Brian May on Atomic Spin

How I Rebuilt My Development Workstation for Agentic Work

My previous workstation optimized for focusing on one task at a time. My new setup optimizes for coordinating multiple parallel threads.

Development Practices

Is GitHub Actions Putting Your Software at Risk?

A compromised npm package usually impacts an application runtime. Compromised GitHub Actions can have much larger blast radius.

TypeScript

LangGraph’s Execution Model is Trickier Than You Might Think

LangGraph is powerful for orchestrating stateful workflows in LLM applications. It took a while, though, to get a grasp on the foundations of the execution model.

Developer Tools

Maximize Vim with Macros

Macros let you capture a series of actions and replay them, building complex, repeatable edits using the Vim capabilities you already know.

AI for Developers

Keep Your Workflow Safe with MCP

It seems every major service provider is racing to release MCP compatibility right now - with some implementations more useful than others.

Artificial Intelligence

A Practical Guide to Running Local LLMs

With a temporary instance of a model and a bit of setup, running a local LLM can be an incredibly useful tool.

DevOps & System Admin.

How to Hot Reload Kubernetes with Skaffold

I will describe how I leveraged Skaffold to hot-reload a deployment on our Dockerized Minikube cluster and some issues that arose.

Development Practices

How to Use C4 Diagrams in Systems Architecture

My team recently used C4 diagrams to represent software systems. The standardized diagramming language creates a level playing field for all.

Developer Tools

JSONoid Discovery: Simplify Schema Discovery

On a recent client project, my software development team dealt with a legacy NoSQL database with the help of JSONoid Discovery.

Personal Optimization

Not Just Another Programming Language: Skills That Make a Difference

Recently, I’ve had several opportunities to mentor high school to college-aged aspiring programmers. Here are the skills that really matter.

Growing as Makers

Try These 2 Games to Make Learning Programming Fun

Here are two games I stumbled upon whose key mechanic is programming. Each game can make learning to program fun.

Development Practices

The Value of Writing About Bugs

A good bug-fix story has a lot of value. I want to explain why I think developers should spend more time writing about bugs.

Brian May

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