Stories by Liriel

We replaced Zendesk

What Is Wrong with PaaS Today?

A tiny world of friendly web pets

GitHub's fake star economy

Tracing a Slow Request Through Your Django App

WireGuard VPN developer can't ship updates after Microsoft locks account

Monitoring Express Route Performance with AppSignal

Making the Case Against Markdown

Developers Should – and Shouldn't – Use LLMs in Our Development

What Metrics to Monitor in Your Vibe Coded App

Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment

MSA on memory issues with AI-a [pdf]

Monitoring Your Node.js App Health on Fly.io

Engineering Guide for AI Enterprise Coding Tools

How Open Source Companies Make Money

AI Dev Tool Stack for 2026

How to nurture and scale a developer community – podcast episode

Lessons Learned from Building an SDK

Is Cloudflare Down Again?

What's Wrong with Kubernetes Today

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