Let’s face it, this isn’t your average LinkedIn newsletter. There’s no 5-step framework, no clickbait title, and absolutely no AI-generated pie charts.
What you will get is an honest check-in about what I’ve been up to: the trainings I’ve delivered, the unexpected detour into personal blogging, and why you might want to follow me in more than one place.
🛠️ What I’ve Been Doing (Beyond Just Talking About Software Supply Chain)
1. Black Hat Asia 2025: Delivered “Attack and Defend Software Supply Chain” (online) — a hands-on breakdown of how your build pipeline might be your biggest security liability, and what to do when it inevitably becomes one.
2. BruCON 2025: Ran my favorite chaos simulation, Pipeline Predators: Attacking CI/CD Environments. The kind of training where people discover they’ve misconfigured more than just their weekend plans.
3. DEF CON Las Vegas (Upcoming): Bringing the supply chain training to Vegas. New labs, more fire.
4. Black Hat USA 2025 (2-3 Aug 2025 and 4-5 Aug 2025): 0wning the Cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, Aliyun. It’s multi-cloud madness with a side of penetrating pragmatism.
5. Remaining conferences in this quarter:
Because sleep is optional.
✍️ Why You’ve Been Seeing More Personal Posts
Lately, you may have noticed fewer hard-core tech rants and more… feelings? No, I’m not pivoting to life coaching.
What’s happening is simple: I’m drawing a line.
- Business/Deep Tech Content → Cyfinoid.com
- Personal/Reflective Writing → blog.anantshri.info
The personal blog is where I now talk about everything from AI-induced burnout to the philosophical weight of writing code. Sometimes technical, sometimes painfully human. All of it real.
📚 Latest Blogposts — Summarized, So You Don’t Have To Skim
1. Reflections on Code and Control Open source love turns into obligation. The emotional tax of being useful.
→ For: OSS maintainers, developers who feel trapped by their own success.
2. Why Learning to Code Still Matters in the Age of AI AI can write code. Great. Can it debug its own lies? Didn’t think so.
→ For: Developers, educators, AI optimists in need of a reality check.
3. The Dichotomy of Rights and Duties Everyone wants rights. Nobody remembers duties. Welcome to modern internet discourse.
→ For: Tech workers, community builders, citizens tired of entitlement.
4. Not Every Conversation Needs a Conversion Sometimes you just talk. You don’t need to win. Wild idea, I know.
→ For: Anyone tired of arguing on LinkedIn (or in real life).
5. Interviews Shouldn’t Feel Like the Hunger Games Tech interviews are broken. No, it’s not just you.
→ For: Hiring managers, job seekers, and survivors of whiteboard trauma.
6. Why Boring Tools Keep Us Productive New and shiny often equals broken and distracting. Boring = shipped.
→ For: Infra folks, devs, and productivity nerds.
7. We’ve All Learned to Game It People aren’t broken. Incentives are.
→ For: Anyone working within a system (so… everyone).
8. Leading from the Background A quiet reflection on leadership that doesn’t shout. It explores how real influence often comes from those who support, mentor, and build from behind—not the ones hogging the spotlight.
→ For: Leaders, mentors, and anyone who’s ever done the work without chasing the credit.
🔔 Stay in the Loop (Without Selling Your Soul to an Algorithm)
I follow POSSE — Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere — which basically means: you’ll see my stuff everywhere, but you’ll see it first here:
- Personal Blog: blog.anantshri.info also on Fediverse: @
- Tech Content: cyfinoid.com
Pick your flavor. Or follow both if you’re into existential dread and yelling at your terminal when a shell script fails silently.
That’s it for now. See you in your RSS feed, inbox, or whatever retro corner of the web you still use.
— Anant