Joe Freeman

Jensen's keynote led with AI as a revolutionary change, an opportunity for the US to seize a leadership position in a global race.

Why would other countries let the US take a controlling position when they could be cut off by sanctions or tariffs, or export bans, without conversations or treaties?

A large portion of the discussion was about burgeoning market valuations as a demonstration of future value and the importance of the industry.

Speakers said it was the same speed and importance as the Manhattan Project.

Watching the NVIDIA GTC DC pre-game talk. The entire discussion revolves around building data centers, their power requirements, and the country's need to invest in infrastructure for AI factories.

Massive power consumption isn't a problem. It's a feature.

#GTC #NVIDIAGTC #GTCDC

Attended Sean Metcalf's BSidesNoVa 2025 talk "10 ways to Improve Entra ID Security Quickly" pyrotek.io/BSNoVa2025.

My main takeaway was that some of the default settings are bad, that Microsoft has been iterating, and that Securing #EntraID (FKA Azure AD) requires serious expertise.

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GitHub - pavanreddyml/BSides-Nova-BreakAI-Workshop-2025 Contribute to pavanreddyml/BSides-Nova-BreakAI-Workshop-2025 development by creating an account on GitHub.

#BSidesNova

The GitHub is greatly enhanced by having Pavan present it
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I never met or heard of Pavan before this session.

A big shout-out to Pavan Reddy, who gave a great lab session at the BSides NoVa event in Northern Virginia bsidesnova-2025.sessionize.com/session/992557

The entire session ran in Google Colab, launched with a single click, running nothing on the local machine. The only requirement was a Gmail ID.

The Case Against Generative AI Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

The case against generative AI as a business and the questionable revenue hype machine.

This article, which I wish I had written, describes the tangled web of hype, power, and corporate deals driving today's Generative AI.

www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

DevFest DC 25 DevFestDC is an annual, community-led software engineering conference designed to educate software developers, architects, entrepreneurs, quality-focused individuals, and tech leaders.

DevFestDC is back. October 3, 2025, in Arlington.

www.devfestdc.org

#DevFest #GoogleDeveloper #AI

Admissions for Hacker University 2025 are open – Apply Now!

BSides NoVa: BSides Northern Virginia is coming up October 10-11 2025.

Can't get to DEFCON? Need another security fix? Attend a local BSides

#BSides #DEFCON #Hacker

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However, containerization and remote execution introduce new challenges related to networking and connectivity. In this talk, we will explore how to manage connectivity for both the control plane and the user experience plane, including requirements like web access.

YouTube video by Joe Freeman: Software Craft, Org Stuff, Tech Stuff Visiting the topology when running remote containerized data science workloads and AI Workbench

Data science and AI projects are typically run on rented CPU/GPU resources or in self-managed data centers. By using containerization, we can separate our code and configuration from the underlying hardware

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The asustor AS5402T is a NAS appliance that supports two (2) 3.5" drives and four (4) NVMe drives. I wanted to run some Docker and Home Automation on my AS5402T NAS.

Upgrading from 4GB to 32GB was a simple, toolless operation.

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YouTube video by V. Hunter Adams Raspberry Pi Pico Lecture 1 (2025): Course Introduction

V. Hunter Adams' Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 series of 40 videos is a brain-activating course on using microcontrollers and their peripherals. It took me past "browsed it on the internet". #RP2040 #Pico #microcontroller

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Found a link to the series hackaday.com

Big software projects are always larger and more complicated than you expect. There are plenty of examples, including this one. #blackswanproject
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YouTube video by wallywallington Ancient StoneHenge Technology Reveal By Wally Wallington Part 3

In the IaF category. Saw part of this on LinkedIn.

This channel is a bunch of videos showing how "ancient civilizations" moved large loads or could have built stonehenge or other massive structures using just physics and manual labor

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsn5...

YouTube video by Joe Freeman: Software Craft, Org Stuff, Tech Stuff A plan of attack for the AI Everywhere LLM mandate. Modeling for applicability and risk

A plan of attack for the AI Everywhere LLM mandate. Modeling for applicability and risk.

Turn golf course ideas into actionable steps

youtu.be/R74dCLYK7sM

YouTube video by Joe Freeman: Software Craft, Org Stuff, Tech Stuff Programming Roadmap for AI July 2025 Pt 2 - We have enough programming languages for AI ng

We may rarely ever need another new programming language.

There has been a boom in the number of programming languages all built around fixing programming paradigms, usability, verbosity, and other concerns. Most of those concerns no longer matter when using AI / LLMs

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Quit hiding the scrollbars on a Mac! Make Mac scrollbars always visible macOS on Mac and MacBook machines automatically hides the scrollbars when you aren't scrolling. It is a great space saver, but it can make ...

I have never understood the "we must hide the scrollbars" design decision on a Mac or other computer system.

Settings --> Appearance --> Show scrollbars

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Apple did even worse with iPhone's "swipe down" being different based on starting location.

Electronic project tariff pricing is more inflation for hobbyists like me 😭

I just placed a $63 order with a vendor. Not sure where they ship from. They tacked on almost an $18 tariff fee 😭

#tariffs #IOT are another word for inflation

YouTube video by Joe Freeman: Software Craft, Org Stuff, Tech Stuff Joy and headaches building a well structured multi-platform Flutter app with CoPilot

I wanted a mobile scoring app. I built a Flutter app with integration tests using only (a lot of) CoPIlot Agent prompts.

TLDR: You have to know something to get something good.

Watch youtu.be/VDdW3GUj-88

Rather read? joe.blog.freemansoft.com/2025/07/buil...

The result github.com/freemansoft/...

Doc and Dash

When you promised your boss a plan or design before you go on vacation, and you are leaving town tomorrow morning with no corporate connectivity.

YouTube video by Joe Freeman: Software Craft, Org Stuff, Tech Stuff Building a Flutter Mobile App with a Single LLM Prompt - a ridiculous idea that works, sometimes

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I wanted to see how far I could bootstrap a personal Futter project with an LLM agent. This morphed into the challenge of getting a running program with a single LLM interaction. That then expanded into comparing local and remote LLMs.

The results github.com/freemansoft/...

I tried to plant something in a garden.... I tried to plant something in an enterprise garden.  It truned out that it was actually a graveyard of bad decisions. This quote is subject ...

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YouTube video by Joe Freeman: Software Craft, Org Stuff, Tech Stuff Avoid the Agile Grind - Role Rotation

Avoid the agile grind with team leadership iterations.

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YouTube video by Joe Freeman: Software Craft, Org Stuff, Tech Stuff Meetings without Agendas or Background Information Must Die

An empty meeting invitation is useless and a time drain. Invitees should decline them.

A meeting without any context about the problem or prior decisions is going to fail or be way more expensive than it needs to be. Invitees should decline them.

youtu.be/vVT_VCfSylM

#meetings

YouTube video by Joe Freeman: Software Craft, Org Stuff, Tech Stuff Full Model Validation in systems with Financial or Regulatory Risk

A design pattern for business rules and data validation in applications where the data "must be correct"

Assumptions
• Failures carry regulatory or financial risk
• Rules may be expensive or require coordination
• Multi-page data capture or transactions

youtu.be/r7ugeBrQSx8

YouTube video by Joe Freeman: Software Craft, Org Stuff, Tech Stuff Use the power! The right optical power glasses when working on the computer. #computerglasses

Use the power! The right optical power when spending hours in front of computer screens especially multi-screen or large-screen setups.

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Spinning up an Azure SQL always-free database I wanted to do a quick prototype with a friend and we wanted a common database so we looked for a developer-grade free cloud product that we...

Azure has an always-free cloud-based Azure SQL offering that makes it easy to learn about cloud databases and share prototypes.

It is a great way to share a database when working with someone else but comes with pretty serious usage limits.

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Today the primary competitor is probably the $5000 Mac Studio. NVidia will have to partner and think differently to attack this mainstream market.