The Shade Tree Developer

We shipped Critter Stack AI Skills 1.10.0 today. Eleven new skills, which brings the catalog (so far) to 102 across all the Critter Stack tools and trying to cover every use case and common troubleshooting need we can think of. If you haven't run across t

Like probably all software tool companies, JasperFx is working very hard to create a compelling story about the utilization of AI-assisted development with our tools. The MCP support - and command line tools too! - in CritterWatch is a major part of our A

I read a post from Paul Stack last week I thought was interesting titled AI Broke the Assumptions Behind CI. I was maybe much more influenced by Extreme Programming (XP) back in the day, so I'd disagree a little bit with his characterization of CI being s

It's apparently time to play another game of .NET developers feeling consternation because of an OSS project's attempt to be more sustainable. JasperFx Software, the company I founded around the "Critter Stack" tools is committed to an "Open Core" model.

Wolverine 6.30 is out. It is a big release with one clear headline: a new endpoint mode, EndpointMode.NativeAck, plus the supporting cast it needed to be trustworthy - lease renewal, an additional idempotency guard, partitioning, and a five-node chaos har

Assuming you haven't been living under a rock, you've probably noticed that topics related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) are pretty well dominating most conversations about software development right now. I'd like to lay out the Critter Stack community

CritterWatch 1.0 dropped yesterday, and you can read the official release on the JasperFx Software site. This blog post is just me being thankful for all the folks who helped build CritterWatch or test it along the way: Babu Annamalai was instrumental in

We're doing a live stream today on the CritterWatch 1.0 release - but it's maybe a little dicy whether the official release happens before or after the live stream:-)

CritterWatch will have its 1.0 release tomorrow (Wednesday, August 19th) just in time for a live stream on YouTube to show just the user interface part of CritterWatch. Today though, we finally got one last RC.10 release out for some much delayed feedback

First off, let me peel some egg off my face because I had allowed Claude to write quite a bit of code without close enough examination until just now. Arguably, we're all good because we do have test coverage for the code I just refactored, so it's all go