If the AI support agent of a multibillion company like @stripe hallucinates a dashboard option and highlights in a statement the opposite of reality, imagine what the AI agents doing support on other sites are saying. (Unlike other sites at least with Stripe I can RTFM)

Classy and Canadian "not our fault but sorry anyways" tailscale.com/blog/hugging...

Tailscale in the Hugging Face intrusion: The good news and the bad news

An AI agent used a stolen Tailscale auth key at Hugging Face. Workload identity federation, flow logs, and safer defaults could have reduced the risk.

tailscale.com

Happy sysadmin day

New SadServers scenario (gunicorn + ninx + Flask) "Banha" : Intermittent 504 Gateway Time-Out errors sadservers.com/scenario/banha

New SadServers PostgreSQL challenge "Luxor" sadservers.com/scenario/luxor

New SadServers scenario "Philadelphia": htop, btop and zombies 🧟‍♂️ sadservers.com/scenario/phi...

AWS spot instances: - Within the same region, price can vary a lot among AZs (eg less than half). - An instance type that's more expensive on-demand may be cheaper as a spot instance. (eg t3 and t3a) - Spot capacity can suddenly disappear, need to prepare for it.

This brought so many memories, just released: The Java Story | The Official Documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGS...

The Java Story | The Official Documentary

YouTube video by CultRepo

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Almost had a heart attack but it's all good, some AI agent at AWS woke up with a sense of humor

100 questions (and answers!) related to SadServers, did we miss anything? 😀 sadservers.com/faq

Xin chào Việt Nam 🇻🇳

Latest SadServers newsletter is out: 7 new scenarios (including Ansible, Terraform and ELK stack ones) and new Lab section 💪 list.sadservers.com/archive/6009...

New SadServers observability scenario involving the ELK (Filebeat, Logstash, ElasticSearch) stack sadservers.com/labs/elk/ (Pro only since it needs a fat expensive VM to run 🧐 )

How much do you know about #Linux inodes and hard links? test your skills with this new SadServers practical challenge sadservers.com/scenario/mon...

New practical SadServers scenario involving #Linux cgroup "Genova" sadservers.com/scenario/gen...

Parsing log files to count errors is a very common sysadmin/DevOps task. In this new SadServers scenario, you have to find out how many HTTP 5xx errors are in a AWS ELB log file sadservers.com/scenario/bol...

New: first SadServers scenario featuring Terraform! Practice your DevOps skills with hands-on challenges sadservers.com/labs/terrafo...

Getting more into DevOps; we have our first Ansible scenario sadservers.com/labs/ansible/

New hands-on SadServers scenario "Verona": Apache Portal Won't Open, an easy Apache challenge sadservers.com/scenario/ver...

AI has made even worse an already broken hiring hbr.org/2026/06/ai-h...

AI Has Broken Hiring. Here’s How to Fix It.

Generative AI is rapidly undermining the reliability of traditional hiring signals, making it easier for candidates to manufacture polished résumés and perform convincingly in remote interviews with r...

hbr.org

best resources to get a job? 😀 www.instagram.com/reel/DZp-JT-...

Instagram

Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Almost 40 troubleshooting guides for the most popular software sadservers.com/troubleshoot...

New Labs section with intro and troubleshooting guides for a lot of technologies (more in the roadmap) you can practice in the SadServers scenarios sadservers.com/labs/

old man yells at cloud www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pt...

Simpsons Old Man Yells at Cloud

Alt: Simpsons Old Man Yells at Cloud

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Troubleshooting common Dockerfile issues. Any other tips we have missed? www.linkedin.com/pulse/debugg...

Debugging common Dockerfile issues

Practice Docker troubleshooting on real VMs with SadServers. Build-time failures differ from runtime container issues.

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Two weeks is enough to know if a new employee will work out or not.

what do you mean my code looks good after only two tries? really suspicious when this happens

Exactly once delivery is tough 😅

Latest SadServers newsletter sent out list.sadservers.com/archive/fb3f...

Technical interviewing is broken. "So the short answer is, stop simulating. Post real pieces of work, let the candidate do it, look at what they actually produced, and decide from that work." steve-yegge.medium.com/the-last-tec...

The Last Technical Interview

Today we will pour one out for the vaunted technical interview process, which is on its last leg. And we’ll talk a little about what’s…

steve-yegge.medium.com