New post on building /doc-it! Most interesting finding is around context files getting stale (silently) and your coding agent performance getting worse without telling you.

Today, I came up with a wild plan.

This drop is a real one. Doc Export helps close the loop with your workflows. Generate in Dosu, push to wherever your team works, and keep that knowledge up to date. Plus...doc reviews got a real quality bump. Would love to know what you think!

Dosu documenting things to help out with your codebase.

One unspoken agreement among every engineering team is that someone will update the docs... later. So, we built a GitHub Actions workflow that catches doc drift on merge, and wrote down every sharp edge we hit. dosu.dev/blog/how-to-...

February Dosu Drop: Maintain docs directly in Notion, Confluence and more Let Dosu wrangle your docs with our new Import and Sync feature

It's Dosu Drop Day! Import docs from Notion, Confluence, GitHub, or GitLab, and Dosu keeps them updated as your code changes. No more docs that go stale too soon after you write them.

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I let AI fix my printer And it only bricked my Wi-Fi settings three times

I asked Claude to fix my printer's "Replace Toner" error. It found the web interface, changed a dropdown from "Stop" to "Continue," and the printer worked. Four minutes.

Then it decided the fix wasn't thorough enough.

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@phinze.com wrote about building our little internal bot and remembering that you can just... deploy things.

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Power user transformation! One of my favorite things to see in the wild :)

Who Are You When the Code Writes Itself? On hidden agents, feedback loops, and the developer purpose

It has been a wild month! Nolan Lawson went from calling LLMs "amusing toys" to admitting 90% of his code now comes from Claude. Linus Torvalds started vibe coding his Python visualizers. The tools are changing fast, folks. bit.ly/4tiO6mU

January Dosu Drop: New Year, New Docs Better docs review and a first look at our MCP Server

It's Dosu Drop day! 🎉 We have an MCP Server preview (your coding agents can access Dosu's knowledge), an improved diff UI, and we're searching for design partners to test Notion/Confluence/GitHub sync. Let us know if you're interested in taking a look! dosu.dev/blog/january-2026-dosu-drop

Making Sense of AGENTS.md How instruction files are becoming the interface between developers and AI coding agents

AGENTS.md is becoming the README for AI coding agents. 60K+ projects use it now, and I took some time to document what's working well across the ecosystem. bit.ly/4pPbEgf

Kelsey Hightower on leadership in open source and the future of Kubernetes In this special episode of The ReadME Podcast, dedicated to GitHub’s Maintainer Month, Kelsey Hightower joins hosts Martin Woodward and Neha Batra to discuss his philosophy on fostering thriving open…

I love what Kelsey said about the true goal of Kubernetes. That goal is to eventually disappear. The best infrastructure becomes invisible, stable enough that you build on top of it, so you can tackle what's next.

The Wrong Abstraction — Sandi Metz I've been thinking about the consequences of the "wrong abstraction."  My RailsConf 2014 "all the little things" talk included a section where I asserted: > duplication is far cheaper than the wrong…

Sandi Metz wrote about the wrong abstraction years ago, and I still think about it. Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction. If future maintainers can't understand why you built it that way, you've created cognitive debt rather than a shortcut.

AI can tell you what code does. It can't tell you why the maintainer wrote it that way three years ago, what broke when they tried it differently, or which edge case that weird conditional handles. That context lives in issues and PR discussions. At @dosu.dev we make that searchable. bit.ly/4qVInkP

Kubernetes Deprecation Policy This document details the deprecation policy for various facets of the system. Kubernetes is a large system with many components and many contributors. As with any such software, the feature set…

Kubernetes has a deprecation policy that gives you years of warning before breaking changes land. Nobody talks about this because it's boring, but it's why enterprises trust the platform. Deprecation policies are promises to your users.

CNCF Landscape The CNCF Cloud Native Landscape is intended as a map through the previously uncharted terrain of Cloud Native technologies. It attempts to categorize projects and products in the Cloud Native space.

Someone asked me how to navigate the CNCF landscape without getting overwhelmed. My honest answer is that you're not supposed to adopt everything in the landscape. Most teams need maybe 10% of what's there. The value is knowing options exist when you need them.

10 Platform engineering predictions for 2026 Explore the 10 platform engineering predictions for 2026. See how AI, FinOps, and new security models will fundamentally redefine the platform team's role and architecture.

Platform teams that treat internal developers like customers tend to stick around. The ones that act like they have a captive audience eventually discover that shadow IT is real and developers are creative about routing around tools they don't like.

A decade in open source taught me this: the people who last aren't the ones who shipped the most code. They're the ones who made others feel welcome enough to stay.

Docker Kanvas Challenges Helm and Kustomize for Kubernetes Dominance Docker has launched Kanvas, a new platform designed to bridge the gap between local development and cloud production. By automating the conversion of Docker Compose files into Kubernetes artefacts,…

Docker launched Kanvas this week. It converts Docker Compose files into Kubernetes manifests automatically and provides visualizations for cloud deployments. Built with Layer5. Direct challenge to Helm and Kustomize. Worth trying if you've been frustrated with the Compose-to-K8s gap.

The tools that last are rarely the ones that promised to change everything. They're the ones who solved a specific problem well and then got out of the way.

Microsoft Previews Azure HorizonDB as Cloud Native PostgreSQL Engine -- Redmondmag.com Introduced at Ignite late last year, Azure HorizonDB is a new PostgreSQL service designed for higher performance and scalability, using disaggregated storage, zone-redundant architecture and a…

Microsoft previewed Azure HorizonDB, a PostgreSQL service for cloud-native workloads with disaggregated storage, zone-redundant architecture, and a Rust-based storage engine. Neat to see that Postgres is receiving significant investment for high-scale AI and analytics.

CIDR without the apples, please

GitHub Trending: January 6, 2026 — The Great Coding Agent Race 🏁 Today marks a historic moment in AI coding: OpenCode overtakes Claude Code in GitHub stars, Microsoft enters voice AI, and educational…

OpenCode gained 3,600 stars in five days. Memory infrastructure projects like claude-mem and memvid are both trending. Chrome DevTools MCP server hit 19,000 stars. The tooling layer around agents is where the energy is right now.
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The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund is a concrete example of putting money behind “maintenance.” Code review, refactoring, and release work are the parts that keep ecosystems reliable. Paying for that work is aligned with reality.

A good contributor experience is mostly about time-to-first-yes. Fast feedback, clear labels, and friendly review turn strangers into teammates. People keep showing up when they feel seen.

Foundations are often misunderstood as branding clubs. In practice, they are dispute resolution mechanisms. When two vendors disagree, a neutral process is cheaper than a fork war.

It's one of the best questions 😄

Engineering leadership is often deciding where ambiguity is allowed. Early exploration can be messy, but production work needs crisp constraints. Mixing the two creates chaos.

Burnout sneaks in when work has no edges. Healthy teams protect focus with small rituals, scope boundaries, and “not this quarter” lists. Saying no is a maintenance move.

Deprecations are where projects show their values. Clear timelines and good docs say, “we respect your time.” Surprise removals say, “Good luck.”