Stephen Souness
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What have I done lately? – Part 3: Cloud Infra War Games
Setting up alerting should be straight-forward, but there can be gotchas. Running war games in non-prod environments proves that alarms trigger as expected.
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Not all work and no play
Some pictures from Stephen’s free time in 2026. – Rugby – Supercars
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What have I done lately? – Part 2: Automation of Dependency Upgrades
Automated upgrades of dependencies can be a good thing, but it is not without risk. In this post I describe how I have made this work with Renovate and with Dependabot.
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What have I done lately? – Part 1: AI
The post reflects on the author’s recent work and hobby projects, particularly focusing on advancements in Artificial Intelligence. It discusses experiences using AI tools like Rovo and Codelassian for coding, highlighting challenges with AI’s limitations in private codebases and the occurrence of inaccuracies or “hallucinations” in AI outputs. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding…
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Time to drop the humility?
I have been spending too much time on LinkedIn recently, so you shouldn’t be surprised to read that I came across a post on a stranger’s profile that called out three key points that they use for filtering job applicants. I’ve lost track of the page now, so this is going to be my paraphrased…
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AI Reaching Utility Level – For Billing
GitHub Copilot has recently announced that it will be moving to usage based billing. I see this as an inflection point, where one of the big players in the AI market is confident that the level of usefulness of their product warrants customers paying for access to it in a similar way to how they…