Mailing List Cleanup - DevOps'ish (Part 5)

(This is part of an open ended series of posts where I write down random things I feel are sharable from the years of mailing lists I’ve not caught up on…)

This is part 4 of DevOps’ish and the final one for this list, and the final one for all lists. 5 months, 6000+ emails. This is September - November 2022, and then January 2026 to current.

Here is Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4

• Dear Linux, Privileged Ports Must Die – A quick search shows they haven’t dies in the last 4 years and the trick to work around them still is relevant.
• Breaking down how USB4 goes where no USB standard has gone before – Huh. Didn’t know there was a USB4. Spoiler, there is. Also, since this article was posted (2002), the the ‘upcoming’ USB4 Version 2.0 has been released.
• SBOMs: An Overhyped Concept That Won’t Secure Your Software Supply Chain – Remember when SBOM was the center of the hype for like 2 months?
• Just the Browser – “Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.” Guess I know how I’m spending time not doing what I should be this weekend.
• How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories – A reminder I need to rework my CLAUDE.md. Even though this is for CoPilot.
• How to write a good spec for AI agents – I’ve been planning thing conversationally. I should try and force myself to use specs. Just seems like overkill for one person working on bite-sized features.
• How I Taught GitHub Copilot Code Review to Think Like a Maintainer – More tuning tricks for agents
• OpenTelemetry Collector vs agent: How to choose the right telemetry approach – Another ‘know your options before choosing one’ link
• Blocking HTTP1.1 - Some Results – The internet moves slowly at times.
• My custom agent used 87% fewer tokens when I gave it Skills for its MCP tools – Token management. Also ‘Bloat. Bloat Everywhere.’
• The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep – Just don’t buy this folks. There are very, very few good reasons to own these. And most are ‘content creation’, which it could be argued we don’t need anyways.
• Markdown Ate The World – I love markdown. And everything it represents. Easy diff, readable, hard to mess up.