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GitLost: How AI Agents Can Leak Your Code Through a Single GitHub Issue

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security • 7 min read

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GitLost: How AI Agents Can Leak Your Code Through a Single GitHub Issue

# GitLost: How AI Agents Can Leak Your Code Through a Single GitHub Issue A public GitHub issue should not be able to pull text out of your private repositories. With a dangerously over-permissioned GitHub Agentic Workflow, that is exactly what Noma Labs demonstrated. Their July 2026 write-up sho…

Techie Mike • 17 Jul 2026

Linux Signals Explained — SIGTERM, SIGKILL and Process Control

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linux • 7 min read

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Linux Signals Explained — SIGTERM, SIGKILL and Process Control

# Linux Signals Explained — SIGTERM, SIGKILL and Process Control Pressing `Ctrl+C` looks simple until the day it stops working. You hit it in a terminal. One Python script exits immediately. A Docker container hangs for ten seconds before disappearing. A runaway process ignores you completely unti…

Techie Mike • 16 Jul 2026

Homelab Burnout: Sustainable Self-Hosting When the Hobby Starts Feeling Like Work

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linux • 7 min read

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Homelab Burnout: Sustainable Self-Hosting When the Hobby Starts Feeling Like Work

# Homelab Burnout: Sustainable Self-Hosting When the Hobby Starts Feeling Like Work Browse [r/homelab](https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/) for long enough and you will regularly find people questioning whether their homelab has become more work than fun. People are not tired of technology itself. Th…

Techie Mike • 13 Jul 2026

Six arguing AI agents: what multi-agent debate teaches CS students about AI architecture

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Computer science • 8 min read

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Six arguing AI agents: what multi-agent debate teaches CS students about AI architecture

# Six arguing AI agents: what multi-agent debate teaches CS students about AI architecture Most students meet AI through prompts. Type a question, get a paragraph back, move on. That framing is useful for five minutes and then it gets in the way. The more interesting lesson is what happens when y…

Techie Mike • 11 Jul 2026

Beyond Ollama: 3 Homelab AI Tools Worth Trying Next

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Beyond Ollama: 3 Homelab AI Tools Worth Trying Next

# Beyond Ollama: 3 Homelab AI Tools Worth Trying Next Ollama is the tool I recommend when someone wants their first local model running tonight. It is simple, fast to understand, and good enough for a lot of homelab jobs. Pull a model, hit an API, wire up Open WebUI, done. I already covered that fu…

Techie Mike • 10 Jul 2026

How to Ask for Help: Technical Communication Skills Every CS Student Needs

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Computer science • 8 min read

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How to Ask for Help: Technical Communication Skills Every CS Student Needs

# How to Ask for Help: Technical Communication Skills Every CS Student Needs A student shows me a Python program and says, "It doesn't work." That is the whole bug report. No error message. No explanation of what the program is meant to do. No clue whether it ever worked, whether they changed any…

Techie Mike • 09 Jul 2026

Linux Pipes and Redirection: The Missing CS Lesson That Powers Real-World Automation

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linux • 8 min read

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Linux Pipes and Redirection: The Missing CS Lesson That Powers Real-World Automation

# Linux Pipes and Redirection: The Missing CS Lesson That Powers Real-World Automation A few weeks ago I was debugging why one of my Docker containers kept crashing. The logs were enormous — thousands of lines. I needed to find error messages, count how often they appeared, and figure out which ser…

Techie Mike • 08 Jul 2026

Homelab Network Design: Building Your Own Miniature Data Centre at Home

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hardware • 13 min read

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Homelab Network Design: Building Your Own Miniature Data Centre at Home

# Homelab Network Design: Building Your Own Miniature Data Centre at Home My homelab started flat. One subnet. Every device — the Proxmox host, the Docker containers, the media server, the WiFi light bulbs — all splashing around in the same 192.168.1.0/24 pool. It worked. Until it didn't. The mome…

Techie Mike • 07 Jul 2026

Self-Hosted AI Security: What Every Ollama User Should Know

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Self-Hosted AI Security: What Every Ollama User Should Know

# Self-Hosted AI Security: What Every Ollama User Should Know In May 2026, a GitHub issue reported that two production Ollama servers had been compromised by an attacker who pulled six malicious models onto them. No authentication check, no registry allowlist, no integrity verification. Just a curl…

Techie Mike • 06 Jul 2026

Right to Local Intelligence: Why Running AI on Your Own Hardware Matters

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AI coding assistant • 8 min read

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Right to Local Intelligence: Why Running AI on Your Own Hardware Matters

# Right to Local Intelligence: Why Running AI on Your Own Hardware Matters A manifesto hit the front page of Hacker News last week with a title that stopped me mid-scroll: "[Right to Local Intelligence](https://righttointelligence.org/)." Around the same time, Jamesob's [guide to running SOTA LLMs…

Techie Mike • 05 Jul 2026

Self-Hosting Toolkit: 10 Apps I Actually Use Every Day

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linux • 8 min read

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Self-Hosting Toolkit: 10 Apps I Actually Use Every Day

# Self-Hosting Toolkit: 10 Apps I Actually Use Every Day Every homelab goes through the same cycle. You start with one service. Then you discover three more. Then you're running 25 Docker containers and half of them haven't been touched in six months. I know because I did it. Last year I audited m…

Techie Mike • 30 Jun 2026

SSH Tunnels: A Practical Guide for Homelab Users and CS Students

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linux • 10 min read

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SSH Tunnels: A Practical Guide for Homelab Users and CS Students

# SSH Tunnels: A Practical Guide for Homelab Users and CS Students There's a moment every homelab user hits. You're away from home, staring at a coffee shop Wi-Fi login page, and you need to check your Proxmox dashboard. Or you want to share your Jellyfin server with a friend, but it's behind your…

Techie Mike • 29 Jun 2026