I finished an English series on the way I think ordinary people can start using AI for real work. The point is not to become an AI expert first. The point is to have one place where you can say what you want, give the tool access to the right folder, and check the result. Anything important still needs a human pause: publishing, deleting, paying, or authorizing. My preferred starting point is simp
📂 Series: SIEM Deployment Alright, let's talk shop. After over a decade in the trenches – from building out SOCs from scratch to wrangling SIEMs like Splunk, QRadar, and Microsoft Sentinel in some seriously high-stakes environments – I've seen a lot of tools come and go. Some are brilliant, some are overhyped, and some just… work. Wazuh falls firmly into that last category, with a generous helpin
Why Every AI Agent Needs a Cryptographic Identity The problem nobody is talking about Now consider this: every AI agent running in production today has no equivalent. No identity. No verification. No way to prove it is who it claims to be. A financial AI agent executing trades. A customer service agent handling sensitive data. A compliance agent processing medical records. Any of the
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the default standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and APIs. Governed by the Linux Foundation since early 2025 and adopted by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Vercel, MCP is the USB-C port of the AI ecosystem — one protocol that lets any LLM application talk to any tool server. But there's a gap between reading the spec and building somethi
If you have spent any real time with Claude Code, you have probably noticed the same problem I did. You write the same instructions in the prompt every other day. "Use four-space indentation here." "Always run the linter after edits." "Format commit messages this way." After the third or fourth repeat, it stops feeling like a prompt and starts feeling like missing config. Skills are how Claude Cod
I Couldn’t Write a SQL Query Today… So I Started Learning SQL from Scratch (Day 1) A beginner’s journey into SQL, databases, and understanding how data powers real-world applications. Today, I got stuck on something that should have been simple. I had to write a SQL query to fetch specific data… And I couldn’t. I tried multiple times: Different queries Different approaches Guessing syntax
SQLite Internals & PostgreSQL Multi-Master Replication Updates Today's Highlights This week's database highlights include critical technical discussions from the SQLite forum regarding optimizer behavior and trigger affinity changes, alongside the release of Spock 5.0.7, bringing enhanced logical multi-master replication to PostgreSQL. Source: https://sqlite.org/forum/info/819f2d6627c
Adding email and calendar tools to an AI agent is mostly an exercise in restraint. Give it 50 commands and the agent gets confused. Give it 5 carefully-chosen ones and it punches above its weight. After running agents against the Nylas CLI for a few months, these are the five I keep coming back to. Each gets exposed via MCP (nylas mcp install) so the agent can call them directly. nylas email send