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One team 🦊 Honoring me as Principal Developer Advocate at @gitlab.com today.

Thank you to my friends, team members, customers and users! 💜

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One team 🦊 Honoring me as Principal Developer Advocate at GitLab today. Learning and researching AI use cases, sharing my learnings, driving product innovation and strategy, becoming "AI user 0&...

One team 🦊 Honoring me as Principal Developer Advocate at GitLab today. Learning and researching AI use cases, sharing my learnings, driving product innovation and strategy, becoming "AI user 0", lea...

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October 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

Latest remote office iteration with the Razer Leviathan V2 X soundbar - stable sound and colorful tranquility 🥰

🔊 Clear audio in meetings and coding playlists, no delays with USB-C.
😅 Less headphone sweat, especially in summer.
🌈 Changes colors in a calming loop.

49 inch monitor on a standing desk, with Shure SM7B and the new soundbar at the bottom, purple light.

September 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

Dark mode and accessible mobile layout refresh for the @gitlab.com docs, love it 🤩

iPad browser, https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/jobs/fine_grained_permissions/ docs opened with dark mode and mobile layout.

August 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

💡 New learning content -- custom rules for Agentic AI

🏗️ Version control: Java 8, Python3 environments, multi-platform C++ code
⚡ Style enforcement: C goto anti-patterns, VueJS design patterns, Ansible lint
🚀 DevSecOps automation: Bootstrap projects, CI/CD, security scanning, docs

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VS Code with GitLab Duo Agentic Chat - use case is to prevent writing goto anti-patterns in C. Custom rules enforce this, and Agentic Chat refuses to implement it.

JetBrains IntelliJ with GitLab Duo Agentic Chat - use case is enforce Java 8 as development version, and help users who ask about code modernization with an issue URL to contribute to the discussion. Custom rules help enforce this behavior, as shown in the chat prompts on the right side, refusing to modernize to Java 21.

VS Code with GitLab Duo Agentic Chat - use case is to always add CI/CD configuration for Security Scanning and GitLab Advanced SAST. Custom rules ensure this behavior and let AI Agents follow these implementation criteria, as shown in the chat output on the right.

VS Code with GitLab Duo Agentic Chat - use case is to enforce Ansible linter compliance with boolean true/false, FQCN, whitespaces. Custom rules enforce this behavior which AI Agents follow when fixing problems in Ansible playbooks.

August 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

🗺️ Experienced prompt engineer, or AI Agents orchestrator?
⚡ Strong opinion on efficient DevSecOps flows with GitLab?
🏗️ Excited about solving real problems and use cases on the GitLab Duo Agent Platform?
🌈 Passionate about user and developer experience?

Our UX research team would love to meet you 🤗

Contribute to GitLab with Your Feedback!
Hello there,

We're excited to get your thoughts on new and improved product experiences the team has been creating!

Over the next few weeks, we will be scheduling 60 minute, 1:1 feedback sessions with our users and our UX design and research team. We will be looking for an array of different participants to provide feedback on different designs and workflows, particularly on AI features.

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please register by completing our screener. These sessions will be running until the end of September 2025.

Selected Participants who complete their session, will receive a $150 gift card (or equivalent currency where available), via Tremendous, our incentive provider.

If you have any questions, you can reach out to Cait and Mariana from our research operations team at research@gitlab.com.

August 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

Learning AI, LLMs, RAG, tools, AI Agents, MCP can feel overwhelming. Dive into my talk at Open Source @ Siemens in June, and benefit from my learnings, practical tips, and development use cases all around AI 🌱🗺️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NxS...

Learning AI 101: Practical Foundations for Developers

YouTube video by Siemens Knowledge Hub

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July 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

Super stoked about @gitlab.com Duo Agent Platform public Beta

>> about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-...

First run with Agents in the GitLab UI on mobile 🔥

Project in the screenshots: gitlab.com/gitlab-da/us...

GitLab Duo Agentic Chat - prompt "What would be needed to modernize the code base?" with agent tools analyzing the GitLab project source code, activities with reading files to understand the context.

GitLab Duo Agentic Chat, summary of the analysis to modernize the C++ codebase.

July 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM

Reposted by 🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

dmm5400

@suswrkrs.bsky.social

www.containerdays.io/containerday...

#confirmed i can attend in September.
will be supporting @dnsmichi.dev for his #presentation.
see you there!

ContainerDays Conference is coming back on September 9-11, 2025!

Join us at ContainerDays Conference 2025 to immerse yourself in the latest trends and innovations in a wide range of technology-related tracks such as kubernetes, containers & DevOps but also AI, ML, ...

www.containerdays.io

July 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM

Reposted by 🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

Michael

@tonka3000.bsky.social

Thinking this could be a neat HACS integration 🤔
Home Assistant makes it super easy to track the market and see what companies are up to - and best of all, it's automatable 😄
#homeAssistant

June 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

Want to work with my team @gitlab.com ? See www.linkedin.com/posts/johnwc...

Developer Advocate | John Coghlan

We are hiring on my team. Looking for people who are amazing at engaging developers. To be successful in those role, you must deeply understand the challenges developers face and want to help them ove...

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June 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

Loved seeing my AI learnings resonate well in my talk at Open Source @ Siemens -- in a step-by-step learning story where LLMs cannot make recommendations for the Open Source @ Siemens 2025 event schedule to fixing it … and much more.

Resources in www.linkedin.com/posts/dnsmic...

#rag #agent #mcp #opensource #community | 🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

Loved seeing my AI learnings resonate well in my talk at Open Source @ Siemens -- in a step-by-step learning story where LLMs cannot make recommendations for the Open Source @ Siemens 2025 event sched...

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June 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

Soooo looking forward to Open Source @ Siemens next week, meeting friends again 💜 I'll bring my "Learning AI 101" stories 🌱

👣 AI on Embedded and Agentic AI learnings? Yes!
😅 Slides finished? Well. I'll post them later.

Everyone can contribute - join the live stream www.linkedin.com/posts/siemen...

Screenshot of a talk about "Learning AI 101", saying "Embedded (homelab Raspberry Pi). The picture on the right shows a Raspberry Pi 5 board with a fan, and a 10 inch rack assembly module for PIs, where an SSD is mounted in an 2280 NVMe slot. The slide talks about using homelab hardware to run Large Language Models, first learnings in 2024 with GPU bottlenecks, and excitement about smaller LLMs, and faster Ollama development. Ollama is a server/desktop runtime to serve different models, and can run on a Raspberry Pi 5, Windows, Linux, macOS.

May 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM

Reposted by 🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

DevOpsDays London

@devopsdays.london

We are happy to announce that #DevOpsDays London 2025 is happening.
The dates are Sept 23rd and 24th 2025
The location is the Sir Alexander Fleming Building at Imperial College
Tickets are available: ti.to/devopsdays-l...
CFP : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We are also looking for sponsors!

DevOpsDays London 2025

Tickets available on Tito

ti.to

March 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

🚀 GitLab 17.11 is here with powerful new features!

🏷️ Custom Fields for Issues & Epics
⚙️ CI/CD Pipeline Inputs
👤 Service Accounts UI
🔄 Docker Hub Authentication UI

Upgrade: about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/04/17/gitlab-17-11-released/ @gitlab.com

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GitLab 17.11 released with Custom Compliance Frameworks

GitLab 17.11 released with custom compliance frameworks, more AI features on GitLab Duo Self-Hosted, custom epic, issue, and task fields, CI/CD pipeline inputs, service accounts UI, and much more!

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April 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

⚡ Important read: Learn how Docker Hub's upcoming pull rate limits will affect GitLab pipelines and what you can do to avoid disruptions.

about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/03...

Prepare now: Docker Hub rate limits will impact GitLab CI/CD

Learn how Docker Hub's upcoming pull rate limits will affect GitLab pipelines and what you can do to avoid disruptions.

about.gitlab.com

March 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

Thanks everyone for a lovely, sunny weekend at Chemnitz Linux Days 2025. ☀️ Truly enjoyed meeting old friends and finding new friends in always open circles, #opensource #community connects. 🌈🐧 @cltnews.bsky.social

7 folks standing/sitting, connected together at the event, in front of one of the student lecture rooms at TU Chemnitz.

Christian Stankowic sharing his automation expertise, slide with GitLab test reports.

Michael & Christian in front of the CheckMK booth, sharing monitoring community stories since 2009.

TU Chemnitz from outside, entry view, sunny day, Linux days, yearly open source community event.

March 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

Lovely meeting Markus Eder & Markus Niebel after my talk at @cltnews.bsky.social 2025. 🤗 Thanks for sharing all your Embedded knowledge, use cases & learning tips with me 🥰

Talk slides for "Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with reusable CI/CD components" in dnsmichi.click/cicdcomp-clt...

Michi, Markus, Markus in front of the TQ booth at Chemnitz Linux Days

March 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM

Reposted by 🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

Chemnitzer Linux-Tage

@cltnews.bsky.social

Das Haus füllt sich gerade so schön mit Leben - wundervoll!

#CLT2025 #linux #tux #chemnitz #kulturhauptstadt2025 #chemnitz2025

March 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

You know when it's @cltnews.bsky.social Linux Days 🙃🐧

Looking forward to meet, chat, learn, and talk a little bit about CI/CD components & embedded the next 2 days 🤗

Hotel wall with room windows, zoomed out.

Hotel window, zoomed in. Two penguins looking.

March 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM

🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

🚀 @gitlab.com 17.10 ships with Epic Templates, GLQL Views, Docker Hub auth for Dependency Proxy, better Duo Chat & enhanced Markdown!

Plus: AI-powered Root Cause Analysis for Duo self-hosted 🤖

More: New Issues Look Beta with real-time updates and drawer views ⚡

about.gitlab.com/releases/202...