Nice automation for such updates. I'm discovering endoflife.date this looks very handy.

Early days for this project but the idea is interesting. I could clearly things I'd want to automate that way.

Some captive portals are indeed stupid. Why not automating going through them?

The risks of too much automation... this is chilling to see what using machine learning based system all the way can lead to. It's just a ridiculous situation and no way to get out of it.

Interesting opinion piece about GPT and LLMs. When you ignore the hype, consider the available facts, then you can see how it's another extra tool and unlikely to replace many people.

Very interesting case full of lessons. Of course, increasing the complexity of the system overall can lead to such hard to find issues. It's also a tale into how seemingly innocuous settings can interact in unexpected ways. I also like the lessons learn pointing to the fact that you can and should debug even the systems you use through abstractions, diving into the code is almost always a good thing (even if in this particular case it wasn't strictly necessary in the end). And last but not least it shows the tension between mastery and automation... the more you automate the least you master the system, and at the same time this automation is necessary for building resilience in the system.

Very interesting explorations of the early days of automation and computation. This shows another face of Babbage which is often ignored. It is a cruel demonstration on how his machine were first and foremost encroached on division of labor as inspired by plantations.

Lots of good advices about processes and organizations. It's nicely points out that friction is not necessarily wrong... if you get something out of it.
Also neat reminder in there that code review are here to complete work which is already socialized somehow. If you can't find reviewers it's a sign of an organizational problem when the work started.

Interesting tips for musing a bit in product management. I especially like the tip about playbooks instead of automation.