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Robert Ryan Jennings

Web logs of a software development engineer, musician, artist and hockey player.

Essays on software engineering, mobile and backend security, architecture, older systems, and the occasional adjacent obsession.

Content expressed is my own and does not reflect the opinions of any entity.

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Git Is Becoming an Execution Surface

Apr 3, 2026 12:00AM
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Git Is Becoming an Execution Surface
Git metadata now crosses execution boundaries in CI and agentic systems, which turns familiar repository fields into potential code execution inputs.

Mobuild Envuscator and Digitalis

Mar 30, 2026 12:00PM
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1121 words
Mobuild Envuscator and Digitalis
Two beerware-minded tools for reducing mobile configuration risk: one by hardening what ships in the client, the other by hardening what the backend is willing to deliver.