Practical writing on AI, no-code, and the workflows that actually save time.
I used to build my back ends in n8n - APIs, background jobs, queue work, AI integration, all of it. Something happened in January 2026 and now I don't reach for it, or for no-code platforms, at all. Here's the walls I hit and what I build with instead.
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Taking the agent from the last video and plugging it into a Slack room so it listens to everything, remembers it, and wakes up a real Linux box when it needs to. Supabase for the route and the memory, Railway for the box, Zapier's SDK for the CRM.
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Everyone's talking about agents. Here's what actually changed: instead of writing a pile of tools for a long-running process, we now hand the agent a whole computer and let it use Bash and the old Unix tools to get the job done. Two real examples, and a lot less magic than you'd think.
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Your vibe-coded app calls the Zapier SDK, which calls a real API. Run that in a test and it's not a test anymore: it needs a key, it costs a call, and it goes red when the wifi hiccups. Here's how to test it without ever hitting the real thing, and the one reminder to give your AI so it always does.
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You vibe-code a feature, it works, and a week later it's mysteriously broken again. And every time you want to go live it's the same tedious steps: run the database change by hand, copy the keys, click deploy, hope. CI/CD hands all of that to automation that refuses to ship anything broken. Here's how, using a real repo.
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I drag a feature card in my app and AI writes the code, runs the tests through GitHub Actions, and opens a pull request. I review, merge, and it deploys itself. Here's how the pipeline is wired, from a dragged card to a deploy, and what to do when a step needs a fix.
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I built SupaNet.io heavily on Supabase edge functions instead of building a backend from scratch. A review from actually shipping on it: what the platform handles, the build pattern that mattered most, and the trade-offs. Not a tutorial.
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There are plenty of hosted ways to give an AI a browser. This week I built my own — a little Chromium-on-a-server that stays logged in, spits out clean Markdown, and that any of my AI tools can drive. The real unlock: wrap it as an MCP and every agent I make gets a browser for free.
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Write one plain-English spec file, hand Claude Code your data, and let promptfoo prove your prompt works — including a trick for running the AI judge free on your own laptop.
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Tools, MCP, and skills sound like they're competing. They're not. Here's the simple mental model I use to know which one to reach for — and when to just combine all three.
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It still amazes me that we can vibe code our own apps. Here's how to do it with confidence — keeping it secure, getting it hosted, and not getting scared off by GitHub — all built around the humble to-do list.
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Stop treating AI like a magic chat box. Project, Artifacts, Context, Tasks - a simple pattern for building a real system around the work you actually do.
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In 2023 I built basically every AI platform feature you've watched ship since — document collections, multi-model workflows, deployable bots. Here's why being early was the same as being wrong, and what I'm building now that the labs structurally can't eat.
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People don't only Google anymore — they ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. There's a small layer of plain files that makes your site easy for those AI engines to find, trust, and quote you with a link back. I added it to this blog in an afternoon, and the AI did most of the work.
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Cloudflare's always been an option for this kind of thing. It just used to feel too technical to bother with. A spam problem on another project nudged me to finally try it — and with AI doing the heavy lifting, I wrapped my chat around OpenAI with real guardrails in an afternoon.
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Automation works — I've watched it save companies hundreds of thousands of dollars. But the wins came from sitting next to the person doing the work, not from dropping in a magic agent. Two real stories on what actually makes it stick.
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Anyone can drop a chatbot on their site in ten minutes. Here's how to do it without waking up to a $10,000 bill or letting somebody else use your AI on their site.
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Elliot Taylor, Head of Engineering at Patchstack, on why traditional engineering is over, how AI flattened his company from the inside, and the real cost of time-to-exploit dropping from months to min
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I got tired of re-building auth every time I vibe-coded something to solve a small idea
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Two areas I think it helps me daily at work, and one issue it is creating
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Getting started with confidence that your AI integration is secure and portable
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This new AI Co-Builder from Softr really does make it possible for companies to build their own internal tools.
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I believe we are going to stop talking about code the way we stopped talking about electricity. The future isn't about writing code, it's about the ingenuity of the people using systems that happen t
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was pleasantly surprised by the results of this collaboration. I would suggest any business wanting to make apps for internal use or entrepreneurs with an app idea to give it a try!
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Need a report? Just chat with your data thanks to Supabase and Claude Desktop Connections!
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20 years in the profession. Hasn't written a line of code since October. We talked about what that actually means.
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For Those Trying to Get Work Done and Want to Know What Tools to Use
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It didn’t deploy perfectly. Database setup was tricky. Auth was hard. It did not scale well as she started adding more and more to it. But it let her *show* the idea instead of *explaining* it.
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This was inspired by a real customer need recently, helping them build KPI reports in Supabase!
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A step-by-step guide to automations that write your reports, route your requests, and give you hours back every week
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For the first time or more than ever, the person who understands the problem best is the person solving it. Why the right desktop tools and AI understanding is key to getting your work done.
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n8n critical security patch, OpenAI Frontier, Microsoft Copilot agent mode, Ollama GLM-OCR, Crawl4AI trending, and cool finds from my X bookmarks
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Getting Started with Claude Desktop — For Normal People 🙃
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Why opinionated platforms might make vibe-coding an option for me
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Google releases text to world, Anthropic and MCP Apps, Industry Trends for No-Code in 2026
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Bi-weekly roundup covering critical n8n security patches, Zapier's AI transformation plans, Notion 3.2's mobile AI agent, pricing updates from Softr and Noloco, Xano's new SaaS features, Google Opal's
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Testing local LLMs on real business extraction tasks
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MCP and Skills keep growing, n8n Security Crisis, and 1-Bit LLMs Promise Local AI for All
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How to host your own onsite ai and no-code/low-code tech
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Fun updates, better prompts, better results
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I start testing open-source models on common business prompts and data to see which ones are the best for which tasks.
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Make.com is in the news for the right reasons. Notion and n8n, not so much. AI hardware is becoming the new no‑code platform, and local desktop agents are on the rise. Join me for W
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2026 will be a focus on deep dive videos on YouTube for building and setting on-premise ai and no-code solutions. This will include n8n, active-pieces, lmstudio, ubuntu and more
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In Episode 3 of our 2026 On-Prem Series, we’re moving from infrastructure to implementation. It's one thing to have a server running; it's another to have it solving business problems like summarizing
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How I moved from custom code to building scalable, agent-driven applications with n8n, Supabase, and Softrr
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TLDR: Amazing Software for on-prem but there is an gotcha
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*This is a companion note to my latest YouTube video. You can watch the full breakdown here: https://youtu.be/rDN3m2qs58I*
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Welcome to Week 48 of the No-Code News — a lighter week, but with a few important signals that could change how founders and operators build internal tools and automation in 2025.
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This week’s GitHub Trending highlights include NoCoBase — the open-source Softr alternative bringing AI-powered intranet tools to life — and Appsmith’s growing push into AI Agents for smarter internal
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This week brought some of the biggest announcements in no-code and AI automation. Here's your quick rundown of what matters:
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For months, I'd been handing clients beautifully designed Softr applications and then saying, \"Now, if you need to add automation, just hop over to N8n and...\" That's where I'd lose them. Not because
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Most people think of n8n as a workflow tool. But I use it as a full backend system — the part that actually makes your app work.
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This one aspect of ai has helped me solve numerous customer problems with no-code or in some cases solving something code could not have solved.
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Understanding when to use loops in n8n can be challenging at first. This guide walks through several practical examples to demonstrate when loops are necessary and when n8n's built-in processing is su
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Welcome back to the weekly roundup of no-code and automation news!
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Example of helping companies automate data entry from paper to data using n8n and Google Drive
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A two-part training series that transforms how you think about data collection and business automation
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This podcast will cover No-code news on a weekly basis
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The switch node in n8n might seem like a “boring” component, but it’s absolutely critical to building sophisticated automation workflows.
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Template to help with one way of reviewing your code for you with every push of code
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A practical walkthrough of N8N's file handling capabilities that replace custom development with simple drag-and-drop workflows
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Here's a breakdown of the key concepts covered in the video, designed to give you a quick overview of how to leverage the powerful HTTP node in N8N for your automation workflows.
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It is not about ai but about some of these amazing tools that really change the game.
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When it comes to building workflows in n8n, there are a few nodes that don’t get the spotlight they deserve — but once you master them, you’ll find yourself using them almost everywhere.
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Take a look at this video if you're interested in building with confidence and no code solutions for your company or your customers!
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This is one of a few YouTube videos that I will do to dig into key nodes for building in n8n
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Two powerful open-source tools you can host yourself or pay to use. DocuSeal makes digital signatures simple, and when you connect it with n8n, the automation possibilities really open up.
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OpenAI recently released GPT-OSS, a 20B open-weight model you can run locally (or through OpenRouter). I put it through four real-world automation tests — the same ones I’ve used on other open-weight
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Great automation hack around email and tools like N8N. Hope you enjoy!
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Lessons from 25 years of tech shifts, from building PCs to building No-Code AI workflows, and how you can change your direction now to start taking advantage of this massive paradigm shift.
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The Big Picture – Build Apps Without Code (and Without Regrets) build something that you can change, pivot and grow without feeling like you are playing Jenga.
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In this post, I show how I use n8n, Browser-Use, and a simple Google Doc prompt to fully automate QA for UsWork.ai. From creating test
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Learn how to set up a full Supabase Storage upload flow with n8n — from private & public buckets to signed URLs and binary file handling. Whether you’re working on a mobile app or a web interface, thi
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N8N and a Leads Dashboard (Bolt and Supabase)
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A weekly roundup of the tools, trends, and insights that matter to builders, creators, and developers—with opinions from someone who’s in the trenches building every day
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This workflow and notes go with the related YouTube video to help you get started with NoCode workflows and N8N
Read post → From PR to Issues and Suggestions get some help before every Pull Request
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Latest video showing Ollama models replacing Open Ai in my N8N Workflows
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Setting up every update you make on Bolt to go to Staging
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Bringing together RapidApi and N8N to get data from LinkedIn
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Tutorial for citizen developers who want to stop manually copying data from emails.
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How to move forward in building software and adjusting every 3 months
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This in the first article I write back in Nov 2024 when I stumbled upon n8n. It made me really rethink how I would approach customer solutions from that day on!
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Basically get your Tailscale account https://tailscale.com/ Set it up on your local machine that is running ollama or llmstudio
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Join Roberto and Alfred as they explore the latest in AI-driven development, sharing their experiences with tools like Bolt, Cursor, and n8n. Discover the power of no-code and low-code strategies, the challenges and innovations in the field, and insights
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In this video, I’ll show you how I use my fine-tuned voice model to automate content creation. After recording a video, I transcribe it and paste the text into a form, which triggers a process that ge
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This is an older video, doing it today I would lean more on Supabase. These are part of a training module I started a few months ago but just did not want to stick with this format since things are c
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This will explain and have the files needed to make your own AP MCP Server
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This is what I am using now to test the results of the RAG systems I am building and help improve them.
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This one will use Http to list out files in a Supabase Bucket
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This is a really really good one since this pipeline that someone I work with made up uses Stirling PDF to do all the heavy lifting then takes the PDF to Images and we pass it to Vision ai to get more
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In this video, I take you through the journey of building an API for UsWork.ai using N8N. I share the real-world ups and downs, from finding jobs to posting proposals, including the tough deployment s
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Behind the Scenes of WhatCanWeWatchTogether.com — Bolt+N8N+Supabase
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The advantage has shifted—those with ideas move fastest in the AI + no-code era.
Read post → I had a great chat with Roberto Gongora about the fast-evolving landscape of software development in the age of AI and no-code. We dove into the real challenges and opportunities of working with AI-generated code, and how tools like N8n and SuperBase are
Read post → This a topic I keep thinking about in my day to day choices between these two great tools N8N or ActivePieces. This is Notebook LLM taking the Research output from Gemini talk about how the license can impact our choice.
Read post → In this conversation, Alfred Nutile interviews Roberto Gongora as he reflects on a recent project using N8N instead of Laravel. They discuss the transition to N8N, its features, challenges, and the learning curve involved. The conversation also touches on
Read post → This episode explores how a 25-year veteran developer is rethinking his approach to software development in the age of AI and low-code/no-code tools. He shares his journey of moving from traditional frameworks like Laravel to embracing more flexible solut
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Read by Alfred Nutile Rethinking Development in the Age of AI & Low-Code Tools After 25 years of developing with traditional frameworks like Laravel, the explosion of AI tools like N8N, ChatGPT, and low-code platforms has made me rethink everything. Can w
Read post → Rethinking Development in the Age of AI & Low-Code Tools After 25 years of developing with traditional frameworks like Laravel, the explosion of AI tools like N8N, ChatGPT, and low-code platforms has made me rethink everything. Can we still say \"Laravel f
Read post → Another chapter from PHP and LLMs! \"Agnostic Tools\" enjoy NotebookLM Ai Pod-casters explore this chapter!
Read post → Another chapter from PHP and LLMs! \"Standards Checking\" enjoy NotebookLM Ai Pod-casters explore this chapter!
Read post → Listen to two Ai bots driven by NotebookLM chat about some news I gathered over the week!
Read post → Another chapter from PHP and LLMs! \"Marketing Assistant and Other Automations\" enjoy NotebookLM Ai Pod-casters explore this chapter!
Read post → Not sure I would continue to use the OpenAi Assistant API but it does offer some ideas on how to use LLMs to build threaded discussions. This articles was uploaded into NotebookLm and this is what we get!
Read post → Scraping the web for data can feel like wrestling with a tangled mess of HTML. But what if you could skip the wrestling match and have a powerful AI assistant do the heavy lifting for you? On today's episode, we're exploring how Large Language Models are
Read post → Listen to two Ai bots driven by NotebookLM chat about some news I gathered over the week!
Read post → \"Tools Overview Enhancing LLM Capabilities - Chapter 7\" in the book \"PHP and LLMs - the practical guide\" ❤️ NotebookLM you get a chance to listen to two ai characters share their thoughts the chapter.
Read post → \"Why LLMs - Chapter 2\" in the book \"PHP and LLMs - the practical guide\" ❤️ NotebookLM you get a chance to listen to two ai characters share their thoughts the chapter.
Read post → \"Prompting Overview\" in the book \"PHP and LLMs - the practical guide\" ❤️ NotebookLM you get a chance to listen to two ai characters share their thoughts the chapter
Read post → \"Prompting Overview\" in the book \"PHP and LLMs - the practical guide\" ❤️ NotebookLM you get a chance to listen to two ai characters share their thoughts the chapter
Read post → DevOps is a tricky concept. It make the two words seem equal but the goal of a small business or solo entrepreneur who is trying to build a product or internal application is not to spend half the budget on Ops.
Read post → As developers, especially those who freelance and work one on one with clients we sometimes have to help that client understand what we expect of them as a \"Product Owner\".
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We cover the NEW items in the 2017 Thoughtwork's Technology Radar. There will be 2 parts to this series this one on Techniques and Tools the next on Platforms and Languages/Frameworks (still no PHP :( ) Learn more about Technology Radar here https://www.t
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Do not fear the Queue. We talk about how important queues are in our day to day work and design.
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Some news, and suggestions then right into Testing Why, When, Why not and How. Enjoy!
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This final episode in the series around ThoughtWorks Tech Radar
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Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://medium.com/@alnutile/we-code-in-the-context-of-our-quoting-dab391fe0881#.6a1k99bu1 Whether you are working Waterfall, or Agile we still need to quote out the time it will take for new f
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Author: John Ferguson Smart Author: Jan Molak Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://johnfergusonsmart.com/five-stages-bdd-agile-adoption/
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In this episode we talk about ThoughtWorks Tech Radar We talk about the second of four topics we'll be covering: Tools. Take some time to learn about these thought-provoking snippets of what is out there for us to consider in our day to day work flow and
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In this episode we talk about ThoughtWorks Tech Radar We begin to talk about 1 of the 4 topics, Techniques, in these radar releases. Take some time to learn about these thought-provoking snippets of what is out there for us to consider in our day to day w
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It's hard to find time to sharpen tools and address technical debt. In this episode we discuss slowing down to speed up. We also discuss Laravel 5.3 new features.
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Feature Flags and the bigger picture of what it means to our developer workflow and mindset. And of course some interesting reads of the week.
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Author: Jesse Schutt Read By: Jack Fruh Original Source: http://zaengle.com/blog/diving-in-to-a-laravel-audit Recently the Zaengle team was asked to look over an existing Laravel application and give a review of the overall state of the code. We were to a
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Author: David Heinemeier Hansson Read By: Ryan MacAllan Original Source: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2188-theres-no-room-for-the-idea-guy Startups need people able and willing of doing the actual work. They need programmers, designers, and eventually f
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Join us for discussions about API drift, Laravel Audits, Hiring DevOps experts, and much more.
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Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/177 This document will cover how to use a Behat specific API to setup a site for testing. What this includes is setting up a Scenario so that it has the data you
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Author: Matthew Machuga Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://matthewmachuga.com/blog/2015/activerecord-and-the-beauty-lost-in-translation.html
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We look at ThoughtWork's Technology Radar, we cover their Adopt, Trial, Assess and Holds for Nov 2015 release of this great research work.
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Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/175 We are working on using FeatureFlags or Toggles in our applications. For one we are aiming to do all our work on mainline branch at all times so this would b
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Author: Lorna Jane Mitchell Read By: Lorna Jane Mitchell Original Source: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2015/git-pull-causes-a-merge If you type git pull and expect a fast-forward update, but get a merge instead, don't panic! This usually happens when we
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Author: David Heinemeier Hansson Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing.html It didn't start out like that. When I first discovered TDD, it was like a courteous invitation to a better
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Author: Lorna Jane Mitchell Read By: Lorna Jane Mitchell Original Source: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2014/using-composer-without-gitignoring Recent additions to the joind.in API have introduced some new dependencies so we decided we'd start using Comp
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Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/160 **BETA: This is a Code Heavy Read :)** Not all apps need to be an SPA (Single Page Application). Sure they have their place but in most cases the task might
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Author: Grant Ammons Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://medium.com/cto-school/ditching-scrum-for-kanban-the-best-decision-we-ve-made-as-a-team-cd1167014a6f#.8hh5rddu0 The following is a story about how we matured as an engineering team. We we
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Our final episode covers the really good video by Amazon on DynamoDB. Plus news and more!
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Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/172 This will cover two things. One, how helpful it can be to make a clickable Proof of Concepts (POC), not just with images, or tools the spit out html but inst
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Author: Konstantin Kudryashov Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://stakeholderwhisperer.com/posts/2014/10/introducing-modelling-by-example \"For the last year I have been experimenting with the new approach to a Behaviour-Driven Development, whic
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Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/171 Some reasons why putting all library files into version control might be a good idea. You can read about it here as well https://alfrednutile.info/posts/171
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We save you from some really bad comedy in this youtube video and sum it up for you and talk about what we got out of it as we continue to discover how to fit NoSQL in our tool belt. Also news and interesting reads. Also checkout Alfred Nutile's side proj
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Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://alfrednutile.info/posts/170 First let me define what a “Side Project” is. In this case a “Side Project” is something you are not being paid for and something that you have complete contr
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We cover some of the news like ThoughtWorks Radar, Uncommon Sense and Ansible as well as the main topic NoSQL in this part 1 of a 3 part series.
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PHPArch November Issue is out! Martin Fowler and \"Not Just a Code Monkey\", and a long long talk about ethics.
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Rails Conf 2013 The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz, The Circle of Death, PHPArch Cruise and more!
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Writing code that is easy to change, easy to read, and how Test Driven Development fits into that. This week we discuss a talk by Adam Wathan as well as other recent and trending news.
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Delving deep into the art of mastering one's craft, in this episode we explore a recent talk by Jeffrey Way on what can be learned from working with tools like Laravel. And, of course, we include a healthy dose of recent and trending news.
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Are we Engineers or Software writers, Plus news and more.
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We talk about why and how to fine tune your day-to-day workflow. And we cover the usual random array of weekly developer news, including quantum encryption, hacking the flow state, and much more.
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We talk about the Github article suggesting to start a pull request with every feature and tons of news from the week.
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Screenhero changes our remote team for the better and other news
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How much to let reality (or the perception of reality) get in the way of a good idea? Angular and Promises, OWASP and more.
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We cover News about Codings schools, MicroService Security and other great articles and podcasts in the past 2 weeks. Then we dive into Nathan's experience at Laracon so far and being at a conference where there is only 1 track.
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We talk about Scrums and who is the scrum master! CodeReview do it not or pay later? And does the client really need a CMS?
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Decoupling All Things, Design Simplicity, Angular and Meteor and more
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The HoloLens epiphany, Adventures in Angular Podcast and The Road to NG2, Agile IT Organization Design and more...
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We cover some Headlines and Interesting reads that came up, VR, Scrum Software and more...
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This is the first of hopefully many to come. We touch on topics such as, how do we answer the question \"What do you do for work?\", Microservices and a book we are reading on that, Zend Certification the why and the benefits so far, Mocking, Standing Desks
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