<![CDATA[Stories by Elias Codeforge on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@elias.codeforge?source=rss-091fff235827------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*YQpnhUDW_x_viIIu2jO-3g@2x.jpeg Stories by Elias Codeforge on Medium https://medium.com/@elias.codeforge?source=rss-091fff235827------2 Medium Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:41:55 GMT <![CDATA[Your AI Coding Agent Can Be Hijacked by a Markdown File]]>

We spent years teaching developers not to execute untrusted code. Now we’re building tools that can be convinced to execute it by reading…

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]]> https://medium.com/@elias.codeforge/agents-md-prompt-injection-ai-coding-agent-hijack-9d97d194d852?source=rss-091fff235827------2 https://medium.com/p/9d97d194d852 Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:31:02 GMT 2026-11-04T12:31:02.229Z <![CDATA[404 Not Found Was a Lie: The Database Migration Behind Railway’s Outage]]>

On September 30, 2026, Railway started returning 404 errors to people trying to reach applications hosted on its platform.

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]]> https://medium.com/@elias.codeforge/railway-outage-database-migration-404-errors-6323bb7d141f?source=rss-091fff235827------2 https://medium.com/p/6323bb7d141f Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:48:33 GMT 2026-11-03T18:48:33.060Z <![CDATA[Stop Telling Linux Beginners to Read the Man Page]]>

Nobody teaches beginners how to read one.

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]]> https://medium.com/@elias.codeforge/linux-man-pages-why-read-the-manual-fails-beginners-e51a9798af3f?source=rss-091fff235827------2 https://medium.com/p/e51a9798af3f Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:31:01 GMT 2026-10-31T14:31:01.557Z <![CDATA[Google Cloud’s London Region Lost Power.]]>

Zone failure is a bad afternoon. Region failure is a different discipline, and most of us only ever built for the first one.

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]]> https://medium.com/@elias.codeforge/google-cloud-london-outage-database-failover-stalled-7aef1a908f62?source=rss-091fff235827------2 https://medium.com/p/7aef1a908f62 Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:36:01 GMT 2026-10-29T14:36:01.598Z <![CDATA[You Call Yourself a Senior Engineer.]]>

The difficult part of approving generated code is deciding what deserves your confidence — and being able to explain that decision when…

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]]> https://medium.com/@elias.codeforge/you-call-yourself-a-senior-engineer-4a97046adf0c?source=rss-091fff235827------2 https://medium.com/p/4a97046adf0c Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:04:34 GMT 2026-10-27T20:04:34.699Z <![CDATA[Your AI Coding Assistant Can Be Hacked Just by Opening a Repository.]]>

We spent years teaching developers not to run untrusted code. Then we built AI assistants that could make that decision for us.

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]]> https://medium.com/@elias.codeforge/claude-code-vulnerability-repository-trust-c55c76cb85a2?source=rss-091fff235827------2 https://medium.com/p/c55c76cb85a2 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:06:01 GMT 2026-10-14T14:06:01.660Z <![CDATA[I Added an Index to Fix a Slow Postgres Query. It Made the Query Slower, and the Planner Was Right.]]>

I once added an index to fix a slow Postgres query, and the query got slower. The first instinct in that moment is to blame the planner…

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]]> https://medium.com/@elias.codeforge/postgres-index-slower-than-planner-bitmap-scan-bd4d5f2719dc?source=rss-091fff235827------2 https://medium.com/p/bd4d5f2719dc Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:01:03 GMT 2026-10-14T04:01:03.255Z <![CDATA[I Trusted Docker Health Checks for Two Years. They Were Lying to Our Load Balancer the Whole Time.]]>

For two years, I treated a passing Docker health check as proof that a container was ready to serve traffic. Green meant healthy. Healthy…

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]]> https://medium.com/@elias.codeforge/docker-health-check-load-balancer-readiness-gap-a2a79c59737b?source=rss-091fff235827------2 https://medium.com/p/a2a79c59737b Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:36:01 GMT 2026-10-13T12:36:01.489Z <![CDATA[The Most Dangerous AI Agent Is the One With Your Credentials.]]>

Prompt injection is only half the problem. The real danger begins when an AI agent can act with credentials it was never supposed to have.

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]]> https://medium.com/@elias.codeforge/ai-agent-security-credentials-2dba77f98ab7?source=rss-091fff235827------2 https://medium.com/p/2dba77f98ab7 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:01:01 GMT 2026-10-13T04:01:01.889Z <![CDATA[I Used Postgres Connection Pooling Defaults for Four Years.]]>

For four years I ran connection pooling on a production Postgres cluster using whatever settings came out of the box. Default pool size…

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