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🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

🦊 Principal Developer Advocate @GitLab.com 🌐 All-remote in Nuremberg 🚀 Embedded AI research 🛡️ Agentic AI modernization 🗺️ #lego #travel #drageekeksi #embedded #ai 🌈 https://dnsmichi.com/about/

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🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈@dnsmichi.dev · 2w ago

Unplugging in busy AI times is not easy. I found a unique spot in South Tyrol, only reachable by cable car, with scenic views over the dolomites, hiking, spa treatments, high quality food, and kind humans - to recharge my batteries. :) dnsmichi.com/2026/08/04/r...

Recharging batteries at 1500m: Vigilius mountain resort in South Tyrol

Unplugging in busy AI times is not easy. I found a unique spot in South Tyrol, only reachable by cable car, with scenic views over the dolomites, hiking, spa treatments, high quality food, and kind hu...

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🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈@dnsmichi.dev · 3mo ago

In busy times, relaxing with LEGO is like brain yoga. LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight put it on next level - incredible humor, visuals, puzzles, story together with game mechanics: A grappling hook and glider. Imagine flying over Gotham … and forget about time. 11/10. 😎

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🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈@dnsmichi.dev · 6mo ago

My 6th year at @gitlab.com felt like “one year worth for ten”: embedded DevSecOps homelab experiments, AI agent workflows, a six‑city DACH roadshow, a Principal promotion, and a new way of working. This reflection captures what happened, what I learned, and why I stay. 🦊 dnsmichi.com/2026/03/02/o...

One year worth for ten: My 6th year at GitLab

My 6th year at GitLab felt like “one year worth for ten”: embedded DevSecOps homelab experiments, AI agent workflows, a six‑city DACH roadshow, a Principal promotion, and a new way of working. This re...

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🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈@dnsmichi.dev · 6mo ago

My blog on dnsmichi .at has run Ghost in Docker since 2020—deployed with a single shell script. 😅 In 2026 I finally fixed that by replacing the manual Nginx proxy with Traefik and automating the setup with Docker and Ansible. dnsmichi.com/2026/02/22/f... Kudos to @dbodky.me @traefik.bsky.social

From manual Docker/Nginx proxy to Traefik and Ansible: Modernizing my Ghost blog stack in 2026

This blog has run Ghost in Docker since 2020, manually deployed. In 2026 I set the goal to use Traefik as a modern reverse proxy. Learn the first steps with Traefik, Docker and Ghost, and how to autom...

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🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈@dnsmichi.dev · 10mo ago

One team 🦊 Honoring me as Principal Developer Advocate at @gitlab.com today. Thank you to my friends, team members, customers and users! 💜 www.linkedin.com/posts/dnsmic...

One team 🦊 Honoring me as Principal Developer Advocate at GitLab today. Learning and researching AI use cases, sharing my learnings, driving product innovation and strategy, becoming "AI user 0&...

One team 🦊 Honoring me as Principal Developer Advocate at GitLab today. Learning and researching AI use cases, sharing my learnings, driving product innovation and strategy, becoming "AI user 0", lea...

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🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈@dnsmichi.dev · 12mo ago

Latest remote office iteration with the Razer Leviathan V2 X soundbar - stable sound and colorful tranquility 🥰 🔊 Clear audio in meetings and coding playlists, no delays with USB-C. 😅 Less headphone sweat, especially in summer. 🌈 Changes colors in a calming loop.

49 inch monitor on a standing desk, with Shure SM7B and the new soundbar at the bottom, purple light.
🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈@dnsmichi.dev · last yr.

💡 New learning content -- custom rules for Agentic AI 🏗️ Version control: Java 8, Python3 environments, multi-platform C++ code ⚡ Style enforcement: C goto anti-patterns, VueJS design patterns, Ansible lint 🚀 DevSecOps automation: Bootstrap projects, CI/CD, security scanning, docs Link in 🧵

VS Code with GitLab Duo Agentic Chat - use case is to prevent writing goto anti-patterns in C. Custom rules enforce this, and Agentic Chat refuses to implement it.JetBrains IntelliJ with GitLab Duo Agentic Chat - use case is enforce Java 8 as development version, and help users who ask about code modernization with an issue URL to contribute to the discussion. Custom rules help enforce this behavior, as shown in the chat prompts on the right side, refusing to modernize to Java 21.VS Code with GitLab Duo Agentic Chat - use case is to always add CI/CD configuration for Security Scanning and GitLab Advanced SAST. Custom rules ensure this behavior and let AI Agents follow these implementation criteria, as shown in the chat output on the right.VS Code with GitLab Duo Agentic Chat - use case is to enforce Ansible linter compliance with boolean true/false, FQCN, whitespaces. Custom rules enforce this behavior which AI Agents follow when fixing problems in Ansible playbooks.
🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈@dnsmichi.dev · last yr.

🗺️ Experienced prompt engineer, or AI Agents orchestrator? ⚡ Strong opinion on efficient DevSecOps flows with GitLab? 🏗️ Excited about solving real problems and use cases on the GitLab Duo Agent Platform? 🌈 Passionate about user and developer experience? Our UX research team would love to meet you 🤗

Contribute to GitLab with Your Feedback! Hello there, We're excited to get your thoughts on new and improved product experiences the team has been creating! Over the next few weeks, we will be scheduling 60 minute, 1:1 feedback sessions with our users and our UX design and research team. We will be looking for an array of different participants to provide feedback on different designs and workflows, particularly on AI features. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please register by completing our screener. These sessions will be running until the end of September 2025. Selected Participants who complete their session, will receive a $150 gift card (or equivalent currency where available), via Tremendous, our incentive provider. If you have any questions, you can reach out to Cait and Mariana from our research operations team at research@gitlab.com.
🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈@dnsmichi.dev · last yr.

Loved seeing my AI learnings resonate well in my talk at Open Source @ Siemens -- in a step-by-step learning story where LLMs cannot make recommendations for the Open Source @ Siemens 2025 event schedule to fixing it … and much more. Resources in www.linkedin.com/posts/dnsmic...

#rag #agent #mcp #opensource #community | 🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

Loved seeing my AI learnings resonate well in my talk at Open Source @ Siemens -- in a step-by-step learning story where LLMs cannot make recommendations for the Open Source @ Siemens 2025 event sched...

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🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈@dnsmichi.dev · last yr.

🚀 GitLab 17.11 is here with powerful new features! 🏷️ Custom Fields for Issues & Epics ⚙️ CI/CD Pipeline Inputs 👤 Service Accounts UI 🔄 Docker Hub Authentication UI Upgrade: about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/04/17/gitlab-17-11-released/ @gitlab.com More in 🧵

GitLab 17.11 released with Custom Compliance Frameworks

GitLab 17.11 released with custom compliance frameworks, more AI features on GitLab Duo Self-Hosted, custom epic, issue, and task fields, CI/CD pipeline inputs, service accounts UI, and much more!

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