🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈

@dnsmichi.dev

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🦊 Principal Developer Advocate @GitLab.com 🌐 All-remote in Nuremberg 🚀 Embedded AI research 🛡️ Agentic AI modernization 🗺️ #lego #travel #drageekeksi #embedded #ai 🌈 https://dnsmichi.com/about/

docker-compose jinja template for Traefik reverse-proxy, diff view with "restart: always" as new line.
All-remote workspace, Jan 2026 - left are shelves with LEGO builds, books, organization. The standing desk/ergonomic chair are located on the right, with 49" ultra-wide monitor and audio/video recording equipment.
GitLab profile of dnsmichi - profile avatar, name: Michael Friedrich. Highlights the new embedded GitLab Contributor Stats banner.
LinkedIn post about GitLab Duo Agent Platform with a custom AI agent doing support in Austrian dialect.
49 inch monitor on a standing desk, with Shure SM7B and the new soundbar at the bottom, purple light.
iPad browser, https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/jobs/fine_grained_permissions/ docs opened with dark mode and mobile layout.
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.
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.
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.
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.
7 folks standing/sitting, connected together at the event, in front of one of the student lecture rooms at TU Chemnitz.
Michi, Markus, Markus in front of the TQ booth at Chemnitz Linux Days
Hotel wall with room windows, zoomed out.
Internet meme, girl standing in front of burning house. Text says Worked fine in Dev Sec Ops problem now
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
Minion costume, Michael in front of the desk, Zoom call.
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
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.
Qwertee shop, shirt, circle, bear in the woods in the middle, text around You cannot outrun a bear Always bring a slow friend
(the secret devrel) saying the things out loud that probably will get us fired
Dadjokes Logan Lisle in front of mount Rushmore I took a job as the head of Old McDonald's farm. I'm the ClElO.
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.
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
Box with Krapfen (dougnuts), saying Best of Carnival
Player with text DOES NOT WORK BUT COULD BE FUN To FIX!
Meme, bearded person saying "What a week, huh?" Young blonde responds "Captain, it's Wednesday"
Lego Bricklink Designer Program, Mountain View Observatory - modrl out of bricks, front page of box, observatory, minifigures
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
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?
Book title, generated in O'Reilly format. Editing /etc/hosts for a living Everything is a Fscking DNS Problem The Definitive Guide ORLY? Kris Buytaert
Bluesky DM Deleted Account • 21h Hello, it's nice to contact you again! How is everything going recently?
Lego Titanic, front view
Endurance, boat, side view.
Building techniques fir boat shsped floors.
Lego Endurance, brick parts. Orange selection for missing/wrong pieces.
Planks pattern made with backside of stone shaped bricks.
Bricks building the ship's hull, using shaped wall elements.
Front ship with railing.
First ship part in progress, side shape build with bricks.
The Endurance, LEGO packages wrapped in paper, unboxing.
Screenshot from blueview.app analyzing Bluesky stats.
GitLab Web IDE in the browser, showing the editor with a Markdown file in the GitLab handbook. Right pane: GitLab Duo Chat, prompt with AI assisted answer to format Markdown tables.
Man with black hair and beard, "What a week, huh?" Young blonde man answering "Captain, it is Wednesday"
LEGO boxes, The Endurance ship large, small giveaway boxes - xmas train, endurance boat, music vinyl player.
IT-Tage 2024 Talk: Effiziente DevSecOps-Workflows - with a little help from AI Banner: 10 years IT Tage, talk by Michael Friedrich, showing an avatar and name
Twitter/X screenshot of a livestream, showing how to learn threejs
User, input message, agent loop. AI agent has LLM, can query RAG, web search, external api
Meme, 2 knights after battle, 4 pictures. 1. How do we know if theyre actually dead or just pretending? 2. if (string1 == string2) 3. Responses: Amateur .equals() lol, noob 4. (all dead)
Lego.com order, the endurance, just placed.
lego.com waiting page, high load
GutLab CI/CD config, showing how to test different Python versions
Meme with Gru, 4 pictures, looking at board 1. The Cl fails randomly 😱 2. Fix the Cl 👀 3. Become the Cl person 🧐 4. Become the Cl person 😢
View over Würzburg, Germany, from the Marienberg Fortress. Middle: River Main.
Rotating Linzer Torte.
Lego 6260 Shipwreck Island, pirates theme. 2 pirates, ape, parrot, gold, cannon, palm tree.
LinkedIn network, 120 invitations.