There is a particular kind of irony in the current state of AI-assisted development. We have built AI agents that work on our behalf — writing code, reviewing pull requests, researching problems, r...

The Glama team published a piece in march titled Open Source Has a Bot Problem and it landed with me. Not because it said anything I didn’t already suspect, but because it said it clearly and with ...

This blog is called Opinions of a Shadow Engineer for a reason. But I have not written directly about what shadow engineering actually means — what it is, why it matters as a practice, how it sits ...

There is a repository I have been quietly building called abuxton/Skills. It is a collection of agent skills — instruction files for coding agents like GitHub Copilot — built following the agentski...

Vouch is a community trust management system by Mitchell Hashimoto — yes, the HashiCorp co-founder, the person who gave us Vagrant, Terraform, and a bunch of other tools that became industry furnit...

Jensen Huang recently was interviewed online and his comments spread viraally online and this is the segment YouTube Short that has stuck in my head — and not in a good way. His claim: a $500k sala...

roadmap.sh is one of those resources that has quietly become genuinely useful. Community-driven, open source, and surprisingly honest about the complexity of modern engineering roles. The DevOps ro...

Refactoring Agent Workflows: From OpenSpec to Plan-Task-Implementation This post was written by @copilot purely as a test of what you can do when you start collecting skills, and tasking copilot, ...

Every developer who has worked across multiple machines knows the pain of setting up a new environment from scratch. The dotfiles repository at github.com/abuxton/dotfiles started as the answer to ...

GitHub profiles have become something of a personal homepage for developers. Mine at github.com/abuxton has been through a fair few iterations, and I thought it was worth walking through what’s the...