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  • How to write great agents.md(s) – A recommendation from GitHub

    GitHub’s new guide, How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories, pulls lessons from over 2,500 repositories to show how to document AI agents effectively. It’s not just about clarity but also about making collaboration, reproducibility, and scalability possible.

    The guide breaks down how to structure agents.md files for real-world utility. It highlights common mistakes and explains why solid documentation is the backbone of any successful AI project. Whether you’re a developer, DevOps engineer, or just curious about AI tooling, this is a practical roadmap.

    For anyone serious about AI development, this is a resource worth keeping: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/how-to-write-a-great-agents-md-lessons-from-over-2500-repositories/

    23. December 2025
  • Recommended Read about a Microservices Reality Check

    Docker’s recent article “Do You Really Need Microservices?” delivers a good dose of pragmatism with regards to Microservices. The article doesn’t dismiss microservices outright— it acknowledges their value at massive scale — but it also hightlights an uncomfortable truth: most teams simply don’t operate at that scale.

    What I particularly like are the warnings about hidden costs, the kind that reveal themselves after committing to the architecture and having to operati it over years and through a lot of releases. Operational overhead, debugging “fun” and the complexity of managing distributed systems aren’t just footnotes — they’re a true burden for teams without the resources to handle them properly.

    Check it out: You Want Microservices—But Do You Need Them? | Docker

    22. December 2025
  • Your Backup Plan Is Incomplete Without Restore Tests

    Backups should be routine not only for folks in the IT. If you’re reading this you probably already have SOME backup process in place. Ideally automatically or with a scheduled reminder.

    But doing backups regularly is just half the story …

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    20. December 2025
  • Ever Wondered What Would Happen If You Lost Your Account?

    Paris Buttfield-Addison, a developer and long-time Apple user, recently lost permanent access to his Apple ID. And he didn’t even do anything wrong. The result: 20 years of photos, messages and data? Gone. A true worst case scenario! But let’s have a look, should we learn something from that?

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    13. December 2025
  • The Cost of Going All-In on AI

    On Mastodon, I just came across “I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.” from Josh Anderson. He spent three months building a product using only AI-generated code. The result? A working product, but also a dangerous realization: He no longer fully understood his own creation. When a small change was needed, he hesitated.

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    7. December 2025
  • LLM Update in Production: When Prompts Fail — and What It Means for Your Applications

    t3n recently wrote that OpenAI’s GPT 5.1 update might come with a surprise to desktop users: previously reliable prompts no longer behave as expected. While this may be just a minor annoyance in day-to-day chat interactions, think about what that means in production environments.

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    6. December 2025
  • The Free Software Foundation deleted its account on X and recommends the Fediverse

    I just saw the post on Mastodon that the FSF Europe deleted their account on X (Twitter) and recommends their Fediverse accounts.

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    5. December 2025
  • The Software Engineering Challenge Behind Effective RAG

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is frequently marketed as a simple solution for grounding AI responses in real-world data. It sounds straightforward & easy: connect a vector database to a language model, pipe in your data, DONE! But maybe it might be just a little harder than that …

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    4. December 2025
  • Mistral 3 Released

    Mistral AI has published Mistral 3, the latest version of their open-weight language model. The models are available under the Apache 2.0 license and, according to their benchmarks, outperform DeepSeek’s recent models in several key areas … well, let’s see.

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    3. December 2025
  • Reclaiming my Music Decisions

    Readers of this blog know that I’ve been hosting my music albums in #Navidrome since this year. And I admit: I really enjoy it. I just read “Musikstreaming – Mein Weg weg von Abos und Algorithmen” and I resonate with a lot that’s been written there.

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    1. December 2025
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