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BLEN and Ad Hoc have formed ByDesign Technology, a joint venture that combines modern engineering, human-centered design, and practical AI to help agencies deliver working solutions in months.
AI · BLEN Team · Nov 2026
security-sweep is an open-source skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other coding agents. It fixes only critical vulnerabilities, with the smallest possible change, one fix at a time, and proves nothing else changed.
Open Source · BLEN Team · Oct 2026BLEN has been named an OpenAI Select Partner, strengthening our work to help federal agencies and mission-driven organizations build, deploy, and scale AI responsibly.
AI · BLEN Team · Sep 2026Today marks the 19th anniversary of BLEN, a journey made possible through the commitment and dedication of our exceptional team. Since inception, our mission has been to create…
Notes · Ephrem M. Girma · May 2023The puzzler of the week was trying to limit access to a custom field definition for a specific content type. We were working on a project that was using an old version of…
Drupal · Henok Mikre · Oct 2019In multi environment deployments of Drupal, update hooks can be useful for populating initial data for new content types/containers. There are obviously better ways of…
Drupal · Henok Mikre · Oct 2019Drupal install profiles help organize custom code in Drupal projects especially in large, single site instances. In Drupal 7, custom modules used to live in…
Drupal · Henok Mikre · Oct 2019We've been using Jekyll for all kinds of projects over the last five years. It's been good to us. Setting up and maintaining local installations, however, has not been the most…
Jekyll · Henok Mikre · Sep 2019React Comments is a Disqus like comment feature for Drupal 8. It is a much more beautiful alternative to the Ajax Comments module, which we had migrated to Drupal 8 as an…
Notes · Henok Mikre · Oct 2018In our previous post (Creating EC2 Instances Using AWS CLI), we discussed how to setup a CentOS EC2 instance using the aws CLI. In this post, we will discuss setting up a basic…
Notes · Henok Mikre · Aug 2018Earlier notes, 2010 to 2018.