James Read
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Dad, hobbiest developer & Red Hatter. Find my blog, GitHub, and contact details at https://t.co/8NLSpSqHtp
Joined May 2021
“Disney this, sheep shaggers that.” “Bribing refs this, play in your own country that” How many other clubs provide free pies to opposition fans with an edible badge on, hey? Hey?
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"Hey AI, how are my #Kubernetes deployments?" - using MCP servers on your LAN is with LLMs in the Cloud; #n8n #automation #ai #mcp
blog.jread.com
Use n8n as a bridge so that LLMs running in the cloud can discover and call tools on your local MCP servers—without moving your data or your MCP stack to the cloud.
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AI tools are moving fast—from fancy autocomplete to fully autonomous development teams. The real question isn’t whether to use AI, but how much autonomy to give it. I put together a simple 0–5 model to describe these levels of autonomy in practice: https://t.co/sx0GOMjQBo
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AI tooling for software engineering has moved quickly from fancy autocomplete to the verge of fully autonomous engineering. Most people can see that AI adds value. The real question is no longer...
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My purchasing power for gadgets exceeds my free time to actually play with them. ;-)
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Waiting for CSS Masonry for 5 long years, but it's getting there;
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Anytime an exciting new web technology starts to land in browsers, developers want to know “when in the world am I going to be able to use this?” Currently, the finalized syntax for Grid Lanes is...
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Don't underestimate the impact of compound interest, they said! In a game I'm creating, I added .5% interest per minute (per tick), and over 3 days 261 gold has become 707 billion gold! Now, how can I get those interest rates in real life?!
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"Opus? Who cares about Opus? Codex 5.3 has been the industry standard for the last 20 minutes"
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My kids seem to be compiled with -vvvv on at runtime, should have compiled with -g.
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I know a lot of customers who waited for this - they've been using it in preview - and now will appreciate that it's GA! Put simply, this provides better security controls for those containers that need to connect directly to Azure resources on ARO:
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Learn how to simplify and secure your ARO clusters' access to Azure resources with the GA release of managed identities for Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Discover the benefits, workflow, and steps to...
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The Architectural Problem with Clawdbot/Moltbolt/OpenClaw - it tears down security walls we've build around our apps for the last 2 decades;
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Super interesting, and exiting to see progress with #Azure Maia! :-)
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I've been trying to understand the wider NVidia portfolio for a while, and took the time to write up my extensive notes as a blog post;
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I’ve been trying to wrap my head around NVidia’s portfolio to get a better understanding of the company. I’m very familiar with the consumer GPUs and parts of the data centre portfolio, but it’s...
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New blog post, My Multi-Cloud Usage in 2026; Azure, Linode, Hetzner, Cloudflare workers and Runpod;
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A quick snapshot of the cloud providers I’m still using in 2026—what I use, why, and a few recommendations that may be relevant to single developers, self hosting enthusiasts, and similar.
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Upgrade time - need better management of my VLANs ay home!
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Never ever ever give up on anything in Wrexham. @Wrexham_AFC 🏴
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