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GitHub Is Your Developer Platform. What Happens When It Goes Down?
The August 17 GitHub outage disrupted Git, Actions, pull requests, APIs, authentication, webhooks, and Copilot. You do not need a second GitHub. You need a degraded operating mode.
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AI Agents Don't Need More Access. They Need a Control Plane.
Production AI agents need enforceable boundaries around identity, tools, permissions, approvals, budgets, and auditability. Prompts alone are not a security model.
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Custom GitHub Actions vs Reusable Workflows: Two Layers of Reuse
Custom Actions and reusable workflows solve reuse at different layers. Understanding which layer you are working in is one of the highest-leverage things you can do for developer experience.
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Scaling borkd.dev: Why I Migrated from Cloudflare KV to D1
How I hit the limits of Cloudflare KV list operations and refactored my edge-native status dashboard to use a hybrid D1 and KV architecture.
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How borkd.dev Works: Edge-Native Status Aggregation on Cloudflare
A technical walkthrough of how borkd.dev aggregates cloud provider statuses using Cloudflare Workers, Queues, and KV — with no servers and near-zero cost.
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Why I Built borkd.dev: One Tab Instead of Ten
I was tired of opening a dozen browser tabs just to figure out if a cloud provider was having a bad day. So I built one place to check them all.
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The Outer Loop: Lightning-Fast Local Kubernetes with Tilt & OrbStack
How to move beyond Dev Containers and orchestrate your entire microservice ecosystem with the speed of OrbStack and the magic of Tilt.
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The First Commit: Winning at Developer Experience (DevEx) with Dev Containers
Why moving from manual setup guides to containerized 'Golden Setups' is the single biggest win for Developer Experience in 2026.
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Terraform or OpenTofu in 2026? Here's What I Actually Think
An honest take on the Terraform vs OpenTofu debate from someone who has been using Terraform since before 1.0. Covers the license change, what OpenTofu is, feature comparisons, and whether the switch is worth it.
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Terraform in CI/CD — Automate Your Infrastructure with GitHub Actions
A practical guide to integrating Terraform into a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions. Covers terraform plan on PRs, automated apply on merge, state backends, and secrets management.
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