More pressure

Pedro Tavares writes in ‘Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck’ for ordep.dev Tools like Claude can speed up initial implementation. Still, the result is often more code flowing through systems and more pressure on the people responsible for reviewing, integrating, and maintaining it. This becomes especially clear when: It’s unclear whether the author fully understands what they submitted. The generated code introduces unfamiliar patterns or breaks established conventions. Edge cases and unintended side effects aren’t obvious. We end up in a situation where code is easier to produce but harder to verify, which doesn’t necessarily make teams move faster overall. ...

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 117 words

Auto Updates Homebridge & Pi-Hole

After doing some research, I couldn’t find any reason not to automatically update your Raspberry Pi and the services Pi-Hole and Homebridge. That increases security, and you also don’t have to log into the system repeatedly and can effectively disable SSH. I wrote the following script and have it run once a day via Cron. Maybe someone else can use this. echo "####### UPDATE DES SYSTEMS #######" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade -y sudo apt-get autoremove -y sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y sudo apt-get autoclean echo "####### UPDATE VON PI-HOLE #######" pihole -up pihole updateGravity You’ll need to adapt the Homebridge part to your plugins. ...

February 25, 2019 · 1 min · 122 words