MICF 2026 Recommendations
Some recommendations for the 2026 edition of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, as per the almost-yearly tradition.
Freelancing Gods
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AI and moral injury
As generative AI and LLMs seem to take over the world, and as someone who has significant ethical concerns about these technologies, I've been feeling quite despondent lately.
AI is Bad
A vastly incomplete list of the many significant issues with artificial intelligence.
SAML and Ruby: The Collection
My colleagues and I have learnt a lot about supporting SAML in our Rails app. I've collected a lot of that into a handful of posts.
SAML and Ruby: Automated request and feature tests
Writing tests to confirm SAML authentication in Ruby isn't too daunting at a request level - but full feature tests are also possible!
SAML and Ruby: Automated request and feature tests
Writing tests to confirm SAML authentication in Ruby isn't too daunting at a request level - but full feature tests are also possible!
SAML and Ruby: Testing with ephemeral apps
Identity providers require specific domains for testing - which is a challenge for preview/PR applications. We've found a way through this by building a bridging mechanism into our staging site.
SAML and Ruby: Parsing federation metadata
When working with multiple IdPs, parsing metadata files is not performant via the ruby-saml gem - but there is a better way with Nokogiri.
SAML and Ruby: Building a Service Provider
Building SAML service provider logic in a Rails app isn't actually as daunting as I first feared.
SAML and Ruby: The Terminology
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