Programmer Humor
- My boss bought me DataGrip today
Under Windows DBeaver is a solid (and free) tool for the casual database user. But under Linux you really learn to save your scripts often.
- DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI
>Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. So it should fill all Americans with a deep sense of confidence to learn that Mr. Elez over the weekend inadvertently published a private key that allowed anyone to interact directly with more than four dozen large language models (LLMs) developed by Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI.
>On July 13, Mr. Elez committed a code script to GitHub called “agent.py” that included a private application programming interface (API) key for xAI. The inclusion of the private key was first flagged by GitGuardian, a company that specializes in detecting and remediating exposed secrets in public and proprietary environments. GitGuardian’s systems constantly scan GitHub and other code repositories for exposed API keys, and fire off automated alerts to affected users.
>Philippe Caturegli, “chief hacking officer” at the security consultancy Seralys, said the exposed API key allowed access to at least 52 different LLMs used by xAI. The most recent LLM in the list was called “grok-4-0709” and was created on July 9, 2025.
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New book out of the London software craftmanship community on applying AI to coding. https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewbelcher/ Surely a must for all you programmers out there. I've yet to read it - so my recommendation is, as yet, still tangential, and based on the rep of those who wrote it.
- Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the timewww.theregister.com Yes, I wrote a very bad bug. In my defense I was just seven
Who, Me?: Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error
- RFC 2119, the audiobook
>https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
>Link to the blog post with the background on why this was made : https://ericwbailey.website/published/you-must-listen-to-rfc-2119/
