a lot more green in 2026 if i didn’t vibe code my own github clone early on, only to switch back recently 😆
i wanted to visualize what my github history looked like before and after the AI inflection point.
see yours here - mo.rgan.co/gh/
i've looked at a few friends, eng and design, and it's really interesting to see the patterns.
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Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
this php cve makes me want to revive my rust rewrite of php
it was so much faster & it even compiled to wasm. it was the project that made me realize agents can literally do whatever i want.
i dont have the capacity or tokens to deal with that work right now, maybe later 😄
sami retweeted
"[Linux] is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been,
and never will be." — Linus lore.kernel.org/linux-media/…
sami retweeted
I added 5 more object storage providers to my benchmark
New:
- @TigrisData Storage
- @BunnyCDN Storage
- @appwrite Storage
- @convex_dev File Storage
- @upstash Blob
Same tests from the same 6 locations, now 10 providers in total
Here's a summary 👇 (this is also a thread)
