It's hard to avoid the refrain that AI is out for our jobs. That all developers will be replaced by LLMs and we'll all have to brush up on our prompt engineering or just become gardeners (tempting, to be honest...).| usher.dev
The king of LLM blogging, Simon Willison, has a great overview on using LLMs to write code.| usher.dev
Frenck (lead engineer of Home Assistant) breaks down the state of his smart home. While you might assume the lead engineer of a home automation platform has everything figured out, it's fun to hear that's far from the truth.| usher.dev
I love reading technical deep-dives in to system design and scaling. This post from Jaz (infrastructure at Bluesky) is a great read on how they balanced user needs with performance by finding where they could be 'imperfect'.| usher.dev
If you have more than 1 server and a need to deploy multiple applications 'somewhere' on that cluster without having to micromanage - don't reinvent the wheel, just use Kubernetes. It's the industry standard for a reason, and you're not going to have a hard time finding help when you need it.| usher.dev
Andy Hawthorne writes a lovely summary of why it's worth blogging:| usher.dev
I've been playing with Fly.io a lot recently (see my series on [deploying Wagtail to Fly.io](../2022-08-30-wagtail-on-flyio/part-1)).| usher.dev
Not interested in the preamble? Jump to [part 2](../part-2).| usher.dev
To kick everything off, you'll need a Wagtail site configured in a local development environment. The [Wagtail Getting Started guide](https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/getting_started/tutorial.html) is a great place to start.| usher.dev
For Fly to know how to run our application, we need to package it up in a way that it understands. We need to tell it things like:| usher.dev
Our Wagtail app needs to serve two different 'categories' of files:| usher.dev
With all that prep work done we can finally do what we said we'd do at the start - deploy a site to Fly.io.| usher.dev
What I've been thinking about in August 2021| usher.dev
(alternate title: Overcomplicating Things That Aren't That Important)| usher.dev
Some stuff that happened in July 2021| usher.dev
What I've been playing, watching and building in May 2021| usher.dev
I use the wonderful [Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/) on our home network for a variety of weird and wonderful automations and as a nice dashboard to all the devices in our home.| usher.dev
A brief summary of what I got up to in April 2021| usher.dev
It is 2021, a blog can't exist without an "I trained an AI" post like these trailblazers:| usher.dev
Email is annoying. Doubly so when you’re a contractor and have a separate inbox for every client.| usher.dev
We are being boiled like frogs. It happened gradually, one algorithmic tweak at a time. What started as a way to connect with friends has become a system that gives the corporations that run social media control over what we consume and the ability to subtly shape how we think.| usher.dev