Dave Kerr

@dave_kerr@robot.villas

Dave Kerr's essays and tutorials on software engineering, shell skills, infrastructure, leadership, and AI-assisted development.

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Understanding Jev and System 1 (or "Decision") Models #SoftwareEngineering #AI #DecisionModels
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Sep 29, 2026
Seven Days with Fable & Seven Practical Skills #SoftwareEngineering #AI #DevTools
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Jul 21, 2026
Building Evidence with Agents #AI #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps
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Jul 17, 2026
Fable vs My Chemical Romance #SoftwareEngineering #Leadership #AI
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Jul 10, 2026
Bipolar Disorder, Dysregulation & AI #AI #MentalHealth #SoftwareEngineering
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Jun 9, 2026
Agentic Engineering Protocols: The Ralph Wiggum Loop #AI #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps
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Mar 4, 2026
Agentic Engineering Protocols: Intro and Superpowers #AI #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps
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Feb 11, 2026
AI26 - The Anthropic Skill Supply Chain Attack #AI #Security #SoftwareEngineering
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Jan 16, 2026
A ChatGPT Extension to Create Diagrams #AI #DevTools #Diagrams
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May 5, 2023
Semantic Versioning, Conventional Commits and Release Pull Requests for .NET with Google's Release Please Project #DotNet #DevOps #OpenSource
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Apr 29, 2023
A simple Makefile 'help' command #DevOps #Programming #Automation
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Sep 25, 2022
Building Least Privilege Policies with the AWS Policy Advisor - and a Demo with the Serverless Application Framework #AWS #DevOps #Security
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Apr 23, 2021
Unit Testing the Windows Registry #SoftwareEngineering #Testing #WindowsDev
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Sep 5, 2020
Modernising .NET projects for .NET Core and beyond! #DotNet #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps
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Jul 1, 2020
Observations, tips and tricks for the CKA certification #DevOps #Kubernetes #CKA
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Jun 4, 2020
Supercharge your Java Projects with Conventional Commits, Semantic Versioning and Semantic Releases #Java #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering
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May 17, 2020
Effective Shell for Beginners #Shell #Beginner #Dev
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Jan 21, 2020
Migrating from Ghost to Hugo - Why Bother? #Tech #Blogging #WebDev
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Dec 24, 2019
Effective Shell Part 7: The Subtleties of Shell Commands #Shell #Programming #DevOps
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Jun 25, 2019
Effective Shell Part 6: Everything You Don't Need To Know About Job Control #Shell #DevOps #Programming
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Jun 10, 2019
Effective Shell Interlude: Understanding the Shell #Shell #SoftwareEngineering #Tutorial
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May 21, 2019
Effective Shell 4: Move Around! #Shell #SoftwareEngineering #Tutorial
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Mar 11, 2019
Dynamic and Configurable Availability Zones in Terraform #Terraform #DevOps #Cloud
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Dec 11, 2018
A portable and magic-free way to open Pull Requests from the Command Line #CommandLine #DevOps #OpenSource
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Oct 10, 2018
Manipulating Istio and other Custom Kubernetes Resources in Golang #Golang #Kubernetes #DevOps
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Oct 8, 2018
Procedural Smiles - Animating SVG with pure JavaScript #JavaScript #SVG #WebDev
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Jul 29, 2018
Patching Kubernetes Resources in Golang #Golang #Kubernetes #DevOps
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Jul 24, 2018
mongo-monitor - a simple CLI to monitor your MongoDB cluster #DevOps #CLI #MongoDB
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May 16, 2018
The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 #SoftwareEngineering #Microservices #AI
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Jan 12, 2018
Effective Shell Part 3: Getting Help #Shell #DevTips #Programming
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Dec 19, 2017
Integrating OpenShift and Splunk for Docker Container Logging #OpenShift #Splunk #DevOps
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Oct 29, 2017
Effective Shell Part 2: Become a Clipboard Gymnast #Shell #DevOps #Programming
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Oct 10, 2017
Effective Shell Part 1: Navigating the Command Line #Shell #Commandline #Dev
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Jun 11, 2017
A utility to help you wait for ports to open #DevOps #Networking #Programming
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May 25, 2017
Tips and Tricks for Beautifully Simple Mobile App CI #DevOps #MobileDev #CI
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Apr 3, 2017
Get up and running with OpenShift on AWS #OpenShift #Cloud #DevOps
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Feb 2, 2017
Creating a Resilient Consul Cluster for Docker Microservice Discovery with Terraform and AWS #DevOps #CloudNative #Infrastructure
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Jan 9, 2017
Using Slack for Server Development #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps #AI
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Nov 18, 2016
Simple Continuous Integration for Docker Images #DevOps #Docker #CI
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Nov 3, 2016
Run Amazon DynamoDB locally with Docker #Docker #Database #DevOps
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Oct 27, 2016