Matthew Martin

@mistersql
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Software developer in Washington, DC (Herndon, VA specifically)

Doing #govtech, #cybersecurity python, dotnet, aws, mostly Infrastructure as Code and cloud apps.

I tweet about software, programming, #python, dad jokes, DC, Fed government tech contracting

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My Youtube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw1p2a3LW1VG7DTZQaT8Oaw
Bloghttps://blog.wakayos.com/
Githubhttps://github.com/matthewdeanmartin/
Pypi identityhttps://pypi.org/user/matthewdeanmartin/
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Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some
very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/supply-chain-social-engineering/
The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved โ€ฆ

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PSF Security developers have published incident reports on the LiteLLM & Telnyx #supplychain attacks. Read what happened, who's affected, and what developers & maintainers can do to prepare and protect themselves from future incidents. #security #python
https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-04-02-incident-report-litellm-telnyx-supply-chain-attack/
Incident Report: LiteLLM/Telnyx supply-chain attacks, with guidance - The Python Package Index Blog

Python Package Index shares insights and provides guidance following LiteLLM/Telnyx supply-chain attacks

I've got nine 9's of uptime. 66.999999999%

Due to sleep, I have at best two sixes of reliability, 66%. That's the ceiling.

For paid employment, I have two two's of reliability. 22% uptime.

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(today only there is an April fools template, looks like yahoo or excite)

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Is screen clearing problematic?
Is it problematic to have simulated horizontal lines e.g. `===` ?
Are lists with bracket numbers a problem, e.g [1] apple [2] pear?

I googled, I couldn't find a style guide for this.

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