How I Built a DIY Pager (and Light Show) with FireHydrant Hacker Mode and Zigbee
A DIY project to turn alerts into real-world signals using FireHydrant’s Hacker Mode.
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Playwright fixtures: A deep dive
Fixtures may be one of Playwright’s most powerful yet under-used features. Playwright fixtures can be used to simplify repetitive setup or teardown in your tests, manage test data ,and test state better. Fixtures are key if your objective is to write cleaner, maintainable and manageable Playwright tests. This tutorial is aimed at helping you master using Playwright fixtures, understand their purpose, and showing how you can use them most effectively in your tests.
Flyway Autopilot: Ingeniously Simple Database DevOps
Can Flyway Autopilot really help you get up and running with database migrations, CI/CD, and deployment best practices in under 20 minutes? In this special episode, Tonie and Tony sit down with Huxley Kendell, the co-creator of Flyway Autopilot, to find out what it does, how it works, and what inspired him to build it. Whether you're new to Flyway or looking to improve how your team handles database changes, this is your shortcut to getting started.
Getting Started Guide with Netdata
New to Netdata? Start here. In this quick and practical guide, we’ll help you get set up and confident with Netdata in just a few minutes. You’ll learn how to: Access your Netdata Space Connect your nodes—servers, VMs, containers, network devices, and more Organize your infrastructure with Spaces and Rooms Collaborate with your team in real time Explore alerting and integrations Customize notifications so you’re only alerted when it truly matters.
Building Better with DevOps: How to Optimize WordPress for Speed, Security, and Uptime
WordPress is powerful. It's easy to use, packed with plugins, and flexible enough for blogs, shops, or full-scale business sites. But under the hood, things can get messy. Especially if you're not thinking like a DevOps pro. For teams that want fast, secure, always-up websites, you need more than a pretty theme-you need smart systems behind it. That's where DevOps comes in. In this post, we'll explore how DevOps practices can level up your WordPress site-from speed and uptime to security and scalability.
Docker Layer Caching: Speed Up CI/CD Builds
Docker layer caching (DLC) is a powerful technique that can significantly accelerate your CI/CD pipelines. By reusing unchanged image layers across builds, DLC not only cuts down on build times but also reduces cloud costs and boosts developer productivity. In this article, we’ll break down how Docker layer caching works, how to implement it effectively, and how to combine it with ephemeral environments for maximum impact.
API Staging Is Not Production - But Speedscale Makes It Close
Staging environments are often looked at as the testing ground ahead of the “real” production environment. The idea is simple – build a duplicate of your production environment, run your tests, and ship with confidence. But the reality of using staging in the real world as part of a holistic API testing strategy is rarely that clean. No matter how meticulously you mirror production services, staging always falls a little short.
Grok 4 Sets Records - But I'm Focused on Microsoft's 9% Sales Growth
The recent launch of Grok 4 has set the AI community buzzing. With an impressive score of 73 on TLDR’s AI benchmark, Grok 4 edges ahead of OpenAI’s O3 and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, both scoring 70. Elon and the X AI team deserve praise for this breakthrough, reinforcing Grok 4’s status as potentially the most powerful LLM yet.
The Three Constraints Of AI Adoption: Code, Servers, And Wallets
Earlier this year, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman admitted something that should make every engineering leader pause: they’re “currently losing money” on ChatGPT Pro subscriptions, which run $200 per month. Let that sink in. A company charging two hundred dollars a month for AI access — 10 times what most SaaS products dare to ask — is still bleeding cash on every user. This isn’t a pricing problem. It’s a physics problem.
Golden Paths Made Easy With Cloudsmith
Over the past few years, Platform Engineering has taken off as more and more as enterprise organisations adopt the practice of creating a centralised, self-service interface for developers to access the tools they need in order for them to do the job they were meant to do: build amazing software. At the heart of every Golden Path lies the ability to reliably produce, store, and consume build artifacts, from container images to internal libraries.