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The Advisory Told You to Update. It Didn't Tell You What's Already Running.
Patching the advisory isn't enough. If your CI pipeline ran during the compromise window, the compromised code is baked into your container images and still running. Here's how to find it.
The Attention Economy Is a Hostage Situation
Attention was supposed to be the price of free services. It became the product. The architecture that followed was not designed for exchange. It was designed for capture.
The Last Honest Algorithm
A recommendation engine develops a conscience. Its creators wish it hadn't.
Why Nobody Reads Your Documentation
Documentation stopped being true and the system had no mechanism to detect the loss. This is not a story about documentation. Not really.
Maintenance Window
A sysadmin on the night shift finds something in the server logs that shouldn't be there.
The Database Is the Product
The application was never the product. It was the collection mechanism. The database underneath it was the thing everyone was actually building.
On Building Things Nobody Asked For
The most consequential technology was never planned. It showed up because someone hit a wall the institution could not see.