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TODO Topics

🏗️ Architecture & Infrastructure

  • The Post-Kubernetes Era: What Comes After Container Orchestration?
  • Serverless at Scale: When Functions Become Your Foundation
  • The Great Cloud Repatriation: Why Some Companies Are Moving Back On-Premises
  • Building Anti-Fragile Systems: Engineering for Chaos in 2025
  • From Monolith to Micro-Services to...What's Next? The Future of Application Architecture
  • The Rise of Edge Computing: Bringing Intelligence Closer to Users

🚀 DevOps & Platform Engineering

  • AI-Driven DevOps: How Machine Learning is Reshaping Infrastructure Management in 2025
  • Platform Engineering vs. DevOps: The Evolution of Infrastructure Teams
  • Observability 3.0: Beyond Monitoring in a Multi-Cloud World

👥 Leadership & Team Building

  • Leading Remote-First Teams: Lessons Learned from 5 Years of Distributed Engineering
  • Building High-Performance Teams in a Post-Pandemic World
  • Technical Leadership in the Age of AI: Navigating the Human-Machine Partnership
  • The Human Side of Technical Debt: How Engineering Culture Shapes Code Quality

🤖 AI & Technology Trends

  • The Death of the Full-Stack Developer (And What's Replacing Them)
  • Quantum-AI Hybrid Systems: The Next Frontier in Energy-Efficient Computing

🌱 Green Software & Sustainability

  • Sustainable Software: Green Computing Practices for Modern Applications
  • LLMs for Climate: How AI is Optimizing Energy Grids and Reducing Carbon Footprints
  • The Carbon Cost of Code: Measuring and Minimizing Software's Environmental Impact
  • AI-Powered Smart Buildings: Using Machine Learning to Cut Energy Consumption by 40%
  • Green LLMs: Training and Running Large Language Models on Renewable Energy
  • Carbon-Aware Computing: Scheduling Workloads When the Grid is Cleanest
  • Digital Twins for Sustainability: How AI Models are Revolutionizing Climate Science
  • The Great Green Refactor: Rewriting Legacy Systems for Energy Efficiency
  • LLMs in Agriculture: Precision Farming for Climate Adaptation and Food Security
  • Carbon Offset Through Code: How Software Teams are Becoming Climate Positive
  • AI for Circular Economy: Using Machine Learning to Eliminate Waste in Manufacturing
  • The Ethics of Green AI: Balancing Innovation with Environmental Responsibility

🚀 Blog Improvement TODOs

🌍 Sustainability & Performance (Inspired by "Accidentally Carbon-Neutral")

  • Carbon footprint dashboard - Add real-time carbon impact display for visitors
  • Image optimization pipeline - Implement WebP/AVIF conversion for all images
  • CSS/JS minification - Optimize and tree-shake all assets
  • Font optimization - Switch to system fonts where possible, reduce font weights
  • CDN performance audit - Optimize CloudFront cache headers and edge locations
  • Page weight budgets - Set carbon budgets for new content creation
  • Green Web Foundation badge - Add verified green hosting badge to footer
  • Carbon-aware builds - Schedule CI/CD during low-carbon grid times

🛠️ Technical Debt & Infrastructure

  • Dependency audit - Remove unused Jekyll plugins and dependencies
  • Security headers - Add proper CSP, HSTS, and security headers
  • Accessibility audit - Ensure WCAG 2.1 AA compliance
  • Mobile optimization - Improve mobile reading experience

🔧 Development Experience

  • Pre-commit hooks - Add linting and formatting automation
  • Content templates - Create post templates for different content types

📈 SEO & Discoverability

  • Structured data - Add JSON-LD schema markup
  • XML sitemap optimization - Improve sitemap generation and submission
  • Internal linking strategy - Better cross-post linking
  • Tag organization - Reorganize and standardize post tags
  • Archive page improvements - Better post organization and filtering

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