https://dabase.com/ Recent content on dabase.com Hugo -- gohugo.io en hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/024-ais-broken-mirror/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/024-ais-broken-mirror/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.nimhcz973asx https://dabase.com/podcast/ for a summary https://dabase.com/blog/2026/snowflake-cdktn/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2026/snowflake-cdktn/ Using CDK Terrain with the official Snowflake Terraform provider https://dabase.com/podcast/023-validating-ai-output-refactoring-infrastructure/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/023-validating-ai-output-refactoring-infrastructure/ Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0 https://dabase.com/podcast/ for a summary https://dabase.com/podcast/022-jira-is-the-ai-adoption-challenge/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/022-jira-is-the-ai-adoption-challenge/ The elephant in the room is Jira. How can we adopt AI in a structured way in an Enterprise? https://dabase.com/podcast/ https://dabase.com/blog/2026/cdk-deploy-tags-gotchas/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2026/cdk-deploy-tags-gotchas/ AWS CDK's --tags CLI flag has subtle gotchas: tags vanish in self-mutating pipelines, frequently-changing tags cause unexpected resource churn, and service-specific tagging quirks can break deployments. https://dabase.com/podcast/020-ai-vampire/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/020-ai-vampire/ Do please Rate and share to keep us rewarded / motivated to share! Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0 https://dabase.com/podcast/019-cfgmgmtcamp-2026-debrief/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/019-cfgmgmtcamp-2026-debrief/ Previous 2025 vlog: https://youtu.be/QQB6juzzIZU?si=5mrQi_ox8ds0ENp2 I'll add more links as I find a decent internet connection! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxzghm3Fdj8&t=10718s is Adam Jacob's AI talk CDK plan we were talking about: https://gist.github.com/kaihendry/ce6574744e161d4ba8ba283b8dada85c https://dabase.com/podcast/018-ai-engineer-antipatterns-more/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/018-ai-engineer-antipatterns-more/ I show https://clawd.bot/ & WhatsApp integration. We touch how type checking is not done enough in Python https://docs.astral.sh/ty/ We speculate what's the "Next big thing" in Infrastructure... better state management with https://stategraph.com/? https://handy.computer/ dictation (speech to text) is shown We try capture what the the AI lifecycle looks like right now. Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?usp=sharing Kai will be at https://fosdem.org/2026/ & https://cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/ next week ... say hello if you see me! https://dabase.com/podcast/017-what-makes-a-good-ai-infrastructure-engineer/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/017-what-makes-a-good-ai-infrastructure-engineer/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?usp=sharing https://dabase.com/podcast/016-measuring-ai-productivity-and-will-ai-have-ads/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/016-measuring-ai-productivity-and-will-ai-have-ads/ https://x.com/kaihendry/status/2009678360046420110 https://docs.astral.sh/uv/llms.txt https://dabase.com/blog/2026/pyproject-upgrade/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2026/pyproject-upgrade/ Upgrading Python dependencies in uv based pyproject.toml https://dabase.com/podcast/015-ralph-wiggum-gas-town-playwright-right-omarchy-skill-issues/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/015-ralph-wiggum-gas-town-playwright-right-omarchy-skill-issues/ https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2008200878633931247 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown https://github.com/kaihendry/skills 00:00 Ralph Wiggum 01:37 Gas town 13:21 Testing 16:26 Playwright demo 33:41 Ralph Wiggum memes 36:37 Omarchy 41:11 Skills for AI https://dabase.com/blog/2026/upskilling-your-infrastructure-team-with-ai/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2026/upskilling-your-infrastructure-team-with-ai/ Bring Claude to the table for making AWS Infrastructure decisions with the best information https://dabase.com/podcast/014-scaling-askuserquestiontool/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/014-scaling-askuserquestiontool/ Vibe coded Chrome extension to show Amazon UK Data First Available: https://github.com/kaihendry/date-first-available My failed thought experiment to get AI to setup my PI https://github.com/kaihendry/ai-pi My blog about how I got my Pi setup as a VPS host: https://dabase.com/blog/2026/machinectl-trixie-pi/ Markdown to Confluence POC https://github.com/kaihendry/md-confluence https://x.com/trq212/status/2005315275026260309 promotes the AskUserQuestionTool idea Kiro seminar (PAID) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hands-on-spec-driven-development-workshop-tickets-1812679024759?aff=so%E2%80%A6 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04 https://dabase.com/blog/2026/machinectl-trixie-pi/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2026/machinectl-trixie-pi/ Systemd nspawn configuration with an A&A subnet on a Raspberry Pi with a UniFi network https://dabase.com/podcast/013-spec-kit-vs-conductor/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/013-spec-kit-vs-conductor/ https://developers.googleblog.com/conductor-introducing-context-driven-development-for-gemini-cli/ Clip is from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvIs9y1uog Don't paste screenshots of terminals, use: https://tools.simonwillison.net/terminal-to-html https://adrianhall.github.io/posts/2025/2025-12-06-spec-kit.html https://www.sanity.io/blog/you-should-never-build-a-cms https://dabase.com/podcast/012-why-do-we-need-the-cloud-development-kit/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/012-why-do-we-need-the-cloud-development-kit/ The Cloud is too complex, we need a programming language, we need abstractions. Terraform isn't enough for AWS. https://dabase.com/podcast/011-cdk-for-terraform-and-two-pizza-teams/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/011-cdk-for-terraform-and-two-pizza-teams/ https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/commit/a0c56138e2b4c7b6c128bd7ba08a8e317df852af Trying to plot the changing Infrastructure landscape. https://dabase.com/podcast/010-beads-speckit-perles-opus-agents-oh-my/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/010-beads-speckit-perles-opus-agents-oh-my/ https://www.loom.com/share/e2ab7a2dc7354bff88c9f528398e1bbf Do please comment & Europeans must go to these FREE events: https://fosdem.org/2026/ https://cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/ https://dabase.com/podcast/009-adopting-ai-with-steveyeggebeads/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/009-adopting-ai-with-steveyeggebeads/ https://dabase.com/podcast/ https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/discussions/430 Goredo: http://www.goredo.cypherpunks.su/ https://dabase.com/blog/2025/ai-annoyances/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/ai-annoyances/ A running list of frustrations and problems I encounter when using AI tools. https://dabase.com/podcast/008-ai-infrastructure-addicts/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/008-ai-infrastructure-addicts/ https://github.com/addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips https://dabase.com/blog/2025/trialling-jira-with-beads/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/trialling-jira-with-beads/ A personal experience exploring Jira during a 30-day trial period, using beads as a physical tracking method alongside the digital platform. https://dabase.com/podcast/007-ai-acceleration-with-anthropic-and-beads/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/007-ai-acceleration-with-anthropic-and-beads/ Chatting about @t3dotgg turning onto @anthropic-ai Phone a farmer https://www.youtube.com/live/nW7-igJA798 https://www.youtube.com/live/cMSprbJ95jg for Steve Yegge about an hour in. Beads skill that Vincent didn't realise was in the context: https://github.com/kaihendry/dabase.com/blob/main/content/tips/web/bug-reporting-template.md https://dabase.com/podcast/006-ai-for-infrastructure-engineers/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/006-ai-for-infrastructure-engineers/ https://youtu.be/cMSprbJ95jg?t=3675 If you're using an IDE you're a bad engineer! https://dabase.com/podcast/005-trunk-based-infrastructure-with-feature-flags/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/005-trunk-based-infrastructure-with-feature-flags/ https://github.com/vincenthsh & https://github.com/kaihendry/ - two infrastructure engineers talking about Instructure sprawl 00:00 AWS Account organisation https://github.com/kaihendry/actions/blob/main/accounts.json 20:00 System Initiative 29:00 Cloud abstractions are needed 30:40 Danger of clickops 37:31 Labels vs Tags 40:10 Integration points https://dabase.com/blog/2025/claude-skills/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/claude-skills/ How I made a Claude skill for Hugo https://dabase.com/podcast/004-who-is-vincent-de-smet-what-is-grid/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/004-who-is-vincent-de-smet-what-is-grid/ 00:00 Why move to Vietnam? 33:34 Spec Kit and https://github.com/steveyegge/beads? 44:49 Demo of the Grid https://dabase.com/podcast/003-infrastructure-as-code-platform-teams/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/003-infrastructure-as-code-platform-teams/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloudcontrolapi/ https://s.natalian.org/2025-10-19/CommunityDay_Malaysia_2025.pptx https://dabase.com/podcast/002-what-is-specdriven-development/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/002-what-is-specdriven-development/ https://github.com/github/spec-kit Spec-kitting an existing project: https://youtu.be/SGHIQTsPzuY?si=19uhEGXQv-leUh9J https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html WDYT? Comments below! https://dabase.com/blog/2025/s3-access-points/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/s3-access-points/ Beware of mistakes in Bucket policies https://dabase.com/podcast/001-terralith-the-future-of-terraform-automation-and-collaborati/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/podcast/001-terralith-the-future-of-terraform-automation-and-collaborati/ Vincent De Smet is working on https://terraconstructs.dev/ Opentaco trailer from https://www.linkedin.com/posts/izalutski_today-i-am-excited-to-announce-diggers-biggest-activity-7376635476264374272-O2Cp/ (without the copyrighted aggressive music) https://github.com/diggerhq/digger/blob/develop/taco/agents_context/opentaco-case.md#how-will-this-thing-make-money https://dabase.com/blog/2025/yoga/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/yoga/ Stiff? Can't bend down? Yoga is what you need https://dabase.com/blog/2025/pz2-break/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/pz2-break/ Stop using fragile PZ2 bits! https://dabase.com/blog/2025/e-c3/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/e-c3/ Italian Sixt electric vehicle car rental https://dabase.com/blog/2025/clothes/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/clothes/ Top to bottom https://dabase.com/blog/2025/eu-sps/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/eu-sps/ Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/data-engineering/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/data-engineering/ Building Data mesh capabilities https://dabase.com/blog/2025/badminton-restring/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/badminton-restring/ Cost to restring a badminton racket in the UK https://dabase.com/blog/2025/uk-tariffs/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/uk-tariffs/ Brexit experience importing goods from Finland to the UK https://dabase.com/blog/2025/potholes/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/potholes/ Howto fix a pothole in Cornwall, UK https://dabase.com/blog/2025/tesla-tyres/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/tesla-tyres/ The expense of Model Y tyres in the UK https://dabase.com/blog/2025/gitlab-enterprise/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2025/gitlab-enterprise/ Tested on GitLab Enterprise Edition 17.9.0-pre https://dabase.com/blog/2024/darragh-power-cut/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2024/darragh-power-cut/ Notes from a 47 hour power cut in Cornwall https://dabase.com/blog/2024/smart-meter/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2024/smart-meter/ Our meter is not in fact, smart https://dabase.com/blog/2024/mac-mini-tv/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2024/mac-mini-tv/ What TV for Mac Mini? https://dabase.com/blog/2024/eu-competiveness/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2024/eu-competiveness/ How Europe is disadvantaged itself compared to Singapore https://dabase.com/blog/2024/slow-logs/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2024/slow-logs/ Speeding up slow queries in AWS MySQL instances https://dabase.com/tips/cloud/2024/No-pagination-with-the-AWS-CLI/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/tips/cloud/2024/No-pagination-with-the-AWS-CLI/ How do you get all the results from an AWS CLI query without pagination? https://dabase.com/blog/2024/aws-sso/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:58 +0000 hendry+[email protected] (Kai Hendry) https://dabase.com/blog/2024/aws-sso/ Mapping AWS profiles to Chrome profiles