Reading on The Final Hour

My Bookmarks & Notes for July 2026

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:10:17 -0700

Microsoft Copilot on GovCloud got a large feature boost. Waiting on FedRAMP approval for Anthropic to enable Cowork. Copilot Calendar integration still 100% broken for Gov.

ChatGPT vibecoding the Codex app directly to production is a bold strategy; let’s see how it works out for them…

My Bookmarks & Notes for June 2026

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:59:00 -0700

Elevated password spray activity across tenants. New actor spamming honeypots port 8080, same actor from Iran using proxies in Denver and Vegas to spam Azure CLI authentication endpoints.

Estimated that my API costs for things like Shodan, Censys, etc. have gone up 20% since the start of the year. I currently pay for 12 services. Time to start the annual cleanup

My Bookmarks & Notes for May 2026

Sun, 31 May 2026 23:59:00 -0700

Setting up new Herms Agent for a small team of 10. Email communication. Fully isolated and whitelisted. Using GPT 5.5 as model.

My Bookmarks & Notes for April 2026

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:59:00 -0700

The words “Fireside Chat” are starting to cause panic attacks. Especialy when combined with “FedRAMP or CMMC”. CMMC in 2026.. still a nothingburger.

My Bookmarks & Notes for March 2026

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:59:00 -0700

This Delve thing is going to cause trouble. Claude Code disclosure had a ton of interesting info, mostly confirming assumptions but also some new nuggets. Already everyone is renaming their AGENTS.md into SOUL.md. I am adding PRAYERS.md now..

My Bookmarks & Notes for February 2026

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:59:00 -0800

It feels like CISA has been hollowed out like a windows process. Its still running but you are not interacting with the same service anymore.

My Bookmarks & Notes for January 2026

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:59:00 -0800

New Year. Same as Old Year.

More inflation. Cost of my cloud + all the subscriptions is up 20% over 2025.