Rian van der Merwe's bloghttps://elezea.com/https://elezea.com/2026/05/i-left-port-22-open-for-54-days-an-ssh-honeypot-study/https://elezea.com/2026/05/i-left-port-22-open-for-54-days-an-ssh-honeypot-study/Exposing SSH to the internet reveals how ubiquitous automated probing is, with login attempts arriving within seconds of port exposure.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:16:16 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/05/discrobble-v1-0-2/https://elezea.com/2026/05/discrobble-v1-0-2/My first iPhone app is live! Discrobble is now on the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6761305573), free. It connects to your Discogs collection and your Last.fm account so you can track plays from your vinyl and CDs…Sat, 09 May 2026 20:05:48 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/05/song-of-the-day-may-6-2026/https://elezea.com/2026/05/song-of-the-day-may-6-2026/All over my Instagram Reels for some reason — and it's such a vibe I can't get enough of it.Thu, 07 May 2026 02:47:35 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/05/discogs-mcp-v3-3-0/https://elezea.com/2026/05/discogs-mcp-v3-3-0/The first search of the day is now instant. `discogs-mcp` pre-fetches your collection in the background every hour and keeps it in a snapshot, so…Tue, 05 May 2026 01:13:29 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/05/why-did-hollywood-stop-making-dramas/https://elezea.com/2026/05/why-did-hollywood-stop-making-dramas/Hollywood's shift away from dramas toward action and horror may stem from how genre thrills age better than character-driven stories that depend on…Fri, 01 May 2026 22:21:18 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/lastfm-mcp-v2-4-0/https://elezea.com/2026/04/lastfm-mcp-v2-4-0/The big shifts in this release: three new tools, a glassmorphism-redesigned landing page, timezone-aware day boundaries on `get_recent_tracks`, and a…Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:09:55 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/output-isnt-design/https://elezea.com/2026/04/output-isnt-design/Design is fundamentally about understanding a problem's context and constraints, not simply creating visual output.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:14:58 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/tldl-v2-4-0/https://elezea.com/2026/04/tldl-v2-4-0/TL;DL has a new look. Inspired by classic broadsheet newspapers, the redesigned site puts episode summaries in a layout that's calmer to read and easier to…Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:25:26 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/pm-role-keeps-rewriting-itself/https://elezea.com/2026/04/pm-role-keeps-rewriting-itself/Melissa Perri on why PMs should stop measuring themselves by tickets and docs, and start measuring decisions changed and outcomes shipped.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:25:50 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/product-roadmaps-how-the-best-product-teams-plan-for-uncertainty/https://elezea.com/2026/04/product-roadmaps-how-the-best-product-teams-plan-for-uncertainty/The best product roadmaps adapt to uncertainty by shifting from detailed features to broader opportunities and outcomes as you plan further ahead.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:32:05 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/deezer-ai-generated-tracks-now-represent-44-of-all-new-uploaded-music/https://elezea.com/2026/04/deezer-ai-generated-tracks-now-represent-44-of-all-new-uploaded-music/AI-generated music now dominates new uploads on Deezer but barely registers with listeners, suggesting artificial tracks struggle to gain genuine audience…Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:40:08 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/the-slide/https://elezea.com/2026/04/the-slide/New managers must learn to delegate significant projects and trust their teams, as mastering this skill is fundamental to effective leadership.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:34:55 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/ai-prototyping-is-changing-how-we-build-products-at-uber/https://elezea.com/2026/04/ai-prototyping-is-changing-how-we-build-products-at-uber/As AI makes prototyping faster and cheaper, product requirement documents must evolve from defining ideas to capturing intent, tradeoffs, and decisions.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:26:01 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/tldl-v2-3-0/https://elezea.com/2026/04/tldl-v2-3-0/Per-podcast email subscriptions for tldl. Pick the shows you care about at [/subscribe](https://tldl-pod.com/subscribe) and the summary lands in your inbox as…Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:11:37 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/org-design-in-the-age-of-ai/https://elezea.com/2026/04/org-design-in-the-age-of-ai/Companies must rethink organizational design from scratch to leverage AI's potential rather than merely using it to optimize existing structures.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:15:59 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/the-peril-of-laziness-lost-2/https://elezea.com/2026/04/the-peril-of-laziness-lost-2/AI systems lack the human laziness that drives engineers to build elegant, efficient solutions, risking bloated systems without constraints on complexity.Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:31:35 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/two-small-new-things-on-the-blog/https://elezea.com/2026/04/two-small-new-things-on-the-blog/Two small improvements the WordPress migration unlocked: auto-posted side-project releases and per-content-type RSS feeds.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:29:02 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/discogs-mcp-v3-2-0/https://elezea.com/2026/04/discogs-mcp-v3-2-0/Adds `search_discogs` for catalog-wide queries beyond your own collection, plus two real-world accuracy fixes: owned-marker correctness across pressings, and…Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:58:22 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/tldl-v2-2-0/https://elezea.com/2026/04/tldl-v2-2-0/Two meaningful changes since v2.1.0. tldl now detects new podcast episodes directly from RSS feeds with conditional GETs instead of relying on Podcast Index…Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:59:50 GMTRian van der Merwehttps://elezea.com/2026/04/what-actually-changed-about-being-a-pm/https://elezea.com/2026/04/what-actually-changed-about-being-a-pm/Fear-Driven Development, evals as the new PRD, and what actually shifts in the PM job when AI becomes part of the stack.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:54:37 GMTRian van der Merwe