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rdegges

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About rdegges

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I'm just a happy programmer that likes to hack stuff.

You can contact me via my site: https://www.rdegges.com/ or via email r@rdegges.com

Recent public activity

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    I've built quite a few projects from 0 -> business over the last 20 years, and I think the fundamentals are still true today. First rule: if you're building the product solo, is it…

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    Nice project! One question I have on the `tool boundary` methodology -- does this penalize a skill for having any sort of scripts/ embedded? I've found it really helpful to take la…

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    Comment #48942243

    Good post, breaks down the threat models really well. =) One small note, I think there may be a small issue in one of the code blocks explaining the client key: > cache_namespace =…

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    Comment #48562444

    =0 I stumbled across this post and was thinking that it's interesting to see this topic trending now, since I've done a lot of work on it in the past. Then I clicked through and re…

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    Comment #47481221

    > Yes US citizens that are putting themselves in a situation they shouldn’t have been in to begin with while threatening and provoking a violent reaction. This is not at all true. …

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    Comment #47481129

    Throwaway accounts and more propaganda isn’t proof of anything. I think it’s pretty clear that untrained, unaccountable armed people who have already killed multiple US citizens th…

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    Comment #47481091

    This is straight up untrue. There are clean bill proposals to fund TSA that Republicans have rejected. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/are-the-proposed-tsa-fundin...

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    Comment #47481019

    Straight white US citizen male here. This scares the shit out of me. I travel for work all the time, but understanding that we will now have barely trained, and in many cases compl…

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    Comment #46945559

    This is such a great idea. When I'm building net-new projects, I typically end up working with the AI assistant to build a comprehensive AGENTS.md as the first thing before any wor…

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    Comment #46125322

    He also taught me networking in C in the early 2000's! A few years ago I moved from the Bay Area up to Bend, Oregon and ended up running into him in-person at one of the tech meetu…

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    Comment #45728195

    I believe one of the main differences is that our scanner looks for toxic flows between mcp endpoints regarding how they interact with one another. Unless I'm missing something, th…

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    Comment #45726223

    At Snyk, we've been working on this for a while. Here's our flagship open source project consolidating a lot of the MCP risk factors we've discovered over the last year or so into …

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    Comment #44925014

    Here's a better option -- what we've been working on at Snyk. - Take something like Cursor and plug the Snyk MCP server into it: https://docs.snyk.io/integrations/developer-guardra…

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    Comment #44648777

    Great article. This may be my all-time favorite deep dive post on RAG strategies. It’s super interesting to me how the process of fully making audio/video searchable requires so mu…

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    Comment #44387783

    Turning 37 in two days. =D Been programming since I was 12. The passion has never left. <333

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    Comment #44001740

    I wasn't sure if I should post this or not, but if you ever met Michael you probably remember him. He was a kind soul and helped grow the Python developer community in LA for well …

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    Comment #43808358

    Ragie (a RAG company) published an interactive chatbot that lets you ask questions about the JFK files. It’s pretty interesting, they had to do a lot of OCR on old docs to get it t…