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Andrew Lilley Brinker

@alilleybrinker.com

Memory safety / Rust 🦀, Dodger baseball ⚾️ ...also #jj-vcs, urbanism, and more. Helping you assess OSS risks with @hipcheck.mitre.org. Principal Engineer at MITRE (opinions are mine) blogs: alilleybrinker.com / possiblerust.com

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Andrew Lilley BrinkerFeb 5, 2026

Claude Has First-Party Agent Orchestration

Anthropic has announced an experimental system for first-party

Andrew Lilley BrinkerJan 16, 2026

Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision

Explaining how Rust's culture of semantic precision pays dividends

Rust

Andrew Lilley BrinkerJan 15, 2026

Gas Town is not Urbit

Explaining how Gas Town and Urbit use insular language for

Andrew Lilley BrinkerJan 14, 2026

Passkey PRFs and the Passkey Loss Blast Radius

Exploring the way passkey PRFs increase the blast radius of

Authentication

Andrew Lilley BrinkerJan 14, 2026

Gas Town Decoded

Explaining Gas Town's insular language to help demystify Steve

Andrew Lilley BrinkerDec 1, 2025

‘Memory Safety for Skeptics’ in the ACM Queue

Making the case for pursuing memory safety amid time and budget

Memory Safety

Andrew Lilley BrinkerApr 10, 2025

Tracking Software ID Schemes

Introducing a small tracker for known software ID schemes such

Software ID

Andrew Lilley BrinkerFeb 19, 2025

The Best Monad Tutorial Ever Written

Rain Paharia has done it, they've explained monads with real,

RustProgramming

Andrew Lilley BrinkerFeb 14, 2025

Jujutsu is the Future

Staking my position that Jujutsu will displace Git in 5 years.

Jujutsu

Andrew Lilley BrinkerFeb 12, 2025

Postscript on “Open Source Software and Corporate Influence”

Some additional notes based on responses to 'Open Source Software

Open Source

Andrew Lilley BrinkerFeb 11, 2025

Open Source Software and Corporate Influence

Exploring how corporations gain power in open source projects,

Open Source

Andrew Lilley BrinkerFeb 10, 2025

Safety Hygiene

Explaining how to properly contain and document unsafe code to

Rust