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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 3 posts
How Successful Companies Go Blind — and What It Looks Like in Engineering
Ian Reppel’s essay argues that successful companies suffer from what he calls "competence blindness" — like the Mexican cavefish that suppresses its own eyes, they stop expressing careful engineering because the environm
2026-07-11 · 8 min read #engineering-culture#organizations#legacy#metrics#leadershipMel Brooks at 100 and the Documentary of Record: The 2026 Wave of Reverent Portraits of Elder Entertainers
Timed to Mel Brooks turning 100, a two-part HBO documentary about his life led the 2026 Emmy nonfiction field with six nominations. The same season also honored reverent, career-spanning portraits of John Candy, Martin S
2026-07-11 · 5 min read #film#documentary#comedy#culture#legacyDissecting Symantec SiteMinder Architecture — The Standard of Legacy Enterprise WebSSO
A deep dive into SiteMinder, the product that dominated enterprise WebSSO for over two decades. We dissect the Policy Server, Web Agent, SMSESSION cookie, the realm/rule/policy object model, and the security implications
2026-06-12 · 17 min read #siteminder#sso#iam#security#websso