Working really hard to make it possible for me to work from anywhere. Why would I sit at a desk when I could work while wandering around Paris? #sam #ai #opensource #agents

I'm finding this really nice/useful. I find different agents useful in different contexts, but they all roughly work the same way. It makes a lot of sense to keep communication with them consistent with a common protocol. Have any of you built on top of ACP? agentclientprotocol.com/get-started/...

#paris dans la brume il y a quelques jours

Defang V3 is out and I'm really excited about it! It's honestly the product I've been wishing for since 2016, and this latest release makes it so much easier to use. I really love it and I hope you will too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mU2...

This week at Bière & Code 👇 🍺 Grab a beer 🤝 Meet other builders 💬 Talk about what you’re building (or thinking about building) Engineers, designers, founders — all welcome.

Doesn't say great things about Apple that I regularly run this: killall ControlCenter (so that my mac will recognize that my iPad is connected and I can use it as an external monitor)

This Demo Day is for people who: – ship side projects – hack on hardware – contribute to open source – experiment and build MVPs Come show the thing, get feedback, meet other builders. ~30 people, high signal, very hands-on.

Most demo days = pitch decks. Ours = 👉 working code 👉 running devices 👉 actual prototypes No pitching, no pressure — just “this is what I built” and real conversations. If that sounds like your kind of event, you’ll fit right in.

We’re looking for a few partners/sponsors aligned with builders: – cloud & infra – hardware / PCB – dev tools – research & innovation orgs Low-key event, real demos, engaged builders. DMs open if you want to get involved 🤝

🇫🇷 Venez prendre une bière avec nous cette semaine au bar L'Intrépide. 🇬🇧 Join us for a beer this week at L'Intrépide Bar. www.meetup.com/biere-code-b...

Just joined Bluesky! Go check out our page and join our meetup if you're around Paris! bierecode.com

I've used AI to build out 80% of the software I wrote in 2025. Building the wrong way can lead to tremendous amounts of problems: 1. Frequent bugs 2. Unscalable designs 3. Broken features Simply put: Great code scales, bad code does not. Why? AI is a gap filler.

Defang keeps networking familiar: public services use load balancers, private services run in isolated subnets, and internal DNS handles service-to-service calls. It’s the Compose networking model applied securely and at scale in your cloud. More info https://docs.defang.io/docs/concepts/networking

Missing or broken Dockerfiles are a common deployment failure. Defang avoids this by using Railpack to build images automatically for Node, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, PHP, Elixir, and static sites. Just bring your app and a Compose file. Read more https://docs.defang.io/docs/concepts/railpack

> On March 1, 2026, we are introducing a new $0.002 per-minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage. Bonkers. Per invocation? Maybe. Monthly fee? Maybe. But per minute for this? That's the sort of thing that shatters trust.

Qui a testé Bitbucket récemment (pour remplacer un github + github action) ? Mes derniers usages de bitbucket c'était en 2008 avec Mercurial (pas de git à l'époque). Autant dire que j'ai pas une vision très à jour de l'outil....

I recently wrote about AI-generated imagery, but not from the “AI vs. artists” angle. I am more interested in how these tools change the way we work with the tools we already have. ➡️ Read the full article here ontech.raphaeltm.com/p/a-differen... #AI #Creativity #Design #Workflow

I recently wrote about AI-generated imagery, but not from the “AI vs. artists” angle. I am more interested in how these tools change the way we work with the tools we already have. ➡️ Read the full article here ontech.raphaeltm.com/p/a-differen... #AI #Creativity #Design #Workflow

Was ambivalent about Carlos Sainz before. But loving what he's doing in a Williams!

Google's Antigravity was blocked from directly reading my .env.test file (shouldn't have been the case as it's not mentioned anywhere in the .gitignore). It promptly decided to run cat in the terminal to get around what I assume is a security protocol 😂

I'm thinking of using github.com/MrLesk/Backl... to help keep a coding agent on track. Have you tried it or anything similar?

#PHP got the pipe operator before #JS 😭 www.php.net/releases/8.5...

On a notre visa! On dirait bien qu'on restera au moins quatre ans de plus en France! 😁🇫🇷

I put together the first edition of Tooltips, a write-up on some tools I’ve been using and how they felt in practice. This one covers ChatGPT Pro, Google’s #Antigravity, and a small experiment where Antigravity improvised in a way I found neat. raphontech.substack.com/p/tooltips-v...

I'm a big fan of #kubernetes in many ways. I started using it in 2019 and quickly became a fan (kinda): I was able to run my containers across multiple nodes and scale out. But it was overkill for what I was doing, and always required building a bunch of extra tooling to get the behaviour I needed.

What's your fav #vscodeextension ? Ours is the Defang extension of course 😁 It makes it easy to ask your coding agent to deploy to your #cloud account (AWS, GCP) including integrations with Bedrock and Vertex. It generates a compose files and then our rule-based system sets up infra you can trust.

Always been a fan of #Django + #Postgres 💚 But I also use other stuff. I've been a big fan of #Hasura as well. And generally build with React on the frontend, though I've been experimenting with Svelte and Solid recently.

Possum jar in progress

I keep feeling frustrated by complexity, and then recognizing that there's a good reason that complexity came to exist, and then grumbling in resignation.

I'm a fan of containerized dev environnents, whether it's dev containers or other formats (have used Coder, Gitpod, etc over the past 4-5 years). IMO dev containers have the worst developer experience of the ones I've tried. But now they are the accepted standard that others have had to adopt. Bah.

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for your take on our new book, "Life After Cars." www.lifeaftercars.com

Regularly blows my mind that how much faster/better/more reliable our internet is in Paris than it was in Vancouver for less than half the price.

I had fun recording this one too! Very cool that you can self-host n8n. I feel like when I first came across them there wasn't so much emphasis on AI? But now I see it pop up regularly in hackathons when people want to build on top of LLMs. #cloud #ai #n8n

Just thinking about containers. Boxes. Jars. Cartons. OCI.

I made a video :) I think it's a really neat feature! Migrate from Heroku to AWS in 5min! #programming #webdevelopment #cloud

I wonder if anyone has lived a full life without ever stubbing their toe... Also, I wonder if it is truly a full life if you never stub your toe...

I'll be in #daressalaam #tanzania later this week. I'm thinking of planning a Beer & Code event on Friday, like the one I usually run in Paris for #tech people and #devs in particular to grab a drink and chat. Anyone interested in joining? Just made an event on Luma: lu.ma/txqbvpa4

WebVM est une machine virtuelle fonctionnant dans le navigateur web. Elle permet d'exécuter des binaires Linux x86 grâce à une JIT convertissant le x86 vers du WebAssembly ⬇️ github.com/leaningtech/...

This is a great clip from a great show.

NEW: New “complete neighbourhood” next to downtown Victoria that I’ve been advising finally gets final approval. Heritage roundhouse restoration, contamination clean-up, once-in-a-generation affordable housing opportunity, & “body heat” supporting downtown that badly needs it. Density makes it work.

There are pros and cons to using on LLMs to code, but I'm really excited about what we've been building at @defang.io with our MCP server. Especially with the roadmap that we're putting together... if you can use a chat interface to build an app, we can help you deploy it to your cloud accounts.

I dunno Google... doesn't seem like an important change to the service. Just some generic re-engagement email...

📣 @docker.com Compose v2.35.0 is out! 🎉 This release introduces a new type of service which enable extending Compose’s behavior through a plugin system. The very first supported plugin is none other than Docker Model Runner! github.com/docker/compo... #Docker #Compose #GenAI

I had a lot of fun building this demo. I've deployed Django apps to different cloud providers for over 10 years. I've also been using #Docker #Compose locally for much of that time. It's always a bit tedious to provision the infra to match the dev setup. #Defang makes it so much easier.

I've cracked the code of why byelection lineups are so long in Vancouver today. It's not just a turnout question. Compared to the 2017 byelection, the city decreased the number of election workers by EIGHTY PERCENT. From 1,250 in 2017 to 250 this time around. This was a staff recommendation.

If city council/planners actually planned for affordability, they’d ban mansions, not apartments. They’d have lot size maximums, not lot size minimums. They’d have higher fees per sq ft of mansion, not apartments. They’d charge the rich in mansions more, not everyone else in apartments.

How are you all organizing shared config in #docker #compose projects? Some stuff makes more sense in .env files, but I was using a yaml anchors for something earlier today... can also use multiple files and use the extend syntax. What do you do?

How are you all organizing shared config in #docker #compose projects? Some stuff makes more sense in .env files, but I was using a yaml anchors for something earlier today... can also use multiple files and use the extend syntax. What do you do?