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I’m currently working on a software designed more than a decade ago. It offers a plugin architecture: you can develop a plugin whose lifecycle is handled by the software. The tough part, though, is how you access the platform capabilities: via static methods on singletons.

Starting in 2027*, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn’t registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID.

Every app and every device, worldwide, with no opt-out.

At Uber’s monorepo scale, traditional Git® workflows have become a fundamental bottleneck. Cloning multi-gigabyte repositories, maintaining local checkouts, periodically syncing from upstream, and executing repetitive fetch or push operations consume substantial compute and I/O across hundreds of automation systems. While CI systems such as Jenkins® and Buildkite® provide caching mechanisms to reduce clone times, in practice, these approaches incur significant infrastructure overhead, manual maintenance, and cold-start latencies of several minutes for large monorepos. Moreover, thousands of independent clone and fetch operations impose heavy loads on upstream Git servers, making them a shared scalability bottleneck.

Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second

JSON is everywhere on the Internet. Servers spend a lot of time parsing it. We need a fresh approach.

In this post, we explore how a simple website summary request hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode and achieves code execution with 60-80% attack success rate using a small sample size.

This is interesting because a third-party evaluation commissioned by Anthropic showed a 0.00% prompt injection attack success rate for Opus 5 in Auto Mode.

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) is a controlled natural language developed in the late 1970s (originally as AECMA Simplified English) to help the users of English-language maintenance documentation understand what they read. It was initially applicable to commercial aviation and later became a requirement for defense projects, including land and sea vehicles. As a result, maintenance manuals and technical texts today are mostly written in STE.

So many well-known players are mentioned in almost every conversation and are never picked.