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Stop Reviewing Code. Start Reviewing Software.

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:42:09 +0200

AI can generate a pull request spanning dozens of files in minutes. Reviewing that same pull request can take an engineer hours. In some cases, even the engineer submitting the PR does not fully understand every change, especially when most of the implementation was generated by AI.

We have accelerated how quickly we can produce code, but not how quickly we can understand it. Still, we expect another engineer to read the resulting changes and approve them.

From docker-compose to Kubernetes with k3s

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you can write a docker-compose.yml, you already understand most of Kubernetes. The concepts translate almost one-to-one — they’re just spelled differently. k3s is a lightweight distribution that runs the same Kubernetes you’d find in production, without needing a beefy server or a complicated setup. It works great on a laptop and equally well on a small VPS.

By the end of this article you’ll have nginx running with a Deployment, a Service, and an Ingress. Those three resources are the foundation of pretty much every app you’ll deploy on Kubernetes.

Kubernetes for the rest of us

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A practical guide to setting up and running a production-grade Kubernetes cluster — written for developers, not ops teams.