This always happens when you create a new task board. The first phase of cycle times is the process of finding your baseline. stevefenton.co.uk/bl...

I took a picture of @jeremias.codes taking a picture of @danielroe.dev taking a picture of his flat white.

AI coding tools have decoupled output from understanding. Engineering leaders are starting to feel it in code review.

Can We Tackle Security & Compliance in Our Deployment Pipeline? Dave Farley and Daniel Terhorst-North answer another big question. www.youtube.com/watc...

Happy #Caturday from Luna. She has stowed herself away to keep the room tidy.

My registration is confirmed, so this June I'm heading to Open Source in Finance Forum London 2026. This event connects the leaders in financial services, technology, and open-source. Register to join in! register.linuxfounda...

"Hey team, have you fixed that hole in the road yet?" The team:

Meanwhile in DevOps No.70 Press any button. #MWID

This started as humour. Now I'm not certain.

2 questions every team using Argo CD should ask about secrets management: Should changing a secret require an Argo CD sync? Should your secrets solution be coupled to Argo CD? The answer to both: no. Join us tomorrow on Argo Unpacked to hear more: www.linkedin.com/events/74540...

I don't have much time for people who wouldn't do things for other people, but do them for AI. Writing docs. Adding tests. Externalising CSS and JavaScript. Thinking up a clear specification. Paying it for doing work. Saying please and thank you. Worrying that they are working it too hard.

I couldn't wait for the official publication date on this one! A #mwid sneak peek!

It's run day here in Annapolis! The annual 0.05K run across the Eastport bridge. This is what we train for!

The CD Foundation has signed this open letter the sustainability of open-source package registries. 1/3

I see no lies here

Work is where we all come to do good work. Why can’t people (men) understand this? Grateful for Jenene and Megan for calling out this bullshit.

The same managers who sought speed with the agile transformation, the DevOps transformation, and the platform transformation and going to fail spectacularly in their latest quest for speed: The AI transformation. thenewstack.io/feedb... #AIEngineering #SoftwareEngineering

Meanwhile in DevOps No.69 Rubber Ducking. #MWID

I get frustrated when I reach for a USB cable for a certain scenario, but I don't know if the one I got can do the job. Few manufactures print the capabilities on the cable itself, but there is some action you can take. Check out my rambling below to see what I'm doing!

Richard Dawkins read some automated content that was generated, in part, from work stolen from me. He couldn't help but declare how intelligent it was. Thank you Richard, I'm flattered! "...a level of understanding so subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent...” - Richard Dawkins.

In other news, there is no such thing as "the greatest vocalist of all time" and anyone who thinks they get to decide upon such things is a fool, just like anyone who repeats it unironically.

Learn healthy posture if you want to play trombone... except software delivery! I love this article from @emilybache.com and you will, too! coding-is-like-cooking.info/2026/04/it-d...

AI is good at simple coding tasks but struggles with complexity, multi-system integrations, edge cases, and nuanced architecture decisions. Our 2026 AI Pulse Report explores where AI hits its limits and why these boundaries matter. youtube.com/shorts/W... Report --> oc.to/publications/a...

Looking forward to presenting at this year's #o11ycon. I'll be presenting "Scale Brilliance, Not Bottlenecks: Building Platforms for the AI-First World" and sharing some of the most recent findings from @dora.dev. See you there! @honeycomb.bsky.social Register now: go.hny.co/477EmlY

Hello darkness my old friend...

Meanwhile in DevOps No.68 Opportunity. #MWID

@ky.fyi I know you're likely taking a break from social right now, but your article resonated deeply with me. I'm wrestling with the AI fatigue and trying to work out what conditions would need to be met for me to accept it (and what for). So... thanks for sharing. ky.fyi/posts/ai-bur...

Happy #Catutday all you cool #CatsOfBluesky from Luna

Looking forward to tying @stevefenton.co.uk to the mast, putting beeswax in his ears, and saving enterprise IT. platformengineering.org/events/the-s... #platformengineering

A future etymology site will teach out grandchildren why "fake" means "something you don't like". It will say it used to mean "not real, but made to look or seem real" until people "who are not what they claim to be" used the term to "show or pretend to feel emotions that are not sincere".

♫ ♫ oh please, baby, please can you do it for me ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ update all my npm dependencies ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ but not that pinned one and don't update 'em too soon ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ and kick those post install scripts 'cause they bring only doom ♫ ♫ ... or don't use AI and just run pnpm update.

if you’re one of the lead developers of a website and every decision you make gets so much negative feedback that you have to mass block your entire user base, you don’t have haters, you’re just doing a really bad job.

My workshops for self-funders on Specification By Example in May are filling up nicely, but so far entirely with devs. Product managers, testers, UX designers and other non-programming software folks are very welcome. I'm hoping for cross-discipline groups. I even made a spiffy ad and everything.

Meanwhile in DevOps No.67 A weighty subject.

AI is making code generation faster, but delivery isn’t keeping up. Our 2026 AI Pulse Report explores the growing gap between writing code and actually shipping it. Video here: youtube.com/shorts/i... Grab the report: oc.to/publications/a...

If you put on new soccer boots, the rules of the game are still the same. If they help you run faster, that only matters if it helps you win possession, set up an assist, and score more goals. How To Measure AI’s Organizational Impact...

I’m caught between a rock and a hard place on generative #AI. While I can see potential uses for it, I’m unable to ignore the harms. This led me to a thought exercise where I asked "would I use AI if it wasn't evil, and what would I use it for?" Long article. Human written.

A letter to act on.

This is definitely more fun now there are some metrics!

Happy #Caturday

No cold recruiter outreach for a whole 30 minutes?

Platforms before portals, build the roads before you buy the GPS! Matt Allford shares some #PlatformEngineering wisdom in this post. octopus.com/blog/pla...

Use What Works! "Organizations should generally use existing, proven, and sustainable solutions to common problems rather than developing, maintaining, and running their own."

A few ppl have asked if there'll be another Test-Driven Development workshop for self-funders after the first 2 sold out. So I've scheduled another one for May 19th at 18:45 BST. www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

Meanwhile in DevOps No.66 Detective Fiction Legends.

404 Media reported this week that the oldest known octopus fossil ever found isn't an octopus after all. It's from the nautilus family. It's shell must have fallen off during the decomposition process. That's not the first time something that isn't Octopus has been mistaken for Octopus 😉🐙💙💙💙

"... and there was only one bug." Translation: I only found one bug so far. And the interpretation depends very much on how motivated they are to find bugs, and how they attempt it.

If you had to wait for the New Yorker exposé to get it, you need to practice the art of gettin' it far sooner.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...