Matt Franz

@mdfranz@infosec.exchange
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Recovering SecOps Director (currently a Cloud Security Engineer) with no delusions of ever becoming a CISO and possibly never a "people leader" again. Ex-Mandiant, Cisco, Ping (Identity not golf), Tenable, and Gemalto.
Bloghttps://blog.mdfranz.com
Githubhttps://github.com/mdfranz
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Best thing I've seen on LinkedIn for a while. (From Chris Lo from TraceCat)
Built a Linux Laptop today. Thinkpad T490 with Ubuntu 24.04. Trying to remember the last time I did this.Went pretty smooth.
Even with AI, XML is still terrible.
TBM 363: Is Matt A Loser?

It was far easier to rationalize a layer of inexperienced managers than to face the fact that the strategy was scattered and shifts in the technology landscape threatened the core business model. "It isn't our job to raise the flag that teams are overloaded! That's middle management's job. We want to do ambitious things here at Acme!"

The Beautiful Mess
https://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/ is available in Debian repos and Homebrew and LLMs know about it. Also xmllint
XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit: News

XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit

The lesson of the last week is don't necessarily write Python (with LLMs) even though you can. There are also CLI tools that do the job better than you can.
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Fan running nonstop on my sturdy on HP x360 ChromeBook, not sure WTF is going on with this release but hope it stops.
Folks still showing up week after week!
Windmill MCP | Windmill

Windmill supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that enables seamless interaction between LLMs and tools like Windmill.