I just watched Agentic ProbLLMs: Exploiting AI Computer-Use and Coding Agents from Johann Rehberger on the #39c3. He shows quite impressive how the future threat model looks like, the more AI Agents are deployed. In his talk he demoes a couple of attacks that were applied by using agents. I don’t want to summarize...

The 39C3: Power Cycles, the 39th Congress of the Chaos Computer Club has finished. I followed the congress via the #39C3 Hashtag on Mastodon which was quite interesting. I’ve never been there myself but at least I got some impressions via the posts. All (or a lot of?) the talks are available online as well. […]

I just read Influence Without Authority: How to Get People to Listen Without Being the Boss from Bri Chapman. Most people think influence comes from a title. From being the person who approves budgets, signs off on decisions, or sits at the top of an org chart. But that’s not how it actually works. Bri […]

To me, LinkedIn was supposed to be the professional network — a place for thoughtful discussion about work related stuff and genuine connection. Yet, over the years, it feels that the content and tone has shifted for engagement (“what do you think?”, “how do you do it?”), self glorification (“especially after...

Actually I wanted to try a bit GithubCopilot with Agents.md. Yet .. I think during the project I totally forgot to test the influence of the Agents file but tried “vibeCoding” in a reproducible way. I had a very little project in mind that authenticates to Mastodon, fetches some data, saves into a database and […]

On Mastodon, I just found a link to the Terrible Software Blog. (Definitely a blog to follow, I just added it to my RSS reader). I found this article pretty good: What Actually Makes You Senior. But if you strip away the title, the salary, and the years of experience, there’s one core skill that […]

When I started the Fediverse integration of the blog, I just made a default handler for the full blog and called it @blog@www.locked.de. Yet, the more I use the blog for the fediverse, the less this made sense to me as it felt too impersonal. While I could switch the setting to allow profiles for […]

GitHub’s new guide, How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories, pulls lessons from over 2,500 repositories to show how to document AI agents effectively. It’s not just about clarity but also about making collaboration, reproducibility, and scalability possible. The guide breaks down how to...

Docker’s recent article “Do You Really Need Microservices?” delivers a good dose of pragmatism with regards to Microservices. The article doesn’t dismiss microservices outright— it acknowledges their value at massive scale — but it also hightlights an uncomfortable truth: most teams simply don’t operate at that...

Backups should be routine not only for folks in the IT. If you’re reading this you probably already have SOME backup process in place. Ideally automatically or with a scheduled reminder. But doing backups regularly is just half the story … The other half is verifying that your backups can actually be restored. A...

Manton Reece, a developer and long-time Apple user, recently lost permanent access to his Apple ID. And he didn’t even do anything wrong. The result: 20 years of photos, messages and data? Gone. A true worst case scenario! But let’s have a look, should we learn something from that? First of all: This isn’t just […]

On Mastodon, I just came across “I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.” from Josh Anderson. He spent three months building a product using only AI-generated code. The result? A working product, but also a dangerous realization: He no longer fully understood his own creation. When a small change was needed, he...