GitHub PR Review "View Deployment" button, with Dokku
I have been playing with review apps linked directly from GitHub PRs. The goal is simple: when someone opens a pull request, GitHub should show a link to a running preview of that branch. I use Dokku for deployment of the app on the VPS and it works fine for …
Loop Engineering: A Balance of Human and Agent
Like many engineers these days, I spend a lot of time on so-called "loop engineering". The core question isn't really which model or tool is fastest—it's about the balance between human and agent. How do you get the agents to do the heavy lifting, while making sure you intervene …
Switching to the Kitty Terminal Emulator
This weekend I moved from Ghostty + Zellij to Kitty. The main reason I wanted to drop Zellij was the overhead—especially in terms of memory (Ghostty regularly got up to 8GB of RAM, thanks to it). But there were still a few things missing when using Ghostty without Zellij... Customizing …
Why Git's Linear Log Can Lie to You
When your team uses merge commits instead of rebasing, git log can deceive you. That flat, linear list of commits doesn't tell the whole story — and if you're trying to figure out what's actually in a release, you might draw the wrong conclusions. Here's a scenario I ran into recently …