Stuff I consumed, pondered, and in extreme cases acted upon. The Power Grid 🔗How does the power grid work? It’s rather complex, and this complexity derives from an endless balancing act. When Large Language Models Attack 🔗Or rather, when their ever-hungry bots trash a site: If you try to rate-limit them, they’ll just switch to other IPs all the time. If you try to block them by User Agent string, they’ll just switch to a non-bot UA string (no, really).

Much has been written about the problems with story points. What do they mean? Why do we use them? My intention is not convince you of their value, but here is how I use them, and what they mean to me. Maybe this will be of use to you if you find yourself in a pointy environment, with no hope of rescue. I use them in two ways: a trick to trigger discussion and refinement of stories a way to prevent overloading a team in the long haul In a sense, points are an artefact of the way work is fed into the team: batched vs streamed; owned by the team vs thrown at the team.

A quick and dirty guide to making an EPUB book from a set of Markdown files using pandoc. In this example I have strarted a book with chapters and a cover image. Prequisites 🔗 some markdown files pandoc Markdown File Structure 🔗I have given the chapters numbered prefixes and added a cover image: -rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 160 May 28 15:15 01-title.md -rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 123 May 28 14:53 02-introduction.