I blamed the agents for my rate limit
Twenty agent sessions, one GitLab account on the Free plan and a rate limit that kept tripping. The swarm was the obvious suspect, right up until I traced it.
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The hero gets the bill
AI found a 22-year-old way to own most of the PHP web, and the fix shipped in a day. The bill for being rescued is still landing, and it isn't addressed to the hero.
My reason for hand-rolling it was wrong
I wrote my own OpenPGP packet code, then deleted the lot to prove I needed it. The reason I'd given turned out to be nonsense, and there was a better one waiting for me.
Two encrypted emails in twenty years
One of them was from me, testing it. I'd still publish the key, and the reason isn't cryptographic.
YAML has comments for a reason
yamldoc is the editing half of YAML for Go: change one key and every byte you did not touch comes back exactly as it went in, comments included. It now has an engine of its own, and the numbers to show why.
What I took back off the shelf
I put my working practice on a public shelf, and then took some of it back off again. Working out which half was the interesting part.
AI didn't kill curl's bug bounty. The bounty did.
The cash prize for anything that looked like a finding was the accelerant, and AI only made plausible-looking reports free to produce.
go-tool-base: I got tired of reinventing the wheel
How a pile of separate Go CLI plumbing packages became one library, with a typed container for dependencies and a generator on top.
Free Open Source Website for Scouts
A free open-source website for Scout groups: a SilverStripe module and theme with event calendars, section pages, news and forms.
