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Rotating Secrets Without Breaking Anything

An AI Agent Skill for OCI Vault, Your Databases, and the Apps That Use Them

OCI OCI Vault ADW PostgreSQL MongoDB Docker Security Python AI Agents DevOps Misc
A secret in OCI Vault is rarely used in one place: the database holds a copy, and so does every app that connects to it. How I built a confirmation-gated agent skill that rotates the secret and every downstream copy without a window where they disagree, why the AI agent gets a version-bound phrase instead of a yes, and what broke in testing.

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Thoughts on September 11

What I Wrote in 2010, and What I Think Now

Musing Misc
I am a 9/11 survivor. Every year my mother calls to remind me what that day was like for her. Sixteen years ago I wrote about what surviving Tower 2 meant to me; twenty-five years on, I still think those words hold. A personal note, not a technical one.

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Réflexions sur le 11 septembre

Ce que j’écrivais en 2010, et ce que je pense aujourd’hui

Musing Misc
Je suis un survivant du 11 septembre. Chaque année, ma mère m’appelle pour me rappeler ce que cette journée a représenté pour elle. Il y a seize ans, j’ai écrit ce que signifiait pour moi avoir survécu à la tour 2 ; vingt-cinq ans plus tard, ces mots sonnent encore juste. Un texte personnel, pas un article technique.

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