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The terror of a "ZERO CVE" metric and how the bureaucrats lost

Using CVE counts as a primary security metric is counterproductive, distracting teams from addressing genuine security risks and creating a culture of security theater.

25 05 2025
8 minute read

OpenTelemetry Traces: A Powerful Alternative to JUnit XML for Integration Tests

Explore why OpenTelemetry traces offer a superior way to debug integration tests, especially in distributed environments, compared to static JUnit XML reports. Unifying the observability of tests with metrics.

04 05 2025
9 minute read

Bit Vectors and my first steps into assembly

Trying to speedup my lexer using lookups and bitvectors but simd was just a step to far for me.

21 12 2024
5 minute read

Diving into eBPF: Building a Process Tracer from Scratch!

How i ended up writing an ebpf based program to trace processes for a github action.

11 11 2024
18 minute read

Time to Bash the Bash Language

A rant about bash we need an alternative, possibly python or go.

27 10 2024
20 minute read

Improve the local dev environment

Make your ci pipeline match the local development by using a tools installer.

13 10 2024
9 minute read

Go Type Tagging

04 11 2023
12 minute read
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