David Eastman

London

I wrote Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator in 1990. And Floor 13. Now working on Caravanserai. Tech articles in https://t.co/McF7fWeJM2 eastmad on bsky

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Articles

Internal Projects: Working Inside the Panopticon

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

Developing and releasing internal projects within an organization is something most developers do when they join the corporate world. Usually, the aim of an internal project is to introduce a new service or workflow. I’ve worked on frontends to help colleagues consume internal cloud services, which, of course, was the Trojan horse for (what was then) the private cloud.
Claude Code and the Art of Test-Driven Development

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

While I mostly like code completion, LLM assistants have given me quite a few problems with Visual Studio Code. When changing large language model (LLM) extensions for reviews, VS Code almost had a meltdown. So while I wasn’t sure about running a code assistant that didn’t run inside the IDE, at least it wouldn’t have to play nice with VS Code.
Cascii and Why Developers Should Use ASCII Diagrams

3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

“Is that something devs do regularly, ASCII diagrams?”This post is an answer to this editorial challenge. It started after hearing about the Cascii app and reflecting on the fact that the development community still doesn’t have a very efficient way of making and sharing simple diagrams.
Developer’s Guide to the Built-In Tools of OpenAI Agents SDK

4 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

In my previous post, we looked at using the new OpenAI Responses API with the Agents SDK. In this post, I’ll look more closely at the built-in tools featured — and show how they can be used. I’ll keep the scripts small, as the point is to let the SDK do the heavy lifting, although (fair warning) that turned out to be only possible for two of the three tools.
Introduction to the OpenAI Agents SDK and Responses API

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

As OpenAI introduced what everyone else is calling the Agents SDK, it admitted that using the existing capabilities in a joined up fashion “can be challenging, often requiring extensive prompt iteration and custom orchestration logic without sufficient visibility or built-in support.” In short, using agents needed quite a bit of programming, and that is not the story any AI provider wants to sell.
Garuda Linux Might Be the Best Looking Desktop OS on the Market

1 month ago | lxer.com | Jack Wallen |Loraine Lawson |David Eastman |Kimberley Mok

I’m not going to lie, I’m a sucker for a pretty desktop, and within the realm of Linux, there are puh-lenty of them. On top of that, even a bland Linux desktop can be customized until it could very likely become prom queen. And then there are other desktop distributions that go above and beyond to set themselves apart to become something totally “other.” That’s exactly what Garuda Linux has done for a long time, but the most recent release (Broadwing) is truly something special.
What Is a Linux Tiling Window Manager and Should You Use One?

1 month ago | lxer.com | Jack Wallen |Loraine Lawson |David Eastman |Kimberley Mok

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Poisoning the Well and Other Generative AI Risks

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

One of the recent groups damaged by illicit AI generation are YouTubers, the video creators who host their own shows on YouTube. There are numerous cases of YouTube videos — specifically informative or news-based ones — being ripped off by other parties. One way to do this is to copy the captions on a target video. This way, AI generated versions may look different but can be based on the same content.
KDE Neon Is the Linux Distribution With the Dynamic Desktop

1 month ago | lxer.com | Jack Wallen |Loraine Lawson |David Eastman |Bruce Gain

There’s no debating that Linux is rife with choice. It doesn’t matter what application we’re talking about, Linux has multiple options for which to choose. On top of that, Linux makes it possible to get a highly customized workflow, so your operating system (and the apps you use) are uniquely you. One only need to examine how many different distribution and desktop environment combinations that are available. Some desktop environments even have flagship distributions used to show off what’s new.
Developer Review of Warp for Windows, an AI Terminal App

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

While I have been using the Warp terminal on my MacBook for some time, there has always been one problem: it never had a Windows version. While most tech these days is Linux-based, there are still a lot of Windows devices and services out there, which means that most software developers have to be ready to work with Windows. If you work across industry sectors, this is entirely unavoidable. As a game developer, for example, the PC remains a dominant platform.