I noticed some time ago that three Mastodon features had stopped working on my blog. Each of them seemed like a separate problem, but they had the same root cause. In this blog post, I aim to describe these issues and propose a simple solution. Domain verification Mastodon allows you to prove that you own a domain.[…​]

A couple of years ago, I wrote that The Builder pattern is a finite state machine!. A state machine consists of states and transitions between them. As a developer, I want to make illegal states unrepresentable, i.e., users of my API can’t create non-existent transitions. My hypothesis is that only a static typing system allows this at compile-time. Dynamic typing systems rely on runtime validation. In this blog post, I will show that it holds true, with a caveat.[…​]

Last month, I became aware of GitHub agentic workflows. I read the site carefully, but the use cases weren’t very exciting to me. I tried the continuous documentation It didn’t work out initially, and because of my lack of involvement, I left it as it was. However, I succeeded in another one that I want to describe in this post. With lessons learned here, I managed to make the documentation workflow work![…​]