Everything your mentor wants to say but HR won't let them

After changes to pricing structures for LLM powered code assistants, Mike looks at how a seemingly simple task can burn through tokens when an agent 'looks after it' for you.

Published with three potential titles on a YouTube test:
Extreme Token Use of…

IP, technology & commercial law

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Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.

It’s supposed to be a decentralized service, after all...

A curated directory of PostgreSQL extensions and tools. Replace Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and MongoDB with one database you already know.

TL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible—striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker.One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool's shortcomings and reselling them as a "puzzle game" which is "fun" to solve.I don't want…

There is no need to update symmetric key sizes as part of the post-quantum transition, due to the details of how Grover's algorithm scales. Most authorities agree.

Begin with the basics to understand Docker and Kubernetes networking: learn how to create and interconnect Linux network namespaces using only command-line tools.

Today’s post is a bit different from my usual deep dives into mesh geometry. It’s a story about architecture – and about going back to the beginning. Think back to how you learned…

The official jscrambler npm package (60K monthly downloads) was trojanized starting at 8.14.0 through an npm account or CI compromise. The attacker…

I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns.

How Reddit accidentally leaked its spamurai system.

Do I have a favorite standard? Silly question. How could I not? There are so many great ones, each with its own weirdly fascinating story. In a previous job, I spent a lot of time getting to know E…

New verb carries request content while remaining safe, idempotent, and cacheable

Cloudflare recently documented how its development team identified and fixed a rare bug in the widely used Rust HTTP library hyper that could silently truncate large HTTP responses while still returning a successful 200 OK status. The issue had existed for…

Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so …

How I found that anyone could register on FIFA's public Agent Platform, gain access to the Football Data Platform's Streaming Management panel, and get RTMP ingest URLs and stream keys for every live FIFA World Cup 2026 camera feed. I then spent hours calling…