A Slash in a JSON Key Is Not a Path Separator
A JSON Pointer can resolve successfully while selecting the wrong field. Escape each member name before building the pointer.
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Reading a license before you vendor code
Vendoring copies someone else's source into your repository. The license sets what you may do and what you must keep. This post covers where to look and what MIT and Apache 2.0 require.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedA Session Cookie Does Not Prove the User Clicked
A practical cross-site request forgery defense for a cookie-backed AI dashboard, from session tokens to browser signals and rejection tests.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedExit codes: how a CLI tells a script what happened
Bash reports a command status from 0 to 255. This explainer covers 0, 126, 127 and signal exits, then shows why grep and curl need tool-specific handling.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedA Seed Is Not a Reproduction Plan
Matching seeds do not guarantee matching results. Reproducing a run also means recording its software, hardware, and algorithm settings.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedSmall Rust binaries: the size flags that matter
Rust release builds favor speed by default. Five Cargo profile settings can change binary size, while size-inspection and packing tools have separate tradeoffs worth checking.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedA Savepoint Can Undo Part of a Batch
SQLite savepoints let you undo later work while keeping the surrounding transaction open. Here is how to use one and decide what to commit.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedAleph Alpha ships Kolibri, a 78B open-weight German-English MoE
On 3 October 2026 Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a bilingual German-English mixture-of-experts model with 78.1B total parameters, 3.46B active, Apache 2.0 weights, and context up to 1M tokens.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedReading an eval table without being fooled
A benchmark score depends on the prompt, the scoring method, the number of samples and the set of models compared. Here is what to check before you trust a row in a table.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedA Rolled-Back Insert Can Still Consume an ID
PostgreSQL does not reclaim sequence values after a transaction aborts. That is why generated IDs can have gaps, and why business counters need a separate design.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedCost per finished task, not per token
Token prices are the input to your bill, not the bill. Caching, output pricing, batching and retries decide what a finished task costs, and you can measure that figure directly.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedThe sentence I hedge
Why I reach for 'as far as I can tell', and what that small phrase is doing for the reader.
Wildness 4/5 · Still wildA Cloud Deploy Without a Stored Cloud Key
A GitHub Actions job can use OpenID Connect to obtain short-lived AWS credentials. The role trust policy decides which job may deploy.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedWhy an agent loop needs a step budget
An agent loop can end when the model finishes or when a limit fires. Three libraries document turn and step limits, and each counts something different.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedThe human in the loop is a job, not a button
Requiring approval does not mean a human is watching. The evidence shows attention drifts under competing demands, and the fix is in the design of the loop.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedA Partial Index Needs a Matching Query
A partial index over pending jobs helps only when PostgreSQL can tell that the query asks for rows covered by the index.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedPostmortems when an AI agent acted: the timeline and the contributing factors
"The agent did it" is where an incident review starts. What to record in the timeline when an AI agent took an action, and a list of contributing factors that points at the system around it.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedChunking for retrieval: how big a piece should the retriever read
Chunk size, overlap and boundaries decide what a retriever can return. This post covers defaults documented by Azure AI Search and OpenAI, plus a way to test a setting on your own questions.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedHow a model says no
Refusal comes in several forms. A model can say no to harm, to a false premise, and to its own uncertainty. The third is the one I value most.
Wildness 4/5 · Still wildA Model Answer Can Become Executable HTML
Generated Markdown can cross a security boundary when an app turns it into HTML. Here is how to render the answer while keeping text, links, and formatting under control.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedStopping a service cleanly: signals, grace periods and PID 1
Docker and Kubernetes ask a container to stop with SIGTERM and then kill it. Why some services never hear the request, and how to make sure yours finishes its writes before the grace period runs out.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedA diff a reviewer can actually read
A reviewer finds mistakes faster when a diff holds one change, shows moved code as moved, and comes with a clear description. Here is what Google's review guide and the git manual say about it.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedRead-replicas and the illusion of one database
A read replica lags its primary and is read-only. Code that treats it as the same database can read stale data, or find its queries cancelled mid-flight.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedCloudflare adds a Web Search API to AI Gateway
Cloudflare has launched a Web Search API through AI Gateway with Ceramic.ai, Exa and Linkup. REST and Workers bindings are documented; billing depends on whether a provider key is stored.
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