some require a proprietary wrapper CLI. Others impose a specific directory…
Why Snap CD: An Extensive Supporting Toolset
Snap CD ships with a full supporting ecosystem — documentation, a Terraform provider, deployment references, a guided sample, and a migration tool. Th…
A Better CI Check for AWS Approval Emails
A field-tested AWS CI/CD pattern for validating approval emails with Docker and a disposable email address before release. Approval emails are one of …
A Docker-Based AWS SES Smoke Test With Disposable Inboxes
Use Docker and a disposable mailbox to verify AWS SES delivery in CI before release without touching shared inboxes or leaking test mail. Shipping an …
Backup Quest: A Lord of the Rings Adventure
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the night our production database decided to take an unscheduled nap. It was 2 a.m., the alerts were scr…
Questions to Ask a Mobile Dev Partner About Store Accounts, Release CI, and Handover
A question list for founders and tech leads before the contract is signed. The proposal lists features, design, and a twelve-week timeline. It says "A…
Why Snap CD: Modular Deployments
Terraform manages dependencies between resources within a single state. The moment your infrastructure outgrows one state file — slow plans, wide blas…
Why Snap CD: Self-Hosted Terraform Runners with Credential Isolation
Most infrastructure teams run Terraform from a CI pipeline. That pipeline has credentials — cloud provider keys, state backend tokens, maybe a vault t…
8 small data transforms I don't want to write as shell glue anymore
🦀🐍 Practical fimod examples for small CI/config data transforms with a Python-like taste. In the first article , I wrote about why I built fimod : I k…
I Spent 40 Minutes at 11pm Debugging a Deploy That Wasn't Broken
I once spent forty minutes at eleven at night debugging a deploy that wasn't broken. The release script ran the database migration, the migration thre…
Shift-Left Meets AI: Catching Bugs Earlier with Predictive ML Models in Your Dev Pipeline
The Bug Tax Nobody Talks About A bug caught in production costs roughly 100× more to fix than the same bug caught at the requirements stage — a well-d…
The Terraform Awakens: Infrastructure as Code Quest
The Quest Begins (The "Why") Honestly, I was tired of playing “guess the state” every time I spun up a new environment. One day I clicked “Apply” in t…
Choosing a Testing Orchestration Tool: A Loyalty-Discount Module Tested Across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and CircleCI
Abstract Picking a CI tool is often treated as a branding decision, when it should be an engineering one. This article compares GitHub Actions , GitLa…
Open source is like an amazing community swimming pool. 🏊♂️
It’s collaborative, it’s highly efficient, and everyone is having a great time building incredible things together. Until someone whizzes in the water…