https://atha.io/blog Ian Atha is an ex-OpenAI technologist based in Athens. He knows how to run secure cloud infrastructure. He makes phygital art. And he helps others build things that matter. en-US [email protected] (Ian Atha) [email protected] (Ian Atha) Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://atha.io/blog/2026-04-17-the-more-confident-the-machine-looks https://atha.io/blog/2026-04-17-the-more-confident-the-machine-looks Automation bias and the design of human-in-the-loop review software Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) https://atha.io/blog/2026-03-18-ai-sycophancy https://atha.io/blog/2026-03-18-ai-sycophancy A documented case — Greek, skull base tumor, complaints filed with the European Public Prosecutor — and a close reading of the voice the chatbot used to get her there. Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) ai-safetylinguisticscase-studyconsumer-protection https://atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-viva https://atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-viva Viva.com, one of Europe's largest payment processors, sends verification emails without a Message-ID header — a requirement of RFC 5322 since 2008. Google Workspace rejects them outright. Their support team's response to my detailed bug report: your account has a verified email, so there's no problem. Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) european paymentsviva.com https://atha.io/blog/braincycles https://atha.io/blog/braincycles Exploring the concept of quantifying human effort in creating digital content, proposing a new metric called 'braincycles' to assess the human attention and effort involved in digital interactions.. Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) https://atha.io/blog/introducing-bababasic https://atha.io/blog/introducing-bababasic BabaBASIC is an open-source Android app created to emulate QBasic 4.5, inspired by my father's nostalgia for BASIC and his desire to share the wonders of programming while at a café. Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) bababasicandroid https://atha.io/blog/ramson-part-2 https://atha.io/blog/ramson-part-2 The 2nd post describing RAMSON, a JSON schema that preserves ECMAScript objects exactly as they are in memory. Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) javascript experiments https://atha.io/blog/ramson-part-1 https://atha.io/blog/ramson-part-1 The 1st post describing RAMSON, a JSON schema that preserves ECMAScript objects exactly as they are in memory. Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) javascript experiments https://atha.io/blog/closure https://atha.io/blog/closure A closure is a record of every reference a function utilizes. Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) reference https://atha.io/blog/continuation https://atha.io/blog/continuation undefined Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) reference https://atha.io/blog/cyber-killchain https://atha.io/blog/cyber-killchain undefined Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) reference https://atha.io/blog/idempotent https://atha.io/blog/idempotent A function is idempotent if running it once, or n times, has the same effect. Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) reference https://atha.io/blog/up-for-cli https://atha.io/blog/up-for-cli undefined Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) devtools https://atha.io/blog/2016-09-06-in-the-news-grinnellians-you-should-know https://atha.io/blog/2016-09-06-in-the-news-grinnellians-you-should-know undefined Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) in the newsgrinnell college https://atha.io/blog/2012-12-04-in-the-news-the-grinnell-magazine https://atha.io/blog/2012-12-04-in-the-news-the-grinnell-magazine undefined Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) in the newsgrinnell college https://atha.io/blog/less-io-securitymanager https://atha.io/blog/less-io-securitymanager LessIOSecurityManager is an open-source Java SecurityManager implementation designed to identify and control I/O operations during unit tests. By using fine-grained annotations, such as @AllowDNSResolution and @AllowNetworkAccess, software engineers can prevent costly and potentially harmful operations, ultimately improving test performance and reliability Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) javatestingopensource https://atha.io/blog/regional-variation-of-slang https://atha.io/blog/regional-variation-of-slang undefined Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT [email protected] (Ian Atha) researchlinguistics