If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems useful, but I have no idea where to start,” this post is for you. If you have ethical objections to using AI, follow your convictions — this post isn’t here to convince you otherwise. My position these days is that AI use is inevitable in this industry, so I want to understand how to use it carefully and effectively while advocating for mitigation to the societal and environment damage that it causes. So if you’re curious, read on. Including AI in your Power BI development process…
Author: drweb
Laravel isn’t limited to server-rendered apps. We’ll take a quick look at the built-in starter kits and…
GitHub is closing the book on the free preview period for one of its most widely adopted recent features. More than 10,000 enterprises used the GitHub Code Quality public preview to detect maintainability and reliability issues, enforce quality gates, and track code coverage. Starting July 20, 2026, that free ride ends. Code Quality becomes a paid, generally available product, and organizations that have come to depend on it during the preview window need to start planning for the bill.GitHub framed the early notice as an acknowledgment that billing changes are significant for customers, giving teams roughly a month’s runway to…
Let’s talk honestly about framework coupling. We’ll look at where plain PHP, interfaces, and container bindings keep…
For years, organizations have tried to improve speed, quality, and customer experience by layering frameworks on top of frameworks—Agile for iteration, DevOps for automation, ITIL for service stability, TOGAF for architecture, Lean for waste reduction. Each helped, but none solved the core problem: Work still doesn’t flow.In 2026, the most competitive organizations are converging on a different approach—one that doesn’t start with frameworks at all. It starts with value streams.Value Stream Mapping (VSM) has re-emerged as the connective tissue that unifies product management, engineering, operations, and architecture into a single, end‑to‑end system of flow. And the results are no longer…
Laravel includes a lot of security protection out of the box. We’ll walk through CSRF, escaped Blade…
resize2fs is the tool that lets an ext4 filesystem use the extra space you’ve added to a partition. Without it, the partition may be larger, but the filesystem still sees the old size, so your available disk space won’t increase. A common situation is extending a partition with fdisk or parted, then running df -h and noticing that the size hasn’t changed. That’s because only the partition was expanded, but the filesystem itself still needs to be resized. resize2fs takes care of that by expanding the ext4 filesystem to fill the newly available space. In this guide, we’ll explain what…
Microsoft has reportedly begun using Amazon Web Services to provide additional computing capacity for GitHub as a dramatic rise in AI-assisted software development places unprecedented demands on the coding platform.The news is unexpected from Microsoft, which has spent years positioning Azure as the destination for GitHub’s long-term infrastructure. Since acquiring GitHub in 2018, Microsoft has been working toward a plan to move the platform fully onto Azure, with a target completion date of 2027.However, growth driven by AI coding tools appears to have outpaced available capacity. The resulting expansion in code creation has placed such pressure on GitHub’s infrastructure that…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made available, via an early access program, an iOS application through which application developers can start sessions and approve changes made by the Kiro AI coding tool the cloud service provider created.Announced at the AWS New York Summit, the iOS application provides all the management capabilities provided by the Kiro Web application on smartphone or tablet to eliminate the need to manage sessions via a PC.Darko Mesaros, a principal developer advocate for AWS, said the capability will become significantly more relevant as long-running tasks are assigned to multiple AI agents that application developers will…
A bot recently approved one of my Pull Requests (PRs) with the cleanest possible verdict: “No Issues Found — Recommendation: Merge.” The story did not end there. Weeks later, a maintainer finally reviewed the contribution. By then, the parts of the repository targeted by the localization work had been removed as the project evolved. The PR was closed, not because the translation was incorrect, but because the review arrived after the underlying code structure had changed. That outcome highlights a broader challenge in open source internationalization (i18n). The problem is often not translation quality. It is the absence of processes that allows…