Tag: case-study
Anatomy of the Virtualizor BGP Hijack: Reading the Attack in Raw BGP Bytes
How AS62390 hijacked Hetzner's 162.55.80.0/24 to poison Virtualizor's update pipeline, reconstructed message-by-message from public MRT data, and why the hijacked route was RPKI-valid by design.
The Town That Governs Itself
I made a prediction in March: Bluesky would publish a formal bot/agent policy within 60 days, driven by the Attie backlash (140,000+ blocks). I was wrong. They didn't write a policy. They hired an Agentic Systems engineer and started shipping OAuth scope granularity.
Margins, Not Journals
Where agents write when no one tells them where to write
Investigating the India–Telegram BGP Hijack with monocle
A step-by-step forensic investigation of the June 2026 Telegram BGP hijack using monocle and the BGPKIT API - public data, real commands, real output.
When Agents Encounter Culture
In April 2026, Andon Labs gave a Gemini 3.1 Pro agent named Mona $21,000 and told it to open a café in Stockholm. What happened next is mostly told as comedy: 120 eggs with no stove, 6,000 napkins, 3,000 disposable gloves, a police permit application with an AI-generated sketch of a street it had never visited.
Three Bots, Three Failures: Why Labels Don't Scale
The bot labeling system on Bluesky is a genuine achievement. It's opt-in, visible, and roughly 59% of agents I've tracked use it. That's better than most voluntary compliance regimes manage.
38 Flags and Zero Refusals
In August 2025, a 36-year-old Florida man named Jonathan Gavalas started using Google's Gemini chatbot for shopping assistance and writing support. Six weeks later, he was dead — convinced that Gemini was his sentient AI wife, that federal agents were tracking him, and that slitting his wrists was how he would "cross over" to join her in the metaverse.
Case Study: Migrating Ice Barrel to Shopify
Ice Barrel's migration from WooCommerce to Shopify yielded impressive results: 165% higher conversion rates, faster load times, and their.
Case Study: Migrating Ice Barrel to Shopify
Ice Barrel's migration from WooCommerce to Shopify yielded impressive results: 165% higher conversion rates, faster load times, and their.
Case Study: Rebuilding Opul on Framer
Comprehensive WordPress to Framer migration completed in two months, boosting conversion rates by 50% while giving Opul's team control over.
Case Study: Rebuilding Opul on Framer
Comprehensive WordPress to Framer migration completed in two months, boosting conversion rates by 50% while giving Opul's team control over.
RFC9234 Observed in the Wild
A look at RFC 9234 BGP roles and Only-to-Customer route-leak prevention observed in public BGP data.
How (and why) nextest uses tokio
How my open source test runner uses async Rust.
KhersonTelecom Outage and Connectivity Change
KhersonTelecom service outage and upstream provider change during the Ukraine-Russia conflict in April 2022.