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I didn't make a million dollars sitting on a train. I made it because of what I repeatedly did while...

AI companion and AI girlfriend apps are a useful stress test for a problem that affects many stateful...

Technology leaders often chase the newest DevOps trend, whether it's platform engineering,...

AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex have fundamentally changed how developers...

I can't write code. I've never written a line of it by hand. I still wanted something that didn't...

Introduction In the cutthroat corporate environment of today, organizations are continuously...

What A2P 10DLC actually is, why your messages started failing, and the inbound-triggered architecture that makes most of the compliance burden disappear.

Last updated: July 2026 Quick question. If your AI agent is touching payment data right now, does it...

Last night at 11:30 pm I screwed up. It led to an unexpected win. I'd been heads-down in Empirical...

A lot of AI coding workflows degrade the exact same way. At first, everything feels...

Some Java services don't fail because of traffic. They fail because background jobs don't know when...

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents. OpenAI has Operator. Microsoft offers Azure‑hosted...

The OWASP Foundation released the MCP Top 10 in April 2026. It's the definitive risk framework for...

In early 2026, a popular AI‑powered app builder called Lovable inadvertently exposed internal system...

In the race to govern AI agents, Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT) has become a popular...

In March 2026, a critical flaw in Langflow (CVE‑2026‑33017) was exploited in the wild within 20 hours...

The Painful Origin Story Two years ago, I launched a BIN lookup API with pricing that...

TL;DR What changed? Card networks (Visa, Mastercard, and others) expanded the Bank...

I kept running into the same thing with AI tools: great context disappears I repeat myself...

Originally published at samshustlebarn.com Last week, a quiet update to Microsoft's terms of service...

TL;DR A BIN (Bank Identification Number) is the first 6 to 8 digits of any payment card...

TL;DR Regex and Luhn checks confirm a card looks valid. They do not confirm it is valid...

Stop putting API keys where AI agents can read them. Your AI agent needs to call Slack, GitHub,...

Over the past couple of years I’ve built and run a niche job board for software engineers looking for...