25th May 2023
In general my approach to running arbitrary untrusted code is 20% sandboxing and 80% making sure that it’s an extremely low value attack target so it’s not worth trying to break in.
Programs are terminated after 1 second of runtime, they run in a container with no network access, and the machine they’re running on has no sensitive data on it and a very small CPU.
Recent articles
- Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns - 23rd February 2026
- Adding TILs, releases, museums, tools and research to my blog - 20th February 2026
- Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat - 17th February 2026