Merge branch 'main' of ssh://gitea.apps.sustainabledelivery.com:3022/mostalive/firehose

app/priv/blog/engineering/2026/07-30-disposable-end-to-end-tests.md

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+%{
+  title: "Disposable End to End tests",
+  author: "Willem van den Ende",
+  tags: ~w(),
+  description: "",
+  published: false
+}
+---
+
+I quite like playwright for the simplicity of writing End to End tests through the browser. Last year I realised that a coding agent (Claude Code, but Pi and local models can handle browsers as well) makes it cheap to write tests. Initially I didn't like the tests produced, but re-writing one by hand, maybe with some assistance, deleting ones that were superflous and then having the others rewritten in the style of the golden example was pretty painless. 
+
+Keeping them around does come at a cost, though.
+
+1. Don't let people do what computers can do (unless it is the better way to learn for the people)
+2. Don't let an LLM do what a simpler machine learning system or symbolic AI can do.ssh://git@gitea.apps.sustainabledelivery.com:3022/QWAN/dirtytests_cs.git
+3. Don't let any AI do what deterministic code does better.
+4. Make work fun and engaging for people
+
+3. Tends to be faster and more energy efficient than 2. With people you never know, they can be very efficient and circumvent problems instead of attacking them head on.
+
+
+In the end Pi could not access the browser through my sandbox, I have some configuration updates to make. But my 27B model used curl, found how to use the CSRF token in the page and made it through.
+
+
+
+Handover message from the tool
+----
+
+> All tests pass, clean compile. The script is ready at scripts/deploy-and-test-admin.sh.                         
+                                                                                                                 
+>  Usage:                                                                                                          
+                                                                                                                 
+ ```bash                                                                                                         
+   ./scripts/deploy-and-test-admin.sh --password 'MyP@ss123!'                                                    
+ ```                                                                                                             
+                                                                                                                 
+ > What it does:                                                                                                   
+ 1. ssh dokku — sets ADMIN_EMAIL / ADMIN_PASSWORD on the Dokku app                                               
+ 2. git push dokku — deploys (migrations run, admin is provisioned)                                              
+ 3. Waits for the app to be ready (polls /users/log_in)                                                          
+ 4. Logs in as admin via curl, verifies redirect to dashboard                                                    
+ 5. Checks /admin/tenants is accessible as super admin                                                           
+                                                                                                                 
+ > Options:                                                                                                        
+ - --password — admin password (prompts if omitted)                                                              
+ - --app-url — override the app URL (auto-resolved from git remote)                                              
+ - --app — override Dokku app name (default: wereview2)                                                          
+ - --skip-deploy — skip the git push, just test login                          
+
+Final test run
+----
+
+The first test run failed, my coding agent had tried to do something clever, reviewing the script: derive the url from the git remote of the repository. 27B clearly has been trained on dokku, and remembered it well. That does not work yet, as I had not set up the port mapping. Since I have time on desk now, I decided to do the riskiest part first, the rest is following my notes on previous deployments (yes, I remain, as ever, optimistic when deploying new applications).
+
+``` bash
+export APP_URL="http://wereview2.apps.sustainabledelivery.com:5000/"
+willem@sequential:~/dev/spikes/elixir/wereview-2$ ./scripts/deploy-and-test-admin.sh 
+
+=== Super Admin Deploy & Test ===
+  Email:  <email> 
+  URL:    http://someurl.apps.sustainabledelivery.com:5000/
+  Dokku:  someurl.apps.sustainabledelivery.com
+
+→ Setting admin credentials on Dokku...
+→ Deploying (git push dokku)...
+Everything up-to-date
+→ Deploy complete.
+→ Waiting for app to be ready...
+→ App is ready.
+→ Logging in as <email> 
+```
+
+And then logging in, it failed. I had made the code to clever. Or rather, learnt something about which code is and is not available in the production deployment.

app/priv/blog/engineering/2026/10-08-will-it-blend.md

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 > +1. I was wondering if llms would make it easier to implement papers (something I haven’t done in a while), and later that day, youtube surfaced this video with a live demo. I came for the mixture of experts explanation and stayed for the implementation and paper reading. It is insightful to see what you look at in a paper.
 
-I was primed for this by  Katherine Breslin’s talk at Agile Manchester 2025 (spring, this is important in AI summer years), in which she mentioned making a voice assistant in an afternoon on her own, something which had taken the Alexa team (on which she worked) 150+ people and multiple years.
+I was primed for this by  [Katherine Breslin](https://www.catherinebreslin.co.uk/)’s talk at Agile Manchester 2025 (spring, this is important in AI summer years), in which she mentioned making a voice assistant in an afternoon on her own, something which had taken the Alexa team (on which she worked) 150+ people and multiple years.
 
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