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I have a Claude project set up as a standing assistant — it already holds the context for a task I do on a recurring weekly basis, and I wanted it to act on that context instead of just handing it back to me to act on manually. Two specific asks tripped me up. Trip Continue reading Why I Built an Outlook Writeback MCP Server
Why I m writing this I recently hooked Claude up to this blog s WordPress.com site through MCP so I could draft and edit posts without copy-pasting Markdown into the editor by hand. Convenient — but it s also an AI agent with write access to my site, and convenient and safe aren t the same claim. WordPress shipped Continue reading Five Questions to Ask Before You Give an AI Agent Write Access
Here are some lessons that I ve learned after a few months of using AI in my day-to-day work as an SDET. You are human in the loop Keep in mind that you are the human in the loop who is ultimately in charge of what your AI system generates. The AI system only has a Continue reading Lessons Learned from Vibe Coding
This is part 1 of a 4-part series on deploying an application to Azure Kubernetes. Here s a full list of this series: k8spractice Overview k8spractice PostgreSQL Service Deployment k8spractice Services k8spractice Ingress Rules (this post) Deploy Nginx Ingress Controller To help with exposing our web services we need to setup an ingress controller. For k8spractice Continue reading k8spractice…
This is part 4 of a 4-part series on deploying an application to Azure Kubernetes. Here s a full list of this series: k8spractice Overview (this post) k8spractice PostgreSQL Service Deployment k8spractice Services k8spractice Ingress Rules I started k8spractice after completing the Kubernetes Fundamentals course as part of preparing for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam. Aside Continue…
This is part 3 of a 4-part series on deploying an application to Azure Kubernetes. Here s a full list of this series: k8spractice Overview k8spractice PostgreSQL Service Deployment k8spractice Services (this post) k8spractice Ingress Rules Now that we have a running PostgreSQL server with the necessary database, tables, and roles configured it s time to deploy Continue reading k8spractice Services
This is part 2 of a 4-part series on deploying an application to Azure Kubernetes. Here s a full list of this series: k8spractice Overview k8spractice PostgreSQL Service Deployment (this post) k8spractice Services k8spractice Ingress Rules Motivation First, I want to point out that Azure provides a PostgreSQL service (see here for info) that you should Continue reading k8spractice PostgreSQL…
While working on functional tests for tlslookieloo I discovered that it's not returning an error exit code when it exits because of a configuration issue. This oversight would make it difficult to use tlslookieloo as part of automated testing.
After a few months of working on it on the side tlslookieloo 0.1.0 is finally out the door. I m releasing it as an alpha version; because, I worked on it alone for the most part. Keane Wolter (@d43m0n3y3, LinkedIn) helped out by reviewing the documentation and smoke tested it on a different platform. Why build Continue reading tlslookieloo 0.1.0 Released
I started working on tlslookieloo after failing to find a utility that I can use to basically MITM a client-server application I was testing at work. I looked at sslsniff and Cisco Talos Mutiny Fuzzing Framework and Decept Proxy to see if it provides what I need, or modify it for my own needs. In Continue reading Mocking C APIs in testing