Trust in Automation is by far the best thing I’ve read on the subjects of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and their affects on human society. Â There are plenty of links and quotes that make you think and want you to learn more … until you don’t. Â It’s not depressing, but it is quite concerning. … Continue reading Trust in Automation
If you woke up today and found that most of your PHP projects’ and libraries’ tests break and fail, I have news for you: Â you are doing something wrong. Â How do I know? Â Because I was doing something wrong too… First of all, let me save you all the extra Googling. Â Your tests are failing, … Continue reading Preparing for the PHPUnit 6 and PHP 7
As I am reading this story – GitLab.com melts down after wrong directory deleted, backups fail and these details – every single hair I have, moves … I don’t (and didn’t) have any data on GitLab, so I haven’t lost anything.  But as somebody who worked as a system administrator (and backup administrator) for years, I … Continue reading GitLab horror story : backup / restore failure
composer-patches is a plugin for Composer which helps with applying patches to the installed dependencies. Â It supports patches from URLs, local files, and from other dependencies. I think this is absolutely brilliant! It’s quite often that one finds bugs and issues in external dependencies. Â Once the bug (or even the pull request with the fix) … Continue reading composer-patches – Simple patches plugin for Composer
Startups are born and gone every single day. Â Much more often so in technology sector. Â Most of these just disappear into the ether. Â RethinkDB at least leaves the useful trace of analysis of what happened and why they failed. When we announced that RethinkDB is shutting down, I promised to write a post-mortem. I took … Continue reading RethinkDB: why we failed