Tom Holz

G4 champ

[Tom Holz @tomholz]

MSEE, MBA, and unemployed at 48.

1st career was modeling ocean acoustics & signal processing for the US Navy in classified labs.

2nd career went from private-sector industrial manufacturing & engineering into product, strategy, and governance.

3rd career will be... ???

[Tom Holz @tomholz]

@0xblacklight determinism maxxing

[Tom Holz @tomholz]

Personal Log: @gauntletai 3-weeks post-graduation

I'm moving to Austin for the new job, so I *should* be packing stuff before the moving pod arrives in a few days.

But here I am at 11pm on a Saturday with 6 ghostty terminals spread across 3 projects:

- An ascii-art fractal explorer I accidentally vibe-coded at gauntlet, but never deployed.
- A greenfield murder mystery management app.
- A brownfield VA healthcare project with 3 mothballed apps that need to be resurrected and modernized alongside a partially closed-source server that I've had to reverse engineer.

Tonight's soundtrack is "Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares":
https://t.co/uBuxM9K5ma

[Tom Holz @tomholz]

@ph0rque @stelzner_n1150

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@ph0rque Criminals, obviously.

People who don’t want every dollar tracked—what are they hiding??

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@ianzepp Multiplatform secrets management.. feels like an opening for an OSS project.

[Tom Holz @tomholz]

Long overdue and a welcome feature addition.

How many secrets have been vibe-leaked because .env was protected by nothing but a system prompt?

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Managing API keys is one of the top security concerns we hear from customers.

Today we’re introducing keyless auth for Claude Platform: authenticate via browser with the CLI, or let workloads use their existing cloud identity (AWS, GCP, Azure, or any OIDC token provider).

[Tom Holz @tomholz]

@ph0rque @gauntletai I don’t know what the state of the project is, but I’ve seen it running and it’s cool.

[Tom Holz @tomholz]

@MikePFrank @VaireHQ The only thing more innevitable than the emergence of adiabatic reversible computing will be everyone’s surprise and confusion about what it is.

[Tom Holz @tomholz]

@bushidocodes There's many different governance models, but the German and Japanese approaches are especially worth looking into if this is your thing.

https://t.co/SXT2Xj8sFF

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@ianzepp Suddenly I miss life in Berlin

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Personal Log: @gauntletai 7 days post-graduation

My grandmother has been following my AI journey. She was born in 1915. Think about that. Two world wars. Computers. Internet. Cell phones didn't even exist until she was already retired.

Now, at the end of her life, she's sending AI generated art from her hospice bed and connected to her family around the world.

My final memory of her will probably be last Christmas. She was so excited to ask about AI and optimistic. "Can you believe that the little old lady has been able to keep up with all this?"

Knowing her... yes I can.

PS - the orange tabby cat featured in almost all her photos was kind of a terror in real life. He was rescued as a kitten after crawling into a warm car engine to in the middle of an Illinois winter and stayed with us for the better part of 20 years.

[Tom Holz @tomholz]

@nicbarkeragain Excess quality is being trimmed in service to shareholder value.

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@EthanGarofolo @ph0rque Iam hic est

https://t.co/TrehtXRvxl

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@0xblacklight @dexhorthy “The app is already complete within the repo, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous code.”
―Michelangelo

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@michlbrmly @theo @intspg It’s a sloppery slope

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@dexhorthy Sending prompts is the new gzipped tarball

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@ianzepp Funny you should mention, because I just got this ominously cryptic message from a close friend who’s very on top of global affairs.

[Tom Holz @tomholz]

@_ZaniarAhmadi @Austen Of the century. Cybersecurity has been fragile from its foundation.