The Problem With Most Browser Extensions Browser extensions have a reputation problem. Many popular extensions — weather apps, new tab replacements, productivity tools — quietly collect your browsing data, sell it to advertisers, or require accounts that tie activity to your identity. When I built the Weather & Clock Dashboard for Firefox, I made a different choice: zero data collection, no acco
The Problem Most engineers deploy to Kubernetes by clicking buttons in a UI. I built Archnet — a fully automated Internal Developer Platform What is an Internal Developer Platform? An IDP is the infrastructure layer that sits between your code How code gets deployed How secrets are managed How the system monitors itself How failures get detected and fixed Most companies pay Humanitec or Backsta
We had ArgoCD running perfectly. Every deployment was reconciled from Git. Drift detection worked. Rollbacks were one-click. Our GitOps setup was clean. Developers still couldn't provision a staging environment without pinging the platform team. That gap — between "GitOps in place" and "developers can actually self-serve" — is where most platform engineering teams get stuck. GitOps solves a real p