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Unencrypted secrets on developer workstations and long-lived credentials in continuous integration environments have
long been considered bad practice. But they have often been tolerated because the cost of avoiding them was perceived as higher than
the cost of leaving them - for most projects, most of the time. That calculation has changed. The rise of AI agents has
opened new paths…
This weekend I attended the FOSDEM conference in Brussels. FOSDEM is a conference for all
things free and open source software. It was my first time attending, and I enjoyed it immensely. While it’s fresh in my
mind, here are a few notes and learnings. 
 I had only passed briefly through Brussels before and did not know what to expect from the city. For
the record, I spent…
eBPF allows event-driven programs, written in high-level languages, to be configured to run against
pre-defined hooks such as syscalls, function invocations, and network events. The technology enables the creation of
user-space implementations of many tools which previously required a kernel implementation or module. 
 While researching the technology and scoping out potentially…
I’m Rob, and this is my blog about building software. 
 I’ve been coding since 1987, and over the years have been through BASIC, Amos, C, PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, SuperCollider,
JavaScript, TypeScript, Elixir, and Rust to name but a few. These days I mostly write Go. 
 For twenty years I have been employed building software for various organisations. From 2010 to 2018 I was…
Hello, world. 
 Here we go with another attempt to start a blog. I hope to make this a place where I routinely share my learnings and
discoveries, in the hope they’re useful to somebody. Perhaps this time, I will manage to maintain it for more than a
handful of posts. 
 Let the blogging commence!