Richard

Important November Dates

2 Book Lovers Day
3 Sandwich Day
3 Cliché Day
5 Bonfire Night
6 Nachos Day
11 Origami Day
13 Kindness Day
14 Pickle Day
16 Party With A Bear
16 Fast Food Day
19 Toilet Day
26 Cake Day
30 Stay Home Day

London Overground under the underground

Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

I tried to make sense of "spec-driven development" by looking at 3 tools: Amazon's Kiro, GitHub's spec-kit, and the Tessl Framework
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

Is the party over for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches? Why are companies rethinking Agile Roles? A perspective based on insights from the trenches.

Is the party over for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches? hrishikeshkarekar.medium.com/is-the-party...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

Read our full story here: www.wired.com/story/satell...

Előnyújtott csomagoló fólia 200 m vásárlása az OBI -nál Cséve hosszúság: kb. 200 m • Cséve szélesség: 430 mm • Anyagvastagság: 9 mm ✓ Előnyújtott csomagoló fólia 200 m v�s�rl�s az OBI online boltban

Ha van feladott bőröndöd, otthon fóliázd be. Védd a sérülés és az eltűnő tárgyak ellen(szerencsére ez szépen szorul vissza) www.obi.hu/koeltoezteto...

First AI Ransomware ‘PromptLock’ Uses OpenAI gpt-oss-20b Model for Encryption A new ransomware has been identified, which is believed to be the first-ever ransomware strain that leverages a local AI model to generate its malicious components.

First AI Ransomware ‘PromptLock’ Uses OpenAI gpt-oss-20b Model for Encryption - cybersecuritynews.com/first-ai-ran...

Enterprise Platform Teams Are Stuck in Day 2 Hell As platform engineering goes mainstream, enterprises work out how to maintain and optimize for developer customers and business stakeholders.

Indeed, these do sound like qualities of a great platform engineer. But they aren’t exactly concrete ideas. And, based on those definitions, only about 10 out of 650 attendees raised their hands to say they think they have great IDPs. - thenewstack.io/enterprise-p...

A Close Look at Security Envelope Patterns These classically inconspicuous designs, which are hiding in plain sight, have inspired collectors, artists, and at least one architect.

On the security envelope and art inspired by it :)

Launching Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative patterns and practices | Microsoft Security Blog Learn more about SFI patterns and practices: a new library of actionable guidance designed to help organizations implement security measures at scale.

We've just launched Secure Future Initiative Patterns and Practices, a new set of repeatable, real-world security solutions based on how we protects our own infrastructure. From identity lateral movement to legacy systems, and CI/CD pipelines, this guidance is built to scale. aka.ms/SFI_Patterns...

Important August Dates

1 Beer Day
3 Watermelon Day
3 Forgiveness Day
8 International Cat Day
9 Book Lovers Day
10 Lazy Day
12 Elephant Day
13 Left Handed Day
13 Prosecco Day
17 Custard Day
19 Bee Day
26 Dog Day
28 Mouse Racing Day
31 Bacon Day

Play pride. Fujio Kito has been documenting Japanese playgrounds at night for some time. We still love them, you can see more here

love love love these photographs of japanese playgrounds taken at night www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/p... via @lauraolin.bsky.social's newsletter

source code analysis of Amazon Kiro It's another day, and another coding tool has been brought to market that uses ripgrep under the hood. This time it's Kiro by Amazon. What follows below is an analysis of this coding agent: Study the...

ghuntley.com/amazon-kiro-...

This wasn’t a joke btw. It works. You’d be surprised how much uwu breaks guardrail implementations.

It's been a ton of work getting here but today I'm excited to announce the official commercial launch of AutoMapper and MediatR! More details here: www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-a... WHEW

The Firewall Allignment Chart

LLMs bring new nature of abstraction a short post

NEW POST

Gen AI for software development is the biggest jump up in abstraction since assembler to HLLs, but also a jump sideways.

martinfowler.com/articles/202...

Ha márka szerviz akkor 1m, de legalább ki is takarítják az autót :)

Sokan kérdeztétek (tényleg!) hogy mik a jó helyek a Balcsin, úgyhogy @csicsagatya.bsky.social, @vvegas.bsky.social és én csináltunk egy közös térképet. Több mint 100 hely van rajta: éttermek, kávézók, strandok, cukrászdák, programok stb.

Mentsétek, osszátok, szeressétek. 🫶

a.mefi.be/balaton

How is this happening:

GCP major outage; Cloudflare major outage… at the same time!

Never seen this before

Their infra is fully independent AFAIK

(The outage taking other services like Supabase with them)

Vibe Coding for Domain Experts – Derek Willis Academic and journalist

New Post: Vibe Coding for Domain Experts

(Or, how I managed to release a better version of a Python package I maintain in a few hours)

Plus an example of vibe coding in teaching

thescoop.org/archives/202...

EUVD European Vulnerability Database

The European Vulnerability Database (EUVD) is now fully operational, offering a streamlined platform to monitor critical and actively exploited security flaws amid the US struggles with budget cuts, delayed disclosures, and confusion around the future of its own tracking systems euvd.enisa.europa.eu

let B = W.message.content.toLowerCase(); if ( B.includes("think harder") || B.includes("think intensely") || B.includes("think longer") || B.includes("think really hard") || B.includes("think super hard") || B.includes("think very hard") || B.includes("ultrathink") ) return ( l1("tengu_thinking", { tokenCount: 31999, messageId: Z, provider: G }), 31999 ); if ( B.includes("think about it") || B.includes("think a lot") || B.includes("think deeply") || B.includes("think hard") || B.includes("think more") || B.includes("megathink") ) return ( l1("tengu_thinking", { tokenCount: 1e4, messageId: Z, provider: G }), 1e4 ); if (B.includes("think")) return ( l1("tengu_thinking", { tokenCount: 4000, messageId: Z, provider: G }), 4000 );

TIL that Claude Code increases the "thinking" budget to maximum if you tell it to "ultrathink", which is a step up from "megathink", which is a step up from "think" simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/...

Jó kis írás :)

0x1.pt/2025/04/06/t...

browse by category

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!

and they want to do it ...

... in *a few months*

I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...

... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here

1/9

It’s The Bottlenecks, Stupid! It’s the top question I get asked. “What’s your AI strategy?” people demand to know. And as I steer my taxi cab into their driveway, I tell them. My AI strategy was to spend…

"If your development process is full of blocking practices like after-the-fact testing or Pull Request code reviews, then faster code generation will just make the bottlenecks worse and the lead times even longer."

codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/i...

It's our pleasure to introduce two new watches that closely follow the original Pebble DNA. Both are available for pre-order starting today.

- Core 2 Duo: black/white display, $149, ships in July
- Core Time 2: 64 colour display, $225, ships in Dec

Pre-order today at store.rePebble.com

Last year I shared our discovery of the Crescendo and Skeleton Key jailbreak techniques. We have identified a new one, Context Compliance Attack (CCA) that's very simple, yet very effective at bypassing LLM guardrails.

Every tech company* has platform teams trying to build:

1. Heroku, except hand-rolled
2. One giant shared database, so engineers can ignore analytics without consequence
3. If they have a monolith, microservices. If microservices, a monolith
4. A solution to the halting problem

* Hyperbole. I hope