Austin Spires

We're way better at fighting cancer now than ever before

PHP2Shell scanning began hours before the coordinated vulnerability disclosure. 🔎 ~250,000 requests from PHP2Shell-named tools 🌐 ~3,200 public IPs observed See how Fastly tracked the activity and what defenders can do to protect their PHP applications. 👉 www.fastly.com/blog/how-fas...

when it comes to mitigating abuse online, you have to meet the match of the abusers at their tooling and that tooling today is ai. ‘All it took was a “basic prompt of ‘find bad vulnerabilities in PHP,’” Lorenc wrote in a subsequent LinkedIn post.”

PSA: #php2shell gives attackers remote code execution on php servers pre-authentication, and @fastly.com has seen active attack activity. Here is what you need to know now + a deeper dive into the issue at hand: www.fastly.com/blog/fastlys...

What to do now: find your mod_php/php-fpm servers, patch with urgency (8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, 8.2.35; older versions via your distributor), and NGWAF customers should apply the Virtual Patch. Full analysis from Kelly Shortridge: www.fastly.com/blog/fastlys...

starting to realize that when someone describes software as "opinionated" that means it doesnt work or doesnt work the way youd expect and therefore it sucks. you could just say it "sucks"

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

Excited to see @jennschiffer.com's A24 acting debut opposite Nathan Fielder www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_...

AI traffic is growing 6.5x faster than human traffic. 93% of organizations are exceeding their AI budgets (McKinsey). The question that still gets asked: what did your AI do, and was it authorized to do it? Answer it with Fastly for AI: every request, under your control. See how: fastly.com/ai-hub

This essay by @anildash.com is very much worth reading today: “Many wonder how, or if, the United States will find its way out of authoritarianism. The only possible way is if people are joyfully running towards a better option, not fearfully backing away from the worst of what they face today.”

Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."

Xcelerate NYC returns 🗓️ October 14th! Learn how top engineering teams are building resilient systems and protecting their AI workloads and applications without sacrificing speed—and enter to win a LEGO Star Wars set! Register: https://www.fastly.com/events/xcelerate-nyc #XcelerateNYC

The real clutch move is going to be running a honeypot forum that agents can swarm on

I feel this deeply. I wish I could have real conversations about the upsides and downsides of these tools with fellow users. On _this_ platform. But I haven't been able to find them. Opposed to the other site, where it's nonstop. So I'm back over there :/

I got my first PSL promotional email this morning. The high for the day is 95 otherwise I'd be down tbh

Game of Thrones 2: they have electricity this time

Nearby me that I can only describe as "uninspired Guy Fieri." Wings+burgers+sandwiches+pizza+pasta with some "fun" names. TBH it makes me respect that the actual Guy Fieri menus are 50% insanity and some of it really works

Todd Blanche implies the existence of a Todd Rose, Todd Dorothy and Todd Sophia

An enormous amount of the world’s CI and automation runs headless Chrome, all of it on x86—until last week. Chrome now ships official arm64 Linux builds. AWS says Graviton uses up to 60% less energy for the same performance. Chrome for Testing coming soon 🥳 calibreapp.com/blog/chrome-...

Does Yegge’s “none of my shit worked out, exactly as I foretold” schtick actually work on people?

Imagine caring so deeply about a YouTube stranger that you get emotional about what tools they do or don't use for their work

The hidden secret truth of software engineering is that all code is sin. If you build your dignity on sin you are truly lost brother

“Hank Green admits to AI use” and I’m furious that my short-form vertical video science-communication-adjacent parasociality content wasn’t produced artisanally by a team of free-range, grass-fed PhDs working off handwritten notes

Listening to music with a three year old will get your jazz scat game to top tier status

You can just do things

If you must read anything from DHH, make sure you read it in your best Eric cartman voice and it'll make more sense

Congrats to Spain on an unforgettable extra-time win over Argentina! ⚽🏆 Our latest blog explores #WorldCup final traffic insights, extra-time viewership spikes, and how we help keep live sports streaming secure and reliable at global scale. Read more: www.fastly.com/blog/deliver...

🌎️ The World Cup doesn't just fill stadiums—it reshapes internet traffic. Across Fastly's U.S. network, we saw a 93% streaming surge during the U.S. vs. Australia match, plus major regional spikes tied to Portugal, Sweden, & Cabo Verde supporters. 👀 what the data says: www.fastly.com/blog/how-the...

Yes they had both a sail AND OARS on longboats

It took a huge team to compile this data, do the investigation, and find these conclusions. There is likely no other place where you will get this level of granularity around how real human beings are watching the World Cup.

Team Ronaldo or Team Messi? 👀 Our World Cup data says one is winning the viewership battle. We also found halftime drives a 25% drop in streaming bandwidth, while close matches can boost second-half viewership by 30%+. Read more: www.fastly.com/blog/world-c... ⚽

This is still one of the best sports clips of all time

I am at @fastly.com xCelerate London today and this talk by CTO Artur Bergman is really insightful about the impact on our networks AI agents and crawlers are going to make. Some really interesting data. Eg pypi package management traffic is going geometric. Welcome or block is a business decision

I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

Wild. Bots are officially driving more traffic to major sites and apps than humans. Living in the future. www.fastly.com/blog/ai-bots...

Expending energy to be more involved creates energy; working to preserve energy depletes energy

You'd think that by now rich insane neocons would have made an Atlas Shrugged streaming series

Hard agree. Sometimes a set of tools is just a set of tools.

My hottest parenting take is that Raffi is not only the great to ever do it, but he’ll probably never be bested. Michael Phelps-ass children’s songwriter.

We built a Playwright pipeline to auto-generate 585 product screenshots. Then I opened the output folder and accidentally discovered the best design QA tool I've ever used: just… looking at all of them at once. calibreapp.com/blog/screens...

I just passed 1 year of using the Forever Notes system for organizing my day. As we expanded from one kid to two, I needed a new process. Over the course of a year, I kept slowly adding tools (AI and non-AI) until it became a full scribe system. austinspires.com/blog/2026-05...

NGL this looks solid. Make the cone a garlic parm dough and it would be event better

responding ”vibe code?” to every outage like women named carol respond “vaxx?” to every celebrity death

don't make me tap the artwork

Fastly + LALIGA are teaming up to fight live sports piracy ⚽ Using #AI and real-time detection to stop illegal streams—without disrupting real fans. Read more here: www.fastly.com/press/press-... #LALIGA #Streaming