We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.20.3 with fixes for two security vulnerabilities in the YAML parsers. We recommend upgrading as soon as possible if your application processes YAML files from unknown origins. See the release notes of 1.20.0 for all the changes introduced in Crystal 1.20. Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels.…
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Python has something called wildcard imports, which look like from module import *. This type of import allows you to quickly get all the objects from a module into your namespace. However, using this import on a package can be confusing because it’s not clear what you want to import: subpackages, modules, objects? Python has the __all__ variable to work…
L'objectif de cet article est de vulgariser les connaissances autour du Q-day, car derrière ce titre se cachent des concepts de mécanique quantique et de cybersécurité avancés. Avançons ensemble dans ce parcours afin qu’au terme de la lecture, vous disposiez des éléments nécessaires pour prendre de meilleures décisions dans votre système d'informat
Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that's not what matters most. Every token in the orchestrator's context is competing for its attention, and the real value of a subagent is what it keeps out of that context. Subagents should be treated as a tool for protecting the orchestrator's working memory, offloading reasoning it…
Natural disasters and government interference: examining Q2 2026’s major Internet disruption event
CloudflareCloudflare Radar tracked Internet disruptions driven by natural disasters, government-mandated shutdowns, and DNSSEC key rollovers over the last quarter. This blog post analyzes traffic telemetry to explain how these events impacted global connectivity.
Learn how AI coding agents can expose credentials in supply chain attacks and how Docker Sandboxes keep secrets out of an agent's reach.
TL;DR I have ideas. I haven’t been writing them. That’s about to change. I promise… myself. I’ve been thinking a lot about talent. Actually, I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking. And writing. Or more specifically, not writing. This really hit me earlier this year at the Future of Software conference. I was surrounded by people sharing their latest ideas…
Google Sheets is one of those tools that feels forgiving, and it becomes miserably unhelpful when it breaks. You type something in, drag a formula down, and everything looks fine — until a formula starts pointing at the wrong cells, or a perfectly good ID number turns itself into a date. After years of living […] The post Fix Common…
In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Managing Imports With Python’s __all__. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how wildcard imports work, what role the __all__ variable plays in modules and packages, and how to define a clean public API for your Python code. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short &…
Hostinger expands its global footprint and secures 3,000+ servers amid an infrastructure crunch
HostingerWebsites and apps hosted on Hostinger can now run faster, stay more stable, and scale more easily thanks to the company’s expanded global footprint. Hostinger opened a new data ce… The post Hostinger expands its global footprint and secures 3,000+ servers amid an infrastructure crunch appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Your agents can now discover and load Agent Skills directly from a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Instead of shipping every skill inside your application or copying skill folders into each deployment, you point an agent at an MCP server and it pulls the skills it needs on demand. A central team can publish skills […] The post Discover Agent…
TL;DR KotlinLLM is now public. It’s a research prototype for delegating runtime logic to an LLM from Kotlin code. Instead of calling an LLM on every request or running a separate agent, you can write an explicit Kotlin call. Its body is generated Kotlin source code, and that code is updated as your application hits […]
I launched Disaster Lab, a free library of practical prevention and recovery playbooks for personal and business digital disasters.
You need reliable AI context for your site reliability
Stack OverflowRyan is joined by Asaf Savich, Komodor’s AI Engineering Group Manager, to discuss why modern reliability work requires navigating massive cross-service context, what good context engineering actually likes when AI is integrated into site reliability, and how the work of human SREs is shifting towards strategy and AI agent management. …
une question mérite d'être posée avant même de réfléchir aux modèles de gouvernance : sommes-nous réellement entrés dans l'ère de la gouvernance de l'IA ?
eBay has reached an agreement with Ina and David Steiner pertaining to the 2019 misconduct by former eBay employees.
In a 2018 Forbes article, Jedidiah Yueh and Randy Bean argued that every company is now a data company. “Leveraging data — in an ethical manner — has to be at the heart of your company and product strategy,” they wrote. “Collect, sift, then monetize.” Just shy of a decade later, virtually every company (in ...
What chunking is in RAG, how chunk size and overlap determine chunk count, what embedding and vector storage cost, and whether top-k fits your context.
Python syntax and the flexibility of the Flask microframework make it a popular choice for quickly building web applications. While Flask provides the essentials to get you started, you’ll need to tackle two critical pieces yourself: secure user authentication and authorized access to your backend services. After all, how do you securely sign users into your application? And once they’re…
When most people think of AI helping their everyday work, a simple chatbot that answers...
Evil Trout’s second game, The Incident at Galley House, is out now on Steam! Last year, after The Roottrees are Dead shipped, I wrote a technical blog post about its development, which was well received, so I decided to do the same thing for this game. Note: The images in this post have minor spoilers for the beginning of the…
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Companies like Spotify need vast quantities of data accessible at low latency for online services and,... The post Indexing the Data Lake for Online Point Queries appeared first on Spotify Engineering.
Doit-on tuer l'IA ou la stopper ? Une réflexion sur les limites d'une révolution technologique ?
OCTO TechnologyCette dynamique de l'IA soulève des interrogations profondes sur son coût réel : coût environnemental, coût social et, plus largement, coût civilisationnel. Dès lors, faut-il poursuivre cette course sans limite ou devons-nous apprendre à ralentir pour préserver les conditions mêmes de notre avenir ?
Practice subscripts with a short swift challenge.
Beyond AI Auto-Fix: Hypothesis-Driven Debugging for Production Failures on SitePoint.
Emergency brief — Opus 5 appeared on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard on July 25, 2026, but no developer-focused articles exist yet. Opus 5 Tops New AI Leaderboard: What Developers Need to Know on SitePoint.
Developers need clarity on deploying open-weight AI models (e.g., GPT-OSS-20B) on Kubernetes—this compares vLLM, KubeAI, and GKE. Open-weight AI on Kubernetes: A Developer’s Guide to vLLM vs. KubeAI on SitePoint.
L'IA n'est pas le sujet : pourquoi le véritable défi est désormais l'ingénierie des systèmes de production logicielle ?
OCTO TechnologyPendant plusieurs décennies, l'ingénierie logicielle s'est attachée à optimiser la manière dont les équipes produisaient du code. Demain, elle devra surtout organiser la collaboration entre humains et agents d'intelligence artificielle au sein de véritables systèmes industriels de production.
Meet the MSBuild Binlog Analyzer for VS Code - a Copilot-powered way to read MSBuild binary logs, explain and fix build failures with one click, compare builds, and catch regressions, backed by the Microsoft.AITools.BinlogMcp MCP server. The post Analyze MSBuild Binary Logs with Copilot in VS Code appeared first on .NET Blog.
Traditional data replication techniques often struggle to deliver the data freshness that modern workflows require. To help organizations overcome this challenge, SAP and Google Cloud are announcing that SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for BigQuery is now generally available. As the next phase of our long-standing partnership, SAP BDC Connect for BigQuery gives you zero-copy access to data products across…
Pinner Progression: Better Use-Case Representation Driving Weekly Active User Growth at Pinterest
PinterestPart 1 of 2 Authors Personalization (Homefeed): Yuke Yan, Chuxi Wang, Andreanne Lemay, Olafur Gudmundsson, Anna Kiyantseva, Krystal Benitez, Jongho Kim, Jiacong He, Rahul Goutam, James Li, Dylan Wang User Understanding: Simin Li, Sufyan Suliman, Yingjian Ding, Hongbo Deng Data Science: Armando Ordorica, Yan Chen, Ellie Zhang, Karim Wahba Introduction Pinterest’s mission is to help people discover the inspiration to…
Even as machine-speed attacks dominate the headlines, Mandiant’s view from the frontline reveals that the vast majority of successful intrusions still stem from fundamental human and systemic failures. This operational break-down shows up pointedly in research from the M-Trends 2026 report. Exploits remain the most common initial infection vector for the sixth consecutive year at 32%, voice phishing surged to…
Person-centric CX fails when agents and AI lack a shared live timeline. Learn how to power customer engagement platforms with real-time engagement.
Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)
AWSLast week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners. What struck me most wasn’t any single session, it was the energy of a technical community […]
Modernizing the skies: NOAA and Google Cloud collaborate to advance weather forecasting
Google CloudThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is embarking on a transformative journey to redefine how we understand and predict patterns in the Earth’s atmosphere that affect the weather we face every day. Today, we are proud to announce that Google Cloud was selected as the primary provider of high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure for the Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing…
Exception-safety, the invisible bug. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 6 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Antigravity CLI is a terminal-based AI coding tool that brings Google’s agent assistance into your workflow. After installing it and signing in with your Google account, you can ask questions about your code, add new features, track down bugs, and even dispatch multiple subagents to work on separate tasks in parallel, all without leaving your shell: Antigravity CLI Antigravity CLI…
FLOT NOIR reimagines MERSI’s digital presence as a quiet, immersive space between architectural print and interactive web, combining a tailored Webflow build with precise motion and editorial storytelling.
Posted by Andrei Shikov, Senior Software Engineer, Android Toolkit and Jonathan Starup, Software Engineer, R8 Team Starting from AGP 9.2.0, R8 optimizes most Atomic*FieldUpdater calls into Unsafe variants that perform 2x to 4x better on common operations. This has a particularly large impact on the kotlinx.atomicfu library that implements atomics for kotlinx.coroutines, making launching and cancelling coroutines up to 2x…
pvcli is a curl-like tool designed to simplify the testing of complex privacy protocols like OHTTP.
AI Sovereignty is Your Alpha: How to Avoid Transferring Your Alpha to a Hosted Model Provider
PalantirUse of third party AI model services poses significant risk to your alpha. Without sovereign control over how your data is processed by those services (either the AI Labs or the Hyperscalers, collectively referred to as “Hosted Model Providers”), Hosted Model Providers may extract your alpha (your unique institutional knowledge and tradecraft embodied in data exposed to and generated from…
In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Use Google’s Antigravity CLI for AI Code Assistance. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to install and authenticate the tool, prompt the agent to read and refactor your code, and review its work before it lands. You’ll also recall how to resume past conversations and hand parallel jobs…
Compare the best crypto payment gateways in 2026. Review fees, speed, stablecoin support, mass payouts, and compliance for NOWPayments, CoinGate, BitPay, and more. Best Crypto Payments Gateways in 2026 on SitePoint.
Open source software is a critical pillar of the global economy. It underpins cloud computing, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, government and internet services by making technology accessible and observable to communities of experts. Cybersecurity is among the top three beneficiaries of open source software. The Open Secure AI Alliance — building on the leadership of […]
Build an Astro integration from scratch using hooks, configuration updates, injected routes and scripts, package metadata, and local testing.
I launched migratingto.dev, a library of versioned migration playbooks with transfer breakdowns, timelines, rollback plans, and verification checks.
AI literacy is an individual's ability to comprehend and effectively utilize AI tools...
Liquid software is complete, working source code designed to be understood, owned, and reshaped with the help of AI coding agents.
eBay Returns to The National Sports Collectors Convention with Its Biggest Presence Yet: the eBay Arena
EbayThe eBay Arena brings together 60+ eBay Live streams, athlete appearances, premium collectibles, immersive fan experiences and new innovations for The Hobby.
Local LLM vs API costs compared: amortized hardware, electricity, tokens per second, break-even point in months, and when local actually wins.
New OpenAI research shows how AI is expanding what workers do, with ChatGPT users taking on tasks across roles and reshaping job boundaries.
The complexity of modern chip design continues to grow as engineering teams work to develop increasingly sophisticated CPUs, GPUs and AI systems. To help meet that challenge, NVIDIA is collaborating with industry leaders Cadence and Synopsys to optimize critical electronic design automation (EDA) applications for the NVIDIA Vera CPU. NVIDIA is now deploying Vera across […]
A practical guide for technical leaders and developers on leveraging the Auth0 Subscriptions tab. Learn how to conduct an Auth0 plan comparison, evaluate add-ons, and monitor Auth0 quota utilization to align your identity infrastructure with product growth
We just released @thoughtbot/react-native-social-auth; a modern Google Sign-In library for React Native built on top of Android’s Credential Manager and the current GoogleSignIn-iOS SDK. It ships with a Google-branding-compliant button component, a first-party Expo config plugin, and a TypeScript-first API. npm: @thoughtbot/react-native-social-auth Github: github.com/thoughtbot/react-native-social-auth import { GoogleSignIn, GoogleSignInButton, } from '@thoughtbot/react-native-social-auth'; Goog
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Create a Vercel Sandbox, upload and run JavaScript, collect its output, restrict network access, enforce a timeout, and stop it safely.
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the AI Engineer World’s Fair. I stepped off the subway and made my way up the stairs toward Moscone West, nervous and excited. Finally — a few days to devote my full attention to sorting the real innovation from the hype. And I came […] The post It’s Not…
I am publishing a production, pure-Python ML-DSA verifier. It's just 350 lines, and pretty readable and robust.
Build a TypeScript library for npm with ESM and CommonJS outputs, type declarations, exports, tests, semantic versions, and trusted publishing.
I launched calculum.dev, a growing library of practical calculators with clear formulas, visible assumptions, and browser-only calculations.
A practical mini-course on running real apps on Cloudflare with Workers, Pages, D1, KV, R2, Queues, Durable Objects, AI, and more.
How to estimate the VRAM an LLM needs: parameter count times quantization bits, plus KV cache that grows with context length, plus overhead.
American endtimes economics met Chinese neurotech on a DAO-owned island off the coast of Proud Britain...
Part of running your own website is being able to do what you want on it. Within the confines of the law, of course. Back in the day you'd add something trivial to your site and make a formal announcement about it to your adoring fan base. I've done it in the past. My buddy Geoff still does it. As…
25 Jul
Practice generics with a short swift challenge.
Learn GitHub Stacked PRs with gh stack: design focused layers, submit the chain, handle review feedback, rebase safely, and merge.
Steve King builds a real order fulfilment flow to show how a workflow engine handles long-running processes in Laravel. The post covers steps, signals, retries, branching, human approval, compensation, and the surrounding tooling in one practical example. Read more
In late June, our office quietly crossed a threshold worth reflecting on. With two new accelerators joining the team, we now have 9 women and 7 men in our Raleigh office. For the first time, women make up the majority of the people at my workplace, something not many in the tech industry can say. […] The post Atomic Object…
Write Node.js integration tests against a real PostgreSQL database with Testcontainers, including schema setup, isolation, cleanup, and CI.
null From Symptoms to Systems: Understanding Observability on SitePoint.
How I built Notion to Site in 2022, why it stayed an internal test, what the code taught me, and how AI agents could help turn it into a business today.
Record a product demo video with Playwright instead of screen recording. Script clicks, ffmpeg crop and encode, autoplay video for mobile fallbacks.
In 1985, at the age of eleven, I bought my first comic book: The Transformers #9. From there, I went on to collect nearly a thousand comics over my teenage years, mostly in the Marvel universe like Spider-Man and X-men. Lots of Groo the Wanderer (which my mom always enjoyed) and then into stuff like Watchmen and The Sandman. Bill…
Software architects have a weird role: Think about the code _tomorrow_. Today's code is what it is, how do we make it good tomorrow? Without slowing down, losing business, or falling off a cliff.
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FrontierCode v1.1 benchmark data reveals that Claude Opus 5 peaks at medium reasoning effort, delivering near-top scores at roughly half the compute cost of higher effort settings. Claude Opus 5 Is Most Efficient at Medium Effort: FrontierCode Benchmark Data Explained on SitePoint.
Comprehensive guide Codex 5.3 Production Workflow: When to Use It Over Claude for Complex Refactoring on SitePoint.
Drizzle ORM to Prisma Migration: When to Switch and How to Do It Safely on SitePoint.
Apache Ossie for Developers: Standardizing Semantic Metadata in AI Projects on SitePoint.
Rubberduck: Emulating OpenAI Locally for Reliable AI Development on SitePoint.
Artificial intelligence in finance refers to the use of machine learning, natural...
Practice extensions with a short swift challenge.
By doing in-depth testing, we found nearly 70% of BGP paths experience ORIGIN attribute rewrites by transit providers seeking traffic advantages. We examine the global impact of this practice and argue for deprecating ORIGIN in route selection.
Learn how Atlassian built AOSC, an OpenSearch plugin to reshape indices and scale their shards online. AOSC is a zero-downtime* index migration & scaling engine for OpenSearch, built as an OpenSearch plugin. It’s open source (GitHub repo, docs), and this post is the story of how, and why, we built it. Anyone who has worked […] The post Online index…
When we introduced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) in June 2026, we asserted that the context that agents need (table schemas, metric definitions, runbooks) should live in a format, not in a proprietary service, and not scattered across unstructured text blobs. Accordingly, OKF v0.1 started simple: just markdown, YAML frontmatter, and a handful of conventions. The strong response and contributions…
AI is incredible for rapid idea and hypothesis testing by prototyping. It isn't about writing code — it’s about protecting your most valuable resource: cognitive energy. As engineers, we often face the overwhelming task of determining the look, feel, and architecture of an idea through hundreds of tiny decisions. By the time we get to the novel part of the…
No Dumb Questions: What is the AI bottleneck? How does context engineering fix it?
Stack OverflowIn this No Dumb Questions, Stack's Director of Data Science Michael Foree teaches Phoebe about AI context, context engineering, and what she can do to become a better context engineer. …
Your Postgres constraints may be capping ingest throughput. Learn how FOREIGN KEY and UNIQUE checks slow high-rate inserts, plus four fixes that protect integrity.
Most AI agent security advice focuses on the model. But the real risks come from the architecture choices you make as a developer: whether to use an agentic loop or a multi-agent graph. Here's what changes when you do.
Inside Garden Eight's approach to creating websites that are not only visually striking, but thoughtfully crafted to evolve, engage, and endure.
Mattias walks through moving an AI coding setup off a laptop and onto a private VPS. He covers Tailscale, tmux, a browser-based editor, and the small tweaks that make a remote setup practical from any device. Read more
Introduction Today, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) will begin rolling out a unified naming schema for tracking threat actors. This new naming taxonomy represents an effort to standardize tracking across platforms and public reporting. Why are we Adopting a Different Naming System? Historically, Mandiant and Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) maintained distinct tracking systems, relying on parallel naming schemas that…
Making sure to use the non-agile delegate non-agile-ly. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 5 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Prem Pithwa spends his days on aerospace and automotive engineering. Off the clock, he's working on his passion project: delivering high-quality extra virgin olive oil through Oli… The post OliveAura: From a home cook’s pantry staple to a growing olive oil brand appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Discover how the shift from Platform Engineering 1.0 to 2.0 addresses critical AI security and compliance challenges. Learn how native model governance and workload isolation establish a scalable, secure foundation for integrating AI agents and LLMs into production workflows.
A live, zoomable ER diagram of your Laravel app's actual database schema, safe to run in production because it only ever reads structure, never rows. Read more
A couple of months ago, I wrote about my client team’s decision to make human code review optional: an approval from an AI tool became all that was needed to merge. At the time, I said it was too early to tell. Now, enough time has passed to share some honest reflections. The Norms Didn’t […] The post Here’s What…
The Real Python Podcast – Episode #304: Configuring a Versatile LLM Harness & Scraping the Web With Scrapy
Real PythonWhich is more important, the model or the "harness" around an LLM? What are ways to assemble an efficient agentic developer workflow? This week on the show, Ayan Pahwa joins us to discuss harnessing, web scraping, and self-hosting Python applications. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your…
Learn how Notion as Code defines teamspaces, pages, databases, views, entries, and custom agents in TypeScript, then deploys them with the Notion CLI.