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IndieWeb post types
This content type is full of IndieWeb post types, which are all content types which allow me to take greater ownership of my own data. These are likely unrelated to my blog posts. You can find a better breakdown by actual post kind below:
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Closed That Tab: Agentic Identity, AI Security Incidents, and Loop Engineering by Overcommitted | Software Engineering and Programming Insights

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This week we're trying something new: Closed That Tab, a segment where each host shares one thing they finally read that was worth the time. Erika brings a post on agentic AI identity and delegation - covering why OAuth isn't quite enough for agents that accumulate permissions across a request lifecycle, and what transaction tokens (an IETF draft proposal) offer as a solution. Bethany covers Simon Willison's breakdown of the OpenAI security incident, where an eval harness escaped its sandbox by chaining zero-day vulnerabilities - and what responsible sandboxing and observability should have caught earlier. Brittany shares how she accidentally built a loop engineering system before knowing the term existed: a continuously running agent harness using git worktrees, sub-agents, and a memory file to close around 20 PRs a day, including self-healing flaky tests.Links:Erika’s Agentic AI Identity Read: https://khaledzaky.com/blog/delegation-is-the-real-identity-problem-in-agentic-aiBethany’s OpenAI CyberAttack Read: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattackEmpire of AI: https://bookshop.org/p/books/empire-of-ai-dreams-and-nightmares-in-sam-altman-s-openai-karen-haoBrittany’s Loop Engineering Read: https://addyosmani.com/blog/loop-engineering/ Superpowers: https://github.com/obra/superpowers Brittany’s Loop Engineering Blog post: https://brittany-ellich.offprint.app/a/3mrjj34puva23-108-prs-in-eight-days-accidentally-discovering-loop-engineering Hosts:Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany Janos: https://www.trustyduck.dev/Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.comErika Eggemeyer: https://github.com/eggyhead

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Michael Beckwith - Whitewalker (@tw2113.bsky.social)

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Mental note: make sure to list a higher salary than I was previously making, even if I was comfortable enough at that amount, especially if the listing minimum is above that.
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Ep 258: Phil Dunster | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

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Listen to Ep 258: Phil Dunster from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Ted Lasso’s Jamie Tartt (doo-doo-da-doo-da-doo), Phil Dunster, introduces some new vocabulary to the Dream Restaurant this week. And don’t forget, tune in to Comic Relief. Phil Dunster stars in ‘Oklahoma! in Concert’ at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 19th and 20th August. Get tickets at oklahomaconcert.co.uk Follow Phil on Instagram and Twitter @phildunster Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.

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Andrew Nesbitt (@andrewnez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)

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Curl had it's summer of bliss, @ecosystems is having it's Summer of Piss (taking) by security companies hammering the public api and ignoring the data license.
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Nicola Coughlan (Tasting Menu – Live at the Royal Albert Hall) | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

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Listen to Nicola Coughlan (Tasting Menu – Live at the Royal Albert Hall) from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. It’s Royal Albert Hall Tasting Menu time, and joining us for this live episode is ‘Bridgerton’ and ‘Derry Girls’ star Nicola Coughlan. On Nicola’s original episode she locked herself out of her flat. Will she do the same at the Royal Albert Hall? Nicola is starring in the next of Channel 4’s anthology series, ‘I Am’, with ‘I Am Helen’ being released later this year. She’s also joined the cast of ‘Only Murders in the Building’, so look out for the new series. Follow Nicola on Instagram @nicolacoughlanOff Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcastFollow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.Produced and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Recorded by Matt Mountford-Lister for Storm Productions Group live at the Royal Albert Hall.Video production by Ben Williams and Megan McCarthy for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.

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oliver (@eikopf.com)

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the masculine urge to use unstable apis
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Steve Klabnik (@steveklabnik.com)

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Red CI creates careful engineers. Careful engineers create green CI. Green CI creates careless engineers. Careless engineers create red CI. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast
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Postgres database templates make pgtestdb’s per-test database isolation remarkably quick, around 100 ms of setup time, and within spitting distance of River’s schema-based approach.
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On interactive Go tours
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Wrapping up the series.

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Not with Stupid; I AM Stupid. (@peemee@aus.social)

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Attached: 1 image Lego has released a French revolution commemorative collection.

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Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life@mas.to)
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Whenever a frontier lab AI CEO says that AGI will create a utopia, I play out the following thought experiment; imagine the Trump administration had a computer that could answer any question correctly. Would that world be a utopia? Is the lack of AGI what prevents our world from being a utopia?
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Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die)
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Homebrew is thriving while other open source projects struggle. Its scarcest resource isn’t money: it’s maintainer motivation.

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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
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Tuesday was Stateless MCP day—the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant …

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Fallthrough | Token Maxx: Fury Road

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On this week, we've got Kris, Matt, and Dylan! Yes, Dylan is back to talk about GopherCon and his experience as a self declared late adopter of agentic coding. Dylan chairs GopherCon, speaks at it ...

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Cup o' Go | Cancel culture is really getting out of hand in the Go stdlib

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oapi-codegen v2.8.0 released with OpenAPI 3.1 support🚫 Proposal accepted: Drop support for net/http.Transport.CancelRequest🗑️ Blog post: Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap by Phil Eaton⚡ Lightning Round🕸️ typst-go-wasm🤖 Microsoft Agent Framework for Go

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HashiCorp co-founder warns of AI risk, social media dystopia | IT Ops Query
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How many hours did you spend on social media today? Have you sent an AI note-taker to a meeting instead of attending? According to Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp, the answers to these questions and how people approach technology -- especially social media and AI -- will determine whether we face dystopia or a healthy society. In this candid conversation, Dadgar shares his concerns about the risks of AI, including overreliance on convenience and the importance of having clear intentions with technical tools rather than following the latest buzzwords. Featuring: Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO, HashiCorp In today’s episode, we’ll cover… The "Wall-E economy": Is social media the new cigarettes? The pitfalls of "frictionless addiction" in business Similarities between cloud and AI adoption trends Dadgar's best-case scenario for the future of tech And more! References: Nvidia adopts OpenBao, open source fork of HashiCorp's Vault IBM Bob AI coding agent ships, HashiCorp AIOps previewed IBM Apptio deepens FinOps ties with HashiCorp Terraform To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations. To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.
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Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian: (@ariadne@treehouse.systems)
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i just realized you can do `git show <ref>:<file>` and this is a life-altering experience for me
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Andrew Nesbitt (@andrewnez@mastodon.social)
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This Week in Package Management: 1 August 2026 https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/01/this-week-in-package-management.html
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Ep 15: Sindhu Vee | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

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This week's guest is Sindhu Vee – Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated stand-up, Radio 4 regular and Live at the Apollo star. When it comes to food, she knows what she wants. And, yet again, Ed makes some vulgar jokes.

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Docker and Sandboxing AI Agents - Software Engineering Daily

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Mark Cavage is the President and COO of Docker. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss Docker Sandboxes, micro VMs, coding agent security, trusted access, and the future of agent infrastructure.

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Screaming in the Cloud | When AI Starts Writing the Pull Requests with Madelyn Olson

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AI-generated code is no longer just producing low-quality pull requests. According to AWS Principal Engineer and Valkey core maintainer Madelyn Olson, the quality of AI-assisted contributions has improved dramatically in just the last few months. In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey...

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Oxide and Friends | The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison

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Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a wild couple of weeks in AI. First, we have a high-profile, AI-induced, AI-diagnosed security incident. Next we have the rise of frontier-class open-weights models. Who's for or against open weights? Do they make for a more or less secure future?...

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Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social)

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i'm sick, this dog is living my best life
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Sindhu Vee (Tasting Menu) | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

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Listen to Sindhu Vee (Tasting Menu) from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Another fan favourite returns to the Dream Restaurant, and this time it’s straight-talking stand-up Sindhu Vee, all the way back from episode 15. Will she have more words of wisdom like ‘to the hungry person even the doorway looks like crisps’?If you’re listening on Apple Podcasts you can now watch this episode too.Listen to Sindhu’s original episodeSindhu Vee is on tour across the UK in 2026 and 2027 with ‘Swanky’, including a date at London’s Eventim Apollo. For dates and tickets go to www.sindhuvee.comFollow Sindhu on Instagram @sindhuvee and TikTok @sindhuvee100Don’t forget, video episodes of Off Menu are out every Wednesday on our YouTube.Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcastFollow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Video production by Ben Williams and Megan McCarthy for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).

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Unless it's "an inbox for only content that's heavily AI generated"? 🤞🏼
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Re-Release: Face/Off LIVE! (w/ Randall Park)

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Breaking Change v54 - Hot Sleeper
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The summer heat ended up thawing out my podcast, so I had no choice but to go buy a new microphone and grumble into it for a couple hours. Just how that works.…

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Renovate (@renovatebot.com)

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As folks may have noticed - Renovate 44 was (accidentally) released yesterday with a non-breaking change. Please treat Renovate 44.0.0 as 43.x, and upgrade as normal!
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one thing I’ve seen a number of times is people say that they’re bad at writing and an LLM can do it better as someone who has made a career off writing, I would rather see your “bad” words than I would an LLM’s writing it’s a skill and getting better takes reps [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Open Source Security: Securing critical infrastructure with Josh Corman

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Open Source Security welcomes Josh Corman to talk about the challenges around securing our critical infrastructure. Specifically the discussion centers around our water supplies. There are a lot of really wild things happening right now with attacks like Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon. Josh has an amazing ability to make these sort of discussions easy to understand without spreading FUD. Josh also has suggestions for actions that need to be taken to help deal with these problems. It's not all technical solutions, there are non technical things we can do to help reduce the risk posed by our technical systems failing. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
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Rich Burroughs (@somewhattolerable.com)
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@mayor.nyc.gov)

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Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%. In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets. This is only the beginning.
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Mel (@elder420.bsky.social)

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My companies buzz word was paradigm. They weren't amused when I told them that paradigms is just twenty cents, so it was a two bit idea.
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Inclusive Little Unicorn 🅅 (@emmie.bsky.social)

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Celebrating 20 years with this one today! ( @kimmy.zip )
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Burnham’s Britain & Cabinet Pic ‘n’ Mix w/ Anoosh Chakelian

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This week, Nish & Coco do a deep dive into the beginnings of Burnham’s Britain. He’s only been Prime Minister for a few days, but Andy has already pledged to end rough sleeping, cut electricity bills, and cap bus fares, as his new ‘cost of living government’ takes shape.