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Observable Agentic Development / Data Driven Development

ryanm

TL;DR( controversial take to provoke discussion )You’re using agents wrong.Deploy Jaeger, instrument your dev runtime with OpenTelemetry, and update your agent prompt so it adds OTEL instrumentation and debugs via telemetry (using otel-mcp: https://github.com/krackenservices/otel-mcp) instead of leaning on stdout.If a human wouldn’t merge unobserved code, neither should an agent. (I threw otel-mcp together quickly to let Antigravity debug code more …
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AWS Storage gateway and Terraform

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So in my last job I was standing up a POC and part of it needed a storage gateway. Now I like to think of myself as semi-intelligent but bloody heck I cannot for the life of me get my head around CFT there is just too much JSON (and I like JSON A LOT …
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VMWare Integrated Openstack issues

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Standing up the environment with the integrated Database is easy enough however if you want to add Active Directory into the mix it gets more fun. During this I encountered the following issues: No way to change without blowing away the deployment and re-deploying. Error messages were often misleading. AD Structure very Important Forward Slashes …
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Compile Raspberry Pi Kernel

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update: 2015-02-10: Removed folder sync as was causing builds to fail Decided to play about with the Raspberry Pi Kernel but setting up the toolchain for a cross compile was a bit of pain not to mention remembering to download everything. So I put together a Vagrantfile that should auto do it. Following Variables can …
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TFS Admin Scripts & Release Notes Generator

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I’ve fired together a sourceforge project of Powershell Functions and Scripts to be used with Builds or to admin TFS from the commandline. https://github.com/ryanm101/tfspsadminscripts

CentOS 7 and OpenVPN 2.3.5 (Routed)

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Decided to setup a openvpn server on a new CentOS 7 box and it was not exactly straight forward so below are the steps required, this should be enough to get started On a (minimal) centOS 7 box: if using a seperate server for as the VPN server:

MSBuild and 7Zip SFX

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The following allows you to package up your build output into a SFX file with custom properties that appear when someone right clicks the SFX and chooses properties. Useful if you need to create a zip that can be signed but want your company/product information to appear on the SFX.EXE.

Update sshd_config to use Protocol 2

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Had to write an script to update SSHD to only use protocol 2 without changing any of the other settings, to be deployed via BMC Bladelogic (horrible horrible tool), but you work with what you have. The script should work across Linux, AIX and Solaris.