Daniel Stoddart

It seems obvious but it bears repeating in light of that last WSJ story: nothing replaces "show your work."

"Just one in eight nondegree credentials delivered notable pay gains within a year of completion."

"A lot of credentials are being designed based on a loose understanding of what it takes for somebody to get hired in the field."

"These certificates, digital badges and other nondegree credentials have proliferated as more academic institutions and other providers spot a lucrative business."

"Many credentials don’t provide a pay boost or lead to a career transition."

More Workers Are Getting Job-Skill Certificates. They Often Don’t Pay Off. Many of the thousands of online courses and other credentials employees pursue to boost careers fall short in delivering, a new study finds.

"...most programs deliver few material returns, a new study finds."

Be careful about choosing certifications and credentials. You should definitely be critical in assessing outcomes before signing up for a cert or credential.

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A DevOps-oriented side project worth highlighting: run your workloads in your own Hetzner account. GitOps workflow and reduce infrastructure costs by up to 70%.

The line can be blurry, but generally if you need to install the upstream distribution first and then apply the project's configurations, it's typically considered a config layer rather than a distinct distro.

For instance, Manjaro is Arch-based but maintains its own repositories, has its own release cycle, and provides its own installation process. It's more of a derivative distro rather than just a configuration layer.

IMO, Omarchy falls into the "opinionated configuration" category rather than a true distro b/c it requires you to "install Arch Linux first btw."

Does it make fundamental changes to how the system boots and runs, or just configure existing components?

Also, does it have its own installer that creates a distinct system, or is it applied to an existing installation?

I think the question comes down to technical criteria:

Does it maintain its own repositories and package manager, or rely entirely on an upstream distro's packages? (e.g. Arch, Debian)

Someone asked if #Omarchy is a Linux distro b/c it's not on Distrowatch. So should projects like this be classified as a distro or a configuration layer of sorts?

GPT-5: "I'm going to keep asking you to refine it until something breaks, and then you'll regret talking to me."

I wasn't aware until today that there are more adults that play #Minecraft than kids.

That's because SSH is typically directed to stderr, while more only reads from stdout.

And that's why you can't page through the verbose output even though it was long. Better have scrolling enabled!

For instance, you could assume that a troubleshooting-oriented command like `ssh -vT git@github.com` could be piped into a UNIX command like `more`, but with SSH verbose output isn't designed to be piped in the traditional sense.

How SSH handles output can sometimes be a little quirky. It's important to understand this when doing troubleshooting around issues of public keys and hostkeys files.

Yay, I can push to GitHub again

Laser Focused Kubernetes Deployments Using Argo Rollouts and Header Based Routing A Kubernetes cluster with default configuration has access to only two deployment strategies: To get access to more advanced deployment strategies such as blue/green and canaries you need to use a ded...

"A Kubernetes cluster with default configuration has access to only two deployment strategies: To get access to more advanced deployment strategies such as blue/green and canaries you need to use a dedicated Progressive Delivery controller such as Argo Rollouts."

The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering Context Engineering is the new skill in AI. It is about providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time.

"Context Engineering is new term gaining traction in the AI world. The conversation is shifting from 'prompt engineering' to a broader, more powerful concept: Context Engineering."

Sadly, Vinge died last year of Parkinson's Disease. I missed the news and only today discovered he's no longer with us.

Then I stumbled on his VISION-21 Symposium paper from 1993, "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era", which I had never read before and is fascinating for its commentary on the Singularity.

Recently I re-discovered the work of Vernor Vinge by finding his book, "Rainbows End." That was enough get me going down the rabbit hole.

I was always uncomfortable with "DevOps" as a title. It was always supposed to be a methodology. I expect most "ops" workflows will now get integrated into SRE or even...dare I say it..."platform engineering."

Firefox is officially pozzed

Ehhh, "cute" is a bug not a feature

Framework Laptop 12 review: I’m excited to see what the 2nd generation looks like A sturdy, thoughtful, cute design that just can’t compete in its price range.

I don't think I've ever clicked on anything as fast as this Framework Laptop 12 review. Not sure how I feel about a purple laptop tho, tbh

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The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event—here are my talks from October …

A good "state of the last six months of LLMs" by @simonwillison.net