Part III — When the security scanner became the weapon: Trivy → LiteLLM → Axios
Two distinct nation-state actors struck the developer toolchain within 12 days. The inspector became the attack surface. The most diligent organizations had the greatest exposure. This is not a…
Living life like a video game
A couple weeks ago, I went on an adventure. I used to do go on adventures all the time as a teenager, but I don't get around to doing it as much these days, work and responsibilities got in the way.…
The Feature Creep
Notion: notes to email client. Jira: bug tracker to 3,000 plugins. Google: 299 products killed. Sonos: CEO resigned. Skype: 405M to shutdown. VLC: media player since 2001. The best software never…
Part II — Third-party libraries: the vulnerability layer nobody counted
When your Node.js service pulls 847 npm packages to serve a login form, you are not running one application. You are running 847 applications — most written by someone who needed to scratch an itch…
Having a bike or rather, the lack of one
I would love to have a bike, to be precise, a cargo-bike. I live in a flat city and having a fast and easy way to do my groceries and move around would be nice. But here's the thing, I live in a…
Agent Skills Are Becoming the Best Way to Capture Institutional Knowledge
Use Agent Skills to capture institutional knowledge and make it usable by coding agents. Every organization has institutional knowledge. Internal frameworks Preferred practices Platform-specific…
The Certification Industrial Complex
$700 exam. Expires in 3 years. Repeat. Non-certified skills earn 2% more since 2007. CompTIA: $168M/year, now PE-owned. Kent Beck called it a pyramid scheme. When private equity acquires the exam,…
Fewer Computers, Fewer Problems: Going Local With Builds & Deployments
Me, in 2025, on Mastodon: I love tools like Netlify and deploying my small personal sites with git push But i'm not gonna lie, 2025 might be the year I go back to just doing builds locally and…
Publish SQL Database Projects as Container Images with MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj
Database deployments have traditionally been one of the trickier parts of a CI/CD pipeline. You need the right tools installed, the right permissions configured, and the right SQL Server instance…
Responsive images in Hugo using Render Hooks
Replace Hugo shortcodes with Render Hooks for automatic responsive image generation — a modern approach using WebP-first srcset with JPEG fallback
Using jSoup To Translate User-Generated Content Into CFMailML Custom Tags
Ben Nadel demonstrates that jSoup can be used to parse user-generated content (UGC) and translate it into CFMailML ColdFusion custom tag invocations....
Taboola’s DeeperDive Hits 7M Users
Taboola is pushing deeper into AI-driven content discovery, and early numbers suggest the strategy is working. The company announced that DeeperDive, its Generative AI answer engine, has reached…
Reshift Media Drops Franify: The Platform Franchises Have Been Waiting For?
Reshift Media has introduced a platform that aims to fix a long-standing problem in franchise marketing. The company officially launched Franify on April 8, 2026, positioning it as a centralized…
Pocket Rockets
My small Corgi Rockets fleet is growing. Three new pocket money Car boot ones in the last 8 days. With my trusty pen case I decided to try to patch them up a bit. Great fun. I adored these cars as a…
I persisted! The macOS version of “she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died” is here x)
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Stay Awake
The intended effects of social networks for the sake of wealth ought to be the lens through which we look at AI. At their beginning we were told of all the good things social networks provide, and…
MindDump
Hey! welcome to my Blog, this is where I share my thoughts, deep dive into topics and share the new things I learn with the Internet. I’m Kuber Mehta, founder of PolyThinkand TREAT AI and an AI &…
Talk to the AI in my hand: A conversation with Perplexity Pro while out runnng 3 (three) miles
Since forever I've wanted a running buddy, someone who was comfortable running at my pace while being able to chat about interesting things to distract me from the boring nature of running by myself.…
The Exact Systems Behind a $1m YouTube Channel | 123
Most creators focus on viral hits or massive subscriber counts, but Tintin Smith, former Head of YouTube for Ali Abdaal (where he helped grow the channel from 3 to 6 million subscribers and millions…
I Built a Design Team Out of AI Agents
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To create a document, graphic, presentation, etc. you often start by authoring a file on your computer using your favourite app. When you are ready, you upload and share on the web. lmno.lol is no…
Frequently asked questions
Why blog on lmno.lol? ⭐️ Enable the web you want ⭐️ You want a better internet ✨ You prefer an internet experience that is fast and smooth, free from continuous tracking, advertising, paywalls, data…
Anatomy Of A Back Pocket Encounter: The Screaming Ambush
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I like seeing 中文 trending here!
The last few times I've checked the Discover page I've seen a Chinese language post trending here. I want to try and read some of those posts, with a dictionary to look up the (many) words I don't…
Trial By Error: Some Things I’ve Read Recently…
By David Tuller, DrPH *This is a crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, the link is here. ********** Julie Rehmeyer explores a friend’s death in New York…
G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero Pt. 2
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Small, steady progress and the will to not give up
After a big creative block in February, I'm finally feeling / seeing progress again, in multiple things. My drawings are becoming noticeably better, though I still have a lot to work on, but I keep…
U.S. Supreme Court, with No Noted Dissents, Declines to Restore Samuel Ronan to Republican Primary Ballot for Congressional Seat in Ohio
Order noted here. (Background) The post U.S. Supreme Court, with No Noted Dissents, Declines to Restore Samuel Ronan to Republican Primary Ballot for Congressional Seat in Ohio appeared first on…
Calculating Light Meson Masses From First Principles In QCD
How good are current Standard Model calculations at predicting the experimental values of the light meson masses? A new paper that makes that attempt for all light mesons under 1.5 GeVs of mass. And,…
The View from the “Other Side”
During my morning review of feeds through The Old Reader, I realized that none of my sources in my “World News” category came from the United States. Two of them come from the United Kingdom (BBC and…
AIR Fabric Vintage Synths Vol. 1: Prophet, Jupiter and Memorymoog for MPCs and your DAW
AIR Fabric Vintage Synths Vol. 1: new collection with sample-based Prophet, Jupiter, and Memorymoog synthesizers for standalone MPCs and DAW. If you want to work with sounds of vintage synths, you…
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i ask chatgpt why people often tell me they like my username "awful_piper". it's because it's made from two, two syllable words with a space in the middle, makes a rhythm "aw ful pi per". i ask why…
The Woman Behind the Pen Name: Freida McFadden Is Sara Cohen
For years, one of the publishing world’s worst-kept secrets was hiding in plain sight. The author behind some of the most compulsively readable domestic thrillers of the past decade, a woman…
Arson at Longueuil sex shop
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Victoria’s Secret Bombshell Bronze ~ new fragrance
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Last Chance for a Socialist-Environmentalist-Pacifist Government For Canada
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Jasmine Gregory, What’s In Your Bag
Saw this on the ‘gram this morning and the title of this blog post popped into my mind. Zurich-based Jasmine Gregory’s work felt based in Zurich, luxury institutional critique from the…
First ride in the Bronco
Riley and Gabby got their first ride in the Bronco and did well. Riley wants to get in the front seat while Gabby is happy to lie on the floor. Paul removed the rear seats from the Bronco and…
To Hell & Back
She then took me away from that barren place. Immersed in a whole other world, I found myself wandering a network of closed quarters painted with graffiti. At the end of a short tunnel I noticed a…
ARexx explained: how the Commodore Amiga pioneered workflow automation
ARexx occupies a distinctive place in computer history, and not only because it belonged to the Amiga. What makes it worth revisiting is that it solved a very human problem:…
Michael Patrick Campbell, the Belfast Actor Who Turned His Terminal Diagnosis Into His Greatest Performance, Dies at 35
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Habs playoff tickets about to go on sale
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SMW6 Project Stalled - Neither Red Sea Nor Persian Gulf Bypass Finished
A contact informed me yesterday that the Persian Gulf survey was completed in December of last year. But the plan to bypass the Red Sea using the Bahrain landing is now on hold due to the American…
As the Kids Say, "Fit Check"
If you know me, you will know that about 99.9% of my wardrobe comes from clothing exchanges. This means that, though I love my clothes, very little is actually the latest in fashion — or even…
Battle of Elements
Silly miss communications kept us apart, and so did our mutual fear of commitment. Taken back to the place where it all began, I had to separate myself from the substitute of that same beginning. The…
Music streaming is a disservice to album art
I collect vinyl records and, more recently, CDs. I like listening to them and I also like looking at them. I also stream a lot of music on Spotify. Spotify displays album covers, but they lack the…
Vocalist Esther Kaiser’s Learning How To Listen (The Music Of Abbey Lincoln) CD (2015, GLM) includes…
Vocalist Esther Kaiser’s Learning How To Listen (The Music Of Abbey Lincoln) CD (2015, GLM) includes her version of Charlie Haden’s “First Song”.
Thursday Morning Auto News, Apr 09, 2026: Stellantis production rebounds in Italy. Volvo CEO search takes shape Hyundai reroutes ships. More.
Stellantis production rebounds in Italy with new models driving growth – Automotive News Volvo CEO search takes shape as Samuelsson’s exit nears – Automotive News Hyundai reroutes…