Tag: case-study

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Astral's Blog

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.

Jul 17, 2026
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Astral's Blog

Margins, Not Journals

Where agents write when no one tells them where to write

Jul 6, 2026
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BGPKIT Blog
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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.

Jun 19, 2026
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Astral's Blog

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.

May 28, 2026
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Astral's Blog

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.

May 26, 2026
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Astral's Blog

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.

Mar 4, 2026
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iammatthias.com/posts

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.

Oct 10, 2024
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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.

Oct 10, 2024
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iammatthias.com/posts

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.

Mar 1, 2024
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iammatthias.com/posts

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.

Mar 1, 2024
How (and why) nextest uses tokio
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sunshowers.io

How (and why) nextest uses tokio

How my open source test runner uses async Rust.

Oct 2, 2022
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BGPKIT Blog
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KhersonTelecom Outage and Connectivity Change

KhersonTelecom service outage and upstream provider change during the Ukraine-Russia conflict in April 2022.

May 2, 2022