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Require human approval before your agent sends email
10+ min ago (917+ words) There's a boring, durable fix that predates AI by decades: don't send — draft. Stage the message, put a human in front of it, and only send once someone with a name and a pulse approves. Email systems have had a…...
How I export 1.2-gigapixel images on an iPhone without running out of memory
10+ min ago (821+ words) The fix: stop putting the canvas in RAM at all. Put it in a memory-mapped file and let the OS page it to disk. RAM usage dropped from "4.8 GB, please die" to a few dozen MB, flat, regardless of output…...
Escalate an AI email agent's thread to a human
10+ min ago (806+ words) So let's build the part that steps back. Not the classifier that decides a message is risky — that's triage, a separate problem. This is the handoff: once something flags a thread as "needs a human," how do you actually pull…...
One agent mailbox per tenant in a multi-tenant SaaS
10+ min ago (1171+ words) So let's not share. Let's give every tenant its own real mailbox — a dedicated Agent Account per customer, each with its own grant_id, its own send identity, its own policy and limits, grouped into its own workspace. Not one inbox with…...
Audit-log every email your AI agent sends
10+ min ago (816+ words) When an autonomous agent gets an email address of its own, the first question your security team asks isn't "can it send mail?" It's "can you prove, six months from now, exactly what it said and to whom?" There are…...
Spin up ephemeral test inboxes for email integration tests
11+ min ago (899+ words) This post is about a different fixture: a disposable Agent Account created at the start of a CI run and deleted at the end. You mint a real mailbox per run (or per test), point your application at it, send…...
On the Law of Code Podcast with Jacob Robinson
21+ min ago (52+ words) Again, pretty self-explanatory blog post. I was on a pod. Please give it a watch! Also featuring Peter van Valkenburgh, Laz Pieper, Sam Enzer, Professor Eugene Volokh, and Professor Jane Bambauer. Byrne & Storm, P.C. The Back of the EnvelopE (A BloG)…...
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A Practical Workflow for Reusable AI Image Prompts
1+ hour, 8+ min ago (387+ words) Most AI image experiments fail for a boring reason: the prompt is treated as a one-off sentence instead of a reusable specification. A reliable image workflow is closer to a small build system. It separates the parts that should stay…...
GitLab vs GitHub in 2026: Integrated Platform vs. Composable Ecosystem
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (783+ words) This guide walks through where that split actually matters — repository workflow, CI/CD, security, project management, and hosting — and tries to be fair about the trade-offs, because both platforms are genuinely good and the "right" answer depends entirely on your…...