Ben Luts

YouTube video by Dylan Beattie Is a 100% Discount the Same as “Free”?

With more and more open source projects switching to some sort of commercial licensing model with discounts for small business and community projects, the question keeps coming up: is a 100% discount the same as "free"?

So I made a video about it. What do you think?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpI8...

Use AI they said, it will be fun they said, you'll get more productive they said. *Sigh*
Asking Co-Pilot with Claude to not modify anything, modifies multiple files anyway. Telling it to do something line by line so verification can be done, does multiple lines anyway and messes things up. 😑

Putting all your controllers in one directory and your views in another
Is like putting the cortisone and hemorrhoid cream in the drawer with toothpaste because they're all tubes.

YouTube video by NDC Conferences Modern Observability and Event Driven Architectures - Martin Thwaites & Ian Cooper - NDC Oslo 2025

This was a tough talk to get right, and I'm not convinced @icooper.bsky.social and I got everything. At the very least, I hope it made you think about how you instrument your Event Driven Apps.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7K5...

We are very far over the cliff here folks

Outside in testing - To mock or not to Stub

Speaking at conferences about it was not enough, so I wrote a blogpost on outside in testing as well 🙂. Inspired by @icooper.bsky.social & @martindotnet.bsky.social

allphi.eu/blog/outside...

I don't know who might need to hear this*, but unit testing your validation logic with a single test to make sure it doesn't error, isn't actually testing.

func Validate() bool { return true; }

*I know exactly who needs to hear this.

From one of the people I trust most on LLMs - a clear explanation of a common and very dangerous security threat

these people are so weird

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

I just love that all those fancy algorithms on socials to show me "relevant" posts always show me stuff from at least two weeks ago! *Sarcasm*

The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride On Sunday the 18th May 2025, I'm riding in The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride with fellow men and women across the globe to raise funds and awareness for prostate cancer and men's mental health on beh...

I’m still looking for donations to support prostate cancer research! gfolk.me/BenLuts431943

Trying to explain the situation to leadership...

Has it been a year already?

I'll be back speaking at @techorama.bsky.social in Antwerp! Trying to improve your code one test at a time! techorama.be/agenda/sessi...

So I finally got up and running over here! I wasn't really active over on Mastodon to begin with, but expect to see even less over there and more over here!