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Level UI • 20 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
An MCP server is not a new API. It is a thin layer over the one you already have
Somewhere in the last year, "do we need an MCP server?" joined the list of questions that arrive in a brief before anyone has said what the thing is for. It is usually framed as MCP vs API, as though the Model Context Protocol were a newer kind of AP...
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  • ai
  • api
  • webdev
  • security
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SEM7AC • Sep 7 • in Articles • 3 min read
Handles, Screen Names, and the Developer Identity
Before real‑name profiles and professional developer portfolios became standard, people chose usernames simply because they wanted something that sounded cool. Developers and aspiring hackers took this much more seriously. A handle was not just a log...
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  • identity
  • hackathon
  • culture
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Steve Fentonverified • Sep 2 • in Videos • 1 min read
Haute Culture!
In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony, Bob, and Steve focus on the concept of "haute culture", or high-performing organizational culture. Culture design and posters on the wall do nothing without consistent daily proof through sm...
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  • continuous-delivery
  • devops
  • culture
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Steve Fentonverified • Jul 29 • in Videos • 1 min read
Change Approvals
In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony Kelly, Bob Walker, and Steve Fenton discuss the purpose and common pitfalls of software change approvals. They argue that strict, manual change approval processes are often just a reflex to pa...
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  • continuous-delivery
  • culture
  • compliance
  • reliability
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Steve Fentonverified • May 18 • in Articles • 7 min read
Roll up your chair: How one small change sparked a DevOps revolution
My first encounter with DevOps was so simple that I didn’t even realize its power. Let me share the story so you can see how it went from accidental discovery to deliberate practice, and why it was such a dramatic pivot. The backdrop to this pivotal...
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  • devops
  • culture
  • web-operations
  • software-engineering
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Steve Fentonverified • Mar 25 • in Articles • 6 min read
Why Transformations Never Succeed: Even When They Do
We all read the daily announcements about another major company launching a sweeping transformation. We’ve had waves of Agile, digital, omni-channel and cloud-native transformations, and the AI-first transformations are a hazy silhouette on the horiz...
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  • transformation
  • culture
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Steve Fentonverified • Jan 16 • in Articles • 8 min read
DevOps team structures
As Jim Benson says in The Collaboration Equation, 'individuals in teams create value'. Individual skill combined with collaboration is where great things happen. Under-performing teams happen when you don't build in the need for people to work togeth...
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  • devops
  • culture
  • platform-engineering
  • site-reliability-engineering
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amjedidiah • Jan 3 • in Articles • 6 min read
Systematising Intuition: How to Code "Seniority" into an AI
TL;DR The Problem: AI models act like eager junior developers—compliant but lacking judgment. They don't fear breaking production. The Solution: Instead of just prompting for code, we must provide "System Instructions" that act as an operating sys...
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  • aicoding
  • prompt-engineering
  • software-architecture
  • culture
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Tom Smithverified • 17 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
Developer Weekly Briefing — October 30, 2026
Security dominated this week, but not in the usual way. Two active campaigns turned GitHub configuration files into attack surfaces. Researchers demonstrated that the built-in browsers inside AI coding tools can read your SSH keys. And at Oracle AI ...
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  • agenticai
  • devsecops
  • github
  • localai
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Steve Fentonverified • Oct 28, 2025 • in Articles • 11 min read
Improving culture with the capability culture cycle
This post is a companion to a talk I gave at the first Octopus virtual conference, SHIPPED23https://octopus.com/shipped. I shared how DevOps capabilities help you change organizational culture by working against your team’s internal reputation. The c...
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  • devops
  • culture
  • continuous-improvement
  • leadership
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Steve Fentonverified • Sep 29, 2025 • in Articles • 6 min read
Beyond ROWE: Why Results-Only Work Isn’t Always a Win
A results-oriented work environment can derail teams, but there are ways to activate the benefits without the downsides. Results-only work environments ROWE sound like a workplace utopia until you experience one. Some elements of the traditional wor...
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  • culture
  • leadership
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Steve Fentonverified • Aug 4, 2025 • in Articles • 4 min read
The Doorway Effect and Developer Experience: Why It Matters
Even the most self-disciplined people are at risk from too many distractions. How GitHub Copilot Extensions can help. Your brain clears out short-term memory when you move from place to place, especially if you get distracted on your way there. It t...
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  • devops
  • psychology
  • software-development
  • culture
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Steve Fentonverified • Jun 2, 2025 • in Articles • 4 min read
Westrum‘s Organizational Cultures Are Vital but Misunderstood
In 1988, sociologist Ron Westrum created a typology of organizational culture and published his findings in a 2004 health industry paperhttps://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/qhc/13/suppl2/ii22.full.pdf. Westrum’s classification system has become one ...
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  • devops
  • culture
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