Matt Derman

Matt DermanOct 9, 2026

"Pleased to announce I've started a new position at.." No come on we don't have time for that. We move at post-human speed around here. We talk in /caveman speak over linkedin waffling. No but really this is my first "Pleased to announce" post! That's a cause for celebration somehow? Anyway. Last month I started doing a bit of work for Verascient, and have now joined the team! Great people, energy, brains, and forced cozy corner (monitors and power extension leads coming soon). Stoked to be a part of this team as we take it the moon! Keagan Stokoe Emile Ferreira Verascient Brendan Watling

Matt DermanOct 22, 2026

Today the internet is on fire. And we're just a few model releases away from every piece of software, every website being compromised. Repeatedly. The highlights: - 2 critical bugs in Php were unveiled before the patch. 1.5 million sites affected. All versions 5 and above. Government sites etc. - a 10.0 CVSS was discovered in self-hosted enterprise gitlab - which has been there since 2014. - Litellm got hijacked - a credential stealer and remote access Trojan gets delivered right to your door just with you installing it. - Opencode got hacked and cli api keys leaked. Millions in damages just right there. - Indias biggest bank lost tons of highly sensitive customer info - currently up for grabs on dark web apparently. - A massive cert authority was found to be using 3 extremely weak private keys- potentially having leading to site impersonation and password stealing/phishing and many other ways this could have been exploited. - And there's even more news, Plex hacked. Safeway. Etc. This is just Wednesday's news on a fine Thursday morning. Looking forward to tomorrow.

Matt DermanOct 14, 2026

Anthropic just finished moving their entire monorepo off Git. Let's just think about that for a second. Git is still going to be around for a very long time, but recently I've been seeing lots of teams re-inventing it in some way. Personally, I've been using Git LFS for my obsidian vault which solved most of the large-file issue I used to have. But Anthropic is dealing with 30k merges daily and 100gb+ branch history. So ignoring the fact that clearly, no human team can ever even hope to scratch the surface of reading 30k merge requests a day, they decided to change Git rather than the process. So they built what they "Scion". Commits, merges and history happen on the server. Agents can query or change files through APIs without checking out the repo. When they need a checkout, they fetch only what's needed. Anthropic reports roughly 100x faster checkouts and 200x lower CPU and memory requirements for its source control infrastructure. It's built for their enormous, always-online workload. Most of us can keep using Git. I remember hearing about "Vit" a while ago. Vit brings another approach to video editing. It versions DaVinci Resolve timeline edits as lightweight JSON using Git underneath. The editing decisions get history; the raw footage stays separate. Then there's the work that isn't ready to commit. Which is what I've been thinking about / building with Code Folder Sync. Which is similar to Theo's Treesync.dev - which is an encrypted hosted mirror of your live workspace (aka code folder). I'm building Code Folder Sync around an SSH hub you control. Both move unfinished files and Git state between machines, preserving conflicting edits as copies. Git is great. But it wasn't built around agents working across machines at this scale. It makes sense that people are rethinking it. P.S. For my vault, the notes go into Git normally. The media uses small LFS pointers containing a hash and size. The actual files live in iCloud and a local LFS cache. GitHub stores the pointers, so it can't restore the media on its own.