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Go Meetup Amsterdam: The Curious Case of the Missing Memory
Notes from Mohammed Nafees's Go Amsterdam talk on finding missing memory with pprof, RSS, garbage collection, retention, and off-heap allocations.
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Go Meetup Amsterdam: How to Stay Passionate in Tech in the Age of AI
Notes from Ainsley Clark's Go Amsterdam talk on staying passionate in tech during the AI age, covering career, craft, community, and motivation.
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Go Meetup Amsterdam at JetBrains: Event Recap
A recap of the Go Amsterdam meetup at JetBrains, with talks on the select statement, memory debugging, and staying passionate in tech during the AI age.
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Go Meetup Amsterdam: A Deep Dive into the select Statement
Notes from Jesús Espino's Go Amsterdam talk on the select statement, channel multiplexing, timer pitfalls, cancellation, and preventing goroutine leaks.
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The Go Programming Language: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to why Go excels in backend and cloud infrastructure, covering goroutines, channels, its toolchain, and the best ways to learn it.
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The Protégé Effect: How Teaching Improves Learning
You learn more deeply when you teach. The Protégé Effect, backed by the 2009 Teachable Agents study, shows explaining to others beats re-reading. Here is how.
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Fix Kubernetes CNI VXLAN Drops on NSX Segments
Cross-node pod traffic over your CNI VXLAN overlay is silently dropped on NSX segments. The fix lives in the MAC Discovery profile: enable MAC Address Change.
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IaC Is Not a Data Recovery Plan
October 7, Eon Cloud Cuts Live: Luca Berton and Ohad Maislish work real automation-damage incidents and build the recovery runbook Terraform and Ansible can't.
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OpenBao on RISC-V: Secrets Management on Open Hardware
At Open Source Summit Europe, OpenBao ran natively on a RISC-V machine — secrets management on open hardware, from the silicon up to the app layer.
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Post KubeCon Japan 2026: Reflections on AI, Cloud Native, and the Developer Journey
Straight from KubeCon Japan 2026: the shift from CPUs to GPUs, exploding AI models, and the new accelerator landscape — what it means for developers.
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AgentCon Preday: Securing Agentic AI in Production
AgentCon Preday Amsterdam (Sept 16, 2026): a look at securing agentic AI in production — supply-chain risk, AI code review, and cloud-native scale.
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Claude Code Remote Control: Enable & Fix Policy Error
Stuck on 'remote control is disabled by your organization policy' in Claude Code? How an admin enables Remote Control and lifts the MDM block.
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Claude Code Plugins for Better Websites
Six Claude Code plugins that turn generic AI UI into production-grade sites: Frontend Design, Playwright, DevTools, Figma, Vercel, and Context7.
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My August 2026: KubeCon Japan, Red Hat Summit & More
August 2026 roundup: KubeCon Japan, Red Hat Summit, Hiroshima, Amsterdam meetups, and the AI platform trends I'm watching.
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EDGECASE 2026: Gotta Catch 'Em All
EDGECASE 2026 returns September 24 in Hilversum — the Netherlands' biggest Kubernetes event, 400+ cloud native engineers, hosted by Bart Farrell.
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BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam: AI's Impact on QA
Luca attended the BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam 2026, exploring how AI is reshaping QA — from Claude + Playwright to GenAI in quality engineering.
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Fish Audio Raises $52M Seed for AI Voice Models
Fish Audio's $52M seed funds AI voice models for creators and enterprises — 8M+ users, $21M ARR, and an open-source Fish Speech lineage.
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Astro Responsive Images: 50% Smaller with AVIF, WebP
Use Astro's Image component with formats [avif, webp] and a widths array for an automatic responsive srcset — about half the JPEG size.
4 min readAI Builders Amsterdam: A Hands-On AI Meetup Recap
AI Builders Amsterdam recap: talks on validating side projects, docs for agents, and running local LLM agents at StartDock.
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Four UI & AI Tools I'm Watching in 2026
Watermelon UI review: 600+ free React components, animations, and templates built on Tailwind and Radix with Motion Primitives, Manus, and Haikei.
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Add a Live QR Code in Word
Use the native DISPLAYBARCODE field in Word to embed a real, updatable QR code that links to lucaberton.com — no add-in required.
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Azure Linux 4.0: Microsoft's First-Party Linux in Preview
Azure Linux 4.0 is now in public preview: Microsoft's Fedora-derived, dnf5-powered, secure-by-default Linux built for Azure VMs, AKS, and containers.
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Claude Code Usage Limits: Session vs Weekly
Claude Code's Usage page shows two limits: a rolling session and a weekly cap across all models, plus temporary boosts that revert to your plan baseline.
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YAGNI: You Aren't Gonna Need It
YAGNI — You Aren't Gonna Need It — an Extreme Programming rule against building features no current requirement demands. Less code, fewer bugs, faster delivery.
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