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🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈
@dnsmichi.dev
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🦊 Principal Developer Advocate @GitLab.com
🌐 All-remote in Nuremberg
🚀 Embedded DevSecOps
🛡️ Responsible AI adoption
🗺️ #lego #travel #drageekeksi #embedded #ai
🌈 https://dnsmichi.at/about/
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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
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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
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💡 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

Link in 🧵
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
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🗺️ 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'Vibe coding' without #DevSecOps 👻

www.reddit.com/r/Programmer...
Internet meme, girl standing in front of burning house. Text says Worked fine in Dev Sec Ops problem now
March 18, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Ready for embedded world next week in Nuremberg. Come say hi at the @gitlab.com booth 4114 🦊🤗

🗺️ www.embedded-world.de/en/exhibitor...
💡 content.gitlab.com/viewer/e59c4...

#embedded #devsecops #tufty2040
Tufty 2040 display, showing the GitLab logo, Michael Friedrich, Staff Developer Advocate, and 2 QR codes with About and LinkedIn. Background: monitor with Thonny IDE and Micropython code to provision
March 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Crazy start into my 6th year at @gitlab.com with carnival in Germany. My remote teams were excited today 🙃🍌
Minion costume, Michael in front of the desk, Zoom call. Minion costume, Michael, sitting in front of remote office desk. Background with 49" monitor, and eastereggs. Team mates copied the Michael minion picture into a Slack emoji called "dnsminion" in reference to Michael's nickname "dnsmichi"
March 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Let's go 2025!!! Energized by @gitlab.com SKO, I'm excited ...

🚀 Enablement: Helping customers with AI use cases, and AI agents across the SDLC.

🌱 New focus area: Embedded - From Git to CI to Sec to AI with Embedded DevSecOps.

🤗 Events: ...

www.linkedin.com/posts/dnsmic...
Michael, wearing new GitLab swag (jacket, seatpants) in front of his remote office desk, including the 49" screen with 3 windows open - GitLab SKO photo upload, Playlist, and VS Code with Embedded DevSecOps environment project, showing several hardware assemblies. On the desk - keyboards/trackpad/mouse, juice, coffee, and lots of LEGO easter eggs. Full setup on dnsmichi.at
February 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Puppet user writing Ansible code.

#changinghabitsishard #embeddedautomation
Editor with Ansible/pico.yml file open. Tasks for installing dependencies and cloning Git repos with Ansible. Directory creation uses "ensure: directory" to ensure that it exists. Too bad this is Puppet syntax and not compatible with Ansible. Developer's habits.
February 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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LOL www.qwertee.com/shop/tees/br...
Qwertee shop, shirt, circle, bear in the woods in the middle, text around You cannot outrun a bear Always bring a slow friend
February 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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New follower @thesecretdevrel.bsky.social made me laugh this morning 🤣
(the secret devrel) saying the things out loud that probably will get us fired
February 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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LOL 😂

via www.instagram.com/p/DFVW4MFKFu... #dadjokes
Dadjokes Logan Lisle in front of mount Rushmore I took a job as the head of Old McDonald's farm. I'm the ClElO.
January 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Gold. 😂

www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/s...
Reddit My team's intern just found a critical bug by shitposting in our codebase Join So our summer intern (who l'm 90% sure is a professional shitposter moonlighting as a dev) just saved our entire authentication service by being, well, an absolute agent of chaos. Background: We have this legacy auth system that's been running since before TikTok existed. No one touches it. It's documented in ancient Sanskrit and COBOL comments. The last guy who understood it fully left to become a yoga instructor in Peru. Enter our intern. First week, he asks why our commit messages are so boring. Starts adding memes to his. Whatever, right? Then he begins leaving comments in the codebase like: / This function is older than me and probably pays taxes // TODO: Ask if this while loop has health insurance // Here lies Sarah's hopes and dreams (2019-2022), killed by this recursive call The senior devs were split between horrified and amused. But here's where it gets good. He's reading through the auth code (because "the commit messages here are too normal, sus") and adds this gem: Il yo why this token validation looking kinda thic though I/ fr fr no cap this base64 decode bussin // wait... hold up... this ain't bussin at all Turns out his Gen Z spider-sense wasn't just tingling for the memes. Man actually found a validation bypass that's been lurking in our code since Obama's first term. The kind of bug that makes security auditors wake up in cold sweats. The best part? His Jira ticket title: "Auth be acting mad sus rn no cap frfr (Critical Security Issue)" The worst part? We now have to explain to the CEO why "no cap frfr" appears in our Q3 security audit report. The absolute kicker? Our senior security engineer's official code review comment: "bestie... you snapped with this find ngl" I can't tell if this is the peak or rock bottom of our engineering culture. But I do know our intern's getting a return offer, if only because I need to see what he'll do to our GraphQL documentation.
January 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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One of these weeks.
Garfield on the beach strip. Picture 1: Garfield thinking SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKELIFE'S PASSING ME BY Picture 2: Person with ice cream, running, screaming AAAAAAAAANTS!!! Picture 3: Garfield falls asleep with AND I'M FINE WITH THAT Footer JIM DAV9S 7-14
January 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The time leading up to Fasching (Carnival) in Germany is great. Special Krapfen (doughnuts) everywhere 🥰
Box with Krapfen (dougnuts), saying Best of Carnival Krapfen (doughnuts) - 3 with middle vanilla creme, 3 choco vanilla sugar glacé with choco vanilla creme inside
January 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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lol yes
Player with text DOES NOT WORK BUT COULD BE FUN To FIX!
January 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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😴
Meme, bearded person saying "What a week, huh?" Young blonde responds "Captain, it's Wednesday"
January 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Could. Not. Resist.
Lego Bricklink Designer Program, Mountain View Observatory - modrl out of bricks, front page of box, observatory, minifigures Lego Bricklink Designer Program, Mountain View Observatory - modrl out of bricks, back page of box, observatory ground floor, 1st floor, roof, look inside.
January 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Gmail: Filters with "skip inbox", and structured/colored label trees. Anything that ends up in my inbox is less important and needs new filters. Helps identify unsolicited outreaches too.

Filter tips: handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/too...

Meeting invite filters: support.google.com/a/users/answ...
Gmail labels, with trees and colors. planning planning/google docs planning/meetings planning/mentioned planning/others planning/travel planning/updated issues planning/updated issues/blog planning/updated issues/developer-relations planning/updated issues/gitlab-org planning/updated issues/maintainer planning/updated issues/maintainer/components planning/updated issues/maintainer/everyonecancontribute Gmail labels, with trees and colors. planning/updated issues/ maintainer/handbook planning/updated issues/marketing planning/updated issues/product reading-list reading-list/cncf reading-list/forum reading-list/insights reading-list/newsletter reading-list/private updates-list updates-list/employment updates-list/events updates-list/status updates-list/stock updates-list/trials
January 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Learned that Monument Valley 3 is available on Netflix mobile games. www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

Instant play-through - so relaxing, with fascinating new puzzle techniques 🤩
Get from A to B with mindboggling shifts and turnarounds in Monument Valley 3. Puzzle shows a castle ground, with no way in the middle. But some knobs indicate that the stones can be moved up to create a way? Color shapes that can be turned multi-angle. Each time they show a new path, and eventually you get to the upper stairs. The yellow block friend in Monument Valley can swim in a river. Which puzzles will it help solve this time? Get up the tower with flower ranks, but how can we reach the open door? The leaves only reach a level underneath.
January 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM