I had a thought the other day regarding engineering teams weighing the decision to “build vs buy”:

With the rise of genAI code generation tools, there will be a tendancy to choose to build in-house, rather than buy without considering that getting to v1.0 is “easy”, but maintaining and evolving the codebase is always the hard part. Teams may find themselves having to become experts in fields they have no business being in, just to maintain their codebase.

shrug

Project: Podcast Cleaner

The Idea I listen to a lot of podcasts, and some of them post “replay” segments at the start of each episode, which are just re-runs of previous episodes. Thankfully, they also supply the podcast...

Software development

GitHub Actions: Rails + MySQL

I recently wanted to setup GitHub Actions on one of my personal Rails 6.x projects. I realized I’d been paying for 3,000 minutes / month, and not using them on my personal accounts! Yet once...

Software development

Obsidian - Linking my Notes

Another note-taking app? Yup. If you’ve read other parts of my site, you’ve probably come across How I Evernote Marxico: Evernote + Markdown And I still take notes roughly the same way: I create a...

Note taking