Stop Renting SaaS. Build Your Own Cloud. This issue is brought to you by: Security, Performance, Simplicity. Pick Three. Twingate delivers an identity-based access for users, services, and AI agents that deploys in minutes, scales to every resource, and finally lets you retire your VPN. Try Twingate - it's FREE! -> Why pay cloud companies when you can just… not? I’ve recently started running my own services at home, because.. honestly? I’m tired of paying cloud providers for things I can run...
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This Tool Replaced 7 CLIs (and killed my opensource) This issue is brought to you by: Depot: Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate your Docker image builds and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Get started for free -> I’ve been in the terminal for 12 years. I don’t get surprised often. Then I found Television, and I was wrong about it before I even opened it. The friction of endless pipes ||| There’s a...
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My Opencode Workflow As A Senior Engineer This issue is brought to you by: Descope: Drag & Drop Your Auth Your engineers are building at warp speed, so why should auth be left behind? Descope provides no / low code workflows that decouple auth, access control, and user management from your app’s codebase so your teams can focus on the core product. Signup and Get Started Now Everyone's trying to replace themselves. I'm just trying to ship faster. 11 months ago, Dario Amodei said "AI would be...
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This Nginx Fork Should Be Illegal This issue is brought to you by: Trigger.dev: The open source platform to build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows Trigger.dev is the platform for building AI workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling. Start Building Now Look, we all love Nginx. I've used it for years. It’s the reliable, rock-solid engine that’s kept my infra running since the early days. But every once in a while, it’s...
4 months ago • 3 min read
I Was DEFINITELY Using The Wrong Dev Env CLI This issue is brought to you by: Teleport: Unified Identity Securing Classic & AI Infrastructure Teleport unifies identities — humans, machines, and AI — with strong identity implementation to speed up engineering, improve resiliency against identity-based attacks, and secure AI in production infrastructure. Try Teleport for Free I titled this newsletter like I did because I realized my old setup was a fragmented mess of five different tools when...
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I’m Done With Manual Proxies. (Use Traefik Instead) This issue is brought to you by: Incident.io: Move fast when you break things The all-in-one AI platform for on-call, incident response, and status pages—built for fast-moving teams. Get started for FREE! If you’ve ever felt like pulling your hair out while manually editing Nginx config files just to add one simple container, this is for you. Modern infrastructure is dynamic, but our proxies are often static. In the old days, you’d spin up a...
5 months ago • 4 min read
I replaced Docker with THIS. This issue is brought to you by: Graphite: The next generation of code review. Graphite is the AI code review platform where teams ship higher code, faster. Get started for FREE! You know why you’re here. Because reproducible environments make you tick but too much friction? makes you.. sick 🥁. After 12 years of containerizing / virtualenv-ing, I’ve finally found something that ticks all the boxes. I’m talking about throwing out npm, rvm, nix-env, virtualenv and...
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