When your team adopts AI, mistakes are inevitable and necessary. Your job as code owner is to catch them before customers see them, and improve your instruction files so they don't happen twice.
I have been a manager for quite some time. I have seen plenty of different behaviors play out. Eagerness. Apathy. Rage. I thought I could navigate all of them and make sure they could direct their feelings to align with the organization's goals. I saw myself a…
tldr: skip the vendor remote-control features. roll your own with wireguard, tmux, and ssh. cheaper, more flexible, and you stop handing third parties a live shell into your dev box.
Why telemetry explodes into cost and noise, and how to fix it: treat every signal as a decision, not exhaust, and govern ownership before it's too late.
… so you can still understand and change them, when you can only work half an hour
The homepage of Joshua Liebow-Feeser
Before GitHub Actions, before GitLab CI/CD, and before the panoply of startups all promising to help you build your software faster and with less hassle, there was the humble, open source Jenkins. Or perhaps I should say is: Jenkins is still actively maintaine…
Dave explains the Grok/Bankrbot exploit that caused an AI Agent to spend almost $200K in tokens!
We built a whole industry to count our dollars. We barely count our hours. The asymmetry is backwards.
Learning Beyond Gradients
Using Cloudflare CDN to synchronize a clock
Let me tell you about what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity I had last night.
The streetlight effect in project-health scoring
Background We started off with a simple idea for a product; we wanted to re-use the chat interface for everything except chat. It was supposed to be just for photos but expandable later. The idea was that most people already share their photos with others on W…
Lies, damned lies, and Elastic's benchmarks
It's a spicy title, but one that is warranted. Elastic recently published a blog post titled 30x faster than Prometheus, that claimed that Elastic's new TSDS timeseries engine is much better than Prometheus. When I started reading it, I was curious; maybe ther…
Yesterday I had some news that has left me feeling anxious, happy but also conflicted all at the same time.
My very first blog post was written the day before my last counselling session with, Angel,It is called The last day.My counselling sessions with her were a 100 percent positive experience and she …
Essays, notes, papers, and resources by Ludwig Abap.
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Learning about selectively announcing prefixes with BGP to get traffic to its destination faster
Laptops all have built-in security tokens these days
I’ve been a fan of security tokens for a decade now and have accrued quite a collection. This redundancy isn’t a bad thing, as security tokens are easily misplaced and the only way to recover from a lost token is using a second token that is also registered wi…
Thirty years ago, Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive with an ambitious goal: Universal Access to All Knowledge. Today, that mission continues to grow with an exciting new chapter: the launch of the Internet Archive Switzerland, a non-profit foundation…
LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation that the LLM will faithfully execute the task without introdu…
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EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems.
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…
'Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs,' Meta says.
A week ago the Copy Fail vulnerability came out, and Hyunwoo Kim immediately realized that the fixes were insufficient, sharing a patch the same day. In doing this he followed standard procedure for Linux, especially within networking: share the security impa…
Cartoon Network Flash Games
Explore a collection of Cartoon Network browser games inspired by The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and other fan-favorite series.