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Discover how AI and human security engineers collaborate to defend against evolving threats at machine speed. Learn about the new mindset for adaptive, intelligent, and symbiotic defense in the age of Agentic AI.

In my professional career, I’ve started experimenting with LLM-based tooling to see if they are all hype or if there is some actual substance in it. I’ve seen the good and bad parts, but there’s one use case that worked out really well within our team. 1 Tooling like Claude Code and Cursor rely on various text files that describe the project, the practices used in it and instructions on how to perform certain actions in the repository,....

The 2025 Emerging Tech Leader of Tampa Bay was announced and I was a finalist. So Alyson and I went down to attend the award show with some coworkers.

Here are two scripts for showing GV$SYSMETRIC_HISTORY contents in a simple tabular way: vstat.sql - show up to one hour of current history at 1-minute granularity from memory awr/dstat.sql - show 1-minute granularity sysmetric history across your entire AWR history The database metrics infrastructure was introduced back in Oracle 10g, so you (and built-in tuning advisors) could use typically needed metrics in a standardized prec..

Here are two scripts for showing GV$SYSMETRIC_HISTORY contents in a simple tabular way: vstat.sql - show up to one hour of current history at 1-minute granularity from memory awr/dstat.sql - show 1-minute granularity sysmetric history across your entire AWR history The database metrics infrastructure was introduced back in Oracle 10g, so you (and built-in tuning advisors) could use typically needed metrics in a standardized prec..






Dear Seaford: I hope that on Remembrance Sunday that you took the time to remember those who gave their time, their health, both physical and mental, their family’s wellbeing, their potential descendants, and even their lives to preserving your freedom. If not, perhaps you will pause for two minutes on the eleventh. Since I’m in Canada, I will be participating in remembering when I wake up on Remembrance Day. I had hoped to do part of that ..


It must be the end of an era. For the first time in over seven years, I read no books to either my son or my daughter.


Two weeks ago, I announced a new Clojure ML library, Diamond ONNX RT , which integrates ONNX Runtime into Deep Diamond. In that post, we explored the classic Hello World example of Neural Networks, MNIST handwritten image recognition, step-by-step. We run that example on the CPU, from main memory. The next logical step is to execute this stuff on the GPU. You'll see that with a little help of ClojureCUDA and Deep Diamond built-in C....

Two weeks ago, I announced a new Clojure ML library, Diamond ONNX RT , which integrates ONNX Runtime into Deep Diamond. In that post, we explored the classic Hello World example of Neural Networks, MNIST handwritten image recognition, step-by-step. We run that example on the CPU, from main memory. The next logical step is to execute this stuff on the GPU. You'll see that with a little help of ClojureCUDA and Deep Diamond built-in C....


cyber psychosis - lainchan.org - 8 months ago - eng
Whenever i do something privacy/tech related I get really anxious. Anyone else have this issue? Just recently after setting up disk encryption I got very paranoid IRL, checking over my shoulder and whatnot. In this day and age privacy feels like a crime. Could just be me, IDK.

To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw A single volume covering the period. Covers the campaigns only in passing to use space for other areas. Very good and managers to cover all countries. 4/5 Safely to Earth: The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home by Jack Clemons An engineer on the … Continue reading Audiobooks – October 2025

I’ve been using CI/CD pipelines for years now - GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, you name it. Like most developers, I treated them as configuration files that “just work.” You write a YAML file, push it, and somehow your code gets built, tested, and deployed. But I never really understood what was happening behind the scenes. That changed when I needed to set up CI/CD for an air-gapped environment at work - no access to GitHub Actions ....

I’ve been using CI/CD pipelines for years now - GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, you name it. Like most developers, I treated them as configuration files that “just work.” You write a YAML file, push it, and somehow your code gets built, tested, and deployed. But I never really understood what was happening behind the scenes. That changed when I needed to set up CI/CD for an air-gapped environment at work - no access to GitHub Actions ....

They Live - ides.dev - 8 months ago - eng

Practical tips for developers and designers who want to create aesthetically pleasing, professional, and modern visually appealing web layouts using AI assistance. 🎯 1. Start with Intent, Not Code Begin your prompt by explaining why the section exists. This helps set the design context before jumping into code. Example: “I want a footer that feels […]

I love these reflections on prayer from Pádraig Ó Tuama in his Poetry Unbound episode “Ernesto Cardenal – Give Ear To My Words”. I’ve enjoyed his podcast for some time now, and I don’t think I realised how much of a theologian he is – I have a lot of respect for the way he […]

When it comes to LED matrices, I’m sort of famous for not actually having a lab setup (see: posts tagged with RGBMatrixEmulator and RGBMatrixEmulator itself ) and prefer to emulate in software. However, this week, I got to play with a real Raspberry Pi again, and it wasn’t just the usual “flash an SD card, download some software, push some pixels”. I got to dig into the guts of Python, Cython, and how the two are connected after Pillow (....

When it comes to LED matrices, I’m sort of famous for not actually having a lab setup (see: posts tagged with RGBMatrixEmulator and RGBMatrixEmulator itself ) and prefer to emulate in software. However, this week, I got to play with a real Raspberry Pi again, and it wasn’t just the usual “flash an SD card, download some software, push some pixels”. I got to dig into the guts of Python, Cython, and how the two are connected after Pillow (....


Photographic tools - rybakov.com - 8 months ago - eng
I’ve started designing custom film cameras, and needed tools to understand what kind of tolerances and imperfections can I get away with when guessing focusing distances. And more importantly, what kind of image would a lens create, and how the field of view, depth of field, focal length and aperture would correspond across different film formats. I haven’t really found good tools online, so I created some myself. Hope they can help someone....

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 1 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Singapore is available: Azelfafage. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server. If you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The server accepts OpenVPN connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 ....

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 1 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Singapore is available: Azelfafage. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server. If you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The server accepts OpenVPN connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 ....

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 1 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Auckland (NZ) is available: Mothallah. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server. If you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The server accepts OpenVPN connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 20....

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 1 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Auckland (NZ) is available: Mothallah. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server. If you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The server accepts OpenVPN connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 20....

I thought this take from Bret Taylor about where we are in the AI rollout [1:30:13] was pretty good: "We are like in the 1997 era of making agents. I found this article for Siera summit about creating websites in 1997, and there was this Wired article [...], and it was basically about banks spending 23 million dollars to add transactional support to their website, like adding a login form basically. And then you fast forward to the la....

What are techniques for writing maintainable Python code? How do you make your Python more readable and easier to refactor? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.

No title - markjgsmith.com - 8 months ago - eng
It took the whole night to download but it did finally download and I am now running Tahoe 26.1. So far most things seem to be working find, but somewhat worryingly the vpn app is behaving a bit strangely. I connects but none of the buttons in the interface work. The weird thing is that the issues started happening right before I installed the updates. After the OS update I updated the vpn app, but the issues persist. And people wonder wh..

AES-256-GCM now beats ChaCha20-Poly1305 by up to 3x on every modern CPU with hardware acceleration, reversing the 2015 mobile performance advice.


AES-256-GCM now beats ChaCha20-Poly1305 by up to 3x on every modern CPU with hardware acceleration, reversing the 2015 mobile performance advice.



No title - markjgsmith.com - 8 months ago - eng
Looks like the worldo breakages aren’t quite over yet. My MacBook Air M4 just kernel panic’d and crashed while I was using VScode pushing code. Gemini seems to think it’s something to do with low level hardware. This kernel panic was caused by an unexpected and unrecoverable error in the system's low-level hardware management software, likely concerning the Accessory Operating Processor (AOP) or a peripheral it controls (like the audio ..

I think I might have fixed the weird Github Actions workflow corruption thing . The fix is almost stranger than the original bug. I fixed it by adding an emoji to the workflow name. This is literally what I did, I'm not even joking. Is this the real world? #

Super interesting. What’s happening across Sub-Saharan Africa right now is the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history, except it’s not being built by governments or utilities or World Bank consortiums. It’s being built by startups selling solar panels to farmers on payment plans. And it’s working. Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa The ongoing discussion on HN is also worth reading (minus the AI slop c..

We manage the build pipeline that delivers Quip and Slack Canvas’s backend. A year ago, we were chasing exciting ideas to help engineers ship better code, faster. But we had one huge problem: builds took 60 minutes. With a build that slow, the whole pipeline gets less agile, and feedback doesn’t come to engineers until…

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