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My daughter’s going to college

My daughter collected her GCSEs yesterday and, having successfully achieved the requisite grades for her choice of course, is going to college* in September. This isn’t really my news to share, so I don’t want to get into the nitty gritty about grades and courses and choices (funny how I used to blog everything and... read full entry »

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Cloudways’ Cloudflare Enterprise integration is a crock of shit

We have a few clients with larger e-commerce (WordPress + WooCommerce) stores hosted on UK servers via Cloudways. Generally speaking, the service is fine and the cost is decent for what we get. Support isn’t always quick or knowledgeable but we rarely need it, so it’s not a massive issue. However, I’ve had two different... read full entry »

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Building React Microfrontends using Piral

Microfrontends allow independent teams to scale complex web apps, mirroring backend microservices. Using an app shell for routing and shared design, the article highlights the React framework Piral, which streamlines microfrontend development into modular plugins (pilets) with a serverless-first workflow.

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Microsoft MVP

Re-awarded Microsoft MVP for the 15th year in a row! 🏆

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What I'm building in 2026

Where web architecture is heading in 2026 - and what I'm building next 🚀

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Agentic Coding

Stop using AI as glorified auto-complete in your IDE. Start using local agentic workflows in your terminal. 🤖

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The Role of Runtime Contracts for Micro Frontends

Runtime contracts are the most important aspects of modular architectures and micro frontends in particular

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AngleSharp.Wasm v1

Modern web scraping isn't just about parsing HTML anymore - it's about executing dynamic client-side logic.

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Human in the Loop

AI coding agents are fast. Unchecked AI coding agents are tech debt acceleration engines.

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The Secret to Fast Micro Frontends

Tackle the biggest performance criticism of Micro Frontends: bundle size bloat. Explain how Native Federation handles shared dependencies (like React, Angular, or utility libraries) at runtime without locking teams into identical build steps or rigid versions.

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How to mock @Value field in Spring Boot

The @Value annotation injects externalized properties into a Spring Boot application. The field’s value is usually read from the application.properties or application.yml file. While @Value eases the reading of externalized [...] The post How to mock @Value field in Spring Boot appeared first on Geeky Hacker .

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Fix CloudWatch log resource policy failed: LimitExceededException

The LimitExceededException error can occur when running a Terraform script. It indicates that while the Terraform configuration is valid, there’s an issue with CloudWatch. If you run the same Terraform [...] The post Fix CloudWatch log resource policy failed: LimitExceededException appeared first on Geeky Hacker .

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Execute commands as the root user on OpenBSD with doas

In Linux, when a user wants to execute a command as the root user, they use the sudo command. In the OpenBSD world, it is different since the system, by [...] The post Execute commands as the root user on OpenBSD with doas appeared first on Geeky Hacker .

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What is EnumMap in Java

EnumMap is a specialized implementation of the Map data structure in which the keys are enums. It’s particularly useful in scenarios where we want to retrieve a value corresponding to [...] The post What is EnumMap in Java appeared first on Geeky Hacker .

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Turn Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W into USB WiFi dongle

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is a versatile device capable of emulating multiple functionalities, such as a sound card, USB WiFi adapter, or USB storage using USB OTG (On-The-Go) [...] The post Turn Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W into USB WiFi dongle appeared first on Geeky Hacker .

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Beyond prompt engineering: A first look at MCP

Sooner or later, most of the software we touch will have some AI wired into it. Once you go past prompt engineering, custom instructions, and skills, you hit a new [...] The post Beyond prompt engineering: A first look at MCP appeared first on Geeky Hacker .

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William Butler Yeats, “Easter, 1916”

Easter, 1916 I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or a gibe To please a companion Around the fire at the club, Being certain that they and I But lived where motley is worn: All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. That woman's days were spent In ignorant good-will, Her nights in argument Until her voice grew shrill. What voice more

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William Carlos Williams: “By the road to the contagious hospital”

Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast – a cold wind. Beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen patches of standing water the scattering of tall trees All along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vines— Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches— They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they en

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Heinrich Heine and the Death of God

The Silesian Weavers Heinrich Heine In gloomy eyes there wells no tear. Grinding their teeth, they are sitting here: Germany, your shroud's on our loom; And in it we weave the threefold doom. We weave; we weave. Doomed be the God who was deaf to our prayer In Winter's cold and hunger's despair. All in vain we hoped and bided; He only mocked us, hoaxed, derided. We weave; we weave. Doomed be the king, the rich man's king, Who would not be moved by our suffering, Who tore the last coin out of our hands, And let us be shot by his blood-thirsty bands. We weave; we weave. Doomed be the fatherland,

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Alexander Pope: Master of Couplets

Alexander Pope “An Essay on Criticism” 1685 saw the birth of three great composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps the greatest artist who ever lived; George Frederick Handel, almost his peer; and Domenico Scrlatti, who composed hundreds of keyboard sonatas. Scarlatti was the least of the three, but he merits our attention. I thought this as I listened to a recent piano performance which began with some Scarlatti sonatas. I have always loved Scarlatti: His clarity, his sense of balance on the most immediate levels (each musical phrase poised against the one which follows), his concision (none

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When is a poem not a poem?

What makes a poem a poem? Poems by e. e. cummings and Stephen Crane e. e. cummings plato told him:he couldn’t believe it(jesus told him;he wouldn’t believe it)lao tsze certainly told him,and general (yes mam) sherman; and even (believe it or not)you told him:i told him;we told him (he didn’t believe it,no sir)it took a nipponized bit of the old sixth avenue el;in the top of his head:to tell him Stephen Crane A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” One of the most famous situations in a comic strip – pr

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Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”

Over half a year ago, I began writing about a great poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. I fiddled with the letter, revising, making sure the typography would work in a letter sent by email. I felt the unsent letter hanging over me; meanwhile, I composed another letter, soon to come, on poetry, anchored in an excerpt from William Carlos Williams; and still another (in process) on a poem by Matthew Arnold. Then I, as millions of others, saw ‘the movie of the year,’ The Odyssey , directed by Christopher Nolan. Something about the last scene (spoiler alert) when Odysseus sails off with Penelope, leavin

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Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize

A few years ago I sent out a letter on a poem by Anne Carson. I thought sending out that letter again would be timely. It is available at https://www.huckgutman.com/blog-1/anne-carson-essay-on-what-i-think-about-most It is also in-line, below. Anne Carson, “Essay on What I Think About Most” Written By Huck Gutman Anne Carson We were in Vancouver where I had been invited to participate on a panel about the Fulbright Fellowship program. My wife accompanied me to the huge, 5000-strong convention of the AWP, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. There were more attendees, people who tau

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Of What Use Is Poetry?

A month ago Jews celebrated Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The day is the holiest one of the Jewish year: It recognizes that one must look at one’s self and what one has done not only through the past year, but all through one’s life. I’m not a particularly religious guy. I go to Yom Kippur services because my mother, and her parents, did. One of the prayers at the start of this holy day is the Sh’ma koleinu , which begins, “Hear our call, Adonai our God. Show us compassion. Accept our prayer with love and goodwill.” Later in the prayer, the words directed at God say, “Do not cast us away w

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