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Software Architecture and why this is still important in 2026 and beyond. Understanding the architecture and the "why" of your app especially if vibe coded, is still a valid skill in 2026 because you still need to understand what is the overall direction and general function of your app. If you sloppily throw stuff together, the context will rot and you won't know enough to see/say what broke, why or how to reproduce the issue in a non-production environment. So, having certain functionalities like logging, metrics, Microservices , Separation of Concerns , DRY , and other principles are still important and significant for your app. These patterns and principles just makes it easier to debug when things go wrong. AI may be able to type code really fast, but it struggles to keep all that context in mind when your app gets to a certain level. SDLC is also important but I will have a video dedicated to that. Let's dive into some things about architecture that still...

I will die on this hill: There's nothing like reading the source code!!! If you're like me and you're getting sick of Google Chrome managing your apt-sources for you, I have news for you: it's possible to bypass the scripts automation from managing the files for you. Simple answer: mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/g-chrome.list Just move the old legacy sources.list to another name not expected by the script. If it's absent AND /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.sources is absent, it won't try to manage the repo for you. Why am I doing this? On my system, I had Google Chrome installed and configured to use my Architecture (amd64), but can still run Steam (i386) alongside without issues. Google Chrome started changing the way they managed /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and started using the .sources format which is multi-line instead of the 1-liner format. In doing so, they completely neglected to include the architectu...

Software these days seems to becoming less and less maintainable. I serve as a buffer for this by maintaining my own aptly repository. In this way, I can host packages I can install on my systems in a coherent way that's as simple as apt-get install my-custom-package . This also works great for software (like Discord) where they offer a DEB file download, but don't maintain their own repo. Why is beyond me and outside the scope of this post. However, you can use this to build custom Debian based packages and maintain them in your own package repository. In this post, I'm going to show you how you can install your own if you want to maintain it and how you can add mine if you want to leverage the hosting of the packages I maintain or just keep track. Add apt.markizano.net The simplest thing you could do is to add my hosted repository for the software that I maintain in a Debian-based repository. Here are the steps: Install the key in the apt trusted directory: sudo ...

Sometimes, a humble Python script is all you need. We’re going to talk about “Markizano’s Video Forge” This is a video editing project that started as a hack and evolved into something I use all the time to get my videos posted. For more info about the history, you can checkout the video here . MKZ Forge has several features, including: Video concatenation Silence detection and removal (for those dead-space moments in the video) Subtitle generation Thumbnail image generation Title and Description generation via AI Built-in web interface so you can kick off the process from a browser (mobile or desktop) In this video, we’ll step thru the source code a bit to understand the differences between what it was per my last video and what it is today. As a bonus, I’ll also walk you thru 2 system prompts I use to help me refine my thoughts and output higher quality videos by having AI help me write my video copy, structure my thoughts and give you a better experience than my brain b...

High Compliance Environments Engineers and product managers in high compliance environments know their organizations are going to be slow to adopt AI in their environments because they already have so much governance and red tape that it's nearly impossible to make any updates in a risk-aware environment with compliance baked into the process. Ya'll working in health insurance, banking, communications, government contracts with regards to national defense and beyond all know the trials of high-compliance and regulations like SOC2, HIPAA, PCI and dealing with PII in secure environments. The CISO's understand the security implications of allowing more chaos into the environment via a probabilistic agent operating in the environment, let alone a human. The difference is the human is bound by the legal agreements and contracts we make whereas the LLM is bound by what it digitally has access to and can actually/literally do. By the way, not all threats are of a malicious natur...

AWS, Azure and GCP are not the same. Many job postings I see them group Azure, GCP and AWS as if they are the same thing. They are not. As someone who's worked in all 3 environments, while they offer the same services, there's distinctions that need to be made that we are not classifying and we need to stop thinking skills just transfer via osmosis between all 3 environments. Seriously, if you're going to disqualify someone for having SaltStack experience when you are looking for Ansible or Terraform experience, then why don't you hold the same regard for the cloud environment of your choice? Make it clear in the job description if you are going to be that picky about your cloud provider as you are for your toolchain. Honestly, adaptability should be regarded as the highest of abilities any engineer could have since they can theoretically survive in any environment. It's my opinion that "hackers" are usually going to be your most effective employees. By...