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SDLC for my homelab is changing

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Two articles landed in my queue the same week: Microsoft's New Agentic Software Delivery Primitives and Anthropic's Solving Code Review at Anthropic . Different companies, different scale, same underlying claim: the software delivery lifecycle hasn't changed shape, but where a human's attention goes inside it has moved almost entirely. I read both back to back and realized I wasn't reading about the future. I was reading a description of my Tuesday night. I run a home lab on Paperclip , tl;dr: its an agent farm with project management built in, and it's completely open source. I'm the human in the loop, and I have no other humans on staff (the kids do share ideas tho), then it's just a roster of agents (with different skills and harnesses) that pick up issues, check them out, break down big tasks, write code, open PRs, and escalate when they're stuck. My actual role in this most evenings is not writing code. It's being the one human in the loop ...
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BTCC Test - 11/2024

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 I run in a racing league for Sim Racing in Assetto Corsa called ACRL for the TTL Racing team. The team was co-founded by myself and Tony L. The next season of AC is going back in time to the mid-90s and we are going to be touring the BTCC , touring cars! I set out for a 60 minute test session to try out these cars, here is my debrief. Note that I didn't tune the car for Blackwood other than adjusting the final gear so I didn't have a boring back stretch. BMW - Oversteering by default, felt very similar to the BMW M4 as far as oversteer, overall easy to control and predictable, 1.53L/lap, 1:17.151 after 15 minutes of lapping. Felt confident I could go a wee bit faster. S40 - Traditional gearbox, makes shifting with pedals a little awkward, but do-able. Good handling feels quick and predictable. 1.5L/Lap, 1:16.430 after 20 minutes. Fun to drive. 10kg added weight for BoP. Primera - What a POS - honestly. It oversteers under braking like a dog, it has 15kg of weight, probably in ...
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How I used Eisenhower's matrix to tame the noise of Slack

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It happened again. I missed something critical on Slack—a message buried beneath the flood of notifications that should have been front and center. This was the wake-up call I needed. Despite all the efforts to stay organized, Slack’s constant stream of notifications, unread messages, and channels I don’t even remember joining were drowning out the important stuff. Sound familiar? That’s when I turned to an old, yet effective, decision-making tool: Eisenhower’s Matrix . You may know it as the framework that helps prioritize tasks based on urgency and importance, separating what's truly critical from what can wait—or what shouldn’t even be on your plate at all. But how does this tool apply to Slack? Let me explain. Understanding Eisenhower’s Matrix If you’re not familiar, the Eisenhower Matrix categorizes tasks into four quadrants: Urgent and Important : Do it now. Important but Not Urgent : Schedule it for later. Urgent but Not Important : Delegate it. Neither Urgent nor Important ...
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