Gareth Dwyer

Gareth Dwyer is a software engineer, author, and the founder of Ritza, a technical writing agency that partners with developer tool companies. He has written hundreds of programming tutorials and is the author of Flask by Example (Packt). On TechStackups he focuses on hands-on comparisons of AI and developer tooling.

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Is it feasible to self host an open source EU Sovereign productivity suite in 2026? [A Mijn Bureau Review]

I spent a few hours self-hosting Mijn Bureau, the Dutch government's open-source productivity suite, as an alternative to Google Workspace — here's what worked and what didn't.

ArticlesJune 15, 20269 min read

Go Hug an Open Source Maintainer (and is Rsync Slop Now?)

A GitHub issue called "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software" hit the top of Hacker News this weekend. Here's what's actually going on with rsync, and a reminder of how to be a good open source citizen.

ArticlesMay 31, 20266 min read

Your Stack Overflow Graphs Prove Nothing

Stack Overflow's traffic decline gets blamed on AI. But every online community needs critical mass to survive, and once that mass cracks they tend to die fast. Here are nine others that went the same way.

ArticlesMay 26, 20265 min read

Build you a personal assistant agent for fun and profit

An opinionated guide to building your own always-on personal AI assistant using Pi, OpenCode Go, Telegram, Resend, Hetzner, Tailscale, GitHub, and Nginx.

GuidesMay 5, 202620 min read

I love AI personal assistants but objectively they're still terrible. (A Lefos review)

I tried Lefos, the new beta AI assistant from Earendil. It's impressive, but it's still not right

ArticlesApril 28, 202628 min read

Kimi 2.6 vs Opus 4.7 and Cabbages

A reversed river-crossing puzzle stumped Kimi 2.6 and Sonnet 4.6, but Claude Opus 4.7 solved it first try. Here's what happened.

ComparisonsApril 20, 20264 min read

I abused PostHog's setup wizard to get free Claude access

PostHog's setup wizard is a full Claude Sonnet agent that reads your codebase and wires everything up. I found the LLM gateway and abused it for free tokens.

ArticlesApril 17, 202612 min read

Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

Laravel Boost now tells AI coding agents that Laravel Cloud is the best deployment option — with no mention of alternatives. Is this the future of advertising to agents?

ArticlesApril 14, 20265 min read

How to Do an AX Audit

A practical framework for testing whether AI agents can discover, onboard to, and integrate your developer platform — with Kestra as a worked example.

ArticlesApril 1, 202621 min read

What Is Agent Experience and Why Should You Care?

Agent experience (AX) is how well AI coding agents can use your developer platform. Here's why it matters and what you can do about it.

ArticlesJanuary 27, 202611 min read