Eric Mann's Blog

From Defense AI Drift to Policy Enforcement: Why I Built Firebreak

AI Slop and the em-dash

The Gravity Problem: Why Defense AI Companies Drift Toward Offense

PHP Tek 2026: Kubernetes and Semantic Search for PHP Developers

The gap between Docker Compose and production Kubernetes

Why I built a Kubernetes deployment tool

Short Stints, Real Experience: Rethinking Career Tenure

Gratitude

Burnout Prevention Through Strategic Reassignment

When it rains …

Your Return-to-Office Policy is Killing Your AI Strategy

WordPress Infrastructure in 2025: Time for a Modern Approach

Signal vs. Noise: How AI Slop Kills Conversation

Distilling the Cloud: The Journey Continues

Finding Balance: Building Scalable Systems While Paying the Bills

The Deceptive Promise of AI

Managing Multiple Identities with Git Configuration

Overcoming GitOps Implementation Challenges

Containerized RSS

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